Author Archives: YC

I’m done, two dresses, two shrugs, one handbag and a pair of earrings. She is coming by to pick it all up tomorrow afternoon, so am keeping my fingers crossed everything is okay. All I have to do now is … Continue reading →

Okay, I know its Monday my excuse is I took the photo on Saturday and had no time to post it. Dress progress It needs a final fitting and the zip put in, the bad news is she loves it … Continue reading →

Things here have gone a little haywire and on top of helping backstage at the school production and sewing a major cocktail dress, I have just received notice to quit our apartment. So am running around like a headless chicken, … Continue reading →

This is for all of you who still have snow and spring hasn’t arrived yet. Sunshine shrug for the princess knitted in alpaca/silk dk, colour Orange Grove about 55g on 4mm needles. Next up the almost finished fairy princess dress, … Continue reading →

Yesterday we went to visit the chateau at Vizille, it has a lovely park and we have visited it before. We only had one boy who was up for a trip to the museum, which had been rejected as boring … Continue reading →

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At last MJ has buttons, all 8 of them, ribbon, the right amount and I had somewhere to go to wear her and my skirt, so here we areand the back, sort of, the photographer is rubbish. Only problem was … Continue reading →

A while ago when I posted about chocolate, Jacqueline and I got into a little discussion about chocolate and tea. She suggested that we do a little swap later this year, when her weather got cooler and before my weather … Continue reading →

Yesterday I did a little sewing, I did have to do it with two tissues stuffed up my nostrils, which does make drinking tea kind of hard, today I felt much better as did Jake, so he went to school … Continue reading →

This plant currently lives in my house, it is a miracle, as the words, plant and lives, don’t very often go side by side in this house. In other words I am completely useless at keeping growing things alive, except … Continue reading →