Monday: I started pattern making for a new Latin Dress Tuesday: A day full of home improvements. Today we have three sets of double glazing replaced. Wednesday: I adapted the one Pot Pasta dish for tagliatelle and chorizo with a creamy sauce. Thursday: I had one of our lovely mini Camembert roasted for dinner with some of my Aunts home… 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 »
This weekend I have been busy making stuff from a ton of windfalls the my parents brought down the other weekend and trying to preserve some of the produce from our garden. I made Rosemary Jelly with all the Rosemary ‘branches’ which were lying along the floor. Quince Jelly (with apples) from some of the Ornamental Quince from my parents… Read more »
There have been a number of recipes flying around pinterest for one pot pasta dishes and I thought I’d try one out, with my own spin… One pot pasta inspiration http://pinterest.com/pin/29343835044940936/ This was the inspiration for my meal although I made a few tweaks based upon what I had available. For the veg I used frozen peas and sweetcorn, I used… 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 »
So previously I put up a tutorial on how to make a card holder but that was just a 2 part card holder, and Pippa has been hinting for rather a while that she wants a 3 pocket card holder to replace her plastic railcard holder which is always breaking… See that cracking in the plastic So I set about being… Read more »
Disclaimer, This post is a little late! Currently all of my spare time has been spent sailing which takes me away from the house for long periods of time and when I do get back to the house blogging is unfortunately not at the top of my list. So here is the summer round up of the garden, with the… Read more »
So following on from my posts about inspiration, design and colour schemes, I actually went and bought the first part of my latin dress! The underlying leotard. The Leotard: This comes from american apparel and cost about £20 I think. I could have got it for much cheaper if I had gone for a white leotard, but initially I didn’t plan… Read more »
Chair Feet Covers (aka Leprechaun feet) So we have a pair of rather comfortable high backed armchairs and we use them for most things, including our “dining” chairs for sitting at the dinner table. This means they get moved back and forward quite often and this has been wearing away our lovely wooden floorboards by the table *sadface* At this… Read more »
