After smashing through the first half of the year and making excellent progress towards my 2020 reading goal, things started slowing down over the last couple of months. I could blame birthday season, but more accurately, I lost my mojo when the book I started in August turned out to be slow going, and I was trying to avoid starting […]
I tried to resist a 2020 cross-stitch-along. I swear I did. I tried so hard, and then the kits were released and there was an option to split postage and well… self control isn’t exactly my strong point, is it? It didn’t take much more than a little push and I was down the rabbit hole – literally. The Alice […]
After the finishpalooza of the last few months, I’m heading a bit towards needlework overload. Cross-stitches and embroideries have been the order of the day when it comes to school table crafting lately, and resurrecting my 20 before 2020 list gave me the inspiration I needed to mix things up a little bit. This morning, with my morning jobs done, […]
If ever there was a year we needed the escape that is camp, it was this year, but of course, 2020 and state borders had a very different idea. I has big plans for a solid weekend of crafty fun, but like all good camp project lists, I did an excellent job of overestimating how much time I actually had, […]
Another week of building back towards normal! This week I have been: Reading: Book Of Hours (Robyn Caswallader) & How I Clawed My Way To The Middle (John Wood) Watching: birthday Lego being built, a new season of kids sport, and rainstorms rolling in Loving: morning walks through the vineyard & front paddocks, and evening bushwalks through the back forest […]
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 […]
If you’ve been around here, either as a blog reader or insta follower, for a year or more, you would know that the last full weekend of October is one of my absolute favourites of the year. Ever since it’s inception in 2011, quilt camp has been a highlight of my year, the annual face to face catch up with […]
The further that covid breaks my brain, the further I have to reach back into the WIP pile for projects. Having successfully kicked my 2014 list in the butt, my current project, and today’s WIP Wednesday feature, comes all the way from 2012. It started with a graphic I saw on facebook, that looked cute, and I shared it. Then […]
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 […]
At the beginning of last year, my partner in crime and I came up with a 20 point list of things to do before 2020. In theory, it was supposed to be finished before 2020 started, but with the flexibility built in that anything before the end of 2020 would be considered a win. Last night I pulled out the […]
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