Rodney Olsen over at The Journey has started an award to give to those who we think deserve to be noted. Rodney describes the award as:
Want to highlight someone making a positive difference?
Is there a blogger who deserves a pat on the back or simply something that has you feeling thankful this week?
The blogosphere can [...]

Filed under: All Sorts of Things, SIM

As regular readers know, Michael and I spent a year at Sahel Academy in Niger from June 2000 to June 2001. We have kept in contact with several Sahelians since then and take an active interest in how the school develops. We are also concerned about their annual need for Christian missionary teachers. I have [...]

Filed under: Africa, All Sorts of Things, SIM

After I finished the post below I was looking at the front page of Mintd and discovered that I’d actually made the front page as well today! Thats very exciting for me so I had to share. Here it is (bottom left):

Filed under: All Sorts of Things, Art, Mintd

I have been finding myself in a few treasuries on Etsy this week as well as making it to the ‘front of the pack’ on Mintd. I’ll explain. Firstly, you can read about what a Treasury is in my previous post here. The first treasury is an all Aussie one put together by crochetroo. My [...]

Filed under: All Sorts of Things, Etsy, Mintd, Polyclarific, Polymer Clay

I’ve been meaning to try wire wrapping to add to my creations for a while now. My biggest dilemma was whether to go with sterling silver or silver plated wire (or gold filled or gold plated). I decided I just couldn’t afford the sterling wire so for now I’ve gone with the plated. So, here’s [...]

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Wordless Wednesday

Filed under: Darling Daughters, Wordless Wednesday

I was standing in Kmart this morning, shopping with Keziah and observed a lady at the end of the isle who was very very pregnant. I looked at her and her cute little girl (who looked about 3 years old) and thought, ‘cute kid!’. Just as I was looking at her and thinking this the [...]

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Yesterday in the post I got the special stamp that Suki (her blog is here) kindly made for me. I wrote a post about it here. Its so exciting to see one of my own designs in a form that I can use over and over!!
As you can see from the first print I did, [...]

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Your foot gets stuck in your toy.

PS She wasn’t hurt, she was annoyed and when she saw these pics on my screen she went and did it again with a smile!

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I have been posting a lot about my polymer clay creations here this year and just wanted to take a minute to summarize a few things completely outside of that. I suppose to be honest, creating and being creative is an integral part of my everyday and this year I have been trying to get [...]

Filed under: Africa, Art, Australia, Darling Daughters, Etsy, Family, Michael, Niger, Polymer Clay, SIM, Wahmania