Kirstie's Homemade Hogwash

DH has suggested we give it another go, anno but I've suggested he might like to spend Christmas in the shed!!

I told DD I'd poured the sorry little specimen down the sink and she said, 'Mum, how could you? I've been to ASDA and bought a cocktail shaker.'

I'll just have to substitute the maple syrup and hope they don't know the difference.

Somehow missed the programme - how could I? I always wanted to make tie-dyed knickers, but seem to have missed the boat for this year. How does one tie dye a thong? I'm sure my senior GD would just love one. Bees, your review (are you a professional?) has made my day. And merlot, better luck next time. Sadly, my spruce has been chopped down - would any old conifer do?

I'm not impressed with this years offerings. Ok for children but otherwise nothing new . Didn't like the colour scheme this week and that tree was awful.

Me too dahlia, I like Kirstie.
And I have those pom-pom makers and they are super quick. The GC love making pom-poms.

The main problem I have with all these programmes is that they put them on way too close to Christmas.With 5 days to go I am not going to suddenly redesign the whole house, hand craft a birch bark canoe or concoct an exotic new menu.

Sunflower I also like Alex . she has a down to earth approach.

I like Kirstie, even if I do find her programmes an awful lot of hot air. She strikes me as being genuinely enthusiastic about her projects, and I think she would be good fun to actually meet. We don't have to watch her, after all!

Just watching Alex Polizzi Christmas Fix on BBC2, some good ideas for decorating, and as she says, she's useless at crafts..

I watched one or two of her programmes ages ago, and I so wished she would show proper crafts in proper depth. She just glides along the surface, a bit like those makeover gardens, all glitter and no substance. Yes, I thought her shows were more appropriate for children. Then I remembered what Prima magazine used to be like before it dumbed down, with excellent dress patterns and knitting patterns, and I think it's all part of the instant gratification lifestyle. Buy somthing plain and tweak it slightly, rather than learn to make the original item.

Years ago a magazine article suggested dyeing all one's "grey" underwear orange to revive it. I did so ......then threw it in the bin. Not a success!

There's a craft workshop opened up in the next village, two doors away from one of those places where children make pots and such like. Although, the childrens one only opened because the shop owner wanted a tea room/cafe and she could only get permission if there was a craft workshop there as well. Not sure if there's a link.

Sorry Grayson if you are a member. Am not concentrating. All of a fluster at the exciting prospect of Allsop going to jail like Stewart (it was not for encouraging women to waste their lives making twee table decorations - but it should have been)
Oh and I thought Leigh was mainly known as a model for Lucien Freud. Less highbrow defaectating on stage. Australian take on performance art maybe?

Have never watched this and after having a good giggle at the OP I am glad. It sounds like things you do with small children - a lot of effort and mess for a not very great end result. I say this after wiping gold glitter paint from various bits of furniture! It is fine with the kids because it is the PROCESS of making which is fun but grown ups making tie dyed knickers? What?

How many of the programmes did you sit through?

And why?

Does that mean, what I do in my bathroom each morning is "Art"

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

Grayson Perry, Jess he also did the Reith Lectures this year.

Actually, he's NOT gay, just a transvestite who likes to be "Clare" sometimes.

Oh yes right phoenix I was getting Leigh Bowery mixed up with the gay teapot chap who won the Turner Prize and dresses in all kinds of interesting outfits. (there is a theme running here).
A very highbrow insult I guess but Leigh was a much admired artists model

My thirteen yr old DGD told her mother, 'If you even think of giving me tie dyed knickers for Christmas, I'll go and live with Granny!'

DD thought it best to mention that it was Granny who taught her how to tie dye in the first place.

* BEES* you post post made me roar !
Not seen you before are you a Newbie ?

Surely life is too short?!

How would you know what size to buy for people ? I did give my niece some minute cardboard knickers one year with the money to buy seven pairs but it was to do with a conversation we'd had the year before.

Not sure I'm comfortable with the comments on her physical appearance.

merlot that did make me

I don't watch Tegan! I did see a clip on Gogglebox last night, though, showing her tie-dyeing those knickers...she seemed to think someone would be really thrilled to receive 20 pairs as a Christmas present!

Well the right species of pine would make all the difference of course.
Is the smug Kirsty (never forgiven her for the gratuitous campaign to sink the home information pack - an innovation that would have improved house buying and which was sabotaged by an unholy alliance of Allsop, RICS and the Daily Mail after much time and effort had been spent preparing for it. Grr.) wanting to become the UK's answer to Martha Stewart? And if so will she end up in jail ? Please...