This morning I woke up to several inches of snow. Here are a few pics of from my walk in the park 
Feb
2012
Snowy Sunday!
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Oct
2011
Knitting Window Installation
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I was shopping in Oxford Street one evening last week when I spotted this…
Claire Nixon is the lovely lady knitting away in this live installation at Oasis. As it says in the first picture. “By the end of this week, Claire will have been lovingly hand knitting for 7 days and will have made a giant scarf over 5 metres in length!”
I think the window was a really nice idea. It looked great and certainly drew my attention to Oasis. Claire’s work is also fascinating, you can read more about her on her website and admire her chunky knitting.
Oct
2011
Renegade Craft Fair, London 2011
This weekend I went to the Renegade Craft Fair on Brick Lane. It was their first ever London event and it was brilliant. Its one of the best craft fairs I have been to in a long time. Every single stool was full of really nice handmade things. All the crafts were modern and really reasonably priced. I had to hold back the temptation to spend lots of money.
Chalk signpost for the fair
Stools
There was a free felt making class courtsey of The Make Lounge. The Make Lounge do a variety of evening classes that I have always fancied doing. Hopefully one day I will get round to doing a real one It was my first attempt at felting and I quite enjoyed it although the little fox I made must have taken an hour in total. Felting involves jabbing a needle repeatedly into hair like material until it starts to matt together. You shape your creation by turning the matted felt and making some areas denser than others.
Sep
2011
Plum Cake
We were given lots of plums by a friend. Below is some pics of one of the many recipes we followed in order to use them all up.
Recipe: http://www.allotment.org.uk/recipe/74/recipe-for-fresh-plum-cake/
Sep
2011
New Baby Cookies
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My best friend has just given birth to a little baby boy, so I decided to have a go at making some iced cookies to give her as a gift.
I followed this recipe: http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/scary_halloween_cookies_86970
Jul
2011
Insites Tour 2011
Last week I attended the London leg of the Insites Tour. It was a great evening with some interesting stories/biographies from the speakers and lots of networking. However reflecting back on it now, I am not sure how much I personally took away from the evening. Having been to this, I have decided I think I may favour the normal conference style format with code and design slides/presentations. Does that make me a little geeky? Or maybe i am just greedy and would like a little of both!
A quick pic from my iphone…
