It is a fact universally acknowledged that I rather adore my sister, Bron.

As she's the organised family-oriented one of the two of us, she cleverly realised that our sister-in-law, Nici, was coming up for her 40th birthday, which occasion therefore necessitated a Special Present (I am crap at remembering my sibs-in-lawses birthdays; apparently I'm ( Read more... )

So my dear friend Ingrid has her birthday...erm, today (it's been today for about 32 minutes).

A year ago I promised to make her a peg bag for her birthday - and today I finally came good on the promise (loud cheers).

The fabric I chose surprised me - I dragged out all manner of prints, but (and I was delighted to finally hear it, it's been a case of ( Read more... )

Action today:

1. LMusA

• the lovely Anna found me the sheet music for From Rosy Bowers (Purcell).  Have printed it out and found a recording I like.

4. Geoffrey Parsons award:  

• Tom has settled on Schlagende Herzen (Strauss) and Von ewiger Liebe (Brahms) for our two audition pieces. 
• I went and found the soprano version of the Brahms (but the recording I ( Read more... )

A week or so ago I was meandering through old entries trying to find a recipe I posted a couple of years ago.

Which is like going to look up just one small thing in the encyclopedia and coming to about two hours later sitting on the floor surrounded by open volumes.  I guess the internets equivalent is getting sucked into the TV Tropes vortex.  ( ( Read more... )

I bought this book and the little soft house shoes (the third last image) made me go "hmmmm".

(There has been epic craft-book buying of late: I think my subconscious is trying to tell me something...)

I usually need to have a recipient in mind,so decided to make them for Miss Melinda to take to Japan with her for her latest trip. Don't want them ( Read more... )

.I've been updating my RSS feeds.  And I want to share.

Because apparently I am all about lovely things and making stuff and gorgeous design at the moment, so enjoy revelling in:

Design*Sponge online: despite the intentional asterisk there, oh SO MUCH to drool over and garner inspiration from.  I mean, come ON, this week they are in Paris.  Hot pink ( Read more... )

 What happens when your best friend (who is a VERY accomplished seamstress with advanced knittage, crochetage and overlockage skillz) is recovering from chemotherapy and thus cannot see or use her hands properly; and Manifest 08 is coming up and her daughter (also your goddaughter) has her 13-year-old heart set very firmly indeed on having a ( Read more... )

Just come back from a two-day stay with my sister and brother-in-law and three very cute little girls in a bee-yoo-tiful old restored wooden house in deepest darkest Bemboka.  (30-some kilometres from Bega in NSW, on the wonderfully-named Sapphire Coast ( Read more... )