my fabulous hen!

So, the dress in action! The classiness was lost slightly by the trademark "L" plates that a bride-to-be is typically adorned with but I was happy to go along with it, every one of my hens put in so much effort and we had a fabulous night. Even mother hen was on top form for a good evening (spot her to the left in the background of the pic on the far right!). Then you see myself and two of my fantastic bridesmaids who both made speeches during the meal and made me bubble like a little girl! The performance of Chicago at His Majesty's Theatre was beyond brilliant, I loved it, so much! We got a lot of looks in the dress circle from the other theatre goers, I can only assume they were jealous of our fabulous costumery and also the fact that we had the best seats in the house (it pays to have a bridesmaid who works for the marketing department of the theatre who was able to reserve our seats nearly a year in advance!!)

...and here you see the beautiful brideS-to-be, this is my cousin Lynsey, she gets married 2 weeks before me in the same church in St. Andrews. It's going to be a great year for family and parties! She helped me dance until the wee small hours and I've just received an email from her bridesmaids inviting me along for her hen where I can return the favour! Can't wait!!

...finally a pic of most of my wonderful hens celebrating after the theatre with a G&T in Under the Hammer (missing from this pic are Mother Hen, Auntie Babs, Auntie Sus and the delightful Viv. We let them rest their weary legs in the only free seats so they could knock back a nice glass of vino while we waited for our table at the Stage Door to be made ready for us.)

Thank you to all (especially my lovely maids), the evening exceded all my expectations and I'll treasure it for always.

I love my dress!

It is finished, my beautiful dress, (pattern can be found here at Past Patterns), I am so pleased with it and can't believe I actually made it all myself. My hen is tomorrow and I can't wait to get dressed up, pin my hair into 1920's bangs and stick feathers in it!
And it looks lush with my beeauutiful sparkly gold t-bar heels!

More pics of me and my lovely hens all dressed up will follow at the beginning of next week along with a crit of how fab Chicago was (because it will be!) and whether or not I was the loudest singer-alonger!!

knitting purling bunting

My creativity was given a much needed project in the form of my friend Kitty's baby shower on Saturday past. Here are some pics of the beautiful bunting that we put together for it! Lurvely if I do say so myself! The majority of the flags were knitted by the prolific knitter Winnie, but others also produced some fantastic inclusions...credit to Sarah, Amy, Maggie and myself.


I also sewed up what seemed like miles of gingham bunting, but it was worth it, very pleased with the result and inspired to make some more for Seb's nursery once I've finished the other million projects that I've just decided to start! I'm like a foodie when it comes to creative projects, my eye's are bigger than my stomach and so I pile too much on my plate and am thoroughly miffed when I realise I can't finish it!!!
The piesta resistance was the Silver Cross Pram Pinata that I put together... you know when you get a picture in your head of something you want to make and then it turns out exactly as you'd hoped? Well it did, I was awfully chuffed!! (...though I must admit to my heart breaking a tiny little bit when it was torn down off the tree, the handle bar broke off and it was ripped open to the delight of the 4 little girls who then took their reward from the pile of yummy treats that lay strewn on the lawn!!)


Ah parties, here's to a good year for them, lots of sunshine and a few more pinatas perhaps!