A few days ago, the kids were playing around with some yarn crafts as part of our advent calender, I was passing yarn back and forth, and a set of needles fell out of the yarn basket along with a particularly tangled ball of red yarn (my kids’ yarn basket is, shall we say, less than ideally organised?), which was […]
With the advent of homeschooling in our house, my schedule had to readjust somewhat, now that I have three school aged children at home full time, along with the mini munchkin. One activity that we still attend is our church playgroup that I help run each week, which the big boys like to help out with as well. But like […]
How fun is Periscope? For those of you who have no idea what I’m talking about, it’s The New Thing in social media apps – developed by Twitter, it is a mobile-based video streaming app. You log in, hit start broadcast, and start talking. One of my biggest problems early on was working out how to get my phone […]
Beetle is a shocker for kicking his blankets off. One night last week I was up three times between 1am and 5am, basically because he was cold. Fun times. So on the weekend I hit up my stash, and got busy making him a sleeping bag. Today I want to share with you my super easy, very non-technical, zero measuring […]
Last week, I got a lovely comment from a reader of my previous blog, who had missed moving along on my move firstly to self-hosted, and then on to this new identity, and was wondering where I’d disappeared to. She mentioned she was glad to find me but self-hosted was frustrating as she liked to follow blogs in the wordpress […]
Hello school holidays! There will be playdates, there will be roadtrips, there will be craft & stories & moments of everyday magic. I love these precious two weeks when I have all my chickens in the nest (even if it means having Bear hanging over my shoulder pointing out my typos as I blog! At least I’ll know it’s pre-edited, […]
As part of our teacher gifts this year, I made a little tea wallet for each teacher. We gave ours with a mug ($8 for a pack of four from Coles – $2/gift), a couple of TimTam Bites ($3 for a pack of 12 – 50c/gift), and filled the wallets with a selection of 6 teabags (a gift box of […]
Sitting around at Camp Kayscha, we were all merrily rippling away when I noticed something. Mine had not only the ripple design across the blanket, but it also has a wave from front to back. Everyone else’s lay beautifully flat. Mine was textured. You can see Car’s finished blanket here – look how lovely and flat it is. In comparison, […]
There’s something about the ordered chaos of improv piecing that appeals to me – sticking out in my mind especially are this crochet hook roll and these journals. I’ve long wanted to try it, but I wasn’t quite sure where to start, and a search for a tutorial or how-to turned up pretty much nothing. Over the last week or […]
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