It was incredibly sunny today. I was at home so I opened up the sliding doors and sat outside on the paved area. I propped up the radio against the wall and worked on my bicycle for hours with the sun on me. Very peaceful.
Stringing some buttons on craft wire. Threading some ribbon through the button circle. Poke this through a card and I have a rather mad-looking get-well card for my sister with a decoration that can be used later if wanted. :)
Glittery decorations in Party Mania. Tonight I am setting about making further Christmas decorations whilst watching Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares. Christmas decorations are the ultimate crafty thing to make because 1. they are small 2. you can do quite a bodge job and everyone will still forgive you 3. they are repetitive and so by the [...]
There is one area that I am organised. Cookbooks. I have my so-not-nerdy sticky label system to keep track of what I want to cook ;) Blue means recipes to try out for everyday cooking – so relatively healthy and not too expensive ingredients. Red is for red-alert for special occasions – so if I [...]
The holiday! It was a real break to get away from everything and just hang out with my family. The main reason that we were there was for the opening of an exhibition about my archaeologist grandparents. It was really an honour to meet all these people who knew them and hearing all the stories. [...]
