After 18 months of living tiny, my patience with constantly diving into boxes to find my belongings has worn thin. I bought shelves. I collected boxes to organise my stash into. Slowly, slowly, I made progress in the unpacking, sorting things into neatly labelled boxes lined up in rows. Finally, I made it to the last box. A tricky one, holding a mix of projects,

There’s a stage in children’s social development that I learnt of when my big boys were tiny. Before co-operative play, there is parallel play – two (or more) toddlers sharing a space but doing their own thing. As an adult, that together-but-different thing keeps cropping up. Quilt camp is a perfect example – we happily all chill in the same space, doing our own projects.

It is a common theme, when the children go away, that I grossly over estimate exactly how much I will manage to get done. This school holidays was no exception. I had three full days to myself, and I wrote myself a list a mile long to fill those three days with. While they are away though, there isn’t just the crafting to occupy my

Whenever I am drowning in big emotions, my go-to coping mechanism is to keep busy. Last month, I was honoured to be asked by my nan to make her a bundle of return of thanks cards, when she couldn’t find anything suitable following the death and funeral of my pop. In the week after the funeral, it was just the perfect amount of busy grief-crafting

If I needed any further proof that 2020 broke me, as if all the finished projects weren’t enough, the final evidence arrived in the form of a finished December Daily. I think this may possibly be the first time I’ve actually managed to complete the entire 24 days of documenting! The small format had it’s challenges, but I think it was also helpful for the

10 days into December, and I think I’m closing on what could be a record effort at keeping up with December Daily. The mini tag idea is working brilliantly. I did have a false start when my lack of spatial awareness skills tripped me up, and 4 pictures on a 4×6″ print ended up being much larger than I expected. Normal people, of course, would

One of these days, I will have my December Daily plans in place by mid November. This year is not that day. It was around lunchtime yesterday I sent a panicked message to the Enabler In Chief. December was closing in rapidly, and I had zero plans. A bit of brainstorming and a few ideas kicked around, and a plan started falling in to place.