weekly roundup #9

Again, it's a huge post filled with mainly food! Story of my life.

eggs for breakfast, what a way to start the day

mm mussels pasta

Lucky to be part of a super union - excited for TEED

showing Michael my nails and all the hard work I was doing ha

I loved that guys back, he was edgey

He will not stop going on about these graze boxes haha

I don't think many of you realise how much I like chicken wings

Cocktail night for a friends birthday

Laughing our tiddly heads off at Barlic bread

Secret Publicity tea

Can you see Michael's slippers? he loves those bad boys haha

Jealous of Michael's fry up

my favourite soup is on offer!

I am super tired today, I'm on duty this weekend and I've had numerous calls. Excited for 8am Monday when I can pass the responsibility back! Off to tidy my room some more, I wish I had that clean gene. Going to make a roast later though so that should cheer me up! How have you spent the weekend?

What I wore: Autumn

Realised the other day that I haven't done an outfit post in a while - I am get rather slack. So today I'm sharing an outfit that I've been wearing religiously recently. Being back up North I'm feeling the cold a little more and I've had long days where I've been out til late and considered wearing skirts not very practical.

It is my pleasure to introduce to you, my burgundy jeans

 

Just wanted to show you that they aren't high waisted or anything but they aren't on your hips either.

I love wearing them with simple black tops, but also different shades of reds/oranges. I wore them for cocktails the other day with a sheer top and aztec bandeau.. might recreate for full effect ha!

I'm also lucky enough to have a new white wall to pose along, but need to be more aware of quilt bags and how close I am to the bed. I think a room tour is gona be necessary soon, alterior motive to make me clean my mess up :p how is your weekend going? do you have any plans?

Catherine's Guest Post #1

So, now I'm back at uni I don 't have a lot of time/resources to make lots of crafty pretty things so I thought, instead of letting my blog suffer, why not ask for a guest post?! I am more than happy to introduce you to my mother and her first ever blog post!

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Hi, I'm Stacey's Mum and I've been invited to make a guest spot (I'm feeling very privileged!!) Welcome to my crafting world ..................

Wall Hanging Tutorial

I have seen lots of these types of things but wanted to personalise one with my own twist. You can choose your quote / sentiment, background colours and fonts - just make it your own!

I decided on the quote and cut pieces of stiff card into the arrangement I wanted - you can guess the sizes because at this stage you can still trim them down. 

Find the letters you want to use and lay them out on the card pieces so that you can cut to size. 

I found and painted up some card board letters, I used foil tape over letters and coloured it vintage and I printed a font out onto the backing paper and used Glossy Accents to give it some depth - basically the more varied the better, some capitals some lower case, whatever suits you. 

I used co-ordinating papers for the background and covered each piece back and front (if the back of yours won't be seen then you could just cover the fronts). 

I then ran each edge across a co-ordinating Tim Holtz ink pad to finish them nicely.

To make sure the pieces hang fairly straight you need to take a ruler and mark the holes for the chain / wool / string or whatever you have decided to join the pieces with.

I chose to use eyelets and used my hefty Cropadile hole puncher to make the holes and then added them (you don't have to use eyelets you could leave the holes as punched, especially if using a thicker wool or string as joiners). 

You do  need to think about where your letters sit in relation to the holes - you don't want the eyelet in the middle of your letters. 

Once you have decorated each piece and joined them together, you can add any extras you want, like buttons or peel offs, butterflies or flowers and Voila .......... you have your own personalised wall hanging ready to put up or to give as a present.

Hope you enjoyed this one - I'm looking forward to my next invitation - maybe for Christmas!!?