Bookish and baking

While scouting around for gifts online, I found this for sale at the Tate's shop, by illustrator Sara Fanelli.

As a bit of a fonataholic with a love for message-prints, I thought "I must buy this" - but then I stupidly realised it wasn't in fact a print, at all, but a book which happens to have a beautiful front cover, which would also happen to look lovely in my lounge, mounted in a nice black frame. Other than buying the book to then take the cover off (which sounds so very wrong), I'll have to make do with looking at Sara's other prints online - but it got me thinking, sometimes books have brilliant artwork that you do kinda wish they'd make bigger as wall art.

Art Meets Print has a whole load of book-covers-as-posters but I'm not sure even my teen-self could be thrilled to wake up to a Sylvia Path cover (aside from anything else, it's not that exciting to look at) - although, with that shocking pink and that grey, there could be colour inspiration in there somewhere.

Moving on, this weekend has been a big one for my baking. For one, I've had loads of Valentine's orders to do, which has been lovely and I hope everyone who's on the receiving end is made mighty happy by their beloved's choice of gift.

And for another, I've got my supersize heart-shaped cookies for sale at Frame's new cafe in Shoreditch this week too - so many, many thanks to Pip and Joan for letting me place my cookies there. Frame's a brilliantly funky workout studio (it's where I started doing yoga) and if you're London-based and looking for somewhere inspiring, fun and different to get fit - go there. It has bunting and open brick walls (enough said). Plus their cafe has just opened too (and the cookies are made with reduced fat ingredients!).

For those of you still wanting to get something sweeter than flowers for Valentine's, don't forget that you've still got until the end of today to place an order for a Valentine's cookie box. They'll then be freshly baked, iced, packed and posted out by Wednesday to make sure you get them for the end of the week.

Hope you all have a fantastic start to the week - more later x