Handmade Living Blog Tour - starts this Saturday!

Handmade Canberra is thrilled to announce its Handmade living Book Launch Blog Tour! The tour will commence Saturday 27 November and run until the book launch on Saturday 4 December.

We will be 'touring' a stunning line-up of blogs - and you can follow it right along. It's going to be a lot of fun! and we hope to see you there, sharing a glass of virtual bubbles! Enjoy every glorious handmade moment.

To see the full list of blogs and dates please visit the Handmade Canberra blog.

Little Houses!

I took a break from making little Christmas hanging owl ornaments yesterday afternoon and made these cute house cushions.
I think the pink one is going to look so sweet on Megan's bed.

I've had a few good nights sleep and I'm feeling much better than I was earlier in the week, I'm even going to take the afternoon off and go so something special with Megan.......no hand stitching is coming along with me! I've come to realize that you can only do what you can do, and stressing and working myself stupid isn't part of what I had in mind!

Hope you are all having a lovely weekend!

Blogtoberfest day 21 and 22.

Believe me I didn't miss blogtoberfest yesterday on purpose! I simply couldn't get any service on my computer! It shits me that we have to use a wireless modem because we don't have ADSL access and the signal just comes and goes continually! I tried to send an email last night.......it took me 45 minutes!

I spent the day yesterday appliqueing some Aunty Cookie cuteness on a few zippered pouches for my market stall.
These little characters are so cute, I'd put them on everything if I could.

I'll try and get around to visit a few of you today.........if I can get a signal that is! Grrrrrr!

Day 1 of Blogtoberfest!

While I was pretending to be my husband's assistant yesterday afternoon I was doing a little blog surfing and I gave tinniegirl a visit, just in time to find out that Blogtoberfest was about to start. Last year I discovered it half way through the month and was quite disappointed that I had missed out! I immediately signed up and now I have a whole month of daily blog posting ahead..........I'm looking forward to this challenge.

So here we are with my craft on the go!

I'm sure some people don't quite understand why I do the things I do, like take some hand stitching along with me to the pool while the kids play instead of a book or a magazine to read.

I don't think that spending time with the kids is time wasted......in fact it is the best time spent! I do think that sitting beside the pool for 3 hours eating chips and rubbish from the canteen is wasted time. I prefer to take along a bit of hand stitching and be a little productive if I can, it also stops me from visiting the yucky canteen......which is a good thing!

I do sometimes swim with the kids, but this time of year is still a bit on the cold side for me!

Ryan and Megan didn't seem to mind the cold until they got out in the fresh air.....brrrr! We all had a great time and I only got a few strange looks, looks from people who just don't quite get me........maybe they're the strange ones!

Thanks for visiting!

Stitching on a Sunday!

I was really looking forward to a sleep-in this morning, somewhere around 6.45am would have been nice, I was woken by some person using a chainsaw at 6.05am, then minutes later I could hear the kids outside calling the chickens and the cat over to the house.........what do you think I found next? There was Ryan and Megan snuggled up in Megan's bed, Ryan had a cat and Megan had a chicken! I wish I had taken a picture of this but I was a bit cranky at the time.......yesterday we gave Megan's room a total clean, walls, blinds, bed, old toys stored away, wardrobe sorted, it was a huge job! Grrrrr!

So because I didn't get my sleep-in I decided to use some of the Yardage Design fabric I had left over from the chair revamp and make myself a zippered pouch to put in my handbag........I'll probably put some lippy or something like that in it.
I did this to the bottom so it'll stand on its own if needed.

I was surprised I got it all together without any problems...........I really don't like putting in zippers but this one went in quite nicely, much easier than the little pouches I made out of a denim skirt.

I'm off to see what the kids are up to in the kitchen..........I think I can smell some chocolate brownies in the oven. Yummo!!