http://www.mademarian.net An Irish craft blog wherein things are made Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:58:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been referring to the wedding as a DIY wedding because we had organised every element of the day ourselves.  We had to hire furniture, cutlery, crockery, glassware.  We had to arrange for a local pub to move get a license to serve alcohol in the venue.  We hired the ... http://www.mademarian.net/2010/07/diyff-wedding/ Sometimes things become stale and you lose interest in something you were previously passionate about.  That happened to me (a little bit) with blogging and social media.  I suppose if I'm honest, I just didn't have room in my head for the past 6-12 months for anything other than the ... http://www.mademarian.net/2010/07/exciting-new-project/ I have such a blog crush on Oh Joy Eats at the moment, I came across the original blog Oh Joy years ago but for whatever reason I stopped checking it regularly.  I recently rediscovered it and it's stunning sister blog Oh Joy Eats and I am obsessed....I really shouldn't ... http://www.mademarian.net/2010/07/blog-crush/ It seems I'm not the only one with a button themed wedding, you'll find some buttony weddings here and here. Our wedding has button napkin rings, button invitations, button name cards, button and candle decorations, button menus and I'm sure there are more but I can't think of any! Now onto ... http://www.mademarian.net/2010/07/button-it/ I'm going to stay with my parents for the weekend so I wont be doing any cooking Friday, Saturday or Sunday.  My friend Mairead (the fountain of medical knowledge) came to visit on Thursday night so I was cooking for two.  However I also wanted to try to be organised ... http://www.mademarian.net/2010/07/day-four/ Actually, I didn't cook anything today.  I did do a lot of chopping, grating and shredding though.  I was staring into the fridge this morning wondering what to have for lunch and pondering how cooking for one means that you have lots of bits of veg and other ingredients left ... http://www.mademarian.net/2010/07/day-three-not-too-much-cooking-here/ Some days you really just have to go with the flow, today was one such day.  I had my meals carefully planned out but in the end I had to move lunch to dinner as we were taken out for lunch to celebrate a colleague's birthday.  The birthday also meant ... http://www.mademarian.net/2010/07/day-two-in-the-all-on-my-own-cooking-challenge/ I'm on my tod this week as my "soon to be husband" is off on a work trip for ten days. I have to admit that although I am a self professed foodie I don't cook that much because Mike is even more of a foodie than I am and ... http://www.mademarian.net/2010/07/day-one-in-the-all-on-my-own-cooking-challenge/ So I managed to do some kind of a job on my craft supplies, I bought some milky white boxes from Muji and put them to great use to corral things that are related.  For example, I sorted through all my card making stuff and edited my stash to get ... http://www.mademarian.net/2010/07/somewhat-better/ We are heading off to Bordeaux for our honeymoon and although the focus of the honeymoon will be on food and wine I hope to get some time to visit craft shops or at least go to see some local arts and crafts.  However I'm having some difficulty, so far ... http://www.mademarian.net/2010/06/bordeauxmore-than-just-food-and-wine/