great googleymoogley!

it's been a busy few months in the Flibble household, but I finally got back into doing a little sewing. I say a little... about 8 hours to be exact. Even hand hemmed it ;)

Minime needed a new party dress ;) the fabric shop (fabric8 in colchester) had a massive remnant of silky, dotty polyester for £8 and their remnants were on 3 for 2, so basically this ended up being free!!

I used a Butterick pattern, and lined the dress with lining from another I'd been given recently. I also used the zip from that too. the buttons on the bows came from my mother in law. aparently they used to be on husband's baby cardigan!!

 

 Aparently it's "swishy, dancey and princessey". perfect.

As the party was a "fairy and princess party" I thought what the heck. let's do some free standing lace wings for giggles. Urban Threads I love you.

Great! no. 1. sewing machine lies. it said 72 mins PER WING.  this is not so. with all the swearing, tearing, breaking etc it ended up being nearer 2 hours per wing. but they do look fab!

And I had enough fabric left over to make the Birthday Girl a crayon tote too. complete accident that Disney Princess crayons match the dots so well!

Beutiful Girlie wore makeup. she scrubs up well. not bad for someone who also just graded in Karate and is now at 9th Kyu!

New Stuffs

I've been neglecting my blog. sorry. not that anyone reads it... ahem.

I finished my Drops cardigan.

 Made a wind chime for the wind chime swap on craftster

had a cup of tea

 made sophie some new jammies from fabric she requested

made myself a new handbag

 was a terrible parent letting sophie eat crisps and wear dressing up earrings before school

 had my hair cut

 lined a really funky bag with really funky fabric for a 5 year old girlie

 here's the outside of her bag

 got to grips with my new embroidery machine

 and made myself some shorts.

 oh, and finally I captured another fairy.

Last Minute Bonnet

I had something sprung on me this morning. my daugther has been ill for a week, and has been off school so I didn't get any information about their spring/eater bonnet parade tomorrow. ARGH.

I had a choice, walk a mile to the pound shop and buy plastic crap which would be binned later on, or make a bonnet and let Sophie decorate it.

the bonnet took a little over 2 hours and was from this tutorial:

http://givenmoments.blogspot.com/2008/01/bonnet-tutorial.html

everything on it was her choice, positions were her choice. she made the daffodils (I cut out the cardboard for her, she painted and glued them and then I sewed them on), she decorated the blown egg (aparently it's flowers, I think it's beautiful but then I'm her mum!)

she chose the feathers, fabric daisies and they're glued on with PVA(school) glue so they can be soaked off and the bonnet worn/decorated again.

not bad considering I basically had almost no warning lol.
the person modelling the bonnet is me, Sophie is in bed as it's 10pm here lol. glue's still not properly dry, and I made the hat stand fro a balloon, sheet of newspaper, PVA glue, cooking ingredient pot (arrowroot or bicarb i think lol) and lentils (weight) for tomorrow because if i leave it in a bag it's gonna get destroyed before the parade!

Cornbread

225g butter (I use Vitalite; a stable, dairy free margarine. don't use Pure and don't use oil.)
225g plain flour sifted
225g polenta grains  (fine works better imho)
1 tbsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
125g caster sugar
2 large or 3 small eggs
475ml full fat milk (I used half fat, still works lol)


preheat oven to 180.c or gas 5

put the butter/fat into a 23cm square or round baking tin and put in the oven to melt
while butter melting put the flour polenta salt sugar and baking powder into a large bowl and make a well in the centre break in the eggs and add the milk and the melted butter/fat
mix well until all combined but will need to do this quickly or the butter/fat will harden
pour the mix back into the tin and bake for 30-40 mins until well risen and golden brown

the bread will sink a little after cooking
can be eaten hot or cold. I like it hot form the oven with a little more marge on the top. it's much like a corn scone.

nomnomnom

New Things... mwaaaaaa!

Ok, so this week I have been mostly ignoring the housework again and mending my brain through home made art therapy.

And also mending other's brains too lol. here are some margie-warna earrings...

one has a doob, the other a bowl of herb, a packet of rizlas and a lighter.
 

and here is a little, erm, thingummy. it has cherry blossom on a blue sky background. I'm not sure what to do with it yet.

finally, this week saw thw first (and second, and third) harvests of Purple Sprouting Brocolli form my garden. woot!

I've begun painting again

acrylic on canvas, mixed media.

Random post sunday!!!

Désolé pour ma français merdant!!! oui! les moules! fait au pays d'oc de l'angleterre (au cidre et à l'ail avec du thymes et un petit peut de fromage à la crème); il y a des moules Ecossaises. nomnomnom.

translation: yes! Mussels! cooked in the west country fashion with cider, garlic and a little cream cheese, here are Scottish Mussels. nomnomnom.

what follows is desturbing in the extreme. a 32 year old hair engineer wearing the hat and scarf of a small girl...

(I made the hat)

How do you wind wool from a skein to a ball without a spare pair of hands? use feets!

I am embracing my inner goth again.