After tea I finished the other bridesmaid dress, so that is another job out of the way and finished off the miracle morning the book I couldn't get on with last time. After looking back I couldn't see if I had posted about it before but anyway it was better this time. It mostly focuses on having a good positive morning routine that starts early and leads you towards getting more done.
Tuesday, 20 June 2017
Quick Hanging Basket
My husband came home from work today with a hanging basket he picked up at Home bargains at lunch time, it was £2.50. That will do, seeing as the one we saw made up the other day was £12. I had plants already from the ones I bought on Sunday so it was up in no time. I know you can get the plastic ones for about £5 but they usually only have about two plants in and I think the actual basket on this one is much better.
I do wonder if I enjoy certain books more depending on what mood I am in to begin with, does anyone else feel this way? The part about habits feels spot on , I know there are things I have been doing for years which come easily because they are routine. In short if we get through the first, difficult weeks of forming a new habit and make it to a month we will have incorporated it into our lives. There are a few good habits I would like to add.
Monday, 19 June 2017
Hemming a Bridesmaid Dress
This week I have been asked to take up two dresses for a lady used to work with, they are a very pretty chiffon on top, so two layers to deal with. When I have something like this I like to take my time, items for myself are usually rattled off in a hurry but not things I do for other people.
A few people have mentioned to me that they are over cautious about taking up skirts and dresses, any skirts at all that is. If you measure accurately where you want the skirt to finish and put a line of pins there this will keep you on track, don't rush! I take longer with this part if it is something is special than the actual sewing because once you have this bit right that is most of the work done.
It is a bit crumpled I know, not my doing they are both folded into small bags I think they have been ordered from somewhere. That faint line of pins you can see is the finished length so I will leave an inch below that and cut there, it is double thickness here so both pieces will be folded towards each other so no raw edges are visible. To get my finish length I measured 5 inch up all the way along the bottom as that was how much I was told.
I had a little dip there so I sorted that, now the pins in this picture have been moved as I carefully folded the layers up in line with the original pins then replaced them to keep both layers in place. It was then stitched close to the edge. I then repeated the process with the chiffon layer but this time I only took off 4 inch so it would hang below. One dress down and then I was very hot, so I will finish dress two tomorrow and share a few more pictures. The cool shower I had when I came home from work has worn off so no more sewing this evening.
Food this evening consisted of chickpeas, onions , tomatoes, garlic and all manner of other things cooked in a pan with spices, no recipe to follow just throwing in whatever I fancied and it was delicious. It makes me wonder why I bother with the formal recipes at times, more success seems to be had with the throw it all in pan method.
A few people have mentioned to me that they are over cautious about taking up skirts and dresses, any skirts at all that is. If you measure accurately where you want the skirt to finish and put a line of pins there this will keep you on track, don't rush! I take longer with this part if it is something is special than the actual sewing because once you have this bit right that is most of the work done.
It is a bit crumpled I know, not my doing they are both folded into small bags I think they have been ordered from somewhere. That faint line of pins you can see is the finished length so I will leave an inch below that and cut there, it is double thickness here so both pieces will be folded towards each other so no raw edges are visible. To get my finish length I measured 5 inch up all the way along the bottom as that was how much I was told.
I had a little dip there so I sorted that, now the pins in this picture have been moved as I carefully folded the layers up in line with the original pins then replaced them to keep both layers in place. It was then stitched close to the edge. I then repeated the process with the chiffon layer but this time I only took off 4 inch so it would hang below. One dress down and then I was very hot, so I will finish dress two tomorrow and share a few more pictures. The cool shower I had when I came home from work has worn off so no more sewing this evening.
Food this evening consisted of chickpeas, onions , tomatoes, garlic and all manner of other things cooked in a pan with spices, no recipe to follow just throwing in whatever I fancied and it was delicious. It makes me wonder why I bother with the formal recipes at times, more success seems to be had with the throw it all in pan method.
Sunday, 18 June 2017
Just Gardening
Today has been mainly a case of getting on with the garden, we go through phases I think where we believe we are on top of it and then we leave it for a while and there is nothing in the pots and the weeds creep in. So while we have it fairly low maintenance anyway it was time to put a bit of colour in, and pull a few more of those weeds. Hottest day I think so not the easiest task but there will always be an excuse so we got on and did a bit, there is still a lot of topsoil needed for a bed down the side but that was not something to be bought at the local garden centre. It can be bought cheaper and delivered in a larger quantity I think.
We didn't go too mad, we bought a couple of dahlias yesterday and another today and a few packs of bedding plants at 3 for £6. It has made the front of the house look a bit brighter and filled a couple of pots on the back, I still need to do the hanging basket, there are plants left for this but we decided the actual basket had seen better days so we need o source another in the next couple of days.
We didn't go too mad, we bought a couple of dahlias yesterday and another today and a few packs of bedding plants at 3 for £6. It has made the front of the house look a bit brighter and filled a couple of pots on the back, I still need to do the hanging basket, there are plants left for this but we decided the actual basket had seen better days so we need o source another in the next couple of days.
A few on the front
A dahlia for each side of the door, I already had all the pots.
There is actually a grape vine in this pot that never has any grapes.
Amazing what a difference a few flowers can make but of course the sun is also shining and that always puts a better light on everything too.
I have started to re-read The Miracle Morning which I originally read and said it wasn't very good but now it feels altogether different, funny how that happens sometimes and the saying goes you are not who you were a year ago so this time around I am getting something from it. It does make me wonder about all those books that have gone to the charity shop though because I thought they were rubbish, maybe if I had held on to them I would have enjoyed them at a later date.
That last thought however brings me on to something I was thinking about earlier in relation to clutter. The bottom of my wardrobe seems to have got out of control and I was tidying it and adding the shoe racks when I thought 'what happened to getting rid of an item a day?' Now that was something I started a while ago as a war on stuff but it has somehow been neglected, so I am beginning again to remove one item a day (it doesn't matter how small) of useless stuff from my life.
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