For this post I thought I'd do an Interior special for you all.

I've chosen a relatively festive theme of Morocco.

Key points to a perfect Moroccan room:

1. Floor cushions
2. Use many textures, patterns and materials (best done with soft furnishings i.e curtains, rugs and cushions)
3. Lots of candles
4. Use one or two main colours like Raspberry and Teal for wall paper, bedding etc, then use the other colours to accentuate. 
5. Make a colour chart and decide on the 5 or 6 colours you'd like
6. You don't have to go all out Moroccan, you can use a few pieces from the ones I selected below to accent or inject any room with colour.

Think jewels, luxury, silk, sparkles and texture.

I've made a colour and texture chart to help give you a bit of an insight into Moroccan colour combinations. 

This is my Inspiration board. This shows quite clearly how layering textures, patterns and colours is the key to authentic, vibrant looking moroccan themed rooms. These are far more traditional looking rooms where my colour and texture chart shows a more modern approach.

This is my collection of interior pieces available to purchase online. 

1. Gemstone lamp, handmade by Lemonlu London from Not On The High Street for £90
2. Arabesque wallpaper from Wallpapers direct for £15.98 per 10m roll
3. Moroccan eteched tray with stand from Yellow Sunrise for £57.75
4. Amber chair in Teal from Asda Direct for £150
5. Moroccan Pouffe, eco friendly and handmade by Bohemia from Not On The High Street for £85 (colour) and £89 (metallic)
6. Moroccan tea set from Moroccan Bazaar for £42.80
7. Moroccan tea glasses from Moroccan Bazaar for £16.80
8. Raspberry rug from Homebase for £16.99
9. Teal butterfly cushion by Sheen May from Not On The High Street for £35
10. Plain large silk cushion in green by Fabiia from Not On The High Street for £45
11. Round embroidered cushion by Marylyn Larkin from Not On The High Street for £80
12. Matthew Williamson Bedding range (Lola set shown) from Debenhams, price varies

Thankyou, as always, for reading

Today's been relatively eventful/productive. Dotty's been to the vets and been spayed, as well as getting her microchip and rabies jab, which means she's got a passport! Yay!

She's extra dopey now she's home and not all together herself. I'm sure she'll be fine, she may be a wimp but she seems pretty brave when she needs to be!

I've also bought all my Christmas cards and written about half, as well as Joe's anniversary card!

I know, and it's only November!

So, for this post I'm gonna share a little of my personal recipe book with you all, show you my latest kntting projects aaaaaand put a little collection together of my favourite interior styles at the moment!

So, lets crack on. 

My little black recipe book doesn't look like much but it's full of goodies that I will share with you lucky lot.

Well, only a couple, I'm not THAT generous!

(Please note that I've gathered these recipes over time, and although I've tweaked them myself I probably didn't come up with them to start with. I can't remember where these originally came from so, regretfully, there is no original source.) 

My homemade black pepper bread 

(use white or brown bread flour as you wish)

My Brown loaf

My white loaf

Ingredients

500g strong bread flour

7g fast-acting yeast (sachets are normally 7g)

300ml warm water

1 tbsp clear honey

2 tbsp olive oil

2 tbsp cracked black pepper (optional)

2 tsp salt

Method

1. Mix together the flour, yeast, salt and black pepper in a large bowl.

2. Make a well in the centre and add the honey, oil and warm water.

3. Stir until the mixture comes together , it should be a bit sticky.

4. Flour a clean surface and pour out the dough.

5. Knead for 5-10 mins, I needed to add a bit more flour to make it non-sticky.

6. Place on a greased tray (I just use a good baking paper).

You can now shape this how you want, into rolls if you like.

7. Place a clean, damp tea towel over and place in a warm place for 1-2 hours to rise, I put this in an oven (switched off).

8. After it's completely risen preheat the oven to about 220 degrees, all ovens are different, most recipes say between 200 to 250 degrees celcius.

9. Bake for 25-30 mins for a loaf or 15-20 for rolls.

You'll know when it's cooked when you can tap the bottom and it sounds hollow!

Best ever banana loaf recipe

Ingredients

6oz Sugar 

(I use half caster, half dark brown sugar, the dark brown sugar makes it more toffee-ish)

3 Ripe bananas, the riper the better, mashed with a fork

4oz Butter (marg will do but butter is better)

8oz Self raising flour

2 Eggs

Add 100g's worth of nuts, if you like. I don't but people like them apparently.

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 180-200 degrees celcius

2. Grease your loaf tin

3. Cream the butter and sugar together until smooth

4. Add eggs and mashed bananananana

5. Sift in flour and mix until combined

6. Put in the oven for 1 hour, turning the oven down to 150 degrees after 30 mins

Take it out and eat it warm with a cup of tea!

My latest Knitting projects

My little antler hat!

Original pattern from the beautiful Tiny Owl Knits

It was relatively easy, as I'm not that expert! It's a basic hat, and as I can't use DPNS or do the felting, I basically winged it. I made the basic hat and knit the others accordingly.

Finger-stache!

Original pattern from Crafster

Get 2 different coloured wools, black and another colour, skin colour preferred.

Cast on 17, do 9 rows, the follow pattern, do 9 more rows.

Should create a rectangle with a moustache in the middle. Sew the edges together!

I will edit and add a picture tomorrow, when I'm not so cold-filled.

My favourite Interior pieces and styles this week!

Moroccan

Floating beds

Incidentally, these can be bought from The Floating Bed Company

Refurbished industrial cabinets

All lovely, right?

Well I'm off now to watch The Walking Dead, hope you were inspired in some way, by something!

Please do try and make your own bread it's much easier than you think! You don't need no machine!

Lots of lovieeees