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Sweet Mary - where to buy.

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Lavender Hearts If you can't manage a visit to my Sweet Mary stall at the monthly Craft&Design Market in Havelock North, you can now buy my lavender filled fabric hearts from my FELT online shop. Click on the big FELT box - top right of the page.

Passion

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Gifted passionfruits, home grown eggs, butter and sugar all join together to make a once a year treat of Nigella's Passionfruit Curd . Sublime.

Farmhouse Kitchen

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Foccacia Sesame seed covered bread sticks ready to be baked. Sour dough after kneading, ready for shaping. Hot Cross buns, bread sticks, sourdough and yeast buns, foccacia, pretty flowers. French St. Plum Jam On a blustery Saturday afternoon in Hawkes Bay, a friend and I set off to attend a bread making workshop at the Farmhouse Kitchen just out of Havelock North village. We were both pretty keen to learn how to make sourdough bread, which we did, but also to brush up our basic bread making skills. Pauline taught our small, eager group how to make all of the above breads ( lots of handy hints) with her husband Chris teaching us all about the sourdough and most importantly how to get the sourdough starter started! We even came home with a small jar of the starter to feed and nurture now knowing that a good starter is the key to good sourdough bread. I loved it all and felt I was  like a slightly annoying child wanting to be part of every little thing - read: very e

The Department of Curiosities and Fine Things

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On Monday, my helpful other half and myself visited our friends at the extremely supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Department ... at 14 Hastings Street, Napier. We were there to take photos of Sweet Mary lavender hearts but also had to take some of the shop as it looks so wonderful, packed with an eclectic mix of handmade goodness for you to enjoy and purchase. Please visit - they have sweeties too!