Well it is coming up to easter now and part of that means creme eggs! I love these, and I wanted to do some baking, so I decided to combine the two and make some creme egg brownies. The recipe I used for this was a modified version of Mocha Brownies. Recipe: (Makes 32 ish) 110g/4oz Butter 130g/8oz Plain chocolate… Read more »
So we have quite a projects in the works at the moment, but since they won’t be completed for a little while we thought we would give you a little taster of some of the things that will be coming up soon. So here are some of the fabrics that have projects planned and in progress in our sewing room… Read more »
Well up to now I have been exceptionally busy all the time with dance comps and lessons and shows and haven’t really had much time to do a clear out. So now is the time to do it… We have decided that we have a lot too much stuff so this will hopefully be a fairly ruthless clear out (maybe… Read more »
Well I was sorting through some of my photos and I found lots of photos of food that I have made many of them don’t currently have recipes photos so I thought I would post them here and then the next time I make them I will try to take photos of the process so I can post the recipes… Read more »
Carrying on from my previous post about the stoning of my latin dress, this post will talk more about actually putting the stones on my dress. I put my dress on my dressform for applying the majority of the stones on the top section because that way it would hold the shape of the dress better when I was sewing… Read more »
Well the lack of posts in the last few months is probably a good indication of how much spare time I have had recently… This week marks the end of dance season really, which is a little sad because I’m going to miss all the competitions. But I am looking forward to actually having a weekend off. This weekend will… Read more »
So I have been aiming to make macarons for quite a while now. They look so amazing when I see them in shops but they look really quite difficult to make… I did once make them before, but I cheated and used a macaron mix in a pack… This is how my macarons turned out last time from a pack… Read more »
So by now my latin dress is looking like a dress. Yay! But definitely far from finished. The fringing has been completed. But now for the fiddly and time consuming part… Stoning! Most ballroom and latin dresses are pretty heavily embellished to make them sparkly and to stand out on the dance floor. My dress will be no exception…. Read more »
So I have actually had a bit of time recently to write some blog posts and make some new items, but that time might go away quite soon. I am just about to start university again, tomorrow is the first day of my PhD program! Unfortunately this probably means I will say bye bye to my free time. I have… Read more »
So now that the leotard is here and covered (Read about the leotard here) I can move on to the fringing! The first very exciting bit! Here are the colours of fringing that I got, I am very pleased with how well the colours go together. I bought 15cm tactel fringing from DSI and Chrisanne, it was reasonably pricey, but I… Read more »
