I love to blog. But you couldn’t tell that from the amount of blogging I have done over the last 5 or 6 years. It is minimal. I don’t like blogging about personal stuff, and there has been a lot of that going on. Divorce, kids finishing school, moving, working, rebuilding yourself after such a… Read More
Over the last 2 years I have often thought of my poor abandoned little blog. As I have struggled to deal with a massively increased workload during the day, I wanted to post, but so often I did not know what I wanted to say. I am still in that frame of mind. 2018 was… Read More
In January I finished the Stacy Nash project – and will post a photo of that once I have washed and blocked it, so I decided to pull out an old UFO – one of Lizzie Kate’s Double Flip series. I have started on the second chart – Love. It is a quick stitch, when… Read More
Over the past few weeks I have been focused on a long term project, the Maree Talbot Elizabethan Casket. Last weekend, and again Tuesday and Wednesday I attended classes at the Embroiderer’s Guild of Victoria for the 3/4th and 5th panels. Oh my goodness. Such fine work. I am absolutely loving it! I have also… Read More
Okay, so I am a little late to the party. It has been kind of busy around here lately. But more of that later. I am a big believer in goal setting. Where do I want to be in 12 months time, 5 years, even 10 years? With so much emphasis on setting goals instead… Read More
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. Originally stitched in 1838, Ann Womack is a gorgeous monochromatic sampler consisting of 5 alphabets,… Read More
Forever and always.
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
Today we remember. For it is 100 years ago today that ANZACs invaded the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey. Today we honour all Australians and New Zealanders who have followed in the footsteps of these brave men and boys (the youngest to die in Gallipoli was only 14!). They shall not grow old as we who… Read More
