Welcome to the February 23rd edition of The Hearth and Soul Hop Linky Party, the link party for all things home and family – family and comfort food recipes, healthy, sustainable living posts, homemaking, gardening, kids, crafts and DIY. We also love encouraging and inspiring posts!
It’s a really busy time in our home again but we are making sure to take time out for some fun stuff too! We enjoyed My Best Pancake Recipe on Shrove Tuesday and celebrated Chinese New Year with my healthier recipe for Sweet and Sour Chicken. This weekend we visited friends in Buckinghamshire. The weather was a bit changeable but England has a strange and wonderful beauty even in the coldest, dampest of weather.
I’m really grateful not to have all the snow so many of you do. I grew up in Canada so can I definitely empathise – the seemingly endless snow and bone-numbing cold can become wearing very quickly! Here’s hoping spring arrives very soon!
Thank you so much to all of you for visiting and sharing last week! Today I’m featuring:-
How to Make Clotted Cream by Jean of Delightful Repast. I had no idea you could make clotted cream at home. It’s incredibly popular here in the UK – an essential part of a proper cream tea – so I found this post absolutely fascinating.
Audrey of Unconventional Baker really put her heart and soul into developing her Gluten-Free Vegan Mini-Eclairs. These little beauties are even free of refined sugar and are probably as close as you will ever get to an eclair that is actually good for you!
I was really taken with the Adoption and Family Tree Free Printable for Kids from Paula of Thrifty Momma’s Tips. Paula shares a traditional family tree printable as well as a family tree printable with multiple coloured leaves so that adoptive families can include birth families, foster families and adoptive families in the family tree.
Okay, on with the Hearth and Soul Hop Linky Party!
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Winnie says
February 23, 2015 at 9:21 pmThank you April for the party 🙂
The photo is absolutely beautiful – what a great place!
April Harris says
February 24, 2015 at 1:56 pmYou are welcome, Winnie, and thank you 🙂
Sadhna Grover says
February 23, 2015 at 10:16 pmThanks for the party again.
As you have mentioned Canada, this year weather here is Calgary is very nice compared to other places in Canada.
April Harris says
February 24, 2015 at 1:57 pmHi Sadhna, I’m glad you are having better weather in Calgary. I have never been to Calgary but my cousin lived there for a while and said it was lovely! Thank you for visiting and sharing 🙂
Hadia says
February 23, 2015 at 11:14 pmThank you for hosting, April! The picture is so beautiful!
April Harris says
February 24, 2015 at 1:58 pmMy pleasure, Hadia, and thank you 🙂
Christy says
February 24, 2015 at 12:00 amThanks for hosting April!
April Harris says
February 24, 2015 at 1:58 pmMy pleasure, Christy!
Danielle says
February 24, 2015 at 1:29 amThanks so much for hosting, April! I’m new here this week and followed you via Pinterest and Instagram! Thanks again for hosting :).
April Harris says
February 24, 2015 at 2:04 pmHi Danielle! Welcome! I have followed you back on Pinterest and Instagram and followed you on Twitter and FB 🙂
Miz Helen says
February 24, 2015 at 1:35 amHi April,
We are having a hard winter here, presently we are iced in and expecting snow next week, but we are so grateful to get the moisture. Hope you have a great week and thanks so much for the party!
Miz Helen
April Harris says
February 24, 2015 at 2:05 pmHi Miz Helen, I hope you stay nice and cozy and warm through all the rough weather! Have a lovely week!
Michelle says
February 24, 2015 at 2:20 amHi, April. That is a beautiful picture. We may actually get ice tomorrow–schools and work have closed as a precaution. We just don’t do winter weather here!
Thank you for hosting.
April Harris says
February 24, 2015 at 2:06 pmHi Michelle! Thank you 🙂 Hope your weather isn’t as bad as they predict. We don’t do winter weather very well here in the UK either!
Linda @ With A Blast says
February 24, 2015 at 2:39 amThank you for the party, April !
April Harris says
February 24, 2015 at 2:06 pmMy pleasure, Linda. Have a lovely week!
Nancy W says
February 24, 2015 at 3:02 amI agree England is a beautiful place! Thanks for the party! Have a good week!
– Nancy
On The Home Front
April Harris says
February 24, 2015 at 2:07 pmThank you for visiting and sharing, Nancy! Hope you have a great week too!
pam (Sidewalk Shoes) says
February 24, 2015 at 11:43 amI do hope to see England someday!
April Harris says
February 24, 2015 at 2:09 pmI hope you can get here too, Pam! It really is beautiful 🙂
Del's cooking twist says
February 24, 2015 at 11:53 amHi April! Thanks for hosting this lovely party and for featuring my recipes today!
April Harris says
February 24, 2015 at 2:09 pmMy pleasure, Del! Have a lovely week!
Diane Balch says
February 24, 2015 at 12:11 pmHappy New Year… it’s still very cold here. No Spring in sight.
April Harris says
February 24, 2015 at 2:10 pmOh dear, Diane, I hope Spring visits you guys soon. You sure have had a long cold winter!!Thank you for visiting and sharing 🙂 Have a lovely week!
Joy @ Yesterfood says
February 24, 2015 at 1:49 pmThank you, April! 🙂
April Harris says
February 24, 2015 at 2:10 pmMy pleasure, Joy! Have a lovely week!
jo says
February 24, 2015 at 3:02 pmlove the pond photo, and taking time with family…thank you for hosting.
April Harris says
February 25, 2015 at 7:04 pmThank you, Jo! And thank you for visiting and sharing 🙂
Vicky says
February 24, 2015 at 8:24 pmHi April
I can’t believe we’re nearly in March! I’m looking forward to some warmer weather now! It’s still minus ridiculous in Canada though!
Have a lovely week x
April Harris says
February 25, 2015 at 7:08 pmI know exactly what you mean, Vicky, the year seems to be hurtling by. It really is cold in Canada this year – my cousins have had tons of snow too! Thank you for visiting and I hope you have a lovely week too 🙂
Audrey @ Unconventional Baker says
February 25, 2015 at 5:31 amThanks so much for sharing my mini-eclairs, April! I appreciate that you appreciated my journey with those little cuties 🙂 They’ve been a true labor of love, to say the least 😉
April Harris says
February 25, 2015 at 7:09 pmI really enjoyed your post, Audrey. I love to hear the story behind a recipe and I could tell this one really was a labor of love!