I’ve spent this evening baking cupcakes for my husband’s birthday tomorrow. I won’t give away his age (older than me!) but not too old for homemade birthday cake. Happy birthday darling 🙂
Author: jenny
Top to Toe
I was fortunate to pop into the Museum of Childhood today. It’s one of my favourite museums, despite it’s redisplay a couple of years ago. They have a great temporary exhibition on at the moment called Top to Toe: Fashion for Kids. I love textiles and they have awonderful selection of outfits, uniforms, paintings, prints…
Epping Forest
Today we went for a muddy walk in Epping Forest. It’s not far from where we live and it was lovely to get out and about. We also visited Queen Elizabeth’s Hunting Lodge, a lovely, quirky, Tudor building. It’s been such a busy weekend. We went and saw Keane at the O2 on Friday and…
Lovely new felt
I received some lovely colourful squares of felt today – an impulse order from paper and string. They are small-ish squares but such great colours I know I will find them useful. I also bought some lovely ribbon, felt ric-rac and an owl softie kit. love using felt so it will be a pleasure to…
Felt gingerbread men
I love gingerbread, especially making and eating it. Here’s a photo of some I made as Christmas decorations before Christmas.
Sew Hip!
Yay, the first issue of Sew Hip! landed on the doormat today and it’s great. There are loads of patterns to choose from so hopefully there will be some sewing time over the weekend.
our wedding rings
our wedding rings, originally uploaded by Jennifer Young. I’m pleased to say I managed to walk unaided (apart from the arm of my cousin) down the aisle on Saturday. The day went really well, the weather was AMAZING and I was only 10 minutes late for the Church! We’re off on honeymoon to Scandinavia for…
Craftiness returns
I thought my crafting mojo had well and truly left me over the last few months what with wedding preparations and my toe injury. As Lottie commented, sick leave = crafting time but I haven’t felt like making anything, until today. I read about the free Black Apple Doll months ago but thought I would…
Lovely post
The joy of being at home resting my foot means that I am ready to pounce on the postman before he has a chance to take parcels back to the depot. Today I received a lovely parcel from Sam as I was the lucky winner of her recent blogiversary giveaway. She sent me a beautiful…