sunday supper

a healthy vegan supper for the new year

onion bhajiis with carrot & cucumber salad

onion bhajiis

white onions

gram (chickpea) flour

ground cumin

podered tumeric

ground black pepper

salt

water

sweat onions, spices and seasoning in oil.

whem onions are soft, mix into thickish batter with the flour and some water.

shallow fry on highish heat, turning once, and trying not to maim yourself with splashes of hot oil.

salad

carrots

cucumber

parsley

lemon

olive oil

salt&pepper

grate carrots, dice cucumber, chop parsley.

mix into bowl with a small amount of s&p, lemon juice and olive oil.

serve with chilli jam. mmmmmmm!

(full disclosure: before we ate this, we ate a large pack of serrano ham straight out of the packet, like pigs, cannibal pigs eating other pigs)

oh, sad day

i always hate the when the day comes every year to take down the tree.

we went with pompoms and popcorn this year

our poor living room looks naked.

happy new year!

and happy new lazycozy! 

after a stressful and difficult 2011, 2012 is a year of fresh starts and creativity in the l.c. household, so lazycozy is back.

christmas was all about extreme re-couperation after the annual retail (and merchandising) hell. it was low key and lovely.

we have been working on many projects over the past year, including the black hallway and a bargainous new ercol daybed for the living room, both of which need a few final tweaks and fixes. 

(if one looks closely one can see the double sided tape that has failed to keep tthe fabric trim under the picture rail on, and cat scratches on our home made indian "silver" dresser")

there will be many lovely updates on our decorating to come!

we have started the new year with healthy strawberry and banana smoothies, and i have started it with new blond hair! 

the photo makes it look ok, but in reality it is a weird orangey colour until i can bleach it again tomorrow.

the snazzy bandage on my hand is a result of a bad fall in november.

by far the worst event of 2011 in the l.c. house was the death of poor little mew mew, but now these two have come to live with us, mr clyde being very co-operative and photogenic, and miss bonnie being almost impossible to tame!

here's to a fantastic new year!!

wedding invitations, and bad photography...

i have been working on stationery for my cousin-in-law's (its a thing!) autumn wedding.
she wanted a simple, typographic theme, and i'm pretty happy with what i've come up with...

not so happy with my photographic skills, much visual merchandising related tiredness is not helping!

neither is the fact that i have been fighting with my (very expensive) printer which is not letting me print envelopes (the envelope above is not meant to be just blank, oh no, i have special plans for the envelopes!)

i got them!!

ooh, look what i own...

i think i will mount them on a lace-y paper platform in a shadow box for now, but i may also make a white paper baba-yaga house to go on the top of them...

baba-yaga is a witch in russian fairy tales who always impressed me as a (slightly odd) child.

strictly speaking her house has chicken legs, but crows legs are so much more creepy!

also...

ebay

cute and cozy, whilst also really strange and disturbing. perfect!!

today i am coveting...

an antidote to the granny-ness that has overtaken me of late.
i really, really,really want some of these - the start of a deceased menagerie if you like...

beloved & co, etsy

tophattaxidermy.com

and i am totally and utterly head-over-heels in love with these...

good ol' ebay

for some reason the dis-embodiment makes them so much better!!!

things i may someday make...

like an old lady, i am now searching out favourite yarns! i bought some gorgeous multi coloured Rowan wool in Liberty on a trip to London last summer, and am coming close to finishing it (NOOOOOO! must hoard, must hoard!).
as well as lovely (and expensive!) yarns, they also have a free projects section on their website, which might even get me to learn to knit more than plain stitch...

 

 LOVE the plaited necklace, and i could actually make the top one as it is crochet, though deciphering the pattern might take some work! 

such a cute tea-cozy, and its called the 'hug' cozy!

i want this whole outfit, but may have to ask my knitting meistress mother to knit this sweater for me, for my up-coming birthday!

its not an addiction!!

i have been crocheting cushion covers obsessively for the last month...

when i should have been doing something much more constructive and profitable like designing and printing cards.

now i just have to make the actual cushion covers up, make labels, decide where the best place to sell them is (and actually get around to doing so), and price them so that i am not working as slave labour and so that people don't think they should be made of pure gold!

thank you, and ooooh look!

Thank you so much to all the new lazycozy followers, and amazed thanks to louise at the lovely australian blog table tonic, full of stunning interiors eye-candy!

table tonic is also a superb emporium of lots of my favourite things; mr l.c.will be glad we do not live in the antipodes, as i want ALL of these!

vintage suzaniis...

ikat cushions and embroidered mexican bedspreads...

moroccan leather pouffes...

and, oh!, look at this blue moroccan wedding blanket; we have a gorgeous traditional one which we bought on our honeymoon, but now i want to go back even more so that i can get one of these!