Quilt while you're ahead: jewellery

books read 2009

Albert Camus: The plague
Tim Roth: The human stain
Deborah Wearing: Forever today
Chris Cleave: The other hand
Anne Tyler: Digging to America
Winifred Peck: House-bound
Stephanie Meyer: Breaking dawn
Alicia Gimenez Bartlett: Il silenzion dei chiostri
Andrea Camilleri: La danza del gabbiano
Curtis Sittenfeld: American wife
Patricia Cornwell: Scarpetta
Stephanie Meyer: Eclipse
Stephanie Meyer: New Moon
Stephanie Meyer: Twilight
George & Weedon Grossmith: The diary of a nobody
Muriel Spark: The pride of Miss Jean Brodie
Toni Morrison: Jazz
Anthony Kiedis: Scar tissue
Tim Butcher: Blood river
Jorge Amado: Gabriella garofano e cannella
Stephen King: Dolores Clairborne
Kate Morton: The house at Riverton
Muriel Barbery: Estasti culinarie
Dorothy Whipple: The Priory
Andrea Camilleri: L'eta' del dubbio
Virgina Woolf: Mrs Dalloway
David Ebershoff: The 19th wife
Sidura Ludwig: Holding my breath
Vita Sackville-West: All passion spent
William Maxwell: So long, see you tomorrow
Mohsin Hamid: The reluctant fundamentalist
Noel Streatfeild: Saplings
Tracy Chevalier: Burning bright
Barbara Pym: Excellent women
Markus Zusak: The book thief
Annie E Proulx: Fine just the way it is

cinema 2009

Up
Julie & Julia
Inglorious Basterds
The time traveller's wife
Ice Age 3
The proposal
Angels and Demons
Ghosts of girlfriends past
The boat that rocked
State of Play
He's just not that into you
Pane e tulipani (Bread and tulips)
Frost/Nixon
Yes man
Slumdog millionaire

Friday, 11 September 2009

which one...

do...

you...

like...

best?

If any?

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Tuesday, 27 November 2007

3 days to go...

The boards with the brooches are ready

phew...

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Friday, 02 November 2007

No 3 is still burning up and sitting on my lap like a very very hot water bottle. He's scribbling on my note pads and moaning at the same time. He desperately needs to sleep but he's resisting it so much, any suggestions? (legal ones only please!)

In the meantime here are some brooches I made in the last few days, grabbing a minute here, a stitch there...

Some flower shaped

some round

and some because... well I REALLY want to bore you to death this time!!

Do I hear snoring...?

(Does anybody know how to do the photo mosaic-thingy-bobs?)

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Wednesday, 17 October 2007

... just keep going.

Just keep going. Just keep going. Just keep going. This is my mantra of the last few days... No 1 and No 2 recovered from their horrible virus only for N0 3 and Mr M to get it. Oh what fun.

I'm trying to hide in my little study as much as possible to escape the moaning and the bacteria, but it'll be a miracle if I don't get it. (Actually not eating for a few days will work really well for my winter wardrobe!!).

I finished the hand warmers. They were so quick to do! The pattern is called 'Fetching' from www.knitty.com, I used a 100% wool called Freedom Spirit. It's an English yarn by Twilley of Stamford. It's very very soft and they'll keep me warm this winter, whilst leaving my fingers free to wipe noses and mouth of snotty children. (I hate having to take off my gloves every five minutes).

I also made another little bag for my stall. I'm not an expert so I decided to keep the lines very simple but adding a detail to make it slightly different.