Craft

I've done quite a lot of craft related things recently, here are a few:

1. I made a skirt

It's not very exciting, but it is pretty material and is appropriate for Spring. PLUS I made it really neat, none of my usual wonky sewing and having to unpick everything about a thousand times, I'm pretty happy :D

2. I decorated Easter cupcakes at Bethans

Everyone else decorated some too:

We had a decoration competition and then played some jenga and a rousing game of articulate which Bethan, Joycey and I lost spectacularly. I needed Queeg on my team so we could defend our reigning Articulate champions title.

3. I found this beautiful 1930s sewing machine in a Worcester charity shop. It came with the original book and bobbins etc... Here is a nice photo

And here is a boring-but-you-can-actaully-see-the-machine photo

It is beautiful and was a massive bargain at £25 I couldn't believe it. I'm keeping it till I die and if I have kids hopefully they will like it and it can stay in my family forever along with the ring Claire got me for my 21st.

4. In the same charity shop I found this lovely Ilford Sportsman camera

I loaded it with some 400 iso black and white Ilford film (naturally) and took some rough photos to test the aperture settings and see if it's in working order. So far I have found that the hotshoe is broken but everything else works well :) for less than £10 I think that's pretty good, and it came with a leather case.

5. I also started some knitting but I didn't take a photo.

On a non crafty note, I am going to Reading this year as well as Latitude and the Big Chill, greedy, greedy, greedy. We keep coming 7th out of 13 in the pub quiz and Jons team keeps beating us. I am WELL into Masterchef and really want Alex the hottie to win, but if Tim wins I'd also be be happy and I probably wouldn't mind that much if Druhv won either. Masterchef has also made me really want to go to India, it looks amazing. I need to stop giving into peer pressure and going to Priors and dancing on a Sunday night when no one else is, it's just embarrassing. I really really REALLY don't want my sister to move to Thailand on the 26th :(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:( I am going to the cinema at 10:30am tomorrow with my family to watch something involving dragons and I have no idea what it is. I'm mega looking forward to meeting Joe on Wednesday or Thursday. It's lovely having Owen, Dan, Ruth, Kirsty and others back for a bit. My lower left wisdom tooth is dead painful, so I can't eat any of my Easter eggs and I have to eat Nurofen all the time, boo! On the plus side, I do get lots of soup-but obviously no bread to eat it with.