Preparing the vegetable beds…now this is unfortunately a necessary evil in order to give nice plants, but I’m sure my garden has got it in for me with this particular task. I decided we needed to clear out the back bed to get it ready for planting. It hadn’t really been used at all this year, so it was in… Read more »
Well I have to say most of the time so far this ‘summer’ we have been lamenting the lack of decent weather and the abundance of rain that we had. But now it has completely changed. It’s been 28deg C (82 F) most of the last week, much hotter than we have been used to. We have had to spend… Read more »
Now I have to admit I can be a very bad student. I find it really hard to get in a totally focused state for revision, when I’m in one it’s great, but it’s rare. So I accompany my revision with watching tv programs… Usually I try a crime program, and I usually get rather addicted. In my second year… Read more »
Wow time really does fly by without you even realising it. These last few months have been a little bit crazy with University however I am now finished!! My last set of exams have come and gone and this month it will be time for my graduation. =) I can’t wait to get to wear the robes and mortar board,… Read more »
Well I talked about my inspiration in My Latin Dress: Inspiration and the proposed design in My Latin Dress: Design, so now I have to work on the colours I want, and how they work with the fabrics I’m looking for… So I spent an awfully long time on different websites and ebay. The main ones I looked at were DSI –… Read more »
Following on from my previous post Latin Dress: Inspiration I sat down and drew up a design for what I wanted my Latin dress to look like, what materials I might use and any additional features it might have. Since this is my first dancing dress I want it to be fairly simple and straightforward so there aren’t lots of crazy pattern… Read more »
So I compete in Ballroom and Latin dancing with my university and in the competitions people wear some of the most amazing sparkly, fringed, sequinned outfits and with my love for these outfits and for sewing I’ve been wanting to make a dress for ages! So I finally decided I would just go ahead and do it, starting with a… Read more »
So I may have made a promise to a friend that I would bake him something to send him on his return for a crazy cycling trip… (and by crazy I mean cycling 900miles through 8 different countries in 8 days) Since I was working from home yesterday (trip to the dentists – so not so fun) I decided it… Read more »
I am currently battling with dentist induced numbness which has rendered the majority of my top lip useless, having had fillings done on teeth on both side of the top of my mouth in one sitting… I have feeling back in my nose but at one point that had gone too. Annoying but notched worse I have ever had, when… Read more »
This weekend is going to be my last relaxing weekend before I join the Pelican which means that it is very likely to be the last relaxing weekend before Christmas… When on ship weekends dont really have much of a bearing on the daily routine, the ship still has to be sailed 24hours a day regardless of what common practice… Read more »
