Blog entries tagged Jane Austen

The Fifth Annual

Shelley — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 05:17:21 +0100

The Fifth Annual Jane Austen Fancy Dress Tea Party was held about a month ago. As usual it consisted of good friends, good conversation and lots of food. In fact I think I broke my record for food provided to a known number of people.

Macaroons on the cooklin...

The Fourth Annual Jane Austen Fancy Dress Tea Party

Shelley — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:40:51 +0100

This year's Jane Austen Party was just as fun as usual. Four lovely ladies came to have tea with me - two of them who now live out of town - and we had a wonderful time eating goodies and chattering about anything that came to mind. My sister Jane came over early to help me make all the little sandwiches and Rob took Abby for an extra long walk to keep things calm while everyone arrived...

A Jane Austen Fancy Dress Tea Party

Shelley — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 03:18:48 +0100

... Or two.

I’ve added some new pictures to my photos page. All the pictures are from a couple of tea parties we had over the summer. We made all the dresses and I did my best to make sure each one would be a little different. It was a lot of fun to see everyone all dressed up at the parties. A few people even did up their hair in Recency-ish styles. After tea we walked...

So ... I'm Exploring with a Mac

Shelley — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 03:02:21 +0100

Today after work we cleared off my desk and set up the mini. Rob created a special widget for me - a recipe finder. You wouldn’t believe how many recipes there are for hot cross buns.

Now I have signed up for .mac and I’m starting my own little website. Pretty cool. My next challenge is to pick a picture to replace the default on this template.