STICKY DATE PUD Sometimes I share recipes, not often as I’m no great chef and I do tend to stick to meals that I know work and that everyone likes. Searching for an easy dessert to serve last week took me through my cookbook shelf, most of them required a trip to buy chocolate or other such things that I try not to keep in the cupboards (I’m not good with resisting temptations) and living semi-rural means a trip to Sticky Date Pudding
STICKY DATE PUD Sometimes I share recipes, not often as I’m no great chef and I do tend to stick to meals that I know work and that everyone likes. Searching for an easy dessert to serve last week took me through my cookbook shelf, most of them required a trip to buy chocolate or other such things that I try not to keep in the cupboards (I’m not good with resisting temptations) and living semi-rural means a trip to 
Where do I come from?
WHERE DO I COME FROM? Its a simple question with a few answers. I was born in Wales, my parents are from the United Kingdom, I live in New Zealand, but really, where do I come from? It is something that intrigues me, the family tree. We don’t really have one, my knowledge extends only as far back as my Grandparents. So where to start? I don’t really have the time to research. So the interested, but lazy How to Spring Clean your home
HOW TO SPRING CLEAN YOUR HOME Its getting close, you can smell it in the air, warmer weather is just around the corner! I can tell its close at my little house due to the layer of yellow pollen I just dusted off my dining table. It got me thinking, that layer of yellow dust, its time for a Spring Clean. Spring-Clean, why just Spring, what about Autumn, Winter and Summer? Well its like coming out of The Last Renovation
THE LAST RENOVATION Here at My Little House we are no strangers to renovations and the upheaval they bring. We have lived through winters without walls, and microwave dinners for weeks on end, but I have to say adding a pool was most probably the worst project of all. It shouldn’t have been, its outside and it was summer. What could go wrong? Well, the start date got pushed from early January to mid-February, the hole was dug, Perfect Place Setting
PERFECT PLACE SETTING Monsteras seem to be taking over my life. I buy them little wishing for them to grow but when they grow I wish them little again. Looking at my overloaded plant I am thinking those beautiful big green leaves will make the best placemats! I am teaming it up with this gorgeous dinner set from Wundaire and Fisher & Paykel and I think it looks amazing! Lunch Date Set! Photography and Styling by My Little How to paint over varnished wood
HOW TO PAINT OVER VARNISHED WOOD When the painter left our little house a few weeks ago it was looking whiter, brighter and beautiful; with the dated wood balustrade gone I had high hopes of a builder following with lovely new skirtings and doors. My hopes faded as I realised that the builders were all too busy with the big jobs and so I set about with a little DIY. I am no stranger to DIY, back in A Guest Room Joosh Up
A GUEST ROOM JOOSH UP My Guest Bedroom is a tricky space to furnish, the pitched ceiling means a much lower bed which means that most bedsides towered above or just looked a little, well little. This clever shelf, part of the Made of Tomorrow Fold range is the perfect alternative. Being wall-hung it can be positioned perfectly, its powder coating is durable enough to take any knocks and its curves add a bit of softness to the The Kiwi Kitchen
THE KIWI KITCHEN All my life the name that has personified the Kiwi Kitchen is Fisher & Paykel. There is much more choice these days but I have always remained faithful and happy with F&P. Though, had Olive Paykel not have been flicking the pages of an American Home Journal in the 1930’s and seen the new home appliance, the refrigerator, this iconic kiwi brand may never had eventuated. Since then Fisher & Paykel have gone from strength to History Never Repeats
HISTORY NEVER REPEATS Well lets hope not! When we originally viewed my little house we were feeling rather desperate, we had sold and nothing on the market was exciting us. It wasn’t what we were looking for, in fact it ticked no boxes, but we drove into the drive of number 7 and knew it was for us. The driveway led us upwards and it was dusk on a Friday evening. The agent was in a hurry to How much White is too much White?
HOW MUCH WHITE IS TOO MUCH WHITE? I’ve always loved homes for their quirkiness. This said there is sometimes a need for simplicity or peace that can only be achieved by removing the very thing which makes a home unique. For me the exposed beams created a point of difference but painting them white would provide me with a light and airey space. In the end paint won. The beams added character and a point of difference, but