I bought some new shoes in the sale and they arrived today. I ♥ red shoes!
A bunch of people on CO+K asked me to be one of the Crafty Superstars a while back, so I crafted up 5 projects especially and we’ll be launching one each day this week.
The first project was a how-to for sewing a Gothic Lolita Cuff and it marks my third hundred project on the site. That’s a lot of crafting!
I’ve also been doing lots of writing recently. Not only did we just finish the new Snippets but I had interviews with the creator of Irregular Choice and Polly Scattergood today for the next issue. I’ve also just finished “how to enhance your Glastonbury-watching-sofa-experience” for Drowned In Sound, which was fun to write.
We totally failed at seeing 8 out of 10 cats last night, as they’d changed the start time and we didn’t realize, but they’ve put us down as priority for next week. We’d made a packed with Tony to go to Nando’s, because everyone says that it’s good, so we went for dinner. It’s a lot like a glorified take-out joint, a la Chicken Cottage or one of the dodgy fried chicken restaurants you see all over London. You go up to order your own food and there’s a lot of queuing involved. It’s obviously not a very good place for vegetarians. Debra Barr, from The Apprentice was there, being quite mouthy like on the show. When she left, someone shouted “you’re fired!” at her – I bet that doesn’t get old! Afterwards, more fun was to be had at the Hawley Arms.
I wore my new Viv Westwood, Venus top, that Tom got me. I think it looks like something Sailor Girl would wear and I love it to bits.
Tom bumped in to Henry (from The Inbetweener ) again today. Last time we saw him he went on of a tour of our mews, and today he’d just got back from furniture shopping at Ikea. He called us his Mews muse. Tom met another one of our neighbours, who was Freddie Mercury’s costume designer (she made his famous yellow jacket) and now designs for TV shows and movies. She said that Freddie Mercury and David Bowie had visited the mews in the 80’s, so I’ve been trying to imagine them walking up and down our cobbled street.
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