Posted in books, fabric, online shops, purchases on 11, October 2007 | 4 Comments »
It was my birthday earlier this week. I was totally spoiled by my super special crafty friend with lots of georgeous things.
Amongst other things she got me these two fantastic books
and this beautiful pendant from lisa leonard designs.
I asked for money from the family and I went on an online shopping spree. I [...]
Posted in books, craft research, quilting on 12, June 2007 | 1 Comment »
Here are a few of my opinions of some new quilting books I have recently acquired.
Quiltmakers Color Workshop is from the guys at funquilts. The book looks at a large selection of quilts and talks about the colours that were chosen for each quilt. It then looks at different variations of each [...]
Posted in books, sewing on 4, June 2007 | 1 Comment »
I found this book at a Dymocks on the Gold Coast for the very affordable price of $9.95. It is called Crafts For Baby.
It pretty much has all of the patterns for the standard things that you can make for a baby or a nursery. The instructions aren’t particularly good but it does give [...]
Posted in books, fabric, family, purchases on 4, June 2007 | 2 Comments »
I have not been super busy over the last couple of weeks, but I haven’t been very productive craft wise. Just your standard case of “life got in the way”.
My hubby went away for work so I went and had a little holiday at my mums house. It wasn’t really a holiday [...]
Posted in books, good thing, links, sites, blogs, online shops, other stuff on 19, May 2007 | 3 Comments »
IJust a quick post to tell you about these two cool sites I have just found.
The book depository is a UK online book store that gives amazon a good run for it’s money. The best bit is that it has free international shipping. I say again FREE.
fabricmatcher is an awsome site with the [...]
Posted in books, completed projects on 19, April 2007 | 3 Comments »
I finally finished the binding on my cowboy quilt. It took ages to do and I had forgotten just how big the quilt was. Anyway it is done and completed before the baby arrives.
I am due today and I really thought that I would have had it by now – so did my [...]
Posted in books, fabric, links, sites, blogs, quilting on 27, March 2007 | 5 Comments »
The past couple of days have seen some good things come to my home.
Our fabric arrived from the fat quarter shop for the joint quilt that I am making with Sheridan. It is just gorgeous and want to take it out and fondle it constantly. The colours that we chose look great together and [...]
Posted in books, links, sites, blogs, sewing, toys on 19, March 2007 | 8 Comments »
I really enjoyed making my felt dinosaur so started searching through ebay to see if there were any books with other patterns. I came across a US seller that had lots of Japanese craft books full of felt toys. This then lead me to yesasia.com and amazon japan. This was the beginning [...]
Posted in books, podcasts on 3, January 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I am working a lot at the moment as I need to catch up on some shifts after taking holidays at Christmas. I have been complaining; but at least I get to use the commute to listen to all of my podcasts that I missed while I was away.
I listen to lots of craft and knitting [...]
Posted in books, family, other stuff on 1, January 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Well Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and all of that.
We have just returned from a couple of weeks holiday in Queensland spending time with our family. It was lovely and my husband and I have decided to move up there in February. We hope to be settled before the new baby arrives in April and we [...]
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