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Sunday, February 6, 2011

Busy Sunday

You know when you have a list of things to do that keeps growing and growing and you complete a couple on a Sunday and feel so pleased with yourself...well this Sunday is one of those!

sand, scrub and clean the letterpress drawer I bought almost a year ago from Cambridge - I am in love with this tiny beauty...its original purpose was to keep the different letters, numbers etc for printing. We have hung it in the living room but no pic yet as it is not ready for its big unveil...I have a couple of ideas of what to display on it!

While cleaning the drawer...I noticed the rainbow chards are having a 'second life'and the leaves looks ready to be picked! The garden always surprises...both good and bad surprises...

Lunchtime...I made chicken and chinese sausage claypot rice. Double up the portions so we have extra for lunch tomorrow.. a treat for Monday

Roasted maple syrup almond and hazelnut - half kept as whole to scatter on our morning porridge and the other half blitz to death into nut butter (after 15 minutes of crazy whizzing in the food processor...it taste like home-made nutella!)
I can't resist taking pictures of my cutie duck measuring cup - it stacks and come in 4 sizes....too cute not to buy. Same with the sea-shells measuring spoon...you can see it but the back of the spoon is shaped as shells - all purchased from Anthropologie (interior heaven)

Made a 'good luck' card for my colleague/office-buddy Lucy who is going on a secondment to our NY office. She has agreed to be my unofficial postwoman. I'm excited...so excited about the shopping possibilities...without the expensive postage!

One of Scott's xmas pressie was a voucher for a craft class near us and I chose to do a silk-screen printing class. I had grand ideas of filling the whole tea towel with different shape bottles but the printing frame and time limitations meant I scale down my design and this is what I ended up with. I love it! I came home with 2 tea towels and 1 bag

We also hung about a million pictures and Scott's drawing/painting around the flat but none has a finish look (i.e. still waiting for a few more pieces / need to buy the correct nails to hang some of the frames!!) so no pics.

That's my Sunday sorted! Phew....

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Bottles

All these for 99p - are you freaking kidding me!

Everyone collects something at some point in their life. The stuff you collect says something about you at that point in life and also often represents something. I vaguely remember collecting stamps, looking through letters that were never mine to nick the colourful stamps for my collection,being precious about soaking the stamp in water and slowly removing the stamp for the envelope without tearing it.Heck, I was even close to putting my name up in one of those teenage magazine looking for penpals so I can receive letters and stamps!

Then there is the need to collect everything and anything Take That related. Partly to feel like I belong to something, partly to not miss out really. That was an expensive teenage phase. Those VHS, CDs and magazines all amount to more than my daily pocket money!

Now with a flat of my own, I love collecting glass bottles. Old bottles with embossed letters, medicinal bottles with vertical ridges, clear/ coloured/ stained bottles, there is always a reason behind the style and colour. Some are cheaper than others, some are probably not worth the money I paid for but regardless, each one is valuable to me. It is often small and light enough to search out and buy them whenever I travel. I have also been known to buy beer for Scott so I can keep the bottle! (Maybe that's why he tolerate my 'junk'). My personal favourites are anything chemistry related - beakers, test tubes....hmmmm......strange but it's true!

I would like to think it references back to my geeky engineering background but worryingly, I think this bottle obsession do run in the family!