Daily Diary
Aug. 8th, 2007 10:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
evaelisabethMonday was a bank holiday so yesterday I was back at work after a long weekend. Kate is currently deeply into puzzles she now has two and wants to do them over and over and over again, it's quite astonishing how quickly she can put them together (I would say they are 60-80 pieces each). It seems to be a task that can absorb her for hours on end. I just talked to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
paradigmslost and we are finally getting the hole in our tub fixed. I can't wait to get in a good soak. I have cut out the linen for my new undertunic. It's actually panels of fabric connected by fringes which were supposed to be made into shawls but when I eye-balled them in the store it looked like they would just be long enough. To my consternation I was 3 inches short. I decided I had three options, add 3in all round the bottom hem (much too wasteful of fabric), add a 6in piece all across the top of the arms and shoulders (would have been visible when wearing a sleeveless over tunic), what I finally decided on was an added 3in strip around the waist (almost completely invisible when wearing any kind of overtunic and as sparing in fabric use as possible). Hopefully I gauged all the measurements correctly and the darn thing will actually fit in the end. I made an experimental apricot tart with my new tart tin, it's ok but needs to be much sweeter for my taste. So next time I will use no butter flakes on top but double the amount of brown sugar I sprinkle on top. I'm also going to brush the base with egg white in an effort to keep the base from getting soggy.
paradigmslost and we are finally getting the hole in our tub fixed. I can't wait to get in a good soak. I have cut out the linen for my new undertunic. It's actually panels of fabric connected by fringes which were supposed to be made into shawls but when I eye-balled them in the store it looked like they would just be long enough. To my consternation I was 3 inches short. I decided I had three options, add 3in all round the bottom hem (much too wasteful of fabric), add a 6in piece all across the top of the arms and shoulders (would have been visible when wearing a sleeveless over tunic), what I finally decided on was an added 3in strip around the waist (almost completely invisible when wearing any kind of overtunic and as sparing in fabric use as possible). Hopefully I gauged all the measurements correctly and the darn thing will actually fit in the end. I made an experimental apricot tart with my new tart tin, it's ok but needs to be much sweeter for my taste. So next time I will use no butter flakes on top but double the amount of brown sugar I sprinkle on top. I'm also going to brush the base with egg white in an effort to keep the base from getting soggy.