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Post Christmas and New Year Bash!
This is bash as in 'bashing things into shape' rather than some wild party, unfortunately ( Read more... ) -
The Negative Elliot Effect!
TS Elliot is one of my favourite poets. Given how much I love dress and literature and architecture from much further back than that, this often surprises folk who know me a little less well than my immediate family, but there you go. There is something that just clicks about modernism and minimalism. Amish style and the ethic of the Arts and ( Read more... ) -
Amazon fail!
I pre-ordered a book, more than a year ago. Publication was put back about three times, and eventually Amazon cancelled the order.
A few weeks later, I could pre-order it again, so having assured myself that the order really HAD been cancelled, I did so.
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I am waiting to be a Domestic Goddess again...
The post has come. Bothersome letter from the GP, package for ravenrigan, no parcel from Goodness Direct...
Carrier has come with large box for ravenrigan from Virgin Wine: probably her new wine-tasting kit that we thught would come tomorrow! Nothing from Goodness Direct...
I want my parcel! It should contain Lexia raisins (a bugger to get round here!) and gluten ( Read more... ) -
Stays not upon the order of your going...
Jacobean stays.
This is the foundation (literally as well as figuratively!) for a much bigger project. Not quite on the scale of the 2010 18th C marathon, but getting that way! There will be at least two gowns to go over the stays.
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It's Sunday... Do I get to have a day off?
Yesterday counts as slightly working, in that the lovely queenortart came for a fitting, and we were joined for lunch by ravenrigan. I made broccoli and cheese soup.
T'Strapping Lad(TM) went to the pub to work his shift, and later helped Himself to paint shelves and stuff for the new room. The shelves are being painted black. The walls are white. The remaining ( Read more... ) -
The Etsy Shop: Unashamed Self-Promotion!
Thanks toravenrigan's hard work, our Etsy shop is back up and running! Yay and woot ( Read more... ) -
It's a bit wet up there...
We've had a lot of wet recently. The middle of Durham (my old university town, and where I met Himself) is rather damp...
This is the student union buildong, Dunelm House:
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