inspiring a playfully creative life
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
Some years, I find it really quite easy to decide what I am making everyone for our now-traditional quilt camp gifts. Often one of us will be down a particular crafty rabbit hole, or will have made a comment that sticks into camp folklore and is full of inspiration. Other times, like this year, we are all floating along, with life getting in the way
This week has been non-stop. I even skipped out on going to the farm both days of the weekend to sew like a mad woman, trying to get my quilt camp gifts made. And somehow, I’ve managed to get so busy that I missed a whole 11 days of blogtober! I even had ideas for posts sketched on my calendar, but I just didn’t get
It is a well-established fact around here, that I require only the very vaguest of provocations to hit the craft room and get busy making a mess. When a message comes through asking if I have any spare oil pouches on hand, what else am I supposed to do but get busy and sew one up? This 12 bottle pouch was whipped up for one
I have a bit of a Thing about having stuff that matches. When it comes to projects, this normally comes out in the way of project bags, as evidenced by the improv pieces bag I made for my sunrise stripe sampler crochet blanket, to the detriment of my wedding outfit packing skills. When we kicked off our latest challenge-slash-craftapalooza, one of the first things we
Sometimes, I think my procrastinating isn’t that bad. Other times, I spend the day we are leaving for a trip sewing and end up forgetting the clothes we planned to wear to a wedding… Once I got my arm twisted and was forced to join in on the current Easter challenge, I looked around my newly-sorted and decluttered craft room, and started wondering where the
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