inspiring a playfully creative life
After the finishpalooza of the last few months, I’m heading a bit towards needlework overload. Cross-stitches and embroideries have been the order of the day when it comes to school table crafting lately, and resurrecting my 20 before 2020 list gave me the inspiration I needed to mix things up a little bit. This morning, with my morning jobs done, and after 20 minutes or
If ever there was a year we needed the escape that is camp, it was this year, but of course, 2020 and state borders had a very different idea. I has big plans for a solid weekend of crafty fun, but like all good camp project lists, I did an excellent job of overestimating how much time I actually had, and underestimating the distractions in
Another week of building back towards normal! This week I have been: Reading: Book Of Hours (Robyn Caswallader) & How I Clawed My Way To The Middle (John Wood) Watching: birthday Lego being built, a new season of kids sport, and rainstorms rolling in Loving: morning walks through the vineyard & front paddocks, and evening bushwalks through the back forest Enjoying: farm fresh googy eggs
With no camp this year, I was spared the annual panic-sewing-marathon that is quilt camp gifties. You would think after a decade of camp being held at roughly the same time of year every year, that I would get my act together and get things done in a timely manner, and I tell myself every year that I will…and the next year rolls around and
If you’ve been around here, either as a blog reader or insta follower, for a year or more, you would know that the last full weekend of October is one of my absolute favourites of the year. Ever since it’s inception in 2011, quilt camp has been a highlight of my year, the annual face to face catch up with my beautiful friends who all
The further that covid breaks my brain, the further I have to reach back into the WIP pile for projects. Having successfully kicked my 2014 list in the butt, my current project, and today’s WIP Wednesday feature, comes all the way from 2012. It started with a graphic I saw on facebook, that looked cute, and I shared it. Then my friend, and fellow Saturday
As the weather warms up, I’m slowly starting to swap over my wardrobe, packing away the heavy winter jumpers and pulling out my favourite shorts. In the process, I’m discovering I’m rather overloaded in the “homeschool mum slobbing at home” kind of outfits, and rather lacking in the “pretending to be a functional adult in public” kind of outfits. I could do like a normal
At the beginning of last year, my partner in crime and I came up with a 20 point list of things to do before 2020. In theory, it was supposed to be finished before 2020 started, but with the flexibility built in that anything before the end of 2020 would be considered a win. Last night I pulled out the list. At first glance it
Back in 2016, we threw together a last minute outback road trip in the lead up to the the July school holidays. It was a total winging-it, see where the road takes us kind of trip, with not much more than a vague idea of where we were heading. Towards the tail end of our two weeks, we ended up in Lightning Ridge for a
Since finishing the 100 Days project, I’ve tried to stick with my newly formed daily crochet habit. For the most part, I’ve succeeded. There have absolutely been days I haven’t picked up my hook, but more days than not, I have added at least something to my Atlanticus mandala blanket. In the early days, it was easy to smash out multiple rows a day, but
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