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I am so excited and honoured to welcome Little Ink as a brand new advertiser on Made From Scratch, I fell in love with Suzie’s keen eye for detail for selecting some of the most beautiful items for packaging, baking and entertaining quite a while ago, you can see the first post here. Since then she has added a lot of gorgeous new things to her online shop – be sure you scoot over and have a look I promise you will find something gorgeous for your next party or a gift for someone special! x

These lovely crisp Autumn day’s are the perfect time to hone your soup making skills before Winter arrives. I personally can’t think of anything better or more comforting than curling up with a warm bowl of home made soup, what’s better is the list of soups to make is endless. This pumpkin soup is a tweaked version of my Mum’s recipe, I adore this recipe as it is so easy and always tastes amazing.

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~ cross wall hanging ~ triangle cushion ~ shuttlecock wall hanging ~

Good morning everyone, I hope you had a wonderul weekend. Ours was so so nice, we took kora to puppy training which was a lot of fun and then had a very geeky day on Sunday. I can’t wait to show you some of the things we have been working on for Made From Scratch, I really hope you will like it. Autumn is also very much on its way, the days are getting shorter and a little colder. I rather like it, I’m one of those weird people that don’t really mind pottering inside, I couldn’t do it all the time but it is nice. I’ve also become a little obsessed with White Horse Home their prints and cushions are to die for! I would love to have a few scattered around our home, what do you think?

Also don’t forget to tag yourself in this photo on Facebook to go into the draw to win a $50 gift voucher for you to spend on any daily deal from Groupon, I will annouced the lucky winner tomorrow night. Good luck. x

I hope everyone had a lovely Valentines Day yesterday, I baked some heart shaped brownies and had a lovely lazy night in with Ben. For those of you who have followed Made From Scratch for a while, you’ll know that I love having people over for dinner. I also love the idea of always setting the dinner table properly before you eat, it has a magic ability to transform a simple meal into a special meal almost instantly. How beautiful is the table setting laid out by the lovely Nina from Stylizimo for a lunch guest she had recently, you would feel so special sitting down to something like this. x

I hope everyone had a lovely weekend, we had a slow weekend of pottering around which is nice. I did come across this incredible modern rustic wedding, I love everything about it. It’s so homely, inviting and honestly nothing is better than having amazing food at your wedding! I would love to know what you got up to overt the weekend, you can see more of this gorgeous wedding here

Also don’t forget the Valentines Day is tomorrow, do you have something special planned?

Happy Friday everyone, I hope you have had a wonderful week. I feel like I say this every week, but how is it possible that each week can become busier and a little crazier than the next. But then you come across something so beautifully styled and thought out like this simply stunning Valentines Breakfast Idea from The Pretty Blog, I promise you will fall madly in love with their whole layout which is also kindly free to download and have as your own. It would be a lovely DIY project for your weekend before Valentines Day next week. x

I hope everyone had a lovely and relaxing long weekend, we didn’t really get up to much which was a perfect to spend three sunnyish days. I did go to an amazing nursery with my parents and started the wonderful task of collecting plants for our gardens to be. I can’t wait to show you what we have planned, hopefully it will work out how we want. We have also been talking about rearranging the bedrooms in our house {mostly to fit Ben’s piano into the house, that is still at his parents} but that leads the way to pretty new things and a clean out. I also came acrosse this breathtakingly simple wedding featured on Once Wed, it’s so soft and delicate and would be perfect for any season. What do you think? x

I hope everyone is having a wonderful week so far, we’re still in holiday mode as we both don’t go back to work until next week so it’s lovely having that extra bit of time off! The wedding season is also in full swing in New Zealand, to all the beautiful brides and grooms to be, I hope your wedding planning is going well. Here are a few amazing wedding details from Grey Likes Wedding I love how simple each of these details are, they would be so easy to bring into your wedding some way. x