Sinead O'Brien, eSTEAMed

Chateau Wedding

I confess it had been an age since I've taken out my camera for some proper photo taking practice and I was definitely a wee bit rusty. Luckily with a wedding this beautiful set in a chateau in the French hills some photos were bound to turn out OK, if only by accident ..no matter how much alcohol is involved.

Code WordPress

Buddypress – add terms and conditions to registration

I wanted to add a terms and conditions checkbox and link to the registration process. I tried the two main plugins (Agreeable and BP Xtra Signup) and found they were…

Making

Mannequin leg Del Oro – Golden mannequin leg

Online shopping is wonderful. It's so easy to pick up all sorts of things at any time of the day or night. Is it any surprise that sometimes you end up making the occasional purchase that maybe you didn't think through? Sometimes you suddenly find you're the proud owner of 4 left mannequin legs. Hay.. it could happen to anyone... right? Don't answer that.

Code WordPress

Buddypress add validation to custom field

So you need to validate a custom registration field in buddypress. You will want to be looking at the hook bp_signup_validate. The following code can be added to your custom…

Making Sewing

Simple Sew Lottie blouse

The June edition of Love Sewing came with a free pattern for the Lottie blouse. I confess I only bought the magazine for the pattern. I had some vintage fabric lying about at home that I thought would be perfect (read delightfully psychedelic) for just such a pattern.

Dolls Making

DIY Blythe Eyechips

I never would have believed just how easy it is to DIY Blythe Eyechips. All you need are some "14mm Clear Adhesive Cabochons" like those sold by Antiqued on Etsy and…

Making

DIY Corkies – champagne cork cake toppers

So apparently Corkies are a thing. I had never heard of them until a friend mentioned that she wanted some for her upcoming wedding. Since she kindly let me dye her purple for my wedding (Not on purpose but lets just say that I learned an important lesson. Polyester dye is finiky).. Anyway.. I figured offering to make her cake topper was the least I could do. So WTF are Corkies? Corkies are champagne cork cake toppers. You can buy released champagne corks from various places such as eBay and Etsy. The process of painting up some corkies goes a little like this;

Making Sewing

Burda 7519

Burda 7519 is a casual loose-fitting shirt. I made version A; A sleeveless short shirt with waist tucks and waterfall neckline.

Knitting Making

Reduce, reuse, recycle and REPAIR – USB Knit Fix

I dropped my USB key and the plastic loop that allows me to put it on my keyring fell off and broke. :-(

The key itself is still perfectly capable of storing data. I just couldn't attach it to my keyring. So... I fixed it ... like this.

Code WordPress

WordPress – Add dynamic link to main menu

Let's say your site has a main menu but you want to add a dynamic link to it. By dynamic link I mean a page that differs from user to…

Code Research WordPress

Add tab to Group in Buddypress – WordPress

So.. you need to add a tab and associated page to the BuddyPress Group single post page. I recently needed to do this for a pedometer plugin I'm working on…

Knitting Making

Beekeeper’s quilt

Beekeeper's quilt. Challenge accepted.

Making Patterns Sewing

DIY fabric Pandora style european bead bracelet

About 8 years ago I came across these lovely modular bracelets in a small jewelery store in Montreal. That was the beginning of my obsession with European Beads. Now there everywhere. These days you can buy or make all sorts of bracelets in metal, leather, string and fabric to show off your beautiful beads. The pattern below is for a triple wrapped silk fabric bracelet.

As modeled by Vera, a rubber hand I found in the office. Doesn't she look pretty?

Photo of a photo in a window in Bristol showing a movie camera against a blue bokeh effect background

Photography Places

Sheffield walls and windows

Cars Photography

Earth Mini

Why earth mini? Green, blue and white = the colours of earth from space.