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One of my favourite things about the lead-up to Christmas is making sweets and baking. The kids have been helping to choose recipes, which invariably require abundant quantities of chocolate, and design cards and gift tags.

This year we wrapped homemade sweets of all types for their teachers, and tried something new: rocky road. We found the recipe on my sister's blog What Sarah Bakes.

To make our version we used dark chocolate, plain biscuits, almonds, walnuts and cherries. It's quite rich! But also quite delicious (the trick is just eating a tiny bit at a time.)

In the first photo above, you can see a Christmas gift I've made for Keira (I'm quite sure she doesn't read my blog.) She asked for 'summer pyjamas' a while ago, and cajoled me into buying the watermelon cotton last time we went to the craft shop. So I made the shorts from the watermelon fabric using this pattern, and for the top, I bought a plain top and appliqued some more watermelons on the front (using this technique). 

My friend Anissa is holding a special giveaway on her blog – it closes soon and I think you should take a look. The winner receives a lot of handmade loveliness…