After Holiday spending spree...

Yes it sounds silly but I had money left over and decided to go and purchase some things I have always wanted to.

A new sewing machine, Brand new.

And some lovely patterns from Folkwear patterns.

Now I am usually one to draft my own, but this time I thought why not support a pattern company and try their style of pattern.

I got some dresses that I would possibly wear myself, and use fabric that has been waiting to be something for years.

here is the teasers

And if you would like to check out the patterns they do here is their website

http://www.folkwear.com

I will show my versions once I have completed them.

until then

Lady A 

;)

Basel a city to Fall in Love with

I have to say I had no clue what Basel was going to be like,

but I loved it. It is very pretty and there is enough creative people there too.

we took the train from Lugano, lots of tunnels so a bit of reading was needed

 

But we went to the restaurant after Arth-Goldau and had a bit of a snack

 

This was the range of cheese we had

 

when we got there we had a bit of a walk to our Hotel but we got to see some nice scenery on the way

 

We then got there and the view was lovely

 

the 6 floor always lovely

 

nuff said ;)

 

A spot of light dinner

 

Then some more walking and sight seeing

 

We spotted a bit of a party on the side of the river

 

Was cool to see that people were floating down the river here too, 

past the stage and beyond.

 

a bit of a crowd

 

interesting lighting

 

And luckily the weather was in our favour

I think I would like to see what its like in winter here.

Lady A

Bicycles in Zurich

We spent two half days in Zurich and enjoyed being tourists,

the trams and trains are great and together with walking will take you almost anywhere.

But for those that enjoy what most "Zuerchers" enjoy you can hire a bicycle for the day.

Well its more like borrow, you need a 20CHFr deposit a Id and off you go.

 

this is what we got easy to ride, and a basket for all your shopping.

So we took our bicycles and went to look at bicycle shops and other interesting things.

But this is about the bicycle shops, two in particular.

The first one StihlRad and yes there is photos of a runway show on the website ;)

As you can see its a bit more clean and modern, with clothing that looks like street wear for sale. 

Although it is aimed at the stylish man, the only cool thing for ladies are the helmets and nice bicycles.

 

I could have taken a few things home from here

 

This is one of them, I would have this one if I lived here. (a few more years and it might be so)

Then we went to the Larger Velo Zuri, where you can get new bicycles but also secondhand ones.

They seem to fix them and have lots of different ones for all sorts of tastes.

 

As you can see the secondhand show room is large

 

They have cute old city bicycles, like this Bianci

 

A large amount of Tandems

racing ones, cruisy ones and flatbars

 

this is the wall of tandems

 

A half recumbent and half upright one

A hard plastic bicycle

 Many different folder bicycles, this is the wall of Bromptons

One Titanium flat bar :D

 

This one that I would be too scared to ride :S

 

Some very hip ones

 

 

A wall of old steel racers

 

And the best one out of them all

Its so small I could have taken it into my luggage

 

This is their front door and if you can go past and have a look its worth looking around.

I know I need to get more bicycles because one is not enough if you don't own a car.

So hopefully I can find some nice ones back in Oz otherwise I will have move here sooner than expected.

Lady A

;)