Thursday, 2 April 2015

treats

When someone has upset you with their mistrustful and difficult behaviour, there are two ways to deal with the anxiety and frustration:

Bake cakes and buy fabric.

...and eat most of the cake before the camera gets near it.

My brother handed me 6 incredibly brown bananas last week so I went on a banana baking bonanza, making two Mary Berry carrot and banana cakes (one for me one for him) and a banana fruit loaf for my aunty. Cake makes everything better, especially if it has a thick, luscious layer of cream cheese icing.


By last weekend I felt I deserved some retail therapy and went a bit fabric happy online at Plush Addict and The Village Haberdashery. As luck would have it I ordered my interlock knits (the stripey green and dusky purple) during The Village Haberdashery's "free fat quarter" week and received four fat quarters with my order. What a lovely surprise!


I thought ordering fabric for my next project, some Tilly Walnes Coco tops, would spur me on to conquer my current/never ending project, the Christine Haynes Emery dress. It has been a b*tch to fit and I'm starting to think I have a mutant upper body. More on that in another blog post coming soon. For now let's just go "Yaaaay pretty fabric!"
Posted by Jo at 18:56
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12 comments:

  1. Ashley cramp2 April 2015 at 19:27

    Hmm..... go you! and cheers to baking and buying...I tend to buy fabric and then drink wine!
    D xx

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  2. Anonymous2 April 2015 at 22:50

    Hurrah for pretty fabric and yummy cake! That's always my go-to when something bad happens. I agree to add in the wine!

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    1. Jo6 April 2015 at 17:55

      Cake is my usual go-to, as fabric buying can become pretty expensive. But sometimes you just need to do both!

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  3. Candy Pop3 April 2015 at 21:05

    I'm sorry to hear that, but baking and fabric buying sound good to me. Happy Easter lovely! :)

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  4. Ruth - Nightingale and Dolittle3 April 2015 at 21:33

    Cake and fabric do indeed make everything better, especially when you get bonus free fabric thrown in! Hope you manage to get your Emery finished soon - I was lucky and had to make very few changes to mine, but I've seen plenty of other people who had fitting problems so I'm sure you don't have a mutant upper body.

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    1. Jo6 April 2015 at 17:56

      Thanks, Ruth. I think I've finally solved my Emery issues.....! I've cut into my "proper" fabric so a finished dress is on the horizon :)

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  5. The Vintage Knitter4 April 2015 at 14:17

    Sorry to read that you've had some hassles :-(
    I hope that things have sorted themselves out for you now :0)

    Baking cakes and buying fabric sounds like the ideal combo to me too, and a thick layer of icing is always a must-have.

    Happy sewing and baking, but not at the same time though! ;-)
    xxx

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    1. Jo6 April 2015 at 17:59

      Thanks, VK. Sewing and baking at the same time would be quite a challenge. Imagine a hybrid sewing bee-bake off tv programme.... Mary Berry AND Patrick Grant at the same time. Now that would be exciting!

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  6. Maria Fallon6 April 2015 at 14:36

    Hope things pick up for you soon!

    Maria xxx

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    1. Jo6 April 2015 at 17:59

      Thanks, Maria. Sadly I think it's going to get worse before it gets better..... but it will get better. :)

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