Sunday was a very rainy day but the girls still made it to my place. We had new comers, which is always exciting: Rose, Carly and Caroline turned up to our 3rd session in London, N4.
I must say that I wasn't very inspired and for the looks of it, perhaps because of the weather (or maybe because of the previous late night out), we were all a bit less productive than usual on the craft side.
On the cooking (and eating) side, we managed to do so well!! Specially because the girls provided us with irresistible delicious treats. Caroline made an splendid and healthy quiche, Rose made her own version of Asparagus rolls with soft cheese (very tasty and with nice soft bread), Carly brought her latest addiction: cheese-non-fattening-pretzels (always loved their name, pretzels) and a super sweet and juicy pineapple, Helene spoilt us with a great selection of French cheese from La Frommagerie, accompanied by nut bread.. what else we need to be in paradise? oh yes.. my carrot cake!!
Half asleep I stumbled out of bed at 10 (after finishing our previous night's party at 3am) and made the cake. Just as I slided it into the oven I turned around to discover I forgot to chuck in the grated carrot!! Thankfully it still worked out adding them at this stage. And I followed Amy's advice and chucked in raisins and nuts (by adding my morning muesli).
Carly's capable hands serving up the yummy quiche
The day went well, with lots of gossip, background music (including Flight of the Concords), bit of crafts and the best way to spend a Sunday, with friends!
Anyway, this is what we worked on:
Caroline starting a knitted clutch, after deciding she will make some pillow cases
with her stunning kimono fabric (which I forgot to photograph!)
Rose decided to do an embroidery bookmark for her
granny, who apparently is a master embroiderer!
Here you can see her beautiful hands in action!
The beautiful necklace bases Rose found in a charity second hand shop in Islington, I should go try get some! They are so delicate and femenine, I cannot wait to see what she makes of them!
Rose and Caroline in a thinking mood,
Helene is still working on her funky and original decoupage box (see detailed photo below)
My first attempt, I tried to make a cover for my nano-iPod but it just didn't work out,
I just couldn't see it... (note my new needles case, cute hey? from a matchbox)
Second attempt, more succesful, cute..
but I'm still not convinced...
And I haven't got any pictures of Carly because she mostly did some repairing work on her clothes, which I envy cause I can easily list all the garments I got with about-to-fall buttons!!
Seeing that the weather isn't as nice anymore we got together for more crafting, yummy food and great conversation! It turned out fantastically!! In order of appearance: Marlena, Agnes, Mar, Delphine, Talia, Carly, Helene and me :-)
Funny, in this pic everyone looks bored!!
the wonderful Fortumn & Mason packaging for the yummy cakes that Marlena brought
the whole group pitching ideas to help Carly with her new dress
cute, isn't it?
It's all about team work
And the result
Me in action....
Some details of the bag I made. The picture at the bottom of the collage shows
ps- it is my granny's birthday today.. she turns 84 so from here: Feliz cumpleaños abuela!!
