We are back from our second little road trip and it is lovely to be home. We had a great time and the kids were very tolerant with the long drive. Because Hubby stayed at home and I took 2 days to do the Brisbane to Sydney drive. We stayed at Port Macquarie (Beachcomber resort [...]
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we’re home
Posted in family on 10, September 2008 | 1 Comment »
make it perfect – pinny
Posted in completed projects, family, patterns, sewing, sewing clothes on 6, August 2008 | 2 Comments »
My little girl has a thing for dresses at the moment. She basically has to wear one every day. Scouring etsy for some suitable patterns I came across a home grown (aussie) designer Toni and make it perfect patterns. Here is her etsy store and her blog.
I bought the pinny and fancy pants [...]
new nephew
Posted in completed projects, family, quilting, sewing on 4, August 2008 | 3 Comments »
Last week I got a new nephew – Toby. This is my sisters second boy and he arrived safe and healthy 2 weeks early.
While she was pregnant she asked me to make a quilt for the (at that stage) unknown gender baby in red and yellow. She picked a few fabrics [...]
I’m back
Posted in family, other stuff, tagged SO here on 1, August 2008 | 3 Comments »
So here I am … I’m back, but I never really went away. I have been keeping up with all of my favorite blogs and have been hanging out a little more on ravelry (as craftjunk). I have rediscovered my love for whip up and my to do list has grown immensely. I [...]
three new princesses
Posted in family, knitting, other stuff on 3, May 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There are three new beautiful princesses in the world.
A friend of my fathers’ and his lovely wife Jo have just had healthy girl triplets.
Photos were sent by email and they look plump and healthy with full heads of hair.
My MIL is a knitter and I begged her to make some premie hats and booties for [...]
orange doll quilt for “chaletgirl”
Posted in doll quilts, family, quilting on 15, April 2008 | 9 Comments »
this post is pretty photo intensive
Sheridan and i decided to do a doll quilt swap between us – just for something to do. One of the rules was that we had to use what was in our stash. She got it yesterday (check out her blog post)
I picked the orange fabrics before she started this [...]
Things are a little hectic
Posted in family, other stuff on 14, April 2008 | 2 Comments »
I am having a four day break from work with no plans to go anywhere but stay at home and do stuff.
My mum is moving in next week so we spent most of yesterday moving the contents of our study into various other rooms. This meant creating a new study/play room in my boys [...]
This is ….. my creation.
Posted in family, this is on 17, March 2008 | 3 Comments »
I wasn’t going to say the kids, I wanted to show something spectacular and unique.
But when they were playing in the hallway this morning and I told my husband that I had nothing to do with it, his response was ‘”well, you created them”. So that settled it.
Here are my spectacular and unique [...]
back at work and christmas crafting
Posted in completed projects, family, good thing, other stuff, sewing on 23, January 2008 | 1 Comment »
I have been away on holidays. The four of us had a wonderful time. We got to play in the water and in the sand and spend some great time with friends and family.
It is nice to be back but hard trying to get back into a routine. I have started a new phase [...]
Happy Holidays
Posted in family on 30, December 2007 | 1 Comment »
How are you all going? I am doing super fine too! Thankyou.
We had a lovely Christmas. We had 2 separate Christmas’ with our families on the weekends leading up to Christmas day. It was a fantastic idea as it left Christmas day just for us (and my MIL).
It wasn’t anything special food [...]


