Archive for the ‘crafty’ Category
Tweet I love baskets … especially old ones. Each time I find one by the side of the road, or at the oppie, home it comes. After a good scrubbing they are usually filled with one of my many “current” projects. This means there seems to be a perpetual need for extra baskets in Bootville [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tweet :: tidying the mess – part 2 Started today with an early morning clinical prac – how to draw blood. And practiced successfully on a very clever mannikin. Not only did she give me satisfying amounts of blood from her cephalic vein but she didn’t even wince. Also learnt how to empty a [...]
Tweet Such a lovely Easter Sunday breakfast. The sky was still leaden and dark with the occasional misty sprinkle of rain. But in our kitchen, all was golden and warm and fragrant. I just LOVE setting the Easter table. I wake up early, turn on the lamps, make a pot of tea, heat the coffee [...]
Tweet Friday morning dawned grey and quiet. Just as it should be. Family consensus … a day spent together, crafting, listening, watching, sharing. Me? I made Easter Eggs. The non-edible variety. Inspired by the terribly sweet, cheerfully coloured and decorated candy eggs that were popular when I was little. The ones that broke your teeth. [...]
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 [...]
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! ~ making some time to put one little square of fabric with another & finding just as [...]
Tweet Way back in spring 2012, Mum rang me one day to see if I’d like a new hat for summer. She was at a little boutique in downtown Merimbula and had found some very sweet, inexpensive crocheted paper hats. I was keen so she picked out a sky blue one for me and one [...]
Tweet We have a special guest coming on Wednesday – an exchange student from Japan! Abby is SOOOOOOOO excited. The spare ‘oom is almost ready – just need to make up the bed and give the dressing table a dust. As for the rest of Bootville – the front porch needs a little tidy and [...]
Tweet Call me silly, but over these long summer holidays I walk into my kitchen and the busyness of the day is spread out across our table and it just looks so pretty and engaging that I get a little thrill about the loveliness of our days at home together. There’s our afternoon cup of [...]
Tweet :: we puzzled :: I’m not sure if I mentioned this last year – but last year’s advent calendar was a puzzle I made from 1 inch square blocks (bought as a long stick of one inch and chopped up with the jigsaw) and pictures from a thrifted copy of “The Little Donkey” (Bootville [...]