Slatterys

If you are local to the North West you will have either been to Slattery or heard people rave about it. Up until Valentines Day I was in the camp of never been but definitely needed to because of the rave reviews.

I don't celebrate Valentines Day, however, I do celebrate my little sisters birthday. Along with my friend we arranged to take her to Slattery for cake and of course Charlotte came along with us.

On approaching Slattery you can't help but see the amazing cakes in the window; massive, lavish cakes that make you marvel at the skill and effort that has been put in to make it. After parking the car we made our way inside.

Passing cakes made for birthdays and weddings was like being in a museum of cakes each displaying prices, who knew wedding cake was so expensive? Definitely worth getting married for! Downstairs consisted of the 'cake museum', cake supplies, freshly baked bread and cakes and pastries that you can just pop in and buy. At the back on the shop you are also able to watch the amazing cake makers at work.

The tearoom was upstairs so off we trotted to get our table. We were seated and began to make our way through the menu. There was more than cake on there, it had a lovely selections of afternoon teas, sandwiches, salads and platters. We ploughed through onto the cake menu, it all looked so delicious and making our minds up was difficult.

I ordered Charlotte apple and chocolate dip from the Children's menu and for £1.95 was very reasonably priced. A plate with slices of fresh, green apple with a chocolate pop and dipping chocolate arrived for her. It didn't take long for her to dive and there was chocolate everywhere, if you can't get chocolate all over your chops as a kid when can you?!? I would also like to point out Charlotte did not eat all of this! She would still be awake with the sugar rush now.

Between the adults we ordered the chocolate sampler platter and a Manchester Tart served with raspberries. This was delicious, lovely pastry, sweet jam and a divine creamy custard with a coconut topping.

The platter came with 4 different chocolate cakes and two chocolate pots; one filled with whipping cream and the other with melted chocolate. The cakes we received were a millionaires shortbread, white chocolate cookie, chocolate orange brownie and a chocolate covered chocolate cake. This was chocolate overload, we struggled with the sweetness of this between the three of us, amazingly this wasn't part of the 'sharing desserts' and people were having this to themselves.

If you are after somewhere a bit special for cake or afternoon tea I would definitely recommend a trip to Slattery, I will be returning this month to take my Mum for Mother's Day.

Winter Tag

For Tag Tuesday this week I am going to be doing a winter themed one.

1. What are your favourite things about winter?

I love winter my favourites things are the weather, dark nights and Christmas

2. What is your favourite winter food?

Turkey and all the trimmings

3. What is your favourite winter drink?

Gingerbread latte or baileys hot chocolate

4. What is your favourite winter perfume?

Chanel Chance

5. What is your dream way to spend a winters day?

Spending time snuggled on the sofa with a good film and munchies.

6. What are your winter beauty essentials?

Burt's Bees lip balm and The Body Shop's Vitamin C moisturiser.

7. What is your favourite winter candle?

A the minute I am loving Yankee Candle Red Berry and Cedar

8. What colours are on your Christmas tree?

Red, silver, white and green

Christmas Crafts

Saturday during blogmas will see Christmas crafts. I would love to say I am amazingly talented but the truth is I just love the idea of being creative. I often set off to learn a new skill and give up when I can't do it or it's not neat enough.

Whilst shopping in Wilkinsons at the beginning of the week I came across these sets of Christmas crafts and got them in my basket quick and were cheap (£1-£1.50).

In the sets they give you everything you need to create your own little Christmas craft.

The first set was a Christmas decoration set that gave me the materials to make a robin and gingerbread woman. The set included all the felt cut into shapes, a plastic needle, thread and stuffing.

The next set was bunting which came with Christmas trees, gingerbread men and women and string.

The final set I got was for felt stockings, this came with the felt already cut out to make two stockings, one with Father Christmas and the other with a snowman. It also came with a plastic needle, thread, stick on eyes, stars, snowflakes and some double-sided tape.

 

Here are the finished products, I haven't done the bunting yet. I was pleased with how they turned out.

These kits are really good and I had a lot of fun making them. They are simple to do and turn out really nicely. The only criticism I have is that the double sided tape isn't very good so I used PVA glue to stick on anything that wasn't preglued.

Hello Blogging World

Hi there, I am a 31 year old Mum of one living in the North West of England with my partner Jonathan and 1 year old daughter Charlotte, this is my blog.

I am not new to blogging,in fact I have two others, my first I set up in 2011 to help with losing weight, this in my eyes was a successful blog with over 30,000 hits. My second blog was set up in 2012 to share my pregnancy journey.

Since becoming a Mum I have been AWOL from the blogging scene, I lost my direction with the weight loss and the pregnancy one was no longer needed. In the past few months I have wanted to start an online blog to be able to share my thoughts, opinions, feelings on a whole range of things; I want to be able to connect with the online community a lot more and be able to chart my daughters childhood.

So in essence my blog is going to be about me and my life, it's not an exciting life but it is filled with love, happiness, adventure and a little bit of silliness so expect to see posts on what I love, what I hate, moaning, shopping, recipes, days out and more than likely a lot of posts involving my beautiful, amazing daughter.