Nathan, Adam, Jason, Deanne, me, Louise This weekend, Adam, Deanne, Jason and I descended on our friends Louise and Nathan for the sporadic Accounting Geek Reunion. Waaaaaay back in t’olden days (erm, September 2002), Adam, Deanne, Louise and I started…
Autumn leaves in Clifton, originally uploaded by Paul…Gibson. September has traditionally been my favourite month. Not just because its my birthday month (did I mention its nearly my birthday and I like shiny things?) but because it was always the…
I love this song so much. I first heard it when I first moved to Bristol last year, and thought that it wasn’t really that hard to live in the city (you see what I did there? Oh never mind)…
A quick make this evening, to match my outfit this weekend (I bought a lovely grey satin and black jersey dress, oops!) I saw a necklace in Topshop recently where it had some large beads tied onto a ribbon. It…
Yesterday I recieved these earrings in the post from Zoe. She’s just started making jewellery, and this was a really nice surprise! I wanted to say Thank You here :) Its making me want to use my jewellery making stuff…
Its been a while since I’ve used the sewing machine (I was kinda put off since making ~20 meters of bunting for Lou and Naths wedding!) but I thought I should do something with this material which has been lurking…
I realised that whilst I’ve been blogging for 8 years, I’ve been online a little longer than that. A more complete version of my geek history can be found here if you’re that interested, but I thought I would share…
Oh sewing machine. I love you. You were given to me in 2006, from a very kind lady who answered my Freecycle plea. The wife and I drove 30 miles to collect you from a tiny little beach village called…
Ooooh, its nearly my birthday. I’ll be 26 next month, and looking back at my list from last year, not that much has changed. I did get my iPhone (and how did I survive without it? Oh Apple, I bloody…
I’ve been contacted recently by an online vintage swap shop website who would like me to review their website in exchange for some freebies. Obviously my first thought was “Woo hoo! Free shiz!” (I am just a girl, an unemployed…
Last weekend, Zoe & James and Helen & Dave came to Bristol to see me, and to go to the Banksy v Bristol Museum exhibit thats been causing massive crowds and queues along Queens Road for a few weeks now….
Since being forced by The Wife to get properly measured for a bustenhalter (otherwise known as a bra, it just sounds better in German for some reason!), I’ve been spending more time looking at pretty underwear – although because I…