31st January 2009 | 1 Comment
I took a look back and realised that I haven’t written anything about my polymer clay work for a few weeks. In that time I have been playing with a few new ideas but haven’t gotten very far. Here are a few things I’ve come up with which will make their way into my shop [...]
Filed under: All Sorts of Things, Madeit, Polyclarific, Polymer Clay
31st January 2009 | 1 Comment
K seems to have a little drawing addiction. She draws whenever she sees a pen and finds anything to draw on that’s laying around. Sometimes this turns out to be a bad thing (like the other day when she drew on L’s chair) but when she gets ‘into the zone’ she turns out some really [...]
Filed under: Art, Family
31st January 2009 | 0 Comments
I rarely do these anymore but I liked this weeks theme (costume). I was going to put up one of Keziah in costume but decided to dig back a bit further to one of myself as a kid. This is around 1983 I think:
(photo friday)
Filed under: Family, Photo Friday
29th January 2009 | 0 Comments
…….for a cold front which is coming through. Actually, its been through and we are now feeling the after effects. Last Saturday both girls came down with colds and I spent most of Saturday night up 1-2 times every hour settling L. By Monday morning I had the cold and was pretty miserable by Monday [...]
Filed under: Family, Michael
22nd January 2009 | 0 Comments
I just wanted to point out that there is a new category on my blog. When I returned from Africa I wrote a little guide about how to warm up your missionary by sending them things to encourage them. The booklet is called ‘Curried Missionary’ and there is a whole category for it now in [...]
Filed under: All Sorts of Things, Curried Missionary
22nd January 2009 | 2 Comments
I have decided its time to move forward with my sewing, time to move past simple shorts and dresses so last night I tried a hat. Not sure where these sit on the hardness level but it was a little bit tricky and fiddly. I’m really pleased with the outcome and even used interfacing for [...]
Filed under: All Sorts of Things, Family, Sewing
22nd January 2009 | 1 Comment
Just wanted to say thank you for your comments to my last post, I appreciate your input and it was interesting to read your perceptions. I’m pleased to know that I’m viewed as real rather than fake. Falseness is one of the things I hate the most. In thinking about it a bit more I [...]
Filed under: All Sorts of Things, Family
20th January 2009 | 6 Comments
Something has been on my mind lately. I have been really enjoying getting to know people through facebook this past year, for those I see once a week its been great to skip the usual ’so how was your week’ chatter and go straight to ’so how are you feeling now?’ etc… and go a [...]
Filed under: All Sorts of Things, Deeper Thoughts
19th January 2009 | 2 Comments
Sarah wrote 7 weird things about her self and said that her readers are to consider themselves tagged. So, here’s my 7 things;
1. I am obsessive about tidying up. I constantly am putting things away and keeping things in order.
2. Like Sarah I too have a strange memory. I can remember odd details about [...]
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17th January 2009 | 1 Comment
This week i sewed a little dress for Lucinda. It was the first thing I’ve sewn for her and I think it turned out pretty well. The pattern is of course really basic so I’ve done it a few times and have the hang of it now. I got a cute shot of her in [...]
Filed under: All Sorts of Things, Sewing