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Four cakes baked- check. Three cakes sliced and titivated- check. No cling film left to finish the job- check. Shops shut-check. Green stripe on zebra jeans removed-check. Replaced with a bit of wedding dress toile- check. Time for wine and pasta…why the hell not? If you’re in Brum tomorrow, come buy cake at the Crescent … Continue reading And the weekend begins…
1. Baking 2. Sewing 3. Eating 4. Drinking (This is not me!) In no particular order, to be applied as and when I see fit, and repeated until I go back to work in a week’s time: hurrah! We survived Ofsted, and I aten’t dead. This weekend is Birmingham Gay Pride. [This is NOT me … Continue reading Plan for the weekend [so far]
First up- the let’s-see-if-this-works asymmetrical top. I bought this [now OOP] pattern for the wife a few years ago, thinking it might be a cool top to wear when she’s performing, leaving either guitar hand free as desired [you just turn the thing front to back, both pieces are identical]. I made it up, she … Continue reading Simply Red #1- red or dead?
After my little wardrobe blitz, I noticed a dearth of red…and, conveniently, some red and reddish fabrics among my more recent acquisitions. Serendipity! So, just cut out and ready to sew I present: Another Folkwear Frontier shirt, using the mega-red roses stretch cotton sateen. I’ve placed the pattern to put roses on the body sections … Continue reading Simply Red
[Apologies to Roisin!] Yes, as you may have seen over at Core Couture, that Donna Karan gets about a bit! Ruth enjoyed her company the other day and gained a beautiful DK gingham shirt. Ruth very kindly then gave Donna my address, and she’s spent a couple of days here, obligingly producing a mock suede … Continue reading But it can’t be Donna Karan…
While gloating [in my inimitable way] about the HUGE HEAP of stress that’s just landed on management at work, I decided to check the spelling of schadenfreude. And found a delightful Wikipedia page which has furnished me with a whole heap of alternatives: Greek: epichairekakia [anglicised as epicaricacy] Latin: delectatio morosa [anglicised, morose delectation, a … Continue reading Schadenfreude
Remember the 2 pieces of bad news? Well I was right about things going in threes. Ofsted are in next week! And I’m really, truly not bothered. Continue reading The third shoe just dropped…
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