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a stitched book cover

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

Moving into the teen years, I do find that coming up with a handmade present gets a bit trickier.  Especially if you have left it to the last moment :-)  Abby’s school friend Neve, turned 13 on the weekend and hosted a sleepover and we wanted something handmade but something that also reflected Neve’s interests. [...]

shining sun + day off + needles & thread = fish

Monday, July 26th, 2010

What to do when the sky is a clear blue and the toffee warmth of the sun has lit every corner of our garden?

Hang out the washing … mmm! Sunshine fresh is so much nicer than torpid hallway.

Swoon over the frantically flowering camellias and fill yet more jam jars for the kitchen table.

Drive the girlie [...]

a little ribbony, aprony photo shoot

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

I promised Abby this apron over a year ago.  We saw it on the front cover of a book of aprons, Abby instantly fell in love and sweetly requested her own.  There I was, working in a patchwork store, thousands of metres of trim, ribbon and ric-rac at my fingertips.  Did I gather supplies and [...]

the saga of the shower curtain

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

I remember Soule Mama saying back when how darn hard it was to take a photo of the humble shower curtain.  She was right.  At first I chuckled at my feeble efforts.  I harrumphed.  I cursed.  I demanded Julian’s technical know-how with the camera settings.  He laughed.  I harrumphed.  He rolled his eyes.  After all, [...]

toasty girl - the nightie

Saturday, June 5th, 2010

I love flannel nighties.  Ever since I was a wee girl, stretched out, hot and sweaty in my Nanny’s house by the beach, reading about Laura and Mary in their red flannel nighties in the Little House in the Big Woods.  Good thing it was the early 1970s and my Nanny believed in the righteousness [...]

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