Following on from yesterday’s cricket-tastic hat, and continuing the hat theme, today we have Dino hats…! As I was making the cricket ball hat, it occurred to me that if I turned the hat sideways, (so that the seam was worn up the middle of the forehead) and poked in some spikes and added some … Continue reading
This is actually a birthday present for someone inconsiderate enough (joking) to have a birthday in December… As I said before, friends and family need to look away now. The intended recipient of this gift is grown up, male and still slightly obsessed with cricket-both playing (despite being old enough to know better..) and watching. … Continue reading
Is it just me or are advent calendars becoming more and more elaborate with each passing year? I remember the ‘good old days’, when all you had was the excitement of seeing what picture was behind the door (and that was if your parents had managed to wedge the doors back again from the previous … Continue reading
This is the second Christmas make I am going to share with you. I should say, friends and family should look away now if they want any kind of surprises this Christmas! Just in case they are still looking, I am not going to say who the gifts are for (that will obviously confuse them…) … Continue reading
Martin Lewis recently wrote an article in The Telegraph (I found the link on Twitter, just in case you think I’m cheating and buying newspaper..!) entitled “It’s time to ban Christmas presents”. If you haven’t read it, then do. It makes some very good points, far more articulately than I will! It kind of encapsulates … Continue reading
This year, inevitably, we are making many of our Christmas presents. So I thought I would share them with you! Here is the first one. (And as today is Buy Nothing Day, you could use your freed up time, to make some pressies!) Every year for the last few years, we have made a batch … Continue reading
For those of you who don’t know, tomorrow is Buy Nothing Day (I think in the USA it might actually be today, but in Europe, it is tomorrow!) I’m going to quote from their webpage, as it explains it far more eloquently than my ramblings could… “Buy Nothing Day (November 24th 2012 UK), is a … Continue reading
Following my ‘guest appearance’ on the Mark O’Donnell Show on BBC Radio Wiltshire (I bore everybody about it here) where we somehow ended up talking about darning mushrooms, amongst other things, one of the lovely listeners (Carol from Malmesbury!) very kindly offered me her grandmother’s darning mushroom. It arrived in the post yesterday, and it … Continue reading
My lovely mother-in-law got roped into kindly agreed to several nights babysitting last week (our lives are one big social whirl, you understand…), and I wanted to give her a little something to say thank you. I’m not sure what made me think of it, but I remembered having made Nigella’s chocolate and pistachio fudge … Continue reading
I’m not really having the best luck with some of my buys at the moment! You may have read about my broken boots, and now we have broken slippers…! Disaster! I have been banging on about slippers since the start of My Make Do and Mend Year (warm feet are so important!). I (very selfishly!) … Continue reading
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