Long time no blog

Wow, where has the time gone been such a long, long time since my last confession, blushes profusely :)

Made sooooooooooo much since my last post in August so I will be uploading those over the next week or so too :) Inc child friendly, healthy, fat free vitamin boosting Ben 10 soup and my new obsesion crochet and tons of sewing and papercrafting makes. Beware, theres LOTS LOL

Got some delicious Laura Ashley fabric destined to be made into something divine and some fab 1950s dresses to make, will blog them in due course :)

Also been sketching again :-0 I know, I was ACTUALLY WORKING, truly :)So I am going to add some freebies to the blog also for your papercrafting or embroidered delights :)and finally get the website up and running I am such a lazy, lazy mare, hangs head in utter shame.

Time to get my 'arse' back in gear and hopefully a lot smaller 'arse' in a couple of months time thanks to the wonders of Slimming World’s Food Optimising :)

I am a woman on a mission and now back in the 'zone' so to speak. So I shall be whining and whinging, celebrating and no doubt at times crying on here for all to see in the coming months. Hopefully it won't be such a bumpy ride, crosses fingers, toes, arms, legs and everything else crossable…

I have made some delicious things over the past week if I don’t say so myself and photographed them too hurrah :)so when I finally track down the camcorder upload wire that has somehow magically morphed into 'the teenagers' iPod wire I'll upload them :)

I intend on being a good 'her indoors' and cook everything from scratch. Even get some Body Magic in with some…. with some…. with some …1950s stylee (almost faints) housework, scrambles to scoop ‘gob, upeth floor’ LOL. The fact that I have just gone Vegetarian seven weeks ago after a visit to the Chapel of Rest (RIP Nana) and living in a house full of carnivores is going to be a challenge in itself! So my recipes will be a mix of Veggie/Vegan meals and adapted carnivorous meals. Basically the same meal split half way through adding meat for the carnivores and meat replacements pour moi :)and lots n lots of 'sweet stuff' :)

The ’young un’ is still off with the Chicken Pox (been over three extremely ‘trying’ weeks now) as he decided to catch them just before returning to preschool after the two week half term break! Not very considerate is it…only joking…ish ….LOL. So I haven’t been getting my usual 40 minutes of walking Body Magic in. This normally saves me from a gain on a Tuesday evening despite the sweet tooth. So I really, really must address this. Jackie @ my local SW group swears that a bit of ‘how’s your Father’ is this best type of Body Magic going. I suppose she may have a valid point and you wouldn’t even have to leave the bed let alone the house then tuck into a nice Cadburys creme egg (9 Syns)

Now according to my calculations a creme egg has 173.6 calories and according to the self professed ‘most accurate calorie counter’ here you’d have to be a blinking nymphomaniac to burn that many cals.

In fact my ‘most useful information snippet of the day’ today is in direct relation to ‘said counter’ and it is;

5 mins of backpacking uses 5 times more cals than foreplay and almost twice as much as 5 mins of sex! So there you go, now you know :)


So my advice for the day would be. If you fancy treating yourself to a couple of creme eggs (as one is NEVER,EVER,EVER ENOUGH) and are running a little shy on the old Syns front and are looking to work in some body magic to work it off then try this for size, wink, wink :) (5 mins each unless otherwise stated)

Fein a headache, have a 5 minute nap (6 cals) , take a shower (31 cals), brush your teeth (18 cals), get a guitar out and play a catchy ditty (23 cals), slow ballroom dance (22 cals) yourself to the kitchen to cook a 5 minute omelette (19 cals) (with a third Superfree don’t forget, wink), wash the dishes (16 cals), do a spot of ironing (16 cals) then get a bit of 5 minute tailoring in (19 cals) and cut yourself out a nice 50s style pinny and hot pad to go with your new 50s stylee lifestyle (patterns and instructions to follow in a future confession), weave a quick cloth (27 cals) to make into a shiny new duster, use duster for a quick 5 min dash around (21 cals) on the way to the front door, making yourself presentable by the hallway mirror coffering your hair into a 50s style peak of utter perfection (19 cals), talk on the phone (7 cals) to your pal to arrange a meet up on then heading on your merry way, rake the lawn (29 cals), after washing the car (33 CALS), walk (20 cals) to the tennis club for a game of tennis doubles (31 cals) ending with a quick 3 minute game of billiards…..RESULT!

