If you're friends with me on Twitter or Facebook you'll know I've been agonizing working on this project for a while now. This is easily the most difficult, ambitious, and potentially crazy needle felting project I've ever attempted! And let me tell you - there were numerous stages where I wasn't sure whether it was going to turn out alright or ( Read more... )

Did you know that the Melbourne Stitches and Craft Show starts in FOUR days?

It has been head down, bum up, all engines running, phasers set to kill (just joking with that one) around here as I attempt to get a mountain of work done!

This is what I've been up to the past few days:


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Melbourne put on a gorgeous display of beautiful, mild sunny weather for us last Saturday, just in time for the first Northside Makers Market for the year.

I'm not from the North side of Melbourne (I'm firmly a Mt Dandenongs girl, although these days Chez Cheese has migrated closer to the city) but that didn't stop me from hustling my wares over ( Read more... )

I'm a big fan of low-maintenance, low-supply, pick-up-put-down crafts. My stamp carving is a good example - you buy yourself a carving tool, some rubber/erasers and a stamp pad and you're set. There's none of this 15 pair of pliers business, or different wire and thread and fabric and fabric and fabric and fabric (not that I'm not a huge fan of ( Read more... )

Sleepy and forlorn.... and a little bit shaggy too.


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