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matroyshkas, mousehole and a travelling Laura Ashley curtain salesman
Thursday, July 17th, 2008I had such fun making that little village of Thimbleberry-styled houses last night, I pulled out a drawer full of scraps this morning and began planning some more colourful houses. It was the perfect morning for such pleasure. The sun was shining, the house was quiet, there was French music tinkling through the kitchen and [...]
take a peek at moominologi - Little A magic
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008You can read all about a foursome of Moomins who discover the cheeky Mymbles, Min and Me in the pantry!
a moominy kind of day
Sunday, July 13th, 2008Oh we’ve had the loveliest day as a family - gosh it was nice to all be together, around the table, working on the same project. There was the best buzz!
Little A was drawing …
Julian was writing html …
I was pattern-making and stitching …
Even Simon was alert and curious … looking this way and [...]
finishing the amish sampler
Thursday, June 26th, 2008I have to go along to my meeting on Monday with a kind of show and tell - a “here’s what I have and think would make a good class kind of thing”. So after consultation with Carolann - who will cheerfully enrol in whatever I do! - we placed the amish sampler at top [...]
on the kitchen table …
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008After a peculiar couple of days, there’s an equally peculiar mix of goodies on my kitchen table.
The belting rain of Friday, Sunday and Monday brought about a collapse of damp cardboard tea chests under the house - they were sitting in a gutter whose existence we’d overlooked after 4 years of drought. As such, the [...]