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I am really very happy to announce that Manchester will now have it’s very own chapter of Church of Craft.
The first meeting will take place on 29th April 2007 at Fuel Cafe in Withington. We will meet at 1 om until around 4pm and our first project will be sock monsters. All you need to bring is your good self and a clean (but not necessarily new) pair of socks, in fact not even a pair, just tow socks of the same kinda of material that look good together. Stripey knee socks are especially good. I’ll bring everything else you might need.
Please pass this on to anybody you might thin be interested, I’d love to be able to grow Manchester into an even more creative city than it already is.
Ikea, the staple of every student home. I’m sitting here in my living room with dining table and chairs, a coffee table, shelving and a cd rack all from Ikea (the coffee table is the landlord’s, the rest is mine and my partner’s). It’s functional, cheap and not horrific looking, but those very same factors mean that 50% of my friends have at least two items of furniture the same as mine. Which is all very well, but I hate it even when they have the same shoes as me, never mind the same home decorating.
That’s why I LOVE Ikea Hacker. The dress from Ikea’s Belinda fabric is adorable and I would definitely wear it (my talented and charming friend Karina Jean was the first person who made me start looking at furnishing fabrics for making clothes, I am just finishing a skirt made from pear printed curtain fabric). I am actually in love with fabric I think and the Belinda fabris is very loveable. I might have to go to Ashton to declare my love. And buy enough for cushions (or a dress).
My bed is also Ikea, but I broke one of the headboard panels about 5 years ago, when I kicked it (bedroom karate, more hazardous that you think !) if I can’t fix it with the wonderglue I bought last week, I might just do my own Ikea hacking and make a big soft headboard instead. I’ll have to talk to my partner in love and crime and see what he thinks. If I do it, I’ll be sure to post pictures.
