Friday 23 May 2014

Completed crochet!

Here is another project I finished! This is a little blanket I made to go with the cushion covers from my earlier post. This goes over the back of one of our little chairs. I've just started to make another one for the other chair using smaller 5 round granny squares, but using the same colour palette :-)
Majority of yarn used is Stylecraft special dk,  with some Woolcraft New Fashion DK in there also.
Louisa xx

Thursday 22 May 2014

Hoarding Up

Both myself and my boyfriend are huge film & TV fans, and as such, we buy a lot of blu-rays and DVD's.
A couple of weekends ago we made our usual trip into town to go hoarding up, so here is what I bought for myself!





1. Deadwood: I watched this a few years ago after borrowing it from someone at work and I absolutely loved it! I have been wanting to buy it for a long time.

2. Catherine Cookson Collection: I am a huge fan of Catherine Cookson, and being from South Tyneside myself, I love the adaptations that have been made from her books. I used to watch them on the Drama channel at weekends, but they dont show them every weekend and its only the same 2 or 3 that they show in a cycle, so now I can have my fix whenever I want! (note: my favourites are A Dinner of Herbs, Tilly Trotter, The Dwelling Place and The Cinder Path)

3. Cranford: In case you haven't guessed already, I like period dramas :-) I didnt watch Cranford when it was on TV, but my mum did and enjoyed it. I managed to watch it last year and loved it, so decided I wanted to own it on DVD.

4. New Girl Season 1: I LOVE this show! And HMV had the DVD for £4.99 with any other purchase, so it would have been rude not to! Schmidt is probably the best character on any TV series ever!


Louisa xx

Tuesday 13 May 2014

I baked...

And for the second post of today!
My boyfriend loves chocolate cake with raspberry jam in, so last night I baked one for him! (Now I don't like jam in chocolate cakes, so this cake is all for him!)
I made rather a lot of chocolate buttercream, and decided rather than waste any I just put it all on the cake! And apparently the cake is very yummy :-)



Louisa xx

Some completed crochet!

For the last 2 weeks or so I have been working on a couple of cushion covers for some little cushions to go on our new tub chairs. I tried to start making these a few months ago but I couldn't get inspired with what colours and pattern to use. Eventually I decided to go with the classic granny square. The back is plain granny squares in grey. I'm so pleased with them, and they look great on the chairs :-)
Started now with a couple of little throws to go over the backs of the chairs :-)
I used mainly Stylecraft Special DK, with some Woolcraft New Fashion DK in there too. Very soft and snuggly :-) 




Louisa xx

Monday 12 May 2014

Hello Louisa

Well this is the first post on my brand new blog! I'm not really planning on making this blog about one particular thing, more just a general ramble about things I like, do, make, see and cook!
I have a lot of interests, most of them of the craft variety, but I also like to cook and bake, watch films and TV, go to gigs and festivals and all kinds of other things!
I will always appreciate your comments, so don't be shy!

Louisa xx