I’ve been having lots of printing problems recently – which is unusual, as my printers usually treat me very well – and finally realised that the trouble always occurs right after I’ve printed some recipe cards. The cards sometimes have slightly rough edges and I think they’re damaging the print head, or at least bumping into it so that it goes wrong for a while.

I haven’t found another suitable substrate for printing the recipe cards on, so I’ve discontinued them immediately. Usually when a product disappears I give a little bit of notice, but I’d really like to avoid any more issues with my printer, especially since it is relatively new. My apologies! (Outstanding orders with recipe cards in them are fine, of course, everything pending will be mailed later today.)

If you need a replacement source for recipe cards, may I recommend the beautiful ones available from boygirlparty in Squirrel/Bunny or Owl designs; or Wild Olive’s printable cards featuring Food Friends, Baking Ingredients or Baking Tools!

Life has been very busy lately. We nearly bought a house a couple of weeks ago, but the building inspection uncovered some structural problems we weren’t willing to take on. It was a lovely villa, with original polished floors and high ceilings and a claw-foot bath tub and a cute little garden, and I was quite sad when we had to let it go. Now we have an offer on another house, which is less of a “character home” but still quite charming, plus it is much bigger and has been recently refurbished. It’s actually more suitable for us than the first one, but we won’t know for at least another week if we have got it or not. I’m trying not to get too excited, but it’s hard to avoid starting to mentally arrange the furniture… plus, on top of all that, our apartment is being auctioned tomorrow! We’ve had lots of people through so I hope it sells! Ack! Nerves!