Invictus melt today, and Ginger & Lemon Tea for me…
Smells are funny, aren’t they? Some people go through life and just take smells for granted, but I do love a smell, obviously I prefer nice ones’ but sometimes you don’t get a choice do you, anyway, recently I have been obsessed with Fabulosa No.1. I have it in floor cleaner, hand soap, fabric softener, and even toilet cleaner, I’m beginning to think I need therapy for it, I go shopping with a lovely friend and she just laughs at me as I unscrew the top of bottles so I can smell before I buy, but to me a smell will inspire me, relax me and even challenge me when I can’t quite place what it is, the melt I am burning today, Invictus, I believe is an aftershave which my talented friend Jayne, has turned into a lovely melt, it’s very masculine with a warm and welcoming vibe, I guess that is a good thing to have in an aftershave…
So this weekend has been a wonderful social time spent with lovely friends, but I did manage to make a gorgeous mustard cord banana sling bag for my granddaughter Tiggy, I actually have a couple for sale in the adult size but I made this one for Tiggy in a smaller size, will put the two together so you can see the difference, I might make a couple more as little girls do love a bag don’t they?
Yesterday I made a start on preparing our lounge to be redecorated, when we moved into our home nearly 8 years ago the only thing that we did to the lounge was repainted it from yellow to Elephants breath…. Umm how do they come up with these colour names and how are you supposed to know what colour elephants breath is? Well I can tell you it is sort of a beige colour like a very milky latte… just as well they don’t ask me to choose colour names, so today I am doing more of the same I think preparing the room to be painted, what colour I hear you say well that is the big question, I have already put a dado rail, (I think they still call it that) around the room and would like to do the bottom a different colour to the top but what colour is the 50million dollar question, well I love the colour I have in my sewing room which is Studio Green, thought it was appropriate as it was going to be my studio, but will that be to dark in the lounge is my only concern, as many of you know I do love black and my furniture is painted black but hey let’s see how it turns out, what’s the worst that can happen I will be repainting it again…
I do also have a new project to start which I am looking forward to and that is to make an Apron the only stipulation is the more like Julia Childs the better! Well, if you don’t know who she is I will leave that to you to research but I have a wonderful cookbook by her, so that might help.
I had better go now or I will still be sat here at lunchtime, hope you have a lovely day …
