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Tweet I’ve missed a few weeks … not that there wasn’t loveliness … I just didn’t seem to have the camera by my side. today … moments of loveliness from an ordinary week.  If you would like to join in, leave your lovely moments in the comments or a link to your space. ~ making [...]

posted by on cooking, crafty, family, homely, knitting, patchwork, quilts, sewing, ~ loveliness found ~

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Tweet  if you would like to share your ~loveliness found~ moments from this week please leave them in the comments or share a link to your place! ~ a basket filled with beautiful but under-appreciated yarn, bought many years ago, now being knitted into something warming & special for someone very loved ~ ~ dragged [...]

pretzel

Apr
2013
20

posted by on books, cooking, family

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Tweet We cracked open our copy of Good to the Grain this morning.  Such a treasure trove of yumminess.  This morning, the pretzels were calling.  I feel a bit like Maria in Sound of Music when it comes to baked pretzels.  You know that bit where she sings … “somewhere in my youth or childhood, [...]

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Tweet  if you would like to share your ~loveliness found~ moments from this week … & I would so love it if you did … please leave them in the comments or share a link to your place! ~ stopping on the way home at each farm gate stall pumpkins & pears – perhaps autumn [...]

posted by on books, chatter, cooking, crafty, embroidery, festivals, nursing

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Tweet  if you would like to share your ~loveliness found~ moments from this week … & I would so love it if you did … please leave them in the comments or share a link to your place! ~ and still I stitch, one little red figure after another, first band finished, second started, feeling [...]

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Tweet Still reading, still note taking, still writing, still practicing.  There may not be time for quilts and pottering and furniture and dolls … but there’s always time for bread.  And call me corny, but watching that dough rise never ceases to delight me.  Sprinkling the top of that soft, taut mass with flour then [...]

posted by on birthdays, cooking, family, knitting, woodwork

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Tweet ~ my mummy coming to visit – with an icebox full of pouring cream! ~ ~ the soda stream – Julian’s Christmas present – adored by the whole family – soda water on tap is just the best ~ ~ following Alicia’s advice to try this technique – and loving it so much we’re [...]

getting ready

Jan
2013
08

posted by on cooking, family, homely, our furry children, patchwork, quilts

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Tweet Eeeeee!  As I write, Abby is at the birthday party we have sat through the last week’s heatwave for.  Hmhm.  Instead of heading up to Merimbula soon after Christmas, to hit the beaches, swim, laze and walk in this beautiful coastal village, we have sat here in Melbourne and SWEATED.  Profusely. At least, here [...]

red

Jan
2013
01

posted by on cooking, festivals

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Tweet … the colour of love & happiness … of my favourite foods, my favourite sunsets, my favourite fabrics … of my newly received and much loved sandals, sunglasses and kettle (thank you sweet indulgent family :-) … symbolising,  on this first day of the year, a new year filled with love, happy times and [...]

posted by on birthdays, chickens, cooking, crafty, family, furniture, our furry children, thrifted

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Tweet … and oh what fun we had!  The day bloomed bright and hot and as I stumbled sleepily into the early morning kitchen,  needing to bake and ice the birthday biscuits, the beauty of the world outside my window filled me with such anticipation.  I LOVE birthday parties :-) By the alloted time,  a [...]

the day before

Dec
2012
11

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Tweet :: an exquisite summer’s day … cerulean blue sky, the prettiest light that fills me with happiness and gratitude that I am right here, right now … driving around collecting last minute supplies and frozen cokes whilst John Mayer & Walt Grace remind me of summer afternoons on Nanny and Grandad’s porch listening to [...]

the true purpose

Dec
2012
06

posted by on christmas, cooking, cushions, family

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Tweet Yes, it’s that time of the year – the giving of Christmas and thankyou gifts to Abby’s teachers.  She compiles a list – teachers she LOVEs and wants to give a handmade gift.  Teachers she likes and wants to give a small gift and card.  And – the teachers she doesn’t like and gives [...]