easily distracted by shiny things…
Photo © Jon Stockham
Nicola knitted Anne Hanson’s Honeybee Stole for me. It took her the best part of a year, and matched my outfit perfectly. She even worked on it while she was in hospital, in labour with her daughter Gwen. Now that’s dedication!
Photo © Jon Stockham
A close-up of Nicola’s Honeybee Stole. Isn’t it beautiful?
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Paul and I got married on Hallowe’en, which was absolutely ages ago, and whilst I showed you the honeymoon pictures, I haven’t yet posted any pictures of the wedding itself!
Because most wedding photos are of people you don’t know, I decided to concentrate on showing you the things that we made ourselves, or that our [...]
These are the photos from Centre Parcs - mostly of owls.
I’m quite pleased with these, although I missed a lot of great shots of the owls by being much too slow!
These are the photos from London - mostly of the aquarium and the zoo.
Sadly a lot of these are either out of focus, or focussed [...]
Posted in wedding on Oct 29th, 2009
We spent most of yesterday putting together the wedding favours.
My parents very kindly made a trip to IKEA for us, to buy the glasses. I set about cutting dozens of squares of dress net and lengths of ribbon, and Paul designed the MOO mini cards that we’ve used as name tags. We bought the sweets [...]
Posted in bags, embroidery, sewing, wedding on Jun 8th, 2009
I don’t like showing other people’s wedding things in their entirety before the wedding, so this is just a little snapshot of Laura’s beaded wedding bag.
The ivory silk dupion was already beaded and embroidered. I removed some of the clear beads, and replaced them with red ones. You can also see the pretty flower shaped iridescent button, [...]
Nicola’s wedding dress started life as Vogue 2903, an original 1957 pattern. We made surprisingly few changes to accommodate the fact that the Nicola was six months pregnant!
I had to do a full bust adjustment, and let out the waist a tiny bit at all of the seams. The main change we made was to add [...]
Yesterday, Mamfa popped by specifically to leave a comment that she’d seen a pair of Those Shoes in a size 5, in a shop in Leeds.
Mamfa doesn’t know me, she saw my post via the friends list of a community that we both visit. But she had some useful information, and took the time [...]
Earlier this year, Paul and I got engaged. Presumably this means that at some point in the future there will be a wedding. So, of course, I did what any ridiculously addicted freshly engaged woman would do - I went shoe shopping.
I saw a pair of shoes, by Irregular Choice. I saw them on the [...]
Posted in wedding on Feb 15th, 2008
After an unprecedented amount of secrecy from my former boyfriend…
…he is now no longer my boyfriend, but my fiancé!
I have a pretty, sparkly ring, and at some point in the future I will need to think about making myself a wedding dress.
Oh my goodness though… so many styles… so much beautiful fabric… (so many shoes…) [...]
Posted in wedding on Sep 18th, 2007
Recently I have been mostly making itty bitty things for my sister’s wedding, which is rapidly approaching. I say “itty bitty” in the sense that these things are not enormous great bridesmaids’ dresses, but I swear it would have been quicker to make a bunch of dresses than these cravats!
They need such a lot of [...]