see you at mathilda’s

Well everything is packed and ready to go in the car and I’ll see my lovely canberra customers and friends tomorrow………………. Last night I was up making 20 flowers and on the car trip down I’ll be weaving in ends and sewing on flowers and then I’m done!!!

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surrounded by pink

I couldn’t resist taking a picture of Finn when he fell asleep on the couch this week. This little guy will fall asleep anywhere……. But my poor little guy only has pink pillows and blankets around, so I think that is a good reason for a new quilt and cushion just for him!

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tinkerbell – this one is for the little girls

My girls love Tinkerbell, so we’re pretty excited that a new Tinkerbell movie ‘Tinkerbell and the Great Fairy Rescue’ is coming out in September on DVD and for a short time at the cinemas in August. So temporarily hand over your computer to your little girls and let them watch this little trailer…..I’m sure if […]

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1000th post giveaway

Oh wow this is my 1001st post and I can’t believe I missed the 1000th post yesterday! I love blogging and started way back in 2006 at knitter and new mum when I went a week overdue with Keira. Then a year later I moved to my retro mummy blog and haven’t stopped since. Since […]

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you need some kleenex for this blog

I’ve been discovering lots of new blogs lately and one of my new favourites is nienie dialogues…..if you haven’t heard of it then go and have a read….but bring the kleenex first… there is no craft on this blog just a beautiful family, an amazing story, honesty, love, hope, faith and beautiful pictures. And I […]

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here’s one I prepared earlier

It is Wednesday and that means time to show off my hexagon flower for the week! And here she is…..I made her at the etsy craft party last friday night. I was so determined to finish that flower that I was head down while talking at the party to get it finished! The fabric for […]

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getting chunkier

Now, I’m not talking about my bodyshape which is definitely getting chunkier…….no, I’m talking about my crochet hats. I knew it was going to take me forever to refill my hat tree before Mathilda’s in Canberra this weekend and I just don’t have forever at the moment……. so I went chunkier with my wool and […]

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it’ll be alright on the night!

and it was! our etsy craft party was great fun last night. We had 26 people at last count and the noise level was high! There was waaaaaaaaaaaay too much yummy food for all of us to get through there were craft projects to choose from lucky door prizes (so generously donated) to be won […]

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There’s a bear in there…..

When Fee our resident knitting teacher for Notebook asked if my three would like to go to the playschool set – well I had to wait a few minutes before I replied so I didn’t sound too keen but wowee what a great opportunity. She definitely has the best job in the world making sets, […]

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