Sometimes, I just want to bung everything into one blog post and be done with it! I have a little to say about something, but it seems a little insubstantial to merit an entire blogpost! Yes, I could keep it short and sweet and quick to read (and I'd probably have more readers!) but I quite like a patchwork of items in a post, or a miscellany! So here, I shall include, Magpie Monday find, Style imitating art, Visible Monday, cooking, visits to Georgian manors and free perfume! (like any good newsreport, I have summed up the main features before the detailed report)
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First up, is this week's Style imitating art challenge. Jess chose a painting called The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer- the medium is oil on canvas, c.1658. Johannes is a really nice name. If I had a boy anything (cat, fish, gerbil), I'd call him Johannes! If you check back on Tuesday, there'll be a post showing what everyone wore for this challenge! I was struck by all the different shades of this- the bright blue over-skirt, the red skirt proper, the mustard bodice and the greensleeves (and white hat!)
Therefore, I put together the following
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to comprise those elements
The blue skirt is actually a dress, I last wore here,
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dressed up as supergirl (the colour looks WEIRD inside)- I'm doing that remix-thingamijig, where you wear a dress as a skirt! And a vintage mustard blouse, greeny cardie (tucked in), white beret and claret tights (which look black/purple here!) . I have bright red tights but couldn't find them! Just as well, as I am very bright! As a little touch, I added a doll's jug as a pendant to get in with her actions! I bought the doll's set ages ago to make teacup earrings and the jug has been biding it's time for an Alice outfit!
Linking up to:
the gorgeous Patti's Visible Monday
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It's Magpie Monday with Liz Burton tomorrow. I've found two nice charity shop items this week (one in Essex, one in Ely). One is a dress (which is too cold to wear now!) and the other is this bag. I found myself really taken with its yellow and white stripes. It's a good size- not too big, not too small (like Goldilocks, I prefer things on the middle ground) and it put me in mind of the beautiful beach-huts that I saw in Southwold. I do struggle with bags- straps always seem to dig into shoulders, or it is too small or big, or too boring (my current brown handbag!).. PLus it's a nice satchelly shape!
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Do go and find out what other people found this week!
Next, on the Kezzie news, we have Valentines Mansion. I went to meet a friend for lunch at Valentines Mansion, where I had my wedding reception. They have an excellent gardener's cafe and we ate our lunch in the beautiful Kitchen garden since the sun shone (though it was very nippy!)
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We had a lovely catchup and took a quick walk around the mansion and I felt all nostalgic as I looked at it all and remembered last summer...
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I wore several of last Monday's Magpie items- the coat, beret, bow brooch and grey lacy top.
Linking with Renae's Fashion Item Friday. DO link up with this lovely lady!
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As we walked to the edge of the park, we saw about 5 squirrels but I managed to capture a pic of this fellow. Isn't he stocky?!?!?! Someone clearly ate all the nuts!
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We went back to the town centre and I had a look in Debenhams and TK Maxx and was browsing the sale
racks when an assistant pounced on me and said, "Would you not like to help Help the Heroes?", brandishing a bucket. I was a bit startled to say the least and mortifyingly, what came out my mouth was, "Would I NOT want to help?" in an amused voice, somehow my mental correcting of her question came out my mouth. She smiled and repeated it and I willingly put some money in the bucket. At this point, she handed me a little bundle of perfume samples. I said, no thanks, but she said to keep them anyway. Quite nice really but I didn't actually want anything for putting the money in.
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Finally,we have crumble.
CBC and I bought some rhubarb a couple of weeks ago and I said I'd make a crumble. He said I'd let it moulder in the fridge. SO last night, I made it alongside a pastabake. I hadn't bothered to buy any ingredients, hoping I'd have it in the cupboard. I searched online and found a BBC Food one which asked for Self-raising flour (why?), I hadn't got any, so I searched again and came up trumps with Waitrose whose simple recipe enabled me to use up some January 2012 dated organic flour, butter, caster sugar and rhubarb. The only trouble was, it asked for 500g of rhubarb and I only had 340g so I ratio-ed all the quantities down to 68% and had fun weighing such odd quantities on my non-digital scales!
