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TweetOh my goodness! I’ve been away so much longer than I intended … the bandwidth issues did indeed resolve themselves just as Julian predicted, but I’ve allowed myself to become so caught up with Abby’s birthday and end of year busyness that time has flown by. And yet, as I sit here now writing, I [...]
TweetI am here … I’ve just had a quick trip to Brisbane to celebrate the end of Mum’s 22 year career and a heap of packing … now I’m stitching and quilting and sawing and gluing and trimming and soaking and cooking and wrapping … But I have no bandwidth. The changes you can see [...]
TweetMeet the Doris nightie. She could be called the damask nightie, seeing as though she’s made out of damask. She could be called, less charitably, the tablecloth nightie, seeing as though she was a tablecloth in her former life. She could be called the doily nightie, seeing as though she has a doily appliqued onto [...]
TweetBit addicted! Sewing stretch with my nifty little overlocker is nowhere near as ghastly as I thought it would be. In fact, it’s not ghastly at all. It was super fun, super quick … just super! And the result is pretty darn good. The fabric – I bought it at The Fabric Store after my [...]
TweetAs you know, dear folk, I’ve a weakness for a good rearrange. And last weekend, with my physiology exam only days away, turning the bedroom on its head seemed like a jolly good use of my time :-) I’m so, so glad I did. Our bed is now under the sweet bay windows and is [...]
TweetAh … it would seem I’m on a wee bit of a housewifely kick here. Today’s theme, following upon yesterday’s thriller of “ironing boards” is “saucepans”. And once again I shall protest, but they are pretty saucepans! It’s really all the fault of the teacups. The ones we began haunting thrift shops for … for [...]
Tweet Doesn’t that title entice you to read on. But really, it’s a very pretty ironing board :-) I gave the back shed a rather major rearrange the other day and re-discovered this very sweet wooden ironing board, pressed up against a tower of boxes. Very timely discovery too. Julian and Abby are tired of [...]
Tweet Jules and I have given up coffee (mum gasps!). At first, it seemed like a horrible, completely-undoable thing to do. Especially since we have a beautiful Italian expresso machine that looks like she stepped straight out of the 1950s. And especially since we truly love our coffee. But we’d been feeling as if coffee [...]
TweetThis afternoon was at last deemed the right time – warm, sunny and dry – to start work on our raised garden beds. I’ve been collecting unwanted pallets for the last couples of weeks (any locals who watch me must think I’ve finally hit rock bottom, lugging these heavy, dirty things into our car!) and [...]
Tweet Oooooooooh !!!!! I am totally bewitched with this needle felting. And this afternoon – after a delightful trip to Little Sparrow’s new premises in Carlise Street Balaclava (one of my favourite grocery shopping destinations) – I popped on the sunglasses, took my felting bag and wee bundles of new red and green wool outside [...]
TweetFirst exam today … research methods in healthcare … such a good subject, makes me dream about designing my own research project in an honours year … I’m definitely a qualitative girl … phenomonology … listening to and understanding how people experience different events in their lives. But right now, I’m just relieved one exam [...]
Tweet … and we had such fun! It’s a bit of a hit and miss affair here in Melbourne. Friends a few suburbs over say for the last few years they’ve had no trick or treaters – but this year they had 30 visits – and their streets were full of joyful, costume-clad children. Last [...]
