inspiring a playfully creative life
Back when I was at school, there was a persistent rumour swirling around our un-air-conditioned classrooms, that if it hit 40 degrees, they had to send us home. We never got sent home, so I’m pretty sure it was more wishful thinking than anything else! These days though? I’m the boss of this school and can do what I darn well please. Technically, I had
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
You would think, if ever there was a year to let a weekly-release craft along project slide, it would be 2020. Who has the headspace to keep up with stuff with *waves hand* all that going on? And yet…2020 is the first year that I have actually managed to keep up, and finish, a stitchalong. When I started the Peppermint Purple blackwork stitchalong back in
Over the years, I have tried various ways to present our advent countdown activities. We’ve had envelopes in mini trees. We’ve had boxes of supplies and prompts. For the longest time, I’ve wanted a shadow box advent calendar, and I finally found one last week at Spotlight. Being in a small house, with most of our supplies packed away, and not a lot of space
Advent, around here, is a fabulous excuse to craft ourselves silly. In December last year, I started a cross-stitch and was doing a slap-up job of keeping up. 10 days in, I was still on track to complete it on time. Then on the 12th, life blew up in my face, and aside from a stitch here and there, it was pretty much ignored. When
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.
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
Part of crafting, is that not everything turns out perfectly. I am somewhat of a perfectionist at times, but depending on what I am making, I try to lean into the charm of the imperfect, and not let the pursuit of perfect freeze my progress. Obviously there are times I need to rework things and fix up problems. Clothes to wear? Definitely a fix, as
Back in 2017, my partner in crime and I started a challenge to get us back into the swing of crafting and blogging and experimenting with creative play.We created a list of different mediums and materials which we would use as a launch point for whatever creative projects we were inspired to pursue. We got about half way through, and in the way of many
Some projects take time to plan and prep and pull together. Others are a delightful case of serendipity, like my latest batch of diffuser bracelets. Master7’s lesson plans for last week included making a finger-knitted bracelet that was to be decorated with beads. I still had my bead boxes in easy reach after the last round of bracelet making, so I pulled them out to
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