The Art of the Brick

My auntie and I, at the recommendation of my cousin and his girlfriend, went to the Lego exhibition in Brick Lane (appropriate) yesterday and it was AMAZING!!

I had high expectations before arriving on how impressive everything would be but I just had no idea quite how incredible all of the artworks would be.

Every room we walked in to was greeted by a who host of 'WOW's' which just helped to build up the excitement as we went round, and before we left we had to walk back through all of the pieces again because it was just too goo to leave!

Here are some of my favourite images and go and visit it!!

I was expecting 3D sculptures in Lego but I could not get over how incredible all of the 2D artworks were, and I was not expecting anything like this!!

I would love a Lego globe....maybe when my nephew is older we will have to have a play...

The staging of the exhibition was perfect!

'I bleed Lego'

So moving!

'Incomplete'

My new pet? So exciting that I happened to be wearing the right jumper!

Bob Dylan

http://artofthebrick.co.uk/

Inspiralize Your Life!!

I bought I spiralizer last week, on the recommendation of my cousin and his girlfriend. I'd been slowly reading about them in more and more places, but as soon as I saw them and they raved about 'courgetti' I just knew I had to have one (courgettes were my vegetable of last summer with my courgette and lemon cake becoming my new cake speciality!!).

So I bought the Hemsley + Hemsley Spiralizer from Amazon and I think it is amazing! I'd read reviews that said upright ones were best, because the vegetables don't slip out, but then everyone who had bought one, seemed to have one like this so I decided to go with the masses. And IT IS AMAZING!!!

I have used it every day so far and without really trying have massively upped my vegetable intake. Plus anything spiralled looks really cool. I have always been a stickler for my 5 fruit and veg a day, but have recently upped this to 10, with the aim of eating more veg as a lot of my intake tends to be fruit which is not so good for me.

Since last Tuesday, when it arrived just in time for dinner, here's what I have spiralled....

TUESDAY: Thai red curry (onion, pepper, tomato, mushrooms, sweetcorn, aubergine) with courgoodles (courgette noodles). I did also try and spiral the aubergine but it just went a bit mushy and shredded and didn't really work.

WEDNESDAY: The classic, courgetti bolognese (with onions, tomatoes, mushrooms and carrots in the sauce)

Verdict = courgettes are super easy to spiral, if they're a bit wonky I just cut them on the bendy bit and spiralize them in sections which works perfectly. They are also nicely soft so very easy to spiral. And both nights we ate just one courgette spiralled between the 2 of us and a normal portion of the rest of dinner and were nicely full.

THURSDAY: Chorizo sausages with spiralled potatoes, spiralled carrots, mushrooms, onions and garlic.

Verdict = I thought the harder veg might not work as well but the blades are so sharp that the carrots went through with little more effort. The only downside is that you need really fat carrots to make proper spirals, but my thinner carrots gave nice arcs, and then I munched on the middles whilst cooking. Yum!

The potatoes worked amazingly and I just steamed them in with the sausages so they got a lovely chorizo-y flavour. Curly potatoes taste so much nicer than plain boiled potatoes for some reason, and we weren't tempted to add butter which we normally would have so well worth it!

FRIDAY: Wraps with humous, courgetti and peppers. Amazingly delicious!!

SATURDAY: Wraps with boursin and courgetti. Again, AMAZING!!!

I own a fair few kitchen gadgets which I do use fairly often, however, never have I had one that I am so in love with that I want to use it every day! I think the fact that it's not electric so you can dump the whole thing in the sink to wash it if you want helps too so I would recommend to everyone GO AND BUY A SPIRALIZER!!!!

Knitted Fascinators

So as it's a new year, it's about time for a new line. I have been thinking about this idea for a while but have only just had time (after the Christmas rush) to actually get round to making anything.

So far I have 2 styles of knitted fascinator: mini top hat, and swirly round.

What do you think?

Travel Adventures

So I'm currently planning a holiday in the summer and there are just too many exciting places to go to. While I was getting distracted from looking at flights, I did a quick check list of all the countries I've been to already. Not a bad start...

So my least visited areas are the Caribbean, Middle East or Asia....a good place to start looking for ideas!

A Very Small Work Space

I love my house, but as the previous owner kindly pointed out when she popped by for a visit 'this is a house for one'. So sharing with my very messy boyfriend, plus 3 sewing machines makes it very cosy indeed.

Mostly it's fine, but there are some occasions when I'm working in the living room (biggest floor space by far in the whole house), when I just wish I had a bit more space to work in...

Making card baby houses

Cutting out London

Templates of London etc

Sometimes I also use the bed as double bed = bigger than the living room floor

And often when the weather is nice I move into the garden as it's much bigger (although it does mean funny looks from the neighbours!)