inspiring a playfully creative life
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that when a friend asks “who does X in town?” and I am a person who does X for funsies, that the only possible answer is “meeeeeee”. Like hand-embroidering names on stockings? Yeah, I can totally do that. One of my fellow homeschool mamas had two stockings she wanted names put on. It seemed easy enough, so I figured,
There’s nothing I love more than some good secret squirrel shenanigans. Back in The Before, when I first floated the idea of a pouch swap, a certain someone said she would love to be involved but couldn’t manage it with work and family commitments. This certain someone also had a birthday in the last couple of weeks. And if there’s anything 2020 needs, it’s random
One of my most popular posts, is a little download I quickly whipped up one day while sewing myself a reusable shopping bag. I certainly never expected it to be pinned over 11,000 times!! Unfortunately though, the post itself was just for the template for the handles, and linked to an external tutorial. A tutorial that has since disappeared from the internet, and I get
When we started homeschooling, I knew as well as committing to the daily rhythm of educating the children, I was also committing to a decent chunk of travel. This week, for instance, we made the two hour trek to our nearest environmental education facility, to join up with another homeschool group, for the children to attend a day of bush school. A good mother would
With the weather warming up, and everything opening up and restarting post-iso, it’s time I need to pretend I am a functional adult with a decent wardrobe. In reality, my summer wardrobe leans very heavily towards my standard mum-uniform of leggings and nerd tees, which is fine for the days when my biggest event is rolling up to the school table, but not so ideal
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
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