Are you a domestic godess?

themadchef

Ok, so i'm sitting here sewing a pair of my fathers trousers.....(unimaginable for some ladies i know) and it got me wondering how many of you ladies out there can work a needle and thread?

My + points regarding domestic Godess status are:

I an handy with needle and thread / sewing machine

I can cook up a storm



My - points
My house often can be mistaken as a place recently burgled (a tad untidy at times)

Anything involving a power tool, count me out.

I'm have no interiour design skills, matching colours / fabrics = non starter.

Budegting is an evil word.






Come on girls dont be shy, just how good a stand alone supr woman are you?

Hmm, i've more - than + .....not as good as i thought me thinks and no doubt others have lots of wonderous things to add to the list that i'm missing.

WindSock

I can Iron (depends on what), Cook (depends on what) and fetch my boyfriends slippers, if he had some.

Quality

I used to be a right lazy cow...

But owning my own house and having children has turned me into a martha stewart...

On my own admission, I am a great cook. I dont let my husband cook.

I have to have a clean and tidy house and wont sit down til the kitchen is cleaned up after meals.. (Although I have a cleaner once a week)

I am brutal at sewing...Although I can crochet..

I think my house is modern but homely...


I like gardening, and leave the diy to the hubby...

allabouteve

I baked a cake yesterday while wearing an apron I made myself.
I am extremely tidy and clean.
I have a rota for most regular chores.
My wardrobe looks like a Bennetton shop.
I am a great cook (I'm told!)
I have recipie file cards in a pink floral box.
My friends used to call me Monica (friends), but now they call me Bree(desperate housewives).

However -
I can do an oil change and change a wheel easily, I love xbox war games, and I swear like an alcoholic sailor.

Jules

I have started cooking, and the house is fairly clean accept on sat mornings, but doesnt take long to fix. I can sew, but i deny it a lot! I can change a tyre on a car and put up a shelf!

Aisling(",)

I can:
sew-thanks to school
knit-school.
cook-small rnage of dishes but nothing fancy in anyway
bake-simple enough stuff though
clean-even though i refuse to tidy my room
wire a plug-random but may come in useful someday
and im fairly handy at D.I.Y

but i am bad bad bad at keeping things tidy..floor may be clean and recently washed but by the day after you can no longer see it

Gillybean72

themadchef wrote: »

Ok, so i'm sitting here sewing a pair of my fathers trousers.....(unimaginable for some ladies i know) and it got me wondering how many of you ladies out there can work a needle and thread?

My + points regarding domestic Godess status are:

I an handy with needle and thread / sewing machine

I can cook up a storm



My - points
My house often can be mistaken as a place recently burgled (a tad untidy at times)

Anything involving a power tool, count me out.

I'm have no interiour design skills, matching colours / fabrics = non starter.

Budegting is an evil word.






Come on girls dont be shy, just how good a stand alone supr woman are you?

Hmm, i've more - than + .....not as good as i thought me thinks and no doubt others have lots of wonderous things to add to the list that i'm missing.

Well, do YOU think im a domestic goddess ??? haha

themadchef

Gillcarr1972 wrote: »

Well, do YOU think im a domestic goddess ??? haha

LOL after your short few days visiting at Casa del chef's.... i would YES.

Much calmer than my good self,
a legend with Nappy changing duties,
Lethal with a sweeping brush (hmm almost threathning at times)
and relentless with the windowlene.

So i think you ticked more boxes than i did.

Gillybean72

themadchef wrote: »

LOL after your short few days visiting at Casa del chef's.... i would YES.

Much calmer than my good self,
a legend with Nappy changing duties,
Lethal with a sweeping brush (hmm almost threathning at times)
and relentless with the windowlene.

So i think you ticked more boxes than i did.

You forgot making a mean pot of soup while you were out feeding the Island...

Nightwish

I can hoover, do a bad job washing the car, load and unload the dishwasher and use the washing machine. Thats pretty much it though.

ztoical

I don't even own an iron, landlord bought a new hoover for the house and 12 months on its still in the box. House is organised chaos - can't clean things away to much cus then I can't find anything. I did fix the boiler myself and figured out how to bleed the rads when it needed doing.

Interior design I can do but I'm an artist so being able to match colours and design are kinda what I do for living so I should be some what good at it. Cooking I'm pretty good at if I do say so myself as long as its all veggie, been one for 15 years so have no clue how to cook anything with meat in it. Make orange chocolate vegan muffins and banana cake the odd time to bring into the studio.

Weidii

Love cooking, love a clean house, don't mind cooking at all... I just hate cleaning up other peoples mess!