Thew I am knackered with a capital K after just reading that maybe Jackie’s suggestion is worth considering after all?

Will be back later to upload some recipes and my ‘Tuesday night weigh in confession’, thanks for visiting :)

Cheers ears
Rachel-Louise :)

It's been almost three months since my last confession :(

Tut, Tut, Tut, Tut, Tut, hangs head in complete and utter shame. It's been almost three longgggggggggggggg months since my last confession. I kept popping on with the best intention in the World to update my blog but as the seconds turned into minutes, the minutes turned into hours, the hours turned into days, the days turned into weeks, the weeks turned into months, I think you get my drift, wink wink, nudge nudge. Wow that was original, eh, not. Oh I am such a sarcastic cliché at times I must be back to my old self again hurrahhhhhhhhhh.

I was going to bore you with all I have done but to be quite Frank or Mary, whatever way your cookie crumbles. To be completely honest I can't bothered. Please don't be upset it's nothing personal. I am just slothful and so lackadaisical of late I simply can't muster the energy and thinking about it I can't have done anything of real interest anyway or I would have been on here bragging wouldn't I eh?

To simply condense the past three months so as not to bore myself or you to distraction I made some cards, baked lots of cakes, put on weight, joined Slimming World, lost weight, started cycling five miles a day and taking Pickles for three hour walks, was in a car crash, baked lots of cakes, put on weight, started Physio for crash injuries, went back to Slimming World, insurance company written Jacques off, my Renault Megane. Luckily Pickles wasn't in the car as OH had a day off and the entire back, roof and side where he would have been sat ended up caved in and wrapped around the back wheels :( , baked lots of cakes, put weight on, did some sewing, went back to Slimming World, decided to have a go at becoming a Vegetarian, baked lots of healthy food, lost weight, did some sewing, took some photographs, read a few books, went on public transport for the first time in about ten years due to having no car, cries out loud, attempted to drive OH's Mazda 6 - didn't get on, did some more sewing and eating, was dragged into being an extra in a short film through DD and thoroughly lovvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvved it, back on Slimming World plan, started writing and designing again, decided I am going to write a screenplay !

I have also become extremely addicted to making my own soup. Thick, creamy spicy carrot, parsnip and coriander being my absolute favourite. Both Vegan and Vegetarian friendly, no fat, low calorie, SW green day FREE and deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelicious, licks lips, in a lady like manner of course :)








You will find more photos and the recipes (when I can be bothered editing my posts on there also) on my Confessions of a Slimming World dieter blog :)



Ok, I have now bored myself to tears and probably you also so I am signing off for now. I shall hopefully be back on later though so I’ll hopefully see you all then. Oh and before I go I thought I’d let you know that I have now succumbed and got down with the kids n all that and bagged myself a Myspace account . Hopefully see you over there sometime :)

Just before I go I'd like to invite anybody that doesn't already know about it to the Crafts Beautiful online Christmas party.
on the 29th & 30th November. There are going to be tons of activities, prizes, giveaways, competitions, downloads and more. Be there or be square, wink, wink :)

Anyhoo ramble over for now. I hope you are all well and having a lovely day and (hugs) to those who aren’t or can’t :)

Cheers ears :)

OMG, home made custard creams, warm from the oven

Feast your eyes on these ickle babies :) Aren't they just divine?



My DD has just made a batch of home made custard creams as most people know they are my vice. I utterly adore custard creams to distraction even though most of the time things out of a packet don't match up to home made.But I was addicted to them LOL. No more shop bought for me my DD has been given strict orders to make up another couple of batches. One to devour straight away and one batch to allow the custard to cool. We ate them straight from the oven. They were all warm and squidgy with just the right amount of sweetness. The warm custard cream oozing down the sides hugging itself in its own gorgeousness, pure unadulterated heaven.



I shall pop back on later and add the recipe and method for making them along with a slimmer version for those of us watching our waistlines substituting the sugar for granulated sweetener. But for now I am going to tease you with some more mouth watering photos.


A piccie of them in their full glory. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm


A close up of said warm, squidgy custard creams, oh I can smell them for here. Divine

Until later.

Cheers ears :)