Emerald's blog for documenting making, doing and finding things interesting...
Life, making. growing and reading things…
With Christmas approaching, smashing a bunch of super strong mints into a dust to make peppermint ‘snow’ seemed like a pretty festive thing to do. Crushing an entire packet on mints in a pestle...
Walking through the park the other day I saw my first conkers of the year… I love them; how they feel so smooth and shiny in your hand… I have fond memories of my...
I really liked this book by Gillian Flynn; both characters were equally awful, and you kept switching sides in thinking which one was telling the truth or messing with the other one’s mind. Neither...
Using an online tutorial, our craft club made some basic litho prints in the kitchen using only tinfoil and coca cola!
Not *quite* like the real deal, but still. The cookbook is a pre-birthday present and a fab one at that
And, yes, it was finished in February! (albeit two years later…)
When I start reading a new Murakami book, I always have that moment of incredulity towards the characters – ‘oh, they would never do / say / put up with that’. But after a...
Got up crazy early last Saturday to take a class at KnitNation. It was with Chrissy Gardiner and it was my last go at learning to knit socks; if this didn’t get me on...
Went to the opening of loop’s new location in Camden Passage yesterday. It’s a fabulous place for it, with 3 floors of space with tons of natural light. Sounds like they’d had a busy...
Gah – I so wanted to enjoy this as it featured many artists / writers whose work I’ve enjoyed, however this book does them no favours. Even taking into account that this was a...
