Lovely Weekend, Week Ahead & Super Tasty Gingerbread

It's Monday again.  I remember Mondays from when I last worked the journey into work everyone looking miserable the thought of 5 long days until the next weekend - it's not my fondest memory.  This past year however has seen me living in Berlin and I'm only now back in Scotland and beginning the process of reintegrating into normality.  Normality for me just now is job hunting but at the moment it doesn't involve any Monday Morning blues but that doesn't mean I can't enjoy my weekends just as much.

Here's some of the things which I got up to at the weekend:  wishlist shopping on etsy and folksy for me and for friends with birthdays coming up more on that later, sewing and sewing (baby blue is here - and I can't wait to meet him), berry picking (blackcurrants), catching up with friends, treasure hunting, sewing and sewing and sewing, relaxing:
 

and baking:

 The is my Gran's gingerbread recipe.  The recipe calls for two cups of milk, not an ordinary cup measure though but a tea cup.  The only tea cups in the house are these pretty ones that belonged to my Great Aunt.

So having used one of the teacups I proceeded to get all of the matching dishes out of the cupboard and had tea just as my Gran and her would have note that the butter is spread extra thick.

The gingerbread is lovely and if anyone wants the recipe please email me as you probably won't be able to make out my writing in the photos above.  It really is best served with a thick coat of butter... yum.

So that was the weekend and this is what I'm looking forward to in the week ahead: job hunting, more wishilist shopping, more sewing (there's a quilt back and binding to be completed), dinner with friends, kickboxing (a friend teaches this and I promised I'd go...hmmm), a trip to Glasgow, more berry picking (blackcurrants), juicing (apples) and there will no doubt be baking and many cups of tea thrown in as well... lovely.