Handmade in July

Annie started a new linky and is asking people to share what they have made in July and I'm bursting to show you my blouse that I finished sewing. It has taken me a fair while as I've been doing it at a sewing evening class but it is fabulous to now have a new skill under my belt and a handy one at that!

Sadly it is a bit small at the moment, I just went by the pattern rather than measuring myself which is a bit of a faux-pas but it will fit soon enough!

Then the only other thing I made in July was this extra-easy cake for my girls birthday party. It was yummy and looked very effective without being too labour intensive.  Thanks to Helen at the Crazy Kitchen for the chocolate cake recipe. I particularly enjoyed my cake with a nice cappuccino from my Dolce Gusto machine!

I'd love to share a massive post with you of all the things I have made but to be honest my priority right now is trying to do less, not more!

What have you been making lately, anything nice?

-----------------------------------------------------------------

If you like what you have read and want to stay up-to-date then subscribe by email for free and receive blog posts directly to your in-box - just click the link Subscribe to Mummy From The Heart... by Email or perhaps you like to keep all your blog reading in one place, if that is the case you can follow me on BlogLovin too!

Would you go to night school?

Driving home from my evening class last week I realised that I've failed to mention anything on here about the fact that I've been going to night classes since last September.  Why was this I started to muse.....  and you know what? I have no idea why it has failed to get a mention.

It certainly isn't that I'm embarrassed or keeping it a secret, people that know me in real life know I am doing a sewing class. In fact, I'm enjoying it loads and finally starting to grow in confidence. I've not been natural at sewing at all, it has been quite a hard slog and that has been an interesting learning curve for me, because (as big headed as it sounds) I'm used to being good at things and doing them well, first time. Sewing is very good at keeping me real and humble as I have to keep unpicking things and doing them again. The whole inside out/ backwards logic of sewing does not sit well with me!

I turned up at my first class in September thinking that everyone would be in the same boat, it was a class for beginners after all but no, everyone else knew how to use their machine and do the basics, I literally had no idea how to thread my machine. The last time I used a sewing machine was 25 years ago at school.