All done with your Christmas knitting? Knit for charity on the Southbank instead!
If you have miraculously finished knitting, purling, blocking and sewing up your Christmas gifts, why not head down to the Southbank in London, to join Knit for Peace in the gallery@oxo. They’ve set up until 24th December so you can go in and knit things to be sent to children in Afghanistan… If you don’t ...
Paperchain Party – Combining house decoration and Christmas Cards in one!
The annual Southwyck Christmas party went well yesterday; caught up with a lot of friends I haven’t seen in a while, ate and drank in a festive fashion, and even had an unprompted singalong!. This year’s theme was to make a paperchain to be strung in the living room; each person contributing a link decorated ...
A very homemade Christmas; Mints, Fudge & Scrub
So this years gifts have been mostly handmade, including; Peppermint & Rose kind-of-creams* Frankincense / Clementine bath salts** (a bit fail, as most people have showers I found…) Fudge*** – supremo hit (if I may say so myself!) as it worked first time, is v tasty and easy to adapt. A tiny bit of fail ...
Zen teapot
New Year – New Teapot… Mum gave this to me for Christmas and I have to say it makes drinking tea a real joy… It almost feels like a tea-handbag as I carry it about from room to room; the tea following me around :)
Moving Pictures
I’d bought a copy of the The Adventures of Prince Achmed about 4 months ago, but had never got around to watching it. As my mum was coming over for the evening for a belated Christmas evening, I suggested we watch it…"errr…. that’s what I got you as your Christmas present!" Doh! Anyhow, we watched ...
Musical Christmastime…
Those smartypants over at the P22 type foundry were inspired my John Cage’s compositions and have made a musical way to say whatever message you like!.. I put in ‘Merry Christmas and very Happy 2008 to you all! xx’, set it to play a glockenspiel and this is the result – ta da!… :) On ...
Christmas coming early…
I broke my own rule about doing anything Christmassy before at least November, but only by one day… Yesterday morning I ventured north to the optimistically named Cultural Quarter of Wood Green to partake in a choir.. yes sing! for a record! heh… Ms McCookerybook was making songs for Bendi Records, and needed some singers ...
Christmas glitter
TuesdayM taking pictures for Sothebys on York Ave.. walk around freezing cold Central Park then meet J for lunch near his work on 6th and 55th. Do a bit of Christmas Shopping at the Folk Art Museum and Moma Design shops. Walk down to Times Sq and Macy’s and get maximum sensory overload of lights, ...
