I have been busy sewing this week and hope to show you what I have been working on soon. I have also been playing around with my Japanese Masking Tape - adding tape to packaging and cards. I decorated some plain white matchboxes with tape, paper, and … [Read more...]
Gifts in a Jar
Sarah is not a big lover of commercial cereals (apart from the chocolatey variety!) so she decided to make her own. She adapted a recipe that she found at Whole Living, adding in her favourite nuts (macadamias, almonds), seeds (sesame seeds), spices … [Read more...]
Lazy Sunday
Sarah spoilt us this afternoon with a lovely batch of Marble Cupcakes. She used a recipe from Martha Stewart Cupcakes - they were delicious!Thanks to Susan for alerting me to the fact that Spotlight had some polka dotted wrapping paper. I dashed … [Read more...]
Teen Art
Sarah played around with the cricut yesterday to make up a couple of pictures to put on her desk - in her new aqua/red colour scheme.First up I spray painted a couple of old picture frames a glossy white.Then Sarah cut out some polka dotted … [Read more...]
Spring Break
My recreation leave from work started today - I now have a week off - time to hang out with my teens (and drive them around!) and catch up with friends. I have a loooong list of things I hope to get done over the next week, including some sewing … [Read more...]
Random Recreation
The school spring holidays have got off to a great beginning here with a long weekend. I made a big start on my spring cleaning, had a few shopping outings with Sarah to buy summer clothes/shoes, and worked on a few crafty projects. I have to work … [Read more...]
More Christmas Projects
My copy of Handmade Christmas Special arrived in the mail today. It has lots of inspiring ideas for Christmas and includes a couple of my projects:Gift Baskets - I combined some hessian, some Ikea checked fabric and some Kokka linen with cute motifs, … [Read more...]
Quick Projects
I have been having withdrawals from my sewing machine lately. I had a couple of hours free yesterday and wanted a quick project to undertake. Sarah suggested that we needed a new table runner in our meals area and that it needed to incorporate some … [Read more...]
