Happy New Year!!!!

Apologies for the delay in posting, my New Year resolution of sorting out my house and life in general seems to have taken over a bit, resulting in an additional blog. I have been making and baking things all over the Christmas period, I had a few Bad Things Happen with some fudge I was trying to make. It suddenly went very granulated, I have no idea what went wrong but I think candy making is a skill I have yet to acquire. I got my BEAUTIFUL orange Kitchenaid. I had it well before the big day but felt so guilty I took my time getting it out of the box and using it. Mr AG has had to do a lot of overtime to pay for it which means he hasn't seen the children as much as he would normally. Girl is getting to the Daddy's Girl stage and seems to have missed him the most.

Other fantastic foodie presents I have received are a gorgeous Nigella cake stand in black from my Secret Santa on Damsels. Thank you Janice!! My sister bought me a set of number and alphabet biscuit cutters in a box. I will hopefully be making use of those for Boy's birthday that is coming up later in the month. I also had some Christmas themed ones I will put away for next year.

I didn't manage to take pictures of everything I made which is a shame as I finally perfected Baileys and White Chocolate Cheesecake, it looked fabulous. I learned from previous experience it sticks to the tin so I lined it to within an inch of it's life and it came out perfectly!

I saw one!!!

This, for the uninitiated, is a KitchenAid Artisan in Tangerine. I have wanted one sooo much and for so long and it is untrue. I've only ever seen that colour on the internet and because of it's hefty price tag it just remained in my top 10 things to daydream about getting for my 30th birthday. I occasionally ogle the red, cream, silver and purple ones I see out and about but they don't quite do it for me in the same way as the orange one does. Orange is my favourite colour and features heavily in my house.

I called into a cookshop today to get some cake boards and It was there, right in front of me. I think I might have cried a bit, like I'd seen a newborn lamb or something. (Yes, I am mad, thought you'd have noticed by now) The man was a bit offhand with me and my paltry £1.80 worth of purchases but as soon as I started asking him about £296 mixers he was more personable (funny that!) Then he said something that made my heart sink. 'Yeah, these old colours are on special offer till they sell through then when they new colours come in they will be £349' OLD COLOURS!!! DISCONTINUED!! NOOOOOOOOO!

I'm not 30, I'm 28.
It's not Christmas yet, and even so it's a big ask from the fella in red (Santa that is)
I haven't got a spare £300 lying around.

It's now or never. If my arms hadn't been full of bags and 20lbs of baby I'd have probably had my credit card out quicker than you could say 'Your husband is going to kill you'. So I just went home. Boo hoo.