On this little project:
Complete with all photos now stitched last night into the late hours and awaiting the next stage of album assembly:
I thought it would be nice to look back on the past week that flew by so very quickly. I am really hoping this weekend won't be a repeat of some of the mishaps of last weekend.
Namely...
When the Hummingbird Bakery definition of a 23 cm pie dish is somewhat different from John Lewis' definition and you have to transfer the entire biscuit base for your Keylime Pie into a rather larger baking vessel!
When your washing line flies free from its moorings just as you've pinned up the last of your sizeable bedding wash and it promptly all collapses in a heap on the (wet-in-places) decking! Above the emergency solution still in place.
When quite by chance you see a little wasp disappearing into your shed when the door's closed and you go and investigate, only to find a small planet wasp next being built by the door. That's when you can't get your head out of there fast enough! Thankfully wasp man (aka father) came in with his basket of wasp-eliminating products to resolve the matter!
But in better news there have been some enjoyable moments:
The Keylime Pie turned out fine! Next time I will just halve the ingredients, then it should fit in my flipping pie dish. ;o)
The weather was great for the lovely BBQ we had on Sunday. In addition to dessert, I also dished up two of my favourite summer salads, Polish tomato and sweet onion (so simple but so satisfying), and Pear and Blue Cheese (St. Agur in this case) salad, with toasted mixed seeds and avocado for extra oomf:
All that food, sun, and sparkling conversation all proved too much for some:
And then it was Monday before you knew it. And by what a scorcher it was. The Coke truck was in town offering you the opportunity to finally get your name on a diddy Coke bottle - I am never going to see my name (the closest I ever got to personalised pencils or keyrings as a kid was Natalie or Natasha - never a Natalia to be found!) or my brother's on a bottle, so thought I'd go along after work and see what the queue was like:
At 29 degrees and spanning almost the entire length of two department stores I wasn't going to stand about for two teeny bottles. Instead I went in search of something cool and appropriate:
It hit just the spot!
Speaking of cool - I managed to get rid of share some Keylime pie on Tuesday night when I went round to Becky's for a catch-up and to try out her new Slushy cups. They were fab, so off I went and bought myself my own:
Alas mine isn't freezing fully in the freezer - despite it being on the lowest setting I can get. Need to test it in someone else's freezer and if it doesn't work there it's definitely going back. I can get slushy out of it even without it freezing fully, but it's nothing as spectacular and easy as the ones we made on Tuesday. At £13 a pop if it's not working (and I can't make frozen cocktails as easily as I'd envisaged) it'll go back.
As you can see I've also been playing with my apps and combining the various features.
I'm loving it, but one of the niggles I have is with the image size/resolution being saved post-processing. A lot of the pics that I've put through A Beautiful Mess are very small compared to the Instagram pics - I have seen that they are hoping to increase the resolution on the next update, which would be great as the photo printing rating on Photobox is usually medium (for a 6x4 shrink to fit print) compared to good for a full size Instagram image that hasn't been through A Beautiful Mess first.
Mind you I haven't felt the need for filters and doodles on some of the lovely pics I managed to get when round at the parentals on their tour through the David Austin back catalogue:
I too have had some spectacular blooms in my rose collection - but being at work have missed some of the best. But how lovely this one looked:
I'm hoping to get some more pics today once the sun is on the other side of the garden, but what state those blooms will be in today after all that sun I'm not sure. They got a very good watering last night, so hopefully they'll be thriving!
But now, it's back to work on the album I need to make.
(Plenty of mishaps occurred due to the combination of spray paint coating, drying issues due to the heat, and then Wilko clear enamel coating not being received too well by the spray painted surface - so having to rethink a few things and try and make the best of a bad case of pages having become stuck together and pulling paint off! Don't think I will ever buy a black annoyingly shaped chipboard album again! Too much trouble when it comes to actually decorating them!! LOL)
The temperature is already hotting up here, and tomorrow we're going to be on the big Ikea convoy so best crack on. Thankfully got this left-over "Christmas" body lotion from bath and body works to keep my legs and feet cool.
I do indeed smell like a stick of rock, but that's small price to pay!
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