I took my cousin's daughter on a trip around Manor Farm. She loved feeding the ducks and the chickens but didn't seem so sure on the sheep. My favourite were the little piglets. There was a bundle of about 7 or 8 of them and it was too squee for words.
Next was the very busy day in London for my friend's birthday. We started at Camden Lock market. It didn't really live up to the hype for me. I expected it to be a larger version of the stalls and shops in Brighton but it seemed to be a lot of the same stuff over and over. That said, I loved Cybercandy and one of the vintage shops we went in was awesome. I could have spent all day in there. We also went to see spamalot which was very funny, Westfields shopping centre which was absolutely massive and the Japan Centre which had brilliant prices on genmai-cha tea and some quite strange looking food for sale.
We then went for dinner at Mushu. It was quite possibly the best salt and pepper squid I have ever eaten and the panko covered king prawns with sweet curry sauce was delicious. We also had chicken katsu curry with rice and miso soup, duck spring rolls and crispy chicken wings.
I managed to find a groupon voucher for a place called adventure bar in covent garden which gave you 4 cocktails for £15 and if you signed up to their mailing list you got another free cocktail. We chose pina coladas, cookie monsters and I then had a flaming zombie (no bonus points for guessing which one that is). It also turns out there are 193 steps up to the surface from the covent garden underground station (That's the equivelent of a 15 story building) all up a spiral staircase. Once I was half way up even I, who really really doesn't like lifts was thinking we should have got the elevator. 
I make Lauren a birthday cake every year and this year was no different. She had been talking about a giant french fancy for a couple of years and this time I decided to actually make it. Three tiers of sponge sandwhiched together with jam and topped with a cereal bowls worth of buttercream on the top. It turned out really well except it didn't quite fit in the cake box without squishing it a little. I think we worked it out that its about the equivelent of 64 normal sized french fancies.
Now the crafty bits. I found this bracelet kit on ebay and I thought it looked awesome. Just make a loop at one end of the wire and thread your beads on alternating every so often between the smaller beads and the larger ones. Then just keep going until you almost reach the end of the wire then make another loop to stop the beads falling off. It was quite a nice way to spend the afternoon.
I found some scraps of fabric while I was bored last night so decided to sew something. After much deliberation and not being able to find anything I wanted to sew that I had enough fabric for I decided to make little fabric roses with button centres. Simply cut out a long strip of fabric, hem the two short sides, fold it in half, then use a running stitch to join the two long sides. Pull it tight to make it spiral up. Then just make a couple of small stitchese to join the layers together and add your button centre. The pink rose is now on a hairclip. I can't decide what to put the blue one on so any ideas are welcome.
And finally I made these earrings. I found the earrings and small lengths of chain in a shop in Southampton called the Market Gallery. They have lots of jewellery making stuff and it's a lot cheaper than hobbycraft. All you have to do with this one is attatch small buttons to the chain with jump rings and then slide the chains onto the earrings adding another button over the top to cover the join. Simple!
With any luck in my next post I will have made a full circle skirt or at least thats my hope. I want to have made it by the time my parents are back from holiday in 2 weeks provided I can get my hands on a sewing machine. I think a trip to fabric land is definitely needed.
'Til next time- Steph x
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