inspiring a playfully creative life
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
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
To keep our daily school books, and whatever handwork I’m working on, and our library books, all in order, I have set up our IKEA trolley as our main homeschool organisation space. Along with the detritus of the day to day record keeping and lesson planning and creative fun, I also keep my good camera on hand on the trolley – most of the photos
In our homeschool, we don’t follow mainstream terms and holidays. Instead, we do shorter, six week sessions, with a week off in between each session, but even though our breaks only line up with mainstream holidays once or twice a year, the children still look forward to the school holidays. School holidays, you see, means they get to go to nanny & poppy’s for an
Once upon a time, in a previous life, I was exhibiting as a photographer at a baby and children’s market day. This market day introduced me to the wonderful handmade gorgeousness of Calamity Bolt hobby horses. From there, we collaborated on a styled shoot, and then later, I got to be a pattern tester when Elke released her first pattern. Back in April, the call
Conspiracy theories abound around the internet, even in good times. At the minute? They are everywhere. I can barely open up my facebook or twitter without seeing an article or a link or a meme of any one of the multiple Covid conspiracy theories doing the rounds at the minute. Personally, I tend to subscribe to the theory of Occam’s Razor – that the simplest
Isolation, it seems, is excellent for one’s crafty mojo. Yesterday, for example, after feeling rather listless, I got a sudden spurt of energy, and ended up finishing not one but two projects. One was a long planned project, and has been sitting on my sewing box in varying stages of progress for the last few weeks. The other was an idea only considered the night
I am a sucker for bags and pouches. Not, of course, in the way normal people collect handbags and cute wallets and delightful leathergoods of all persuasions. No, the bags I collect in quantities defying rationality? Project bags. Pouches for little stitchings, totes for large blankets. A project isn’t a project unless it has a bag to keep it safe, organised and clean. I have
Many moons ago, when I was around the age of Miss 9, a friend and I used to swap little goodie bags. We would sew up a pouch, and fill it will stickers and lollies and pencils and all the little plastic knick knacks that kids love to collect. There was no set time or reason, just as a little “because” gift, and gosh it
Almost exactly four years ago, I made Miss Butterfly an Ergo inspired baby carrier. It has been loved to the point of the ribbons starting to fall out, and even then, it is currently in residence on my desk for repairs so she can once again carry the baby of the moment around. For the thirty minutes it took me to put together, it has
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