Sunday, 23 February 2014
Tuesday, 18 February 2014
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
- Preheat the oven to 160C/320F/Gas 2.
- Sift the flour, baking powder, salt and bicarbonate of soda into a bowl and mix well.
- Add the sugar, walnuts, pineapple, mashed banana, grated carrot, oil and eggs and mix well.
- 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.
- If the cake top is browning too much, cover with a circle of kitchen foil.
- Remove from the oven when ready and allow to cool on a wire rack.
- For the icing, beat the butter and cheese together in a clean bowl until light and fluffy.
- Add sugar and vanilla extract and mix well.
- Once the cake is cool, remove from the cake tin and spread the icing all over the cake.
- Decorate the cake with a few crushed pecans and serve in generous slices (with tea).
Monday, 17 February 2014
What's in our SewLomax makeup bag this week?
Monday, 10 February 2014
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
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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Wednesday, 20 March 2013
See SewLomax at the Selvedge Spring Fair!
Firstly – Im SO PROUD to have been voted as
a runner up in the Sustainable City Awards last night in London! It was a
great night and I got to meet lots of lovely people. If I met you, don’t forget
to say hello on Facebook or Twitter!
This weekend it is the Selvedge Spring
Fair, which is held in Chelsea Old Town Hall in Chelsea, London. Im really
excited about this event, and there will be over 100 other stalls and companies
like mine at the fair so you’re guaranteed to find something brilliant and
(more importantly) handmade and ethical that takes your fancy!
I will be at the Selvedge Spring Fair on Friday
22nd and Saturday 23rd at stall C22. If you pop by and
say hello to me at my stall you can get your hands on a free embroidered tote bag from my current collection! My canvas tote bags are some of my favourites from the SewLomax range, and I love their designs. Heres why I chose them:
The Book Bag Tote
We all need at least two handbags, (or maybe some sort of small mule/cart horse to carry all of our things around with us everyday!) but taking in to consideration how busy it gets on the tube this would not work. So I came up with my embroidered tote bags, which can help you carry around those extra essentials.
The Bikini Tote
I used to have a bikini like this when I was little, and I have been looking for one just like it ever since I grew out of it, so I have recreated it on a bag. For me - on the beach or by the pool - I always get worried about having my phone in the bottom of the bag, risking getting covered in sun cream, so I made sure whilst designing this bag that there are some zipped pockets on the inside, preventing this situation from occurring,
The Daily News Tote
My handbag is a bottomless pit and always overflowing so that I can never find what I am looking for! I wanted to create a bag which allows you to become more organized. The Daily News Tote is large enough for all computers, files and papers, this really is perfect for work and so you don’t have to stretch and break your leather bag (and at the same time keep looking stylish!)
You can read more about my embroidered canvas totes here, in another blog post I wrote about them.
Looking forward to hopefully meeting some of you this weekend at the Selvedge Spring Fair
and giving away some free tote bags!!
Emma x
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