We had a visit from Mr and Mrs M (Snr) last week on their way back home from Somerset. Mrs M left us… well me… the gift of a stinking cold, which led me to wreck my almost perfect sickness record and have 2 days off work. Ugh. Sinuses blocked. Nose running. Irritating cough. Check. […]
I was suddenly seized upon the urge to do a bit of cross stitch this weekend. I haven’t done any for a long while, so flicked through some old issues of CrossStitcher and looked for a little something to do. (most issues have a few tabs or photocopies inside where I have seen something I […]
Just after Christmas I posted about some of the lovely things I received. One of which was a kit to make an apron, a GRAND gift no? Jump to 4 months later… I still haven’t made it. Shucks. *cough* Lizzie *cough* Pants *cough*. So I did. The instructions came with the pattern for the top […]
An unfortunate side effect of a 3 and a half week holiday is, well…… not doing any of the walking, or metafit, or anything I usually do, consuming more than even my usual amount of doughnuts, icecream, and other goodies….. my jeans are now somewhat tight. Erk. This is not only a “low calorie”, healthy […]
It has been a busy weekend! I drove up to Manchester after work on Friday night to meet up with my Mum. I had bought us tickets to the Cake and Bake Show in Manchester on Saturday, having quite enjoyed ourselves at the one in London in September. It featured a life sized gingerbread house […]
I have been embracing bread making recently, but it’s a bit of a pain to faff about with cling film or teatowels to cover up your bowl while proving dough. I saw a tip on the programme “The Fabulous Baker Brothers” was to use a shower cap to cover your bowl while proving instead of […]
We got back on Wednesday afternoon. The first day/night was fine, the next night I made the mistake of snoozing on the sofa while watching tv….. then couldn’t sleep. Boo. For the last part of the trip we spent a couple of weeks in Seattle visiting a friend of ours, with a long weekend spent […]
Or maybe not a new hobby, but a new variation on an old one. The Lazy Crafter has been working away on trying to master Tunisian Crochet, and after seeing all her pins on the subject, and a challenge laid down on Facebook (which we all know is legally binding), I decided to try and […]
I finished my bag kit just after we got to San Diego, but it felt like it was missing a little something. Limited internet in SD meant limited opportunity to scour for a pattern. Limited time to craft in Portland meant I didn’t look there either. Now I’m relaxing it up in Seattle…. time to […]
We had been to Portland before, a couple of years ago we flew to San Francisco and drove to Seattle via Yosemite, Lake Tahoe, and a few other places, spending a couple of nights in Portland. I can remember love love LOVING it, but then sometimes the mind can play tricks….. Maybe it wasn’t as […]
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