As I walked up the path to my building on Friday I saw a courier van parked by the front entrance, and up the three flights of stairs The Boy was signing for a parcel. “It’s for you” he said from abive. A delivery for a girl is always a nice thing, and it was a lovely suprise for a week which has been full of long hours and late nights.

Nia had kindly packaged up a trio of altoids flavours; ginger, peppermint and cinnamon, two aprons from Anthropologie which I’ve fondly named flora and fauna respectively and a newspaper cut out from the Sunday Styles from a few months ago which had a mugshot of yours truly.

I have already popped open the cinnamon altoids, which are delicious. I took Nia’s advice and popped two in a cup of strong black tea and had myself a curiously minty spiced beverage. Yum! Later today I want to put the ginger altoids to use; perhaps in a baked treat of some sort.

Thank you Nia for giving me a fabulous start to the weekend!

Over the last couple of weeks I have been looking for a ceramic tray to keep eggs sitting pretty in the kitchen, as I prefer to have eggs at room temperature for baking or even having a hard boiled egg for breakfast. One should never attempt boiling an egg which has been sitting in the fridge for god knows how long, unless of course you want to risk exploding yolk!

I’ve tried local stores like Victoria’s Basement and Peters of Kensington however my search have left me trayless. But today, I found this snazzy creation online at Dwell. I was originally looking for pretty pastel ones, and even though I will always be a fan of baby pinks and blues I quite like the simple and edgy design of this tray. Would be lovely for next Easter should I decide to go all “Martha” and dye some eggs.

But as luck would have it they do not ship outside the UK. Perhaps a polite email to the little sister who is living it up in London is required…

Came across these fabulous creations via one of my favourite design blogs; Design*Sponge. As Grace says, the designs do border on weird, but I like weird as well as cake and tea parties. Quite perfect for serving pretty little cupcakes on, and then eating from small skull plates no less!