There is not much fun to blog about just at the moment. We are into the fifth week off school for my sick daughter. Thanks to my Mum visiting, I did get a day out of the house last week to teach a wo...
To mothers everywhere, a very happy Mothers Day. Mine was spent employed in the most unlikely of activities ... mothering :) My littlest bloss remains unwell & in need of nursing. And The Boy req...
My ten-year-old daughter has had constant abdominal pain for the last 7 days. It is not relieved by paracetamol, ibuprofen or naproxen. It is a recurring pain and keeps her away from school. Yesterda...
The latest & perhaps loveliest marketing ploy to entice us all to buy more fabric ... ... lusciously shot, imaginative and clever films on YouTube ... ... by Art Gallery Fabrics. Tempted? Ooooh, ...
I have something a bit special to show you today. Months ago, I made this cosmetic wallet for Australian Homespuns Girls Club issue. I was especially happy with how this project turned out, as it inc...
My grandmother always cautioned my mother and me that, when she died, we were to get to her house quickly and remove her fabric stash before Grandpa found it! With the online popularity of the W...
The first week of the Easter break has flown by for us in a flurry of travelling and spending time with family, thereby causing a blog hiatus - apologies! Weve spent the last few days at the farm, an...
Id like to give a shout out to a lovely young girl I met at a local market on the weekend. Amelia Herbertson is in the last throes of her university degree in Graphic Design, and is newly establishin...
One of my local quilting haunts, Marally Craft, generously provided me with some fabric to make up a sample for an upcoming craft fair. This cot quilt is an adaptation of the small quilt in my...
On my work desk today, some cute little critters. More news of their escapades soon I hope :)Bloom http://bloomandblossom.blogspo t.com/
After what seems like an eternity wrestling with Adobe Illustrator, I have this little icon to show for my troubles.Thankfully, the icon is of more significance than the making of it. Due to demand, ...
Something old, something new,Something borrowed, something blue,And a silver sixpence in her shoe. I whipped up a little blue keepsake for a friend who was married on Saturday. Evidently the rhyme is...
If you dont have the privilege of living with a thirteen year old boy who can educate you about OK GO and Goldberg machines, then allow me to do you a favour! Courtesy of my boy, sit back and enjoy ....
Happenstance? Happenstance you say Bloom? Hmmm, I am reading Charles Dickens at the moment, so my use of happenstance is his fault. Motivated by the wonderful adaptation of Great Expectations on...
Last Friday was the fifth anniversary of my Dads passing. He has been on my mind. In fact, not a day goes by when I dont think of him. Of my many passions, two are directly attributable to his influe...
Having been away from my sewing machine for too long, I needed a quick project to get my eye back in. I found some log cabin blocks from too long ago in the cupboard. These were made with the in...
Outside my window ... the lavender is flowering, the day is clear, but in the manner of late summer in Australia, the clouds will build during the day and threaten storms in the evening. From the kit...
While having a 16-year-old daughter is not always plain sailing, we are reaping the benefits of her insatiable interest in learning to cook. High on her Christmas list was a copy of Jamies 30-Minute ...
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Happy 2012 to everyone, and what better way to welcome in a new year on Bloom than to share with you a most spectacular garden!It seems the older I get, the lengthier my bucket list is becoming. Howe...
In my travels, I found some blooms to share with you for Christmas. The Botanic Gardens at Ballarat had some stunning seasonal displays resplendent in red and white.There was also a collection o...
After a two week absence from the blog while we travelled about the countryside, I have so much news that Im not sure what to post first. But the undisputed highlight of our travelling, for me, has b...
After working with Joanna Figueroas Str awberry Fields to make this quilt, I knew I would find her next line all but irresistible. Didnt I tell you?! And so a layer cake of California Girl a...
It was Speech Day for our school today, and weeks of summer holidays lay ahead. Some will be spent busily travelling to spend Christmas with family. And lots of it will hopefully be spent at the...
My quilt that I have been making from Fig Trees Strawberry Fields range is finally bound and ready for snuggling under. The weather has been dismally wet, and it has been tricky getting some goo...
My find for this week is a gorgeous song called Bloom (!) by The Paper Kites, an up-and-coming Indie band out of Melbourne. If you enjoyed that one, then try Featherstone - sweet film clip; watch it ...
How is it that 16-year-old girls today are SO beautiful and SO sophisticated? Here are some photos from my daughters Year 10 Formal on Saturday. Lovely, lovely dresses - all short, but thankfully not...
I spent five glorious hours on Saturday at Patchwork Orange in a class with Sarah Fielke. We had a wonderful day that passed far too quickly, blissfully absorbing Sarahs knowledge, and talking about ...
I had the pleasure (yes, pleasure!) of teaching my first ever workshop yesterday at Marally Craft.As you all assured me, there was absolutely nothing to worry about, the girls were all just lovely an...
My Strawberry Fields quilt is back, and as usual Belinda (Eucalypt Ridge Quilting) has magically transformed it. She adds a beauty to my designs that is impossible for me to achieve.As I was picking ...
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