Originally posted on my Facebook page, I wanted to share my super-dooper torch with you, so you can get in some practice before the relay starts! This is How to make a fake Olympic-Style Torch. ..................................................................................................................................................... Did anyone else look at the London 2012 Olympic Torch and think that it looks like a giant cheese … [Read more...]
World Poetry Day
Once upon a time, a teen struggled to be a teenager and found solace in poetry. She read Wilfred Owen, Seamus Heaney, Joyce Grenfell, William Shakespeare. She wrote ditties and haiku, sonnets and poems inspired by Purple Ronnie. Her mother still has it all stored away somewhere. One piece won the school Literature Award, which spurred her on to study English at University. Then she grew up to be me, wrestling dogs, cleaning up wee and sharing … [Read more...]
Rainbow Themed Birthday Party
A few weeks ago The Dimpled Assassin turned two. I don't mind telling you that there were points when I didn't think she was going to make it that long: she's a little kamikaze round the edges. But make it she did and to mark the occasion I threw an all-singing all-dancing Rainbow themed Birthday party I've been meaning to wrote about it for a while. Then Tara, Our Lady of Sticky-Fingers, declared this week to be Colour Week in The Gallery, and I … [Read more...]
Perfect Picnik Alternative
Everyone who is a fan of Picnik will know that its days are numbered: from 19th April it will disappear, assimilated into the great Google black hole. This is the 'Biggest Disaster Ever' for me asd I came fairly late to the Picnik party in the first place. I've been wishing and hoping that the ideal alternative picture editing site will present itself, and it did. There are whispers around the interweb that Pic Monkey is the new Picnik. It … [Read more...]
How to make a drawstring bag: Take One Pair of Jeans Challenge
I missed out when Missie Lizzie B ran her Take One Jumper Challenge. I never quite got around to making the things I planned to: I never found the right sweater. So when she reached out on Twitter, suggesting that I might be up for a Jeans challenge, I was a little more responsive. I cut out the fabric almost immediately. And then I did nothing with it: progress of a kind. And yet a flurry of activity today gave me some progress. Following … [Read more...]
Project 366 Week Eleven
Buy Blue Basil Gourmet Brownies
As ever, the email request was assumed to be rhetorical: would I like to review some brownies? Only if you can't give me this week's Lottery winning numbers... So imagine my utter joy when a parcel awaited my return from the school run this morning: DH must have signed for it and then departed for Bristol, so he's missing out. I am an admirer of beautiful packaging, so Blue Basil Gourmet Brownies had me mentally writing this review before … [Read more...]
