We had Chinese New Year coming to school and I had 4 days to make a top. We had to do it a week before as we would have been on half term.
The Fabric Has Arrived For My Hand Made Chinese Style Top
I found the pattern and the fabric at the same store. I had been eyeing this fabric for a while so hoped it was still there.
The Beautiful Fabric For My Oriental Inspired Dress
It certainly wasn’t the easiest pattern to work with. New Look not easy…Simplicity, I’ll tell you when I’ve done one…I’ve not got instructions from the pattern sheet obviously but I have pictures of the stages. I worked on the top (not including the cutting of the pieces) from 4pm until about 10pm for four days. I’ve yet to wear it out, but I will when I finish off the dodgy edging that is on the top now. This was before I got my overlocker!
All in all, it wasn’t too bad but next time I would definitely not add Frog closures as It hid the piping which took me soooo long to do.
When I tidy up the seams and wear it I’ll post a picture…
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So, A little while ago I got into watching Bones a great American TV series, bear with me. For those that have yet to see this program, it centers around the Jeffersonian Institute. A team of six mainly tries and succeeds in finding out the cause of death from bones hence the name. Temperance Brennan (an anthropologist) and Seeley Booth (an FBI special agent) turn up to the scene of, I can’t really say a crime, a place where there are bones. It might have been a body was moved there, trapped/burned or murdered there. Their job is to find out who they were, etc, etc, etc… Very gripping stuff and seeing that I have seen many episodes from Series 7 & 8, I know what is going to happen in their personal lives, I just wanted to see how they got there.
Bones The Television Series
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So Scandal….OMG, LOVE IT with a passion.
I was gripped from the first minute of the 1st episode. Not like Breaking Bad which I don’t like at all. People have said stick at it, it’ll get good in series 2 but I can’t be bothered with all that nonsense. Why waste my time on getting through a series that I am bored with. Anyway, back to Scandal. Based around Olivia Pope. A fixer. You kill someone, she can fix it. You’re a high powered man or woman and you need to give a good image to the press, she can fix it. Someone you love has gone missing she can fix it BUT her main person she (used to) fixes is the President of the United States, Fitzgerald “Fitz” Grant. Hot totty that Olivia tries and fails to stay away from. The have MAD burning, can’t stay away from each other chemistry.
Fans now await series 5, can’t spoil the end of series 4 if you have yet to see it but it is BRILLIANT.
Scandal TV Series
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Last year I happened upon a series, entitled “My Mad Fat Diary”. Based on the book written by Rae Earl.
My Mad Fat Diary TV Show
A real-life diary was written by an overweight, music-mad, boyfriend crazy 16-year-old girl in the 90’s, a great musical decade. One of my fav’s actually. The decade I discovered Indie/rock and alternative. Anyway, this diary is of her accounts going through life with a mental illness, her mother is married to a Moroccan and her fit totty boyfriend Finn.
My name is Sam and I was born to Jamaican and Guyanese parents. A true London girl with a bit of spice. I travelled a lot (not a boast) so have a bit of life experience. I am a trained chef and a new vegetarian, crafter, sewer and blogger. I love pink, Hello Kitty, Back To The Future, Dirty Dancing and the 50’s.
I’m going to say and do random stuff, so please leave positive comments, and try to get through life with a smile. xx 😆
So why had I decided to do this colour run? Well, for one, I thought it was on a Saturday and 2, I thought it would be a lot of fun, with a bunch of mates and would be mates. Angelique made a WhatsApp group and the messages started. Message back and forth about when we should be meeting up, what we were wearing, and just random girls stuff.
I suggested 2 weeks before the run to meet up for drinks to discuss running strategies, outfits etc. It just ends up being a boozy early evening in the beer garden & Night inside. I didn’t mind as one outfit mentioned took my fancy-TUTUS
Tutu And Snowboarding Goggles
Although excited for the following week, I was none the wiser as to where it was, what some of the other girls looked like, what time we were running and some of the finer details.
I eventually got this info from my Angel and my mind was at rest.
On Saturday I pimped 4 pairs of goggles and decided which 2 of the seven tutus that I had received we’d need! Ordering panic! I babysat my Nephews that evening.
Sunday rolls around and after some more messaging in the morning- I got up, had a shower ate some breakfast, done some general running around the house and was picked up at 10.30.
We met up with another Sam, got our T-shirts and waited for the other to arrive.
We were due to have our warm-up at 12.30, which was basically a short Zumba class. but before that could happen we had to get down, low and when the beat dropped…it went a bit crazy. A lot of people had paint sachets that they just threw in the air ad you get covered. It was all the pre-run party to get you in the mood.
Jumping with paint Moving Picture Colour Run In London 2015
We all (14 of us) made our way to the start, where you could see the obstacles from and waited then another 20 minutes before we actually went. The first obstacle just a wooded upright panel with footholds on it. Then we got sprayed with paint. Now, this was good paint as it was just coloured cornflour which doesn’t stain clothes or hair.
So, not to go into boring detail, various inflatable obstacles were tackled that we had to either crawl through, under, over or push through and eventually we all finished. We slid down a giant slide and walked through some foam. Collected a pack of colour paint, joined the end party and threw it and danced again.
In the New Year of 2014 a new magazine came out. Now being VERY new to sewing (through the soft furnishing course) I thought this would be a good thing to do.
Now, July 2015, I am about 1 year behind. I have embroided 27 squares- I should have done about 85 by now – Any way
