Personalise Your Lipstick Pouch

Personalise Your Lipstick Pouch by sewlomax featuring bags & cases

Beach Break!

Beach Break! by sewlomax featuring a make up bag

Have a SewLomax Summer

Have a SewLomax Summer by sewlomax featuring a dop kit

SewLomax sunglasses cases

SewLomax sunglasses cases by sewlomax featuring raen glasses

Happy Pancake Day!

 

 

What better way to celebrate Shrove Tuesday than with a giant stack of sweet sticky pancakes?! We chose fluffy American style blueberry pancakes to get us in the mood... calorie counters need not apply!

 

 

Fluffy Blueberry Pancakes with Fruit Compote

 

 

Pancakes

 

1 medium egg

300ml milk

200g self-raising flour

1 tsp. baking powder

Knob of butter



Oil to grease pan

Topping

Maple or Golden Syrup (depending on preference)
Mixed pack of berries (Strawberries, Blueberries, Blackberries or Raspberries)
1 Tbsp. sugar
Dusting of icing sugar (optional)

Prep

1. Mix the flour, baking powder and a pinch of salt in a large bowl. Whisk the egg and milk together separately in another bowl. Make a well in the dry ingredients and pour the egg/milk mixture into the middle. Whisk together until it forms a smooth batter. Beat in the melted knob of butter and gently stir in the blueberries.
2. Heat 1 tbsp. oil in a non-stick pan. Ladle a large tbsp. of batter into the pan. After 2-3 minutes you will notice small bubbles appearing and the batter becoming smoother on top, that means its time to flip the pancake! Wait another 2-3 minutes till the pancake is a golden brown.
3. Throw the remaining chopped fruit/berries into a saucepan with a generous helping of sugar (around 1 tbsp.) and a dollop of any fruit jam you may have in the fridge for extra sweetness. Let this gently simmer for 3-5 minutes or until the fruit has softened.
4. Serve the pancakes with a generous squeeze of maple/golden syrup and spoonfuls of fruit compote. Dust with icing sugar for the final wow.
5. Enjoy.

 

Spring is in the air xx

Spring is in the air xx by sewlomax featuring a raspberry lipstick

Beauty product / Lipstick / Raspberry lipstick

WIN a SewLomax Lipstick Pouch!

Admittedly we have neglected our poor little blog for far too long now! Nothing fills our hearts with joy more than the support of our lovely readers and followers and we're glad to say we are finally back and running.. and better than ever!

We are forever feeling generous at SewLomax HQ, and to say THANK YOU for all of your support we're giving ONE lucky reader the chance to WIN our SewLomax Lipstick Pouch in Noir worth £28!

To get your hands on one, all you have to do is follow this blog. Simple.

.... and on another note we'd love to hear from you! Whether it be beauty products you're loving at the moment, recipes that you've been hard at work perfecting (we'd love to try them!) or anything else you would like us to know about. Who knows, you may find a post dedicated to you in the future! We're all ears. Get tweeting, commenting and posting.

x

P.s: Don't worry if you're not lucky enough to win this time, we have plenty of giveaways planned for the upcoming months! Watch this space!

SewLomax stationary

SewLomax stationary by sewlomax on Polyvore

Munchkin 5 Piece Bath Crayons Set

Sweet on you

Sweet on you by sewlomax on Polyvore

ial_hfl_candy_on_stick.png / Sweet On You Pouch

In the kitchen with SewLomax

Look like the domestic goddess that you truly are in the SewLomax Bite Me Apron and matching Bite Me Tea Towel.

Now at 50% off!!

To celebrate our flash sale on ALL SewLomax luxury homewares, we are sharing our most treasured recipes with you... they will have your mouth watering and tummy rumbling!


Moist Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Icing!

We were inspired by a recipe for a Tropical Carrot Cake on the BBC Good Food website using a few extra ingredients that you wouldn't find in a classic carrot cake. Adding banana and pineapple pieces make it deliciously moist, one slice will never be enough!

Cake mix

. 250g/9oz plain flour
. 2 tsp baking powder
. 1 tsp salt
. 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
. 150g/6oz light brown sugar
. 220g/8oz canned pineapple slices (chopped into small pieces)
. 2 very ripe bananas (mashed)
. 150g/5oz carrots grated (about 2 large carrots)
. 150ml/5fl oz corn oil
. 3 organic eggs (free range are fine too!)

Icing

. 125g/4oz butter, softened and extra for greasing tin
. 225g/8oz cream cheese
. 450g/1lb icing sugar
. 1 tsp vanilla extract
. walnuts or pecans to decorate

 

Lets bake!

1. Preheat the oven to 160C/320F/Gas 2.
2. Sift the flour, baking powder, salt and bicarbonate of soda into a bowl and mix well.
3. Add the sugar, walnuts, pineapple, mashed banana, grated carrot, oil and eggs and mix well.
4. Pour the cake mixture into a greased medium sized cake tin and place into the oven to bake for 1-1¼ hours, or until cooked through. Test by pushing a skewer into the centre of the cake. If the skewer comes out clean the cake is ready.
5. If the cake top is browning too much, cover with a circle of kitchen foil.
6. Remove from the oven when ready and allow to cool on a wire rack.
7. For the icing, beat the butter and cheese together in a clean bowl until light and fluffy.
8. Add sugar and vanilla extract and mix well.
9. Once the cake is cool, remove from the cake tin and spread the icing all over the cake.
10. Decorate the cake with a few crushed pecans and serve in generous slices (with tea).

 

The Perfect Pouch

The Perfect Pouch by sewlomax featuring an opi nail lacquer

OPI acrylic nail polish, $20 / Opi nail color, $19 / Opi nail lacquer, $19 / Opi nail color, $19

What's in our SewLomax makeup bag this week?

This week we are loving Eos Smooth Sphere Lip Balms! 100% natural, antioxidant-rich and packed with Shea Butter, Jojoba Oil and Vitamin E, they leave your lips smooth and perfectly kissable. You can find them in a variety of scrumptious flavours, and they provide just the right amount of moisture rich goodness to winter damaged lips. Here at Sew Lomax HQ you'll find us stocked up on Pomegranate Raspberry and Strawberry Sorbet. You can find them online and in Selfridges x

Space NK & SewLomax get together ...

Join Space NK for this special, two-day-only event across all of our stores as we present the latest

in Autumn beauty. Meet experts from some of our finest brands for personalised classes, advice and tips.

Exclusively for event guests, spend £150 and receive our amazing gift bag worth £260*.

Call or visit your nearby Space NK store today for full details and to reserve your attendance.

This is our most popular event of the season, so space will fill up very quickly

FIND YOUR NEAREST SPACE NK 

Don't worry, simply stock up online on your essential Autumn beauty products, and use the code: 

BAG14

before checkout in the promo code box to receive our decadently filled Space NK beauty bag when you spend £150 or more*. 

The New Season Beauty Edit Event online promo code ends at 11:59pm Thursday 19th September. 

Be sure not to miss out on your fabulous beauty bag as we only have a limited number to give away.

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