Dena Designs.

  Sweeties, the rather ridiculous, but occasionally heavenly spectacle that is Valentines Day is almost upon us, which might just mean that some of you (or your men!) are in the mood for luuurve… Oh heckity pie yes. This does mean peeling off the layers of cashmere and acrylic and getting naked. On the kind…

I have spent the last day of the holiday in the kitchen, filling the freezer with cozy food, cooking healthy lunch-box food and baking more cupcakes than I have friends and family. Just because I can. And the diet starts tomorrow. And I’m a big fat liar… Anyway, the cupcakes. Because my oven is hopeless,…

I know it might seem like I am on something of a D.E. Stevenson kick now, but that is because I am! Her books are so utterly charming and just right for the kind of light, late afternoon reading I thoroughly adore. Like The Times says, she is the Mistress of the light novel and…

Cleaning out my fridge and thinking about writing a religious poem that somehow combines feeling sorry for myself with ordinary praise, when my nephew stumbles in for a coffee to wash down what looks like a hangover and get rid of what he calls hot dog water breath. I wasn’t going to bake the cake…