We move house in two days. Two days! We’re almost packed. God, we have so much stuff, it’s a pain. Luckily we’ve hired removal men. I literally cannot wait to move in, sort out the kitchen and use our lovely new Le Creuset pans bought from wedding vouchers and go into the garden and get my fingers all dirty from planting and have room for a dressing table in the bedroom and n0t have the sound of a main road right outside.
But most of all I am looking forward to me and Dave having our own little home together. Oh, and getting a cat too.
Posted in home.
We’re moving house in six days. Exciting! So the packing has started in ernest. This is Panda, Dave’s oldest toy.
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Remember that Red Bird jewellery giveaway I blogged about last month? I didn’t win the lovely necklace (now named Bird on a Wire) but I loved it so much I asked Becky from Red Bird Jewellery to make me a copy. It arrived in the post yesterday and I couldn’t be happier. Receiving something that’s been wrapped up perfectly (a little red box and tied with string. I wanted to take pictures, but the light was rubbish and I wanted to see my necklace too much. I’m easily excitable.) adds to the specialness and the necklace itself is brilliant. The perfect length, lovely colours and a great design makes this a piece of jewellery I’ll be wearing with a lots of things in the future.
Posted in Shopping, clothing.
This is a really nice idea. Buy a raffle ticket for £4 on Folksy and you could win a A4 sized piece of artwork from illustrators, designers and graphic design students and help raise money for the South Essex College graduate show. There are some great pieces up for the talking from artists like Rob Ryan and Kate Forrester. I have my fingers crossed for this super Gemma Correll picture:
More information is on the A4 Draw blog and you can buy your raffle tickets here.
Posted in Things.
I love dresses. I love them so much I don’t wear anything other than dresses. I love buying dresses just as much as wearing them too. Siany, from the brilliant Domestic Sluts, also loves her dresses and she’s started new website A Change Of A Dress with a new gorgeous garment posted up every day. Thanks to her I have completly fallen in love with this beauty from Sika Designs:
Oooh. Pretty…
Posted in Other blogs, Shopping, clothing.
As we’re slowly packing and getting ready for our move*, I’ve not been quite able to cook as complicated things as I’d like, so I’m having to read cookery books and dream of all the dinner parties we’re going to have in the new house. The book I’m currently browsing through is Ginette Mathiot’s I Know How To Cook, the French cooking bible that’s been around since the 30s. It’s only just had it’s first translation into English and it’s been updated by one of my most favourite food bloggers, Chocolate & Zucchini’s Clotilde Dusoulier. There are recipes of every kind, every occasion and everyone. As soon as you feel it in your hands you know it’s going to be living in the kitchen for as long as you cook. Well worth a purchase.
*Have I mentioned me and Dave are buying a house? We’re buying a house! No more living above a flat for us. We’ve got a garden and everything! It’s all rather exciting, or at least it would be if the solicitors would stop arsing around.
Posted in Food, a photo almost every day.
This story from the BBC website, is truly awe-inspiring. Check out the video too, it’s just left me gaping at the computer screen. Quite magical.
Posted in Things.
If you happen to pop into the Roundhouse foyer, you’ll see hundreds of little paper butterflies hanging from the ceiling. It’s a beautiful effect and a lovely reminder of the coming spring.
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Our lovely friends Frank and Anna got engaged over new years so we met them to celebrate. Annoyingly, the pub dimmed the lights just before I could take a photo of the happy couple so you’ll have to do with my slightly clichéd composition of wine bottle and candle.
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Red Bird Jewellery, purveyor of pretty things, has a lovely little competition on her site. Give a name to one of her newly created necklaces and win it. It’s that simple! But I can’t think of a name because I’m rubbish. Shame really, both pieces are lovely, although my personal favourite is this lovely swallow necklace with bloodstone:
Go and say hello and enter! Also, check out her Etsy shop, it’s fully of really wearable and pretty things to wear.
Posted in Crafty, Other blogs, etsy.