A little Welcome!

Hey,
I decided to put a little Hello by my front door for all the people who come to visit us! I am hoping to build up a little collection of fabric happiness :) It was really simple, I popped down to my local haberdashery and purchased an embroidery hoop. I used a left over cut off of the fabric from my cushion and popped it into the hoop. I then took some embroidery threads and with just basic stitches I embroidered the word hello into my fabric. To embellish it I decided to pop some vintage buttons on there. There you go, just tuck in the back edges of the fabric and your done. Beautiful fabric to brighten someone's day :)

 

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

I am sitting here with a knitting project on the go and listening to some Beatles songs. Such a nice day I thought I would share it :)

Radiohead

Well, my excitement has been building for months and months, and then the time for me to see Radiohead live in Manchester was taken away from me by illness! :( But my lovely man and writer of blog Something for the CV went and had an amazing time (that makes it worse really). Give it a read, it sounds like it was an amazing gig!

Bread

 

 

 

Making bread is something that I love to do. The smell of freshly baked bread is one of my favourite smells. I decided to test out the theory that you can get bread to prove in the bottom of a fridge overnight, not just in a warm place. It works, it's not a myth! I found this recipe and purchased my ingredients, getting a huge bag of flour so I can make lots more bread. The only change I made was that I mixed it and left the mix to rise overnight in the bottom of the fridge, it tripled in size, amazing!! I shall be making more x

Street Spirit (Fade Out)

My man and I are very excited! This Saturday night we are going on a journey up to Manchester to see Radiohead live!! We have seen them twice before, and they are amazing!! Super exciting :)  I thought I would share with you one of my favourite songs by them, and will hopefully have some pictures to share over the weekend!

Vintage Button Cushion

With Winter on its way I am trying to make my home as cosy as possible. I am looking forward to coming home in the cold to a warm and snuggly sofa, with a big bowl of homemade soup, a lovely warm blanket and some snug cushions. So, I bought a few cushion fillers and needed to sew up some cushion covers. I liked the chair cushions that I made before for the dining room table, but this time I wanted to use buttons to do up the cover.

I measured out a long piece of fabric and, folding it inside out, I pinned it together with the opening edges overlapping on the front of the cover, not the edge. I sewed it all together using my sewing machine, then hand sewed on some vintage buttons and made some hidden loops in which to do up the cover. I love my collection of buttons. I have a massive Kilner jar full of buttons, both vintage and new, and I like to use them as embellishments as much as I can. I recommend starting a tin, jar or box yourself, they can be used for so many things :)

Spanish Omelette

Going into a bare cupboard looking for lunch always makes me sad. So I decided to throw together some odd bits and bobs and make a Spanish omelette. It's something I have never made before, and I have no idea why. It was scrummy!

I sliced up a large potato, leaving the skin on, in the food processor and boiled them for 5 minutes. After draining the potatoes I popped them in a frying pan with some oil and fried them a little until they were crunchy. Then I took them out of the pan and added 3 eggs I had beaten with the juice of a lemon, some grated cheese and seasoning. Then quickly you pop the potatoes on and put the whole thing under the grill until golden brown and cooked on top. Turn out onto a plate and eat! Yum yum :)