Friday, 11 January 2013

Blogger giveaway over on Dashing-Divas.com


Hello, hello and Happy New Year! Just popping on here briefly to let you know about a great blogger giveaway I have over on my Dashing-Divas.com site to win a fab FitBit device and some scales. Great if you are starting a health kick this January like I am!

Do have a look here.

TTFN

Sian x

Sunday, 10 June 2012

Bargain range cooker

Ok, so it was expensive, but we just saved ourselves £500 by buying through Comet who are doing an online sale and also via Quidco (cashback). I am so pleased as this gives us £500 that we can spend elsewhere, perhaps replastering a room or some new carpets.

We opted for the Rangemaster range cooker with the induction hob. We don't have gas here and induction hobs are supposed to be amazingly energy efficient. You have similar temperature control as you do with gas, but the heat is directed at the pan more so less energy loss. We are both absolutely sick of our current ceramic hob, which is either on inferno or off! Not so great for making jam, porridge or anything that requires any kind of temperature control.

What do you think?



They do the cooker in a number of different colours, but we opted for black as it's more timeless and matches everything.


Friday, 8 June 2012

Emma Bridgewater Jubilee teapot


Look what Tim bought - this gorgeous Emma Bridgewater Jubilee teapot. Isn't she a beaut!? :-)




Wednesday, 30 May 2012

Super easy and delicious salad


For a recipe for my super easy and delicious salad, pop over to my health and fitness blog - www.dashing-divas.com

Wednesday, 23 May 2012

Our new kitchen


Sorry for the lack of posts on my blog. My house is in a transition phase at the moment as we are poised for the whole inside of the house to be ripped out and re-done. 


That means no buying of anything until we look at what we have and what will and won't stay - I anticipate that I will be getting rid of a lot of stuff though so watch this space as I may well do a little open house sale at some stage later in the year.


Anyway, we have chosen the kitchen. I wanted a wooden one as if we get bored with the colour, I wanted to be able to change it. We would love to get a bespoke kitchen, but the reality is that we don't have that kind of money floating about so we have opted for the next best thing - painted wooden door fronts and wooden worktop from Howdens. It's called Haworth White. Even the layout (without the island) in the photos is similar. I also love the blue walls and the white tiles by the cooker.


You have to imagine this with slate floors. :-)

What do you think? I posted the plans on an earlier post here.



Tuesday, 22 May 2012

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Wednesday, 16 May 2012

Cybher 2012

If you're wondering what I've been up to lately hop on over to Dashing Divas for my review of Cybher 2012.