You remember my friend Lisa? I made her a wedding dress, you can see that here if you missed it. Anyway Lisa moved back to Sweden pretty much straight after the wedding with her new husband and a year later the family expanded again with the introduction of Theo to the world. I did the Read more about Theo’s Christening[…]
So this weekend we attended the very lovely wedding of our friends Lea and Rich. The bride looked stunning in a gown trimmed with bright pink and the service was lovely, both parties having written theirh own vows and Lea’s sister reading out a poem written especially for the occasion. The awwws kept coming as Read more about Lea’s wedding[…]
Every year as part of the Literature festival a ‘chancellors’ Lecture takes place, someone is invited by the chancellor of the univesity to sit and chat with him. This year it was the turn of Vikram Seth. It is no secret in our house that I think Vikram Seth a VERY fine writer (An Equal Read more about Vikram Seth comes to Oxford[…]
Although Christmas was supposed to be a lovely break form work I found myself using the time to catch up on projects instead. I thought I’d be mostly knitting I seem to have crammed quite a few other crafts in as well. I went to Ikea with Trisha and ended up buying this fantastic little Read more about Exhibit[…]
So this weekend I hopped on a train and headed to Cheltenham spa to meet up with my friends Michelle and Ziggy. Ziggy left work a couple of years ago to get married and move to Bristol with her new husband (so she got married, moved and got a new job as well as gaining Read more about Meeting up with old friends[…]
So this morning at some un-godly hour Jam left for France for an entire week of being manly and chopping wood with his dad in the depths of the French countryside (Sacrebleu!). Unfortunately as it is the actual depths they do not get internet access (booo) which means I’m on reduced rations of one very Read more about My Jammy lies over the ocean, my Jammy lies over the sea…[…]
In life, well for me anyway, things tend to go in cycles, you do a lot of one activity/see a lot of someone and then you don’t do that thing/see that person for a while but as soon as you do it/see them again you wonder how you ever coped without it/them. This is true Read more about Alex[…]