inspiring a playfully creative life
It’s an annual occurance. The tree comes out, the kids go nuts getting it up and decorated, the lights twinkle away, and it’s my turn – the Annual Barefoot Museum of Christmas Crafts gets installed. With that done, I do a walk through to determine how many bare walls and corners remain, and start adding ideas to our Advent activity calendar to fill those bare
Back in November, I promised myself I would be good. I saw all these amazing advent calendars, and I tried to resist. I really did. Then the unboxing videos started, and the FOMO set it. Past me had made a terrible life choice. Thankfully, one of the calendars had been on my list opened up a final round of parcels, and I jumped on the
It’s become a bit of a tradition, once Sunday afternoon hits, and all the jobs have been done for the weekend. Or as many of the jobs as are going to get done, anyway. Mr Barefoot blows in through the front door, does a cursory check that I’m not knee deep in parenting or housewife or otherwise occupied with something requiring my active concentration, before
I love a good printable. I do not love fussy cutting, especially since my good sharp pointed paper scissors have disappeared. I love die cuts and ephemera. I do not love the international shipping costs that are required to get most of them in my hot little hands. I do, however, have a cricut and a healthy sense of adventure. Friends, it paid off. I
Two Christmases ago, I started cross stitching vignettes from Deck The Halls by Satsuma Street. Vignette one saw me through bushfires and packing and moving. Vignette two saw me through the first pandemic lockdown/stay at home orders. Vignette three was a 2021 school table stitching, when I was at a loss for a project. Vignettes four and five have since been cancelled, because I did
What a week. I feel like I start every Sunday post like that lately. Thankfully, it’s the downhill un to Christmas now – this was our final weekend of crazy busy, next weekend we have a chill weekend at home, and then it’s Christmas weekend! I’ve been out photographing a wedding, the rest of the family disappeared to the coast, and then this afternoon we
After a two year hiatus, it has been an absolute joy this week to be back in the whirl of drama productions. The pinball whirl that is final rehearsals, keeping costumes clean, pressed & all together, running home and racing through hair styling, using half a can of hair spray to transform a grungy 2020s covid-era teen into a slick, suave 1920s mob-era theatre agent
There’s something quite fabulous, about seeing a long-percolating project come to life. Even better when you rope your crafty offsider into it, and along the way, not only do you create something cool, but it also brings moments both unexpected and magical. I think that’s the best way to sum up our podcasting adventure – unexpected, and magical. An on-a-whim comment in April 2019, add
Sometimes, the funnest projects can come out of abject failure. Part of being a crafter is knowing not everything will turn out as planned, and you have to lean in to the pivot. At the minute, I’m knee deep in prepping a 12 Days calendar for the Minister, and trying to come up with 12 items that are small and easy to make, that reflect
It seemed like such a great idea at the time. “We should do a 12 Gnomes of Christmas”, goes out the call. Because I’m a sucker for anything a) challenge related and b) Christmas related, and because I was in ned of a new handwork project, I was head first down the Etsy rabbit hole and had patterns in my downloads folder before I could
