Busy day

September 6, 2008

Decided I should blog some photos, seeing as how I’ve not put anything up on here in ages.

Best thing about today was the shirt. I’ve been meaning to make RJ a little shirt out of one of James’ old ones, so I borrowed a pattern from Nikki and set to. The shirt lay in several pieces for over a week until I finally gave myself a kick up the butt, put the book down and found the sewing machine.

And this is what it looks like:
shirt1
shirt2

My sewing machine is ace - it does buttonholes automatically! Lots of fun, and RJ loved his shirt. Might dig through the charity bag before taking it to Cancer Research and see what else I can find to chop up to make into kids’ clothes.

And a snap from a few days ago - went and dug up the last of the spuds from the lottie and had bangers and mash. Except it was mash with a difference. The kids were a little surprised to see me chopping up these.

spuds

And once they’d boiled and been mashed, this is what they looked like. :)

mash

Next time I’ll just use either Highland Burgundy (the red ones) or Shetland Black, for red or purple mash. In the pan there are about 6 Burgundy, 2 Black and three regular white spuds, so we got a bizarre lilac mash. Excellent flavour though. Shall blog red and purple roasties next week…