This year’s summer school is in full swing and we have just started with the first day of the second week and I’m very pleased to say that we have no ‘difficult’ students at all this year, phew! There have been questions about whether I would do another sewing school session during the year and [...]
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Sewing Summer School
Posted in Uncategorized on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Who’s a clever boy?
Posted in Uncategorized on June 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Well he’s 23 actually, but coming home next week clutching not a 2:1 but a First Class Master’s degree in engineering, so how proud of him are we? Very!
Computer is back (of sorts…!)
Posted in Uncategorized on May 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I now have my computer back and it is working although not exactly fixed. The shop had it for over two weeks and tried all sorts of different parts, they said, but to no avail, they couldn’t find the problem with the screen, which is completely black. After I had been in and had a [...]
Computer is down!
Posted in Uncategorized on April 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My computer has decided it’s time to go to the doctors and the screen has given up the ghost! As usual, my computer, at four years old is now outdated and they don’t make spares for it any more so repairs are taking a bit longer than I had anticipated.
My emails are now being collected [...]
Craft 4 Crafters show coming up soon and more besides….
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged countess wear village hall, craft4crafters show, NEC, sewing classes, sewing for pleasure show on January 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Next week sees the return to Westpoint, Exeter of Craft 4 Crafters for it annual visit to the west country. The show will be open to the public on Friday 23rd January until Sunday 25th. I will be with the Countess Wear Village Hall stand alongside several other tutors who also run workshops there and [...]
Grouting & rendering update!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 60mm, grouting & rendering on January 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just before Christmas the shower stall tiling was finished (started in April!) and the shower duly re-connected but 60MM has encountered a small problem now as the cold water isn’t coming through…..! Oh dear, plumber required! The white tiles in the shower stall look very smart but now (as I predicted) show up how old [...]
Curly hair after a lifetime of straight (ish)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged designers, hair styles, hot flushes on September 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have worn my hair quite straight and short for most of my life and going to the hairdressers was a regular occurrence (every two or three months), but there was a hiccup in the attendance at the hairdressers when I was working at the fabric shop in Exeter for two days a week so [...]
Grouting & rendering
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged grouting & rendering, house move not on August 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m pleased to say that the enforced house move had been put on the back burner due to the slump in the housing market and I have pointed out that said house move would end up costing us in the region of £20k and as the children 17,19 and 22, will be on elastic for [...]
Sewing in public 2
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bodices, corsets, craft fair, exmouth pavilion, sewing on June 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It wasn’t a fluke, another order has come from this week’s fair so I have to revise last year’s decision not to do the summer fairs as my thinking was obviously wrong.
Sewing in public
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bodices, corsets, craft fair, Exmouth, sewing on June 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last Sunday I exhibited at the craft fair at the Pavilion here in Exmouth. I’ve done this a few times as it is a very economical way of advertising the sewing courses and workshops and I have had some degree of success in recruiting students this way.
Up to now I hadn’t ever sold anything and [...]
