I wanted a way to package the necklaces I showed you in the last post. I am not really a great present wrapper. Presents I give tend to look like they’ve been wrapped in haste by someone with t...
I’m on such a gold kick at the moment. I made these for the daughters of a very dear friend of mine. I stayed with her recently and was delighted to reconnect with her little babes who I’...
My mum brought me these quinces from her tree. Aren’t they so very beautiful? I love the way something so hard and pale when in its raw state (and frankly a bit confronting at this angle) trans...
I finally have the book in my hands and I have to tell ya, even though I am obviously COMPLETELY biased about this little book, it’s a cracker. Truly. I’d probably buy a copy even if I we...
New Zealand is remarkable for so many reasons not least of which is that there are no snakes and while the bumble bees might seem Alice-in-Wonderland large, check out their insects that eat carrots. ...
I’ve blogged before about how important it is to me that my girls share a good relationship. Not perfect all the time, but genuinely loving and caring. So when I see things like this, it makes ...
There’s only one thing holding me back from buying one of these hilariously Hobbit-ish cat caves from Etsy shop Grazim : I don’t have a cat. But this is making me alternatively laugh, pul...
It’s been an unusual week. It’s just gently flowed by in a bit of a haze rather than the usual lurching hither and thither. Which was nice. In keeping with the slow and gentle rhythm, we ...
I call this photo “Close Call”. Because it was. But not in any aeronautical sense – thank Gaga. I was flying back from interstate a few weeks ago and as I walked down the sky tunnel...
If you missed my previous post on this topic you might not have heard the news that one of my patterns is included in a book that is due to be published any day now. This book: When I get my hard cop...
My mum bought the girls these gorgeous little bags to collect the eggs they found on their Easter Hunt. The lable inside says they’re made by ‘Paisley Green’ but a Google search to ...
We used food colouring gel and rubber bands to make these simple eggs. Last week I watched as a tiny, bedraggled (and moist) little chick pushed its way determinedly out of its egg. I’ve never ...
Lots of left over soap scraps after my soap confetti experiments. I attacked them with a sharp knife as though I were chopping herbs. Very therapeutic it was too. I put the whole lot in a left-over j...
After distressing my first-born with an over-the-top bonnet last year, I decided to take a minimalist approach for 2012. I found this headband form at my local craft shop, covered it in some vintage ...
Do you know, some friends thought I might run the risk of being called up before Sophia’s school principal for doling these out? But I checked with her class teacher and she said it would be fu...
And I have this little grass bunny and orange tulips that together scream Easter so loudly I am practically deafened every time I walk past. But unlike the Northern hemisphere where little lambs are ...
Love the whole make-it, bake-it and serve-it in a preserving jar/mason jar trend. So when we had an evening picnic at the Melbourne zoo with some friends recently, I made these little chocolate pots ...
Once again this year I did just a little bit of quick and dirty sewing for the girls before our trip away. For this dress for Sophia I just made up the pattern and guessed the dimensions (yeeha) and ...
Hoping to get a bit more done on this tomorrow. Worried I won’t be able to get it back together again but kind of relishing the challenge.
So, yesterday I finally got around to posting my enamel paint-dipped cake slice and then this morning as I was cruising through some blogs I love I saw this great take on the very paint dipping conce...
From the bottom of my heart, thank you to all my readers. Special thanks to those who left gorgeous supportive comments on my “Interior Wrestling” post. I was so touched. And thank you to...
No it’s not a craft massacre, it’s just a normal day in my house. Well, it was when I took these photos over 9 months ago. Nowadays these would-be massacres come in any number of enamel p...
Despite trying to explain that the roly poly carrot variety (CUTEST name ever, BTW) was more squat than long, Olive was not impressed when we dug up our winter vegetable patch last year. I’ve e...
While we were in Far North Queensland a dear girlfriend and I snuck away for a night to an oasis in a rainforest. Silky Oaks Lodge is perched above the sparkling Mossman River in the Daintree Rainfor...
No, it’s not a new form of shared pelvic floor exercises – more’s the pity – I’m talking about mental contortions. I’ve been tying myself in knots for months about...
twirling betty is in a book! A BOOK! One of those things I love more than anything; one of those things I handle reverently, one of those things I’ve been known to sniff the pages of. A gosh d...
Autumn has arrived with a grey and rainy start and I am not yet ready to relinquish my long, languid summer. So I’m doing a few photo-heavy, word-light (well, I’ll do my best at least) po...
This is a much simpler way to make soap confetti; although first you must source soap leaves. If you consult the Googly fount of all knowledge you will see lots of sources. I arrived upon mine years ...
twirling betty had a lovely little feature in Australian Home Beautiful magazine this month. I LOVE Home Beautiful magazine but it stresses me out to read it because I covet almost everything in the...
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