With all of life at the moment, things are strange and not how we’d necessarily want them to be. Due to COVID, we can’t get together with loved ones, and this year, Christmas will be very different. For small businesses too, it’s an uncertain time, as many creative folks rely on sales from events and…
Christmas
What I’ve learned from local businesses in Caithness
As I set out on my own business journey (see here for how I’m now working with local businesses in Caithness to strengthen their online promotion), I’m really keen to learn from other local businesses. In today’s feature, I’ve gathered the thoughts of four business women on how the region of Caithness shapes their offering,…
Christmas Dreaming
It’s now just one month until Christmas and one of the things I try and make time for in between buying and wrapping presents, making and writing cards, and enjoying festive celebrations with my work colleagues, is of course making and crafting. I find it a good idea to plan ahead in making both festive…
Christmas Roundup
Christmas in the Barrie household was a very relaxed affair. After heading to church in the morning and taking the pooch for a walk along the canal, we opened our presents and enjoyed Christmas ‘linner’ (as it was 3pm, it was neither lunch nor dinner) and lots of time watching Christmas films and TV. Here’s…
A festive wander in London
Apologies for the radio silence over the last few days, lots of Christmas preparations and festive goings on have been taking up lots of the Barrie time in the past few weeks, and so posts will be a little sporadic now until the new year. I’ll take this time to wish you and yours a…
Quick Homemade Christmas Gift: Chocolate Bark
I’m sure that I’m not the only one who has seen masses of ideas for homemade Christmas gifts floating around the interwebs. One of the very very easiest and customisable gifts to make is Chocolate Bark. For our annual Christmas gathering (which is a tradition amongst Mr B’s uni friends) I wanted to do simple and yummy…
Christmas Bundt Baking
Last night was the second meeting of Let’s Bake Inverness (see what I made for the first meeting here) and it was a great gathering. We had a few cancellations unfortunately on the day so we were a small group, but there was still a lot of good quality Christmassy bakes! My contribution was a…
A quick Christmas glitter craft
Our garden backs onto some woods, so the paths are often strewn with fir cones. I found some inspiration on Pinterest of how I could use them… and promptly started collecting a few every time I took the dog for a walk! Here’s what you need: Fir cones (I collected them then left them in…
Christmas Dinner highlights
Christmas Dinner in the Barrie household is a much discussed affair. We try and plan our dinner menu a couple of weeks in advance, after we have poured over various websites, recipe books and cookery programmes. But before we get to our Christmas dinner feast – here’s a link courtesy of Me and My Shadow to show…
weekend wreathmaking
I had an urge to make our Christmas table centrepiece a few weeks ago. Something that I had been tempted to do in previous years, but hadn’t made the time to do. We went to Hobbycraft and purchased a wreath-shaped oasis, and some glittery things to add to our foliage, which we clipped from our…
