My week in pictures

Hello all, apologies for that enormous break in posting- I never was very good at keeping up with journals or previous blog posts. So much has happened but for now here are some pictures of my week so far including pictures of our beautiful new babies Marlowe and Lupin, whom we have had for over six months now though I can't believe it!

Yesterday I tackled a three tiered cake for my mum, using a Tesco recipe card. She was very keen but I became less keen the longer I spent making it. The sponge has blueberries and a lot of yoghurt, which made for a chewy but not unpleasant texture. It has a greek yoghurt buttercream, which I forgot to refrigerate before I applied it to the cake. And lemon curd adds the most flavour, so I was quite liberal with it!

Here are my little darlings, Marlowe (top) and Lupin. Lupin was briefly a girl and went from the embarrassing Princess Luna Boo to Lupin within a few weeks. Marlowe was always going to be either Moriarty or (Kit) Marlowe. We are such connoisseurs of literature in this house.

One of my obsessions has always been Disney. And this week I finally got my hands on a copy of Frozen, which automatically became a favourite as it includes: a re-working of the Snow Queen, snow, Scandinavian folk dress, snow, magic, sisters and snow.

One of my favourite artists of the craft world, Gretel Parker, has just released some kits for her amazing needle felted animals with their unique quirky style. I bought one of her adorable doglets and then attempted one of my own which never got finished - no surprises there- so I can't wait to try my hand at this slinky fox.

After last year's delve into the world of dressmaking, I was captivated by this pattern for a vintage 50's style dress which I could make for the warmer weather. I found this fabulous cotton lawn on eBay and just bit the bullet to pay an extraordinary amount for 4 metres to make the long sleeved version. I also made some cute striped buttons to go with it.

Now I love all things piratey so when Simplicity had a half price sale on all their patterns I snapped up this pirate costume in the hopes I might get round to making one of the awesome 17th century style coats with those dreamy sleeves. 

One final shot of Loopy snoozing. Isn't he gorgeous? Shame he could rival Grumpy Cat for genuinely being one of the most anti social and grouchy cats alive today.