
A month or two before Christmas last year, I got a text. “Hello, my wonderful, lovely, crafty, clever friend…” (or words to that effect), it…

It seems the trick to getting away to quilt camp on time, is to not take the baby with you. Just 15 minutes after…

After getting Bear all kitted out for his Melbourne Cup do, I had around 3.7 minutes on the Tuesday morning to contemplate my own race…

Sitting in the hotel room, waiting for the mister to return from playing hunter-gatherer in the wilds that is BrisVegas, I watched as the small…

At the beginning of the month (last month? How is it September already?), Clare put out the call for creative types who were up for…

The June long weekend has been and gone, in the way that only 3 day weekends can disappear in a blink of an eye. It…

The baby was asleep, the housework was as up-to-date as it ever seems to get, and so I made myself a cup of coffee, and…

Sometimes there are projects that just don’t go to plan. This was one of them. The first design didn’t work. The beads for the second…

A lazy Saturday afternoon, and the house is all but silent. One asleep, two resting, one with Daddy doing stuff. I slip on my headphones,…

As the baby sleeps, the noise that passes for the soundtrack of my life shifts. A lazy Thursday afternoon, and it’s still an hour until…