Lurvely

Hmm..well i can cook but ive no need to, my fella does all the cooking (lucky me!!), i do all the dishes, i hoover, general tidy up although it doesnt stay tidy long..i can iron (sort of!) but never really bother..thats about it really!

pow wow

I can cook, knit, sew, crochet, assemble flat pack furniture, clean, iron etc. Sadly my laziness prevents me from doing any of that

I can turn the dial on the microwave all by myself tho.

Crumble Froo

oh christ, im brutal. i love ironing, though havent done any since i worked in an elderly couple's house in june/july last year. im learning to cook... mostly just boiling my veg and oven-ing stuff. (im pretty bad at the terminology too...)... im very untidy, though i dont like really tidy places, make me uncomfortable. can't really sew, but had a go at it the other day for my jeans, though given i've been using safety pins instead for the last two years, i wasnt exactly aiming for a picture perfect finish...

scoot on

I'm woeful. I hate domestic chores. I probably would be better or make more of an effort if my boyfriend wasn't so good. He gets home before me every day so he cleans up and cooks the dinner. I never cook and when I do I normally start it and he comes in and takes over and finishes it
The design and DIY stuff I can do and am in the process of doing so at the moment but any cooking, cleaning, ironing, washing, etc etc gets left to himself or the laundrette

Crumble Froo

ha, it really does get harder when he does a lot of the work doesnt it?!
tough i do feel bad, he often doesnt let me do it, as ive just finished a long day at work, so he enforeces his command over the dishes, hough i have to confess, i dont put up much of a fight at all...

scoot on

Crumble Froo wrote: »

ha, it really does get harder when he does a lot of the work doesnt it?!
tough i do feel bad, he often doesnt let me do it, as ive just finished a long day at work, so he enforeces his command over the dishes, hough i have to confess, i dont put up much of a fight at all...

Ya it really does!
When we moved in together first I was in college and he was working so I used to do everything. We were only living in an apartment then though so it was a lot less work
Now 99.9% of the time he's home before me and everything is done by the time I get in. It's great! I feel bad too sometimes but he doesn't complain.

Kazobel

I'm a really good cook and living on my own I don't have much to clean so tend to do it as I'm going along, I'm great with kids, hate ironing, I can strip any broken electronic equipment, fix it and reassemble it (with no parts left over ) other than that there's no other real domestic tasks I'd be doing oh and I can't sew for sh*t :D

TequilaMockingBird

Kazobel wrote: »

I can strip any broken equipment, fix it and reassemble it (with no parts left over )

If only life were always so simple Kazobel

Nevyn

I am a domestic engineer cos goddess don't have to clean toilets.

Yes I can and do, cook, bake, sew, dressmake, cover cushions, paint and decorate, garden, quilt, crochett I do what needs doing but given a choice I would prefer to be at the pc or reading.

LouOB

I can cook
I can bake
I clean like a woman posessed at times - dont wear gloves. I got my house brand new and intend on keeping it that way - I dont take for granted my fortunate position of having my own house.
Today I went to town on vinegar -we have v hard water in the area and only thing to shift water marks is vinegar.
I have lots of drinks/cereals to hand

I just hate that if a person enters my house and they dont feel comfortable in it.
No complaints so far as peeps have fallen asleep on my couch as it sooo comfy

TequilaMockingBird

My brother came into my house for the first time, and said "ohhh..will I take my shoes off?"

It looks good, but my cupboards are those of a lazy cow.

Blush_01

When I'm not living at home, I tend to keep things fairly ok. I can sew on buttons, fix hems and the like, but I've forgotten how to sew properly. I knit a bit, no dolls or anything for a while, but maybe I'll get back into it. I like putting things together, be they flatpack or jigsaws. I like taking things apart and putting them back together to see how they work. I can cook and bake the basics, I make pretty amazing pastry but that's about the only wow. I'm far too lazy to be domestic though.

Silverfish

I know where the kitchen is. I used to cook, now I live on noodles.
I can sew on a button, but it will stay on for the exact amount of time I need it to, barely.
I do flatpack furniture.
I clean things, but I share with 2 girls and a boy, so there is no point.
I last saw my iron about 2 years ago. I've moved three times since then, I have no idea where it is now.

Jackz

"no one can be really esteemed accomplished, who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with. A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages, to deserve the word; and besides all this, she must possess a certain something in her air and manner of walking, the tone of her voice, her address and expressions, or the word will be but half deserved.''

Crumble Froo

wait... what word?

Jackz

Crumble Froo wrote: »

wait... what word?

accomplished

Black Swan

Enjoy cooking, and pretty good if you ask my flatmate and guests, but I hate doing laundry with a passion! (Can't picture doing his and hers week after week until I croak)

tallaght01

I have just killed a cockroach the size of my head in the kitchen, using only one of my drum sticks.

Does that make me a domestic god?

Black Swan

tallaght01 wrote: »

Does that make me a domestic god?

Naaaaa, just the great hunter. Will you stuff and mount its head on the wall?