So it's been a pretty busy couple of weeks but I've got lots of nice pictures out of it! First of all I baked chocolate biscuits for Valentine's day. The recipe was for Two Chocolate Zebras from The Great British Bake Off book - dark chocolate and white chocolate. Except I kept my two doughs separate, made little hearts and then sandwiched them together with a suitably Valentine'sy pink buttercream.
Last weekend Mum and I finally got round to starting on the hare. We cut and stuffed all our pieces, but didn't have a doll needle to do the button joints. So, this is what he looks like so far....
Not looking especially hare like just yet! But if you hold all the pieces together you can imagine it. Sort of!
And then a little more baking. This time it was for my manager's 40th birthday surprise. She's a great fan of pink, and I had a giant cup and saucer that I knew would be perfect for something. So I made pink velvet cupcakes (Hummingbird Bakery's famous ones but with pink colouring instead), iced with cream cheese frosting, and decorated with wafer flowers.
And to go around the saucer, Nigel Slater's chocolate cookies. Dark chocolate with finely chopped hazelnuts and white chocolate chips. Deliciously chewy in the middle!
As a brilliant payday bonus, the email newsletter from Seamstar had their new feature of 40% off specific fabric. And the fabric which was featured was Monaluna Marin Poppies which I've been lusting after for a looooong time! Two metres for £18 - absolute bargain! So at some point when I'm brave enough to attempt it, it should hopefully become a gorgeous A line skirt.
So, if that wasn't enough GORGEOUS photos for you....here are some pretty shoes I bought today. £4, Primark, lovely summery yellow, job done!
Until next time...xx
Once again it has snowed in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds and it certainly feels chilly! I wasn't brave enough to get out on the roads so am working from home. And yes I am actually working. She says, whilst quite obviously updating her blog! I think you're still entitled to a lunch break when working from home so that's exactly what I've been doing.
I put some birdseed out last weekend for the little birdies, but what was left of it has been snowed over again, so they'll just have to hope it thaws quickly. The snow's been great for bouncing some extra light into the house though, resulting in brighter than usual pictures for le blog. Very pleased about that!
So after a stressful week at work (trying to get a school to let you shoot still and DVD photography is easier said than done, and not helped by extremely negative attitudes from unhelpful editors) I was very pleased when my robot fabric arrived from Utah! Below is a much clearer picture than before and I'm so so happy with it. Again, if only I had something to use it for. It's really not helping the broodiness!
And here are some pictures of the bird fabric I'm going to use for my Lotta Jansdotter All Day Tote (when I get round to it), as well as some cute green word fabric which I bought in Wallingford with nothing specific in mind! I'm sure I'll stumble across some project or other soon enough which will take my fancy. Just as well the spare room's painted a similar shade of green so it will actually look good somewhere in the house!
Hoping to get over to Mum's this weekend to start work on the hare, and to steal her rotary cutter so I can continue on my quilt. And that's all for now folks!
Winter has finally arrived! The Boy and I went out for a little walk this morning in the snow. Nowhere near as bad as Christmas 2010, but don't think I'll be making it into work tomorrow. Fingers crossed for working from home snuggled on the sofa in my pjs.
No new sewing to report I'm afraid. Am feeling "sew useless" at the moment...appropriate I suppose! I can't work on my quilt because I need to steal Mum's rotary cutter and chop up the rest of my squares. So I thought I'd start on my Lotta Jansdotter bag, but don't have the right coloured thread. So I'm having a bit of a sewing slump at the moment. Perhaps my creativity block will thaw out with the snow and I'll have something new to update with then.
In the meantime, here's some pictures from our snowy walk this morning.
And some baking I did yesterday. Banana cupcakes...some with chocolate fudge frosting and some with vanilla buttercream.
And on that note I'm off for a cuppa, cupcake, and explore of some other people's lovely blogs!
