I'm inviting my 5 year old niece to a special Fairy Day in the second week of July. She's going to bring all her fairy ideas and, if it rains, her raincoat, rainhat, umbrella and gumboots. We're exploring the fairy garden in the front yard come hail or shine! (Back at the Bilpin Rare Plant Collectors' Fair, I bought an array of small-petalled ( Read more... )

Isn't it funny how you can find the most beautiful website in another hemisphere - all the way over on the other side of the world - and it's brimful of the most enchanted chronicles of someone's entire life, and photographs of their every day, and there's nothing you want to own of it because you're only visiting and enjoying what you find...? And ( Read more... )

I should. I should be in bed and fast asleep, but I don't roll that way lately. Still, I need my beauty sleep to rest my weary bones as I have a lot to do tomorrow. Mostly tidying and vacuuming. Vacuuming the whole house, even the part T already did. He tracked mud in since and it turned to dirt and why are you reading this? So. Boring ( Read more... )

Kenji has been perfectly happy hanging out on his Retro Lounge™ up till now. It had originally just been two computerside chairs buttressed together. Then it became two chairs plus some fabric for warmth and comfort, and slowly it evolved into the stylish mod con you see before you now.


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Sometimes things happen that just put a smile on your dial, even as you're trying to hoist yourself out of the pit. Earlier this morning it was a sentence
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This is the bag sortofkindof sent me in the post.


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OK, well, here's the last post about the ornaments. You'd think I'd crafted the royal jewels the way I'm crapping on but anyway, it really was a huge deal that I finished them early. Or that I finished them at all.


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I can't believe it. I've finished the Christmas ornaments I was making! They're ready a month early! What's got into me? Here's what they look like.


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My plan to handmake our Christmas cards this year has hit a snag. I ordered the wrong kind of transparencies from Officeworks. Damn!

The Christmas ornaments I'm making for the ornament swap, though, are getting there although the sewing machine started jamming. Mum's taken it away for a much-needed service. Luckily I set them up so that I could ( Read more... )

No time like the present to get started on my Christmas ornaments for the swap I'm involved in, so I started working on them last night. (No time like the past.) I discarded the styrofoam bell shapes I'd bought because nothing worked. Tissue paper looked miserable glued to them, fabric was too unyielding, paint doesn't work so well on polystyrene, ( Read more... )