a few more tips about the granny stripe blanket

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I’ve received a few questions about the granny stripe blanket and thought I’d answer them all here as well as replying to each one. What cotton am I using?  I’m using Bendigo Woollen Mill’s cotton in 8 ply. You can buy it online here and there are a great range of colours. What hook are […]

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weekend in wycheproof

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Wycheproof, Victoria. A town I’d never heard of until I heard that my brother in law’s birthday party was going to be held there. I figured that with all of retro daddy’s brothers and sisters going and some of the cousins that it would be a fun road trip. It turned out to be a […]

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how to grow your blog and earn some money too

grow your blog

Here I was thinking to myself what am I going to write about this weekend? Then a lovely reader Shari emailed me with a question and I was like, that would make a great blog post! Shari runs a great blog Good Food Week and loves it. She’s on maternity leave and loves being at […]

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fast family dinner: japanese chicken and rice

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I have a little confession to make…I owned my thermomix for over 2 years before I really embraced the varoma (aka the steaming unit) which comes with your thermomix. It all changed when I was at tenina’s class and a lovely lady was telling me how she was told of someone who would use the […]

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I made a dress

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Well it’s been a long time between sewing projects around here. But a new delivery of fabrics had me searching through my patterns for something I could whip up in a day and add to elodie’s wardrobe. Once upon a time I made so many of keira’s clothes but then our family grew so quickly […]

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what do your kids eat for dinner?

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I love how when you’re with mums you do often end up talking mum topics! And I was chatting to one lovely mum and she asked was dinner time a struggle in our house. Short answer, no. Do I have some fussy eaters? Oh yes. You should see when I try to serve them salad. […]

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photos from the olden days

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Don’t you love how your kids think that any time before they were born is the olden days. Well mine do. We managed to catch the end of Sense & Sensibility on TV this week. As one of the sisters was in bed fighting a fever, I explained to keira that this was before they […]

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starting the fabric clear out

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I’ve re-opened my online store here to start clearing out all the fabrics that have accumulated over the years. Some of them are fat quarters from when I did markets, some are fairly new additions as I’ve still been purchasing fabrics while not running the online store and they are making way for over 20 […]

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loving our home time

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Well it’s wednesday and we’re midway through swim vac so that is kind of keeping us busy this week……………….but apart from that we’re still taking it easy here. Enjoying our sleep ins, home time, craft time, play time and just not having a schedule to keep. Here are a few snaps from our time at […]

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