Crafty iphone

I love my iPhone. I am addicted and I pretty much use it for everything.
I wanted to share some of my favourite crafty apps (applications).
Knitting apps that I love and use are stitch minder and knit gauge.
Stitch minder is a little more than basic row counter. It allows you have simultanous counters like total [...]

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thankyou Mr Woolworths

Just for buying some Chocolate I won a new quilting bed for my sewing machine. Well … sort of.
I won a $100 woolworths gift card for entering a Cadbury promotion that I was totally unaware of.

So, I figure I put the $100 towards my next weekly grocery shop. Then that gives me $100 [...]

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BWM factory shopping

While in Melbourne I made a special effort to drive out to Bendigo just to go to the Bendigo Woollen Mills factory shop.
It took almost 2 hours to get there and the weather was shocking for driving. It was 9 degrees when we left Melbourne and almost 5 when we got to Bendigo at [...]

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i heart melbourne

I have been hiding away, busy with work and family and not much crafting.
Last week the kids and I went to Melbourne for a week to have some much needed family time.
We did all of the touristy things and I got the chance to catch up with a couple of old friends and spend some [...]

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little girly pillows

I have always envied Kellie’s quilts and appliqué creations from don’t look now. The motion of colour really appeals to me. She has some fantastic tutorials and the rocket ship pillow is on my to do list.

She has just created a pattern for 4 beautiful pillows and I am dying to make them. [...]

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review of downloadable sewing patterns

This is a long overdue post.
Mid summer was very hot here in Brisbane and I was inspired to make my little girl some simple cotton dresses. I got some cheap cotton from spotlight.
I trawled through sewingpatterns.com for what seemed like hours and settled on NEWLOOK 6504

So then I googled the pattern the see if [...]

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my new years “intentions”

I don’t generally make new years resolutions. I used to. I remember years gone by of lists to lose weight, exercise more, eat well, quit smoking.
I don’t think they ever worked and only led to trouble. I often felt disheartened when I couldn’t live up to my own goals.
BTW I did quit smoking but not [...]

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this is … my favourite book

I am well behind on my this is posts.
Last week dees suggested showing our favourite book.
I have been thinking about this for a long time. I have lots of favourite books and lots of favourite authors. Once I find an author I like I tend to read everything they have written. At [...]

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this is my latest discovery – my library card

We have been living in this area for over a year and it was only in the last couple of weeks that I ventured into our local library and got myself a library card.

It is not a particular big or inviting library but what I have discovered is their online library catalog.
All of Brisbane city [...]

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couch to 5K

Since returning to work and study I have tried to exercise regularly to get fit and help with my energy levels. (I could also do with losing about 8kg too!) Prior to Christmas I was going to the gym (at work) 3 times a week. Now with my shifts I am only [...]

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