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Stufflust.
OK, my birthday and Xmas are coming up, I'm a total sucker for switchwitchery, and I'm always on the intertubes seeing things and thinking HOW COOL IS THAT, and then forgetting where I saw it. So this list is likely to be updated frequently. OK, daily!
So there is only one question remaining. How much do you love me? How much do you want me to ( Read more... ) -
Masquerade Pics
Here are a few eyecandy pics of what katexxxxxx and I have been working on over the past several weeks.
May I introduce you to Mme de Pompadour (aka La Petite Gattina Bleu) and Friends the Ice Prince and the Wicked Lady
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All the embroidery thread INTHE WORLD!
Spent last weekend at katexxxxxx 's making frocks, drinking wine and being fed into submission by her two lovely boys muttley_mutter and th GMNT. We were doing our 18th Century frocks, and I think I used a sewing machine in anger about twice. But a weekend's handsewing in good company was exactly what I needed.
I sewed the silver lace onto my Madame de Pompadour ( Read more... ) -
The tally for the weekend
The total output of the third meeting of the three mad sewists of the apocalypse is as follows ( Read more... ) -
There are Roses!
I have done 8 (at least 92 to go then). Some of them are OK. Some of them not so much, and will have to go in inconspicuous places.
Here be Roses!
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Eye Candy for Frockers!
Theatrical costume site who did some of the frockage for Marie Antoinette http://www.tirelli-costumi.com/
Now, back to the dreaded application form. Frocks later. Shopping later, unpacking from Strom later, eating anything other than chinese or No 1 husband's cookery later. -
This week's embroidery fun!
I have finished off Rachel's Reindeer Pouch, Tash's Wol Pouch, and done a bit more on Kate's reticule.
The Wol's embroidery was all finished, it just needed making up, and the Reindeer needed a little bit of beading and making up.
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Adventures in scent
The day of my long awaited perfumery course at The Cotswold Perfumery dawned, one of those champagne bright autumn days. We had travelled up the night before, and settled into the B&B and enjoyed a delicious dinner at the Manse Restaurant.
After breakfast and shower (with the absolute minimum of scented products) I walked the couple of hundred ( Read more... ) -
So the tally for the weekend
1 1.5ltr Jar Damson Gin ( Read more... ) -
More Domestic Goddessing
We now have TWO stockpots of chutney simmering away on the hob ( Read more... )