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 corsages on Sep 14th, 2009
I haven’t been showing you very many of my wedding plans on here, but this is a little something I thought other people might be interested in. They’re not quite finished yet, but these are the basis of the buttonholes that our families and Best Man are going to wear on the day. The pink [...]
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…) [...]