Button Up

It’s actually amazing what you can teach yourself given an hour or ’sew’ to focus. After finally fixing up Max’s gi (one of the bigger boys at Brazilian Ju-Jitsu ripped it up) I decided it was time to teach myself the buttonhole! For Christmas I received Cath Kidston’s awesome book Sew, complete with bag project. [...]

Out with the old and in with the new…

I’m not much of a New Year’s Resolution type person but last year I did write a list of 25 things I wanted to do in 2009. I thought it’d be worth going over what I did and didn’t do ready to prepare a new list of 26 things I want to do in 2010. [...]

Flex your Thread

I absolutely love crocheting, knitting, sewing, crafting… Anything that involves a needle of some sort and a piece of thread/yarn/whatever. I love reading craft weblogs and looking at pictures of other people’s craft rooms and I’ve always wanted to try and use this blog to show you more of the stuff I do but I [...]

Delchan Ouedraogo needs a partner

So this landed in my inbox today:
This message might meet you in utmost surprise. However, it’s just my urgent need for foreign partner that made me to contact you for this transaction. I got your contact from chambers of commerce search while I was searching for a foreign partner. I assured of your capability and [...]

Bread Club

This weekend we made 103 flat breads… 12 spiced loafs and a million cookies. We called it bread club:

We gobbled up all these bad boys pretty quickly:

Why did we do this? Well, it was all for this:

Good times had by all… The BBQ went down a treat (I don’t have any photos of this yet [...]