Work

Sorry no photos, have been working a  lot.
Also have not sewn any buttons on the skirt.
Away with work tomorrow as well, may have some progress on Friday

No sewing tonight

Tonight I baked 2 chocolate beer cakes and a dozen mini ones. The mini ones are for hubby, and the full size ones are for colleagues in two of the offices my company has - where I want to say thank you.
That took all evening though, and now I am off to bed. Tomorrow I am away for 2 days so it will be a few days before I have anything more to report sewing wise.

I did some Christmas shopping today, having left it all a bit late, and also had lunch and the afternoon with my friend and her kiddiwinks which was fab.

I still have a gold blouse and a black cord skirt with embroidery/sequins planned for the Christmas Collection and hopefully I will get to them before the actual day! We are having Christmas Day quietly just me and hubby, but my parents are coming over on Boxing Day which will be nice, so I can make a bit of effort for those days.

The Chocolate Beer Cake is from Delia Smith's 'Book Of Cakes' which I have, but is also online at
http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/type-of-dish/sweet/chocolate-beer-cake.html

No sewing

Its been a hard week at work this week and has left me quite tired.
I've made no progress on finishing off painting the woodwork in the sewing room, and have been getting home late watching TV and reading through a stash of old Burda magazines - interesting to see how the silhouettes have changed in 10 years - some items still very wearable but others hopelessly outdated.

Hopefully I will be able to get the basics of the room painting finished off this weekend and start to move furniture back in - perhaps even do a bit of sewing. In particular I want to slightly trim the sleeve on the lime McCall's blouse and reset it without any puckers and then I can start to wear it.

The weather has turned rainy here and so my garden is very green but rather overgrown as I've not managed to mow the lawn or anything.