There is no rest for the wicked and so I spent most of Friday night in the kitchen making pink vanilla cupcakes with very pink icing. The reason was Against Breast Cancer were taking over Abingdon market place and they were a bit short on cake. So I put on the oven and had a Read more about More cake and curtains[…]
So a few weeks ago I saw a poster at work for the Oxfordshire bake off. Not only was baking fever coming to a school near us but all the money raised was going to Oxfam and local childrens hospice Helen & Douglas house (the same charity I ran dressed as santa for a few Read more about Going all golden & baking up a storm[…]
So we are back in Oxford! I was lucky enough not to go straight back to work but go on a needle felting course with the lovely (& fantastically talented) Gretel from Middle of Nowhere at the Queen’s head pub in Eynsham. We were all due to make a squirrel but the first task was Read more about Making felty squirrels[…]
So on Thursday and Friday instead of going to work I went off to frolic in the fantastic Ardington School of Crafts for 2 days of learning from the fantastic Ray Slater. Our task was to make contemporary cloth dolls and by gosh we did. Our first task of the day (after tea and biscuits Read more about Creating cloth dolls[…]
I could not name this post so without including a pic of the man himself, ladies reach for your smelling salts the danger of swooning is about to increase. (ding dong, Colin Firth will remain the ultimate Darcy for me, most dashing Austin male by a mile!). Now onto to some sewing. So about 4 Read more about Darcy, always Darcy[…]
This is my wonderful friend Claire, she lives near Guildford so alas we don’t see each other as often as we’d like these days. Whenever I do see her however I am greeted with a very strong cup of coffee! Last time we saw each other we were chatting about how awesome it would be Read more about Vikki and Claire’s fantasy coffee shop[…]
I’ve been being kept really busy for the last couple of weeks working on some doll commissions for one of our neighbours. She approached me about using this book that she had as a start point and creating some wedding themed dolls for some younger cousins who were coming to her daughters wedding (incidentally her Read more about Wedding dolls[…]
This is the beginning of one of the dolls I’ve been asked to make by our friend Claire, it is one of a pair although it’s mate is a brown bunny (cut out, the pattern said fake fur but I thought that would be a nightmare so brown suede it is). This is my second Read more about Doll making – The contruction[…]
After 6 years of working for my current publishing company I’m off to pastures new! I have been offered a job at another very prestigious Oxford publishers and so had to say my goodbyes. This was my leaving lunch at the always lovely Steveton House hotel. Instead of a leaving present I asked my colleagues Read more about I’m no good at goodbyes…[…]
So this weekend I left his Jamness at home and headed to the very beautiful Mountsorrel Hall (above) to meet the very lovely Louise Brooks. As well as making hats professionally Louise leads classes in how to make hats, and I was there to learn how to make a felt hat with flowers. Mountsorrel Hall Read more about Hat making part 1[…]