inspiring a playfully creative life
It is a somewhat inconvenient truth, that no matter how many projects I have on the go at any one time (exhibit A – the three crochet blankets, two cross-stitches and three quilts currently adorning my craft room in various stages of completion ), I am always a sucker for the latest new and shiny thing. So when an email came landing in my inbox,
What a crazy, busy, fun weekend! So very very full of so many fabulous moments. I shared on Thursday my weekend plans for crafty bingo, and oh man, did the crafty goodness get cranking over the past four days! I ended up being too tired after a huge day on Thursday, along with battling a threatening cold, to do much, so I tackled my first
There is a tradition that has developed over the last few years, that a long weekend in front of us means that it is a good chance for some communal crafting. And what is communal crafting without a challenge involved? The last couple of long weekends have become increasingly convoluted with a list of things to tick off. We were in the process of trying
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
March was an epic month for reading, with 8 books under my belt! Not bad for a buys month of school and work and life. It helps I made better choices with my free time of an evening, avoiding tv, and remembering to take my kindle or iPad with me to sit with Mr5 at bedtime. I also finally had a play with the BorrowBox
Instagram can be a mixed blessing. Sometimes, many times, it is a veritable time suck of endless scrolling. Sometimes, it creates a fabulous community, like our amazing #saturdaynightcraftalong crew, who are so much fun. Sometimes, it inspires a fun little project that delivers just the inspiration kick I was after. A couple of weeks back, I came across #squareathon – a 16 day art challenge,
I tried to be good. I really did. I already have not one but two crochet blankets in progress, never mind all the other projects laying around unfinished. But a crafter only has so much willpower, and a mere three weeks after a crochetalong was suggested within our circle of camp friends, I was cruising through Pinterest looking for colour scheme inspiration, and approximately 3.7
Sometimes, I feel sorry for hackers. Imagine going to all the effort of hacking an insta, and finding you’d gotten lumped with me. If you were to scroll back through my DMs, or not even on insta, but through various chat histories on various platforms, a good portion of the messages are screenshots or shared posts or pinterest pins followed by “we should totally do
One of the hardest things about having our house for sale, is having to have it spotlessly clean and ready for inspection at the drop of a hat. One of the best things about having our house for sale, is that it is always spotlessly clean…leaving me free to do plenty of fun stuff! Right now, I have just tipped out the mop water and
We have been quite lucky with our children. Only one hospital stay. No surgeries. One broken arm and one greenstick fracture (which, to be honest, is a much higher success rate than we ever though possible, given the inverse relationship between a certain small boy’s fearlessness and co-ordination…). Overall, not a bad hit rate for over a decade with four children. Of course, though, there
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