Lend a Hand at Christmas Time

My lovely friend Roh has been in the midst of moving house over the last week or so….Dave & Her must really love being in Wanstead & me because they were living just off the high street, but have moved about 8 doors down from me!
I loved them living so close before but now I can [...]

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and again ….

Oh and look another piece of my craft antics has been featured today on the wonderous blog by Rohini : The Beat That My Heart Skipped, see if you can spot my carefully handcrafted (with love) patchwork quilt on her post “Old homes, New Horizons”

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Dress Making Machine!

I’ve been a busy little sewing bee recently, I’ve just finished Cinderella’s Ball gown for the Woodhouse Players panto . It’s a gorgeous velvet & satin Navy vision!

My second project, which actually something I’ve been commissioned to make, is a lovely little empire line silk dupion dress.
I just had to take a picture of the fabric as [...]

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Festive

Look at the lovely Christmas lights that are all along St Christophers Place this Year, I spotted these whilst caning my debit card today in the West End looking for a Christmas Dress….

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Time to get your needles out

My grannies taught me to knit when I was little, I remember endlessly working on stripy jumpers & scarves as a kid, for many years I fell out of the habit of knitting, but in the last couple of years i have taken it up with a vengeance, some of my creations can been seen in previous posts. But this [...]

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Sequins & Studs & Gems & Pearls

I think i’m getting a little obsessed with embellished dresses…. I’ve been invited for the first time to a Christmas Lunch hosted by my company for our biggest client at the Mint Leaf on the Haymarket & obviously i will need to buy a new dress as everything in my wardrobe has been worn & is [...]

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ANTHROPOLOGIE!

just a quick one, i’m desperate to get to Anthropologie that’s just opened on Regent Street, just look at these lovely boots, cute clutch & sweetest slip ever created that they have available! i can’t wait to find an excuse to get in there & get shopping!!!

xoxo

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TEA!

” i believe that it is customary in good society to take some light refreshment at five o’clock”
Oscar Wilde – the Importance of being Ernest
 
“we had a kettle; we let it leak:
our not repairing made it worse.
we haven’t had any tea for a week…
the bottom is out of the Universe.
Rudyard Kipling
 
i love a cup of [...]

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visitation north

i’ve spent the weekend up in Lincolnshire visiting my mummy, shopping (as always), country shows and pretty towns full of lovely architecture….my new favourite town center is in Newark (which is actually in Nottinghamshire, but my mum lives near the county border so we tend to stray over it from time to time). It’s wonderful [...]

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the beat my heart skipped

i’m sure you remember me rabbiting on about my terribly clever friend Roh, well that cheeky minx has decided to take her already smashing blog to the masses, today The Beat My Heart Skipped went live! Packed full of posts about design, food, books, travel all with regular contributors & interviews & makeovers (interiors not sad [...]

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