Sufficed to say it was a delicious success and better still, we have more left for tonight!
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And that's all from the 6 o'clock news on KezzieAG.
Hope to hear from you soon!
xx
First up, is this week's Style imitating art challenge. Jess chose a painting called The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer- the medium is oil on canvas, c.1658. Johannes is a really nice name. If I had a boy anything (cat, fish, gerbil), I'd call him Johannes! If you check back on Tuesday, there'll be a post showing what everyone wore for this challenge! I was struck by all the different shades of this- the bright blue over-skirt, the red skirt proper, the mustard bodice and the greensleeves (and white hat!)
Therefore, I put together the following
to comprise those elements
The blue skirt is actually a dress, I last wore here,
dressed up as supergirl (the colour looks WEIRD inside)- I'm doing that remix-thingamijig, where you wear a dress as a skirt! And a vintage mustard blouse, greeny cardie (tucked in), white beret and claret tights (which look black/purple here!) . I have bright red tights but couldn't find them! Just as well, as I am very bright! As a little touch, I added a doll's jug as a pendant to get in with her actions! I bought the doll's set ages ago to make teacup earrings and the jug has been biding it's time for an Alice outfit!Linking up to:
the gorgeous Patti's Visible Monday
It's Magpie Monday with Liz Burton tomorrow. I've found two nice charity shop items this week (one in Essex, one in Ely). One is a dress (which is too cold to wear now!) and the other is this bag. I found myself really taken with its yellow and white stripes. It's a good size- not too big, not too small (like Goldilocks, I prefer things on the middle ground) and it put me in mind of the beautiful beach-huts that I saw in Southwold. I do struggle with bags- straps always seem to dig into shoulders, or it is too small or big, or too boring (my current brown handbag!).. PLus it's a nice satchelly shape!
Do go and find out what other people found this week!Next, on the Kezzie news, we have Valentines Mansion. I went to meet a friend for lunch at Valentines Mansion, where I had my wedding reception. They have an excellent gardener's cafe and we ate our lunch in the beautiful Kitchen garden since the sun shone (though it was very nippy!)
We had a lovely catchup and took a quick walk around the mansion and I felt all nostalgic as I looked at it all and remembered last summer...
I wore several of last Monday's Magpie items- the coat, beret, bow brooch and grey lacy top.
Linking with Renae's Fashion Item Friday. DO link up with this lovely lady!
As we walked to the edge of the park, we saw about 5 squirrels but I managed to capture a pic of this fellow. Isn't he stocky?!?!?! Someone clearly ate all the nuts!
We went back to the town centre and I had a look in Debenhams and TK Maxx and was browsing the sale
racks when an assistant pounced on me and said, "Would you not like to help Help the Heroes?", brandishing a bucket. I was a bit startled to say the least and mortifyingly, what came out my mouth was, "Would I NOT want to help?" in an amused voice, somehow my mental correcting of her question came out my mouth. She smiled and repeated it and I willingly put some money in the bucket. At this point, she handed me a little bundle of perfume samples. I said, no thanks, but she said to keep them anyway. Quite nice really but I didn't actually want anything for putting the money in.
Finally,we have crumble.
CBC and I bought some rhubarb a couple of weeks ago and I said I'd make a crumble. He said I'd let it moulder in the fridge. SO last night, I made it alongside a pastabake. I hadn't bothered to buy any ingredients, hoping I'd have it in the cupboard. I searched online and found a BBC Food one which asked for Self-raising flour (why?), I hadn't got any, so I searched again and came up trumps with Waitrose whose simple recipe enabled me to use up some January 2012 dated organic flour, butter, caster sugar and rhubarb. The only trouble was, it asked for 500g of rhubarb and I only had 340g so I ratio-ed all the quantities down to 68% and had fun weighing such odd quantities on my non-digital scales!
Sufficed to say it was a delicious success and better still, we have more left for tonight!
And that's all from the 6 o'clock news on KezzieAG.
Hope to hear from you soon!
xx