If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!After a long hiatus from my needlework, my recent decision to take the shop to Pakenham Stitch! has brought my stitching mojo back. Over the past 6 or 7 weeks I have been working on Ann Womack, from Shakespeare’s Peddler.… Read More
Fricassee has been very good for my stitching mojo. I really want to get back to that pesky rabbit. But I have some other projects that currently need my attention. A couple of months ago I discovered that the Craft Alive event Pakenham Stitch! was coming back again this year. And major win for my… Read More
A year or so ago, I went back to the Embroiderer’s Guild of Victoria, after letting my membership drop. I went primarily to meet up with other Cabinet of Curiosities ladies. Some of these ladies were also working on another beautiful casket – ‘the other casket’, one designed by the talented Maree Talbot. They started… Read More
Since Friday I have been adding more charts to the shop. It has been kind of fun and interesting. As I go I have been coming across designs that I had forgotten about, and that I am thinking of doing. Such as Eliza Adams – a design by Primitive Things. Or Summer… Read More
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Remember the movie? Those cute little critters that turned into nasty creatures? Well, maybe nasty is not the word for it, but Gremlins really hit this blog big time in the first couple of weeks of the year! Late in December I decided to do my 31 Days of WIPs and UFOs again in January… Read More
A few years I go I started a January tradition of looking at projects that I had started sometime in the past, but have yet to finish. Last year I did not do this. I had stitched so little over the previous couple of years that I thought it was a waste of time, and… Read More
Whew! Today has been a busy one. Taking kids to various events – one to the hairdresser, another to a party and the 3rd to work – kept me out of trouble all morning! Oh, and an … interesting… trip up Mountain Highway (one word – cyclists!) to collect family photos from Tony Rawson Photography… Read More
Oh my! I knew I had been busy, but a month! Making me happy this week: Victorian school holidays have started. And I could sleep in this morning. I have completed one class set of assessment tasks. The school presentation balls are finished for another year. I love doing them, but boy do they take… Read More
It has been some time since I have written a Making Me Happy post. Not because I have had nothing to write, but because I keep forgetting to write on a Sunday, or have so much going on, I run out of time to write. Over the last few months I have had lots of… Read More
