Can't sleep...

So it's stupid'o'clock in the morning and I can't sleep. Was having a really random dream that I can hardly remember now and I woke up to the sound of smoke alarm going off. Now I've no idea if this was just in my brain or actually real but now I'm a little bit worried to go back to sleep. I have checked out the whole flat and can't see anything that would cause the alarm to go off, smoke or otherwise, but still little bit concerned. 

Other than that it's been a pretty good day. We got back from London last night, feels a lifetime ago already, but knew we had stuff to do today so alarm went back on even though we're still on leave *sob.* At least I knew I was getting up for a good reason, to get me hair cut & coloured! It's now a gorgeous auburn colour, no change in the length since I'mgrowing it for the wedding. Please excuse the poor photo, it's in the waitrose toilets! 

We also had our pre wedding engagement photo shoot with our official wedding photographer today (well technically yesterday now!) The idea is to get you used to having a camera in your face all the time and to how they tell you to move as it's not necessarily natural. Did the "shoot" in the little village where the photographer is based so it's got nice countryside and villagey goodness in it! Hopefully the photos will come out beautifully, if they don't will be our fault and not the photographer's as he is excellent!  

Oh, alarm just went off again, guess I didn't dream it then...fiancé woke up this time and he doesn't seem bothered about it. Says it's just the batteries n will sort it out in the morning. I'm not sure I'm going to get much sleep with worrying about them beeping n if it's actually detecting something or just tripping. Eeep! 

London Baby!

Today I am in London 😄 fiancé and I are staying for a few days over the bank holiday. Normally we could just get the train down and it would take us 40 mins to get here but thanks to the amazing minds at network rail who decided to do arrange engineering works over this w/e we had to get the coach. It wasn't too bad I suppose, just hot n cramped but no traffic jams at least! And here we are in a very nice hotel in Kensington just near natural history museum. See delightful photo below, and yes...I am in bed...

This evening there will be lobster, ribs and frozen margaritas; Tomorrow there will be proms, on Tuesday there will be afternoon tea and on Wednesday there will be Libertys of London for fabric sighing over... All in all a good holiday I'm thinking. Then we don't even go back to work til the week after. Excellent use of annual leave! 

"I wanna rock!!!"

Well this evening I had a great evening out. Had double date with fiancé and one of my lovely bridesmaids plus her husband. We went out for dinner (thank you Tesco clubcard vouchers!) and then to see Rock of Ages at the theatre. I even curled my hair for the occasion ☺️ The show was very funny, a little bit naughty in parts and a great sing-a-long of 80s classics! The best thing about it was that they didn't take it too seriously, one bit they even went totally off script and corpsed totally, had the audience in stitches! The lead character was played by Noel off of Hearsay and Wales so there were plenty of sheep jokes in there. All in all a good fun night with one my bestie and my lovely man. Few pre-theatre pics are below... 

In other news I collected my first fabric parcel from the post office and have purchased a measuring tape so Operation Made by Me is ready for the next stage ( and yes that is a partially stolen code name that I just invented!) I also bought my wedding tiara which is exciting. 

And now since it is past pumpkin time I'm off to sleep, have to be up im 7 hours to go to Harrogate ..... Long story, will tell it another time 

"People gonna rate you, People gonna hate you, People gonna shove you, People gonna love you, People gonna do whatever makes them feel they own you better!"

Yesterday, dear readers, I brought you the tale of my amazing shoes of love with the gorgeous peacock feathers on. So in infinite wisdom I decided that I really could do with in my life is a matching dress...now not many places sell amazing peacock feather dresses so I, of course, decided to buy some more fabric for one of my as yet hypothetical dresses! 

So here it is in all it's beauty - the peacock fabric of love! 

Isn't it so pretty and bright and colourful :) 

"Charlie, when they close the book on you and me, it will say that at this moment you were not there for me. And for that, obviously, there will be some kind of punishment."

Another day, another post. This one is about shoes and more specifically the beautiful wonderful shoes of love that I have bought! Somehow clicking through various links on facebook I ended up on this wonderful website called Modcloth which has all sorts of lovely things on it and then I found the amazing shoes of love: 

Unfortunately they didn't have these ones in my size, although I have requested them, but they did have the flats available, hooray!! I think these might be my evening shoes for the wedding since our colour scheme features purple heavily and they are decorative enough to be special on the day. I just hope that since they are coming from the US they will get here in time for my November wedding! 

In sewing news, still not got my fabric delivered yet so just sitting waiting to get started now. I suppose I could measure myself so I know what to cut from my patterns. Ah well, that can be a job for when everything is delivered! I think now the weather is turning a bit (read a lot!) more autumnal I might have to make some long sleeves dresses now. It almost feels like going back-to-school weather, which I know sounds ridiculous since I left senior school 10 years ago! 

I have my engagement pre-wedding photo shoot next week and have no idea what to wear, it's going to be done out in the fields near where the photographer lives so don't particularly want to go all glamorous but I still want to look good in them. Luckily I'd already arranged to have my hair cut that morning anyway since I'm on leave so that's one less thing to worry about, just the rest of me to stress over. I'm also hoping that the rather massive big red spot I have just under my nose will disappear in time for it, wicked witch is not a good look on me! If anyone has bright ideas about how to get rid of my spot or what I should be wearing in my photo shoot please speak now or forever hold your peace...

"I am making a mental list of those who are snickering, and even as I speak I am preparing appropriate retribution."

Well here we are with my very first post. After stumbling on to some sewing blogs (A Million Dresses and Dolly Clackett) via the Aspire website I've become inspired to have a go at making my own clothes, more specifically, dresses!

I love dresses and I'm always drawn to them when shopping but being of a slightly rounder body shape than is fashionable these aren't always available in my size in the patterns I love. So this is why I have decided to take the plunge and try and make one myself. So I have committed and bought not one but TWO patterns off of amazon, read all about patterns and how to use them and ordered some lovely fabric(with the help of my lovely fiancé Chris)  with Paris landmarks on it that I'm hoping to wear on my honeymoon there. Oh yes, not only am I venturing into the brave new world of sewing, I'm also planning my wedding at the same time, only 11 weeks and 2 days to go! I know it would probably be best not to start a new project while the wedding is still going on but I can't help it, I got excited! Along side these fabulous projects I am also attempting to re-watch all of The West Wing now it is on Sky On Demand because I LOVE them all so much. It is very 90s now but it still is so good for the snarkiness for example, the title of this post!

So I will keep the world updated on my sewing exploits on this fresh brand spanking new blog. I'm currently awaiting my material and then have to go and borrow (steal!) my Mum's sewing machine to head into my dressmaking era.