Can you believe that it is only 12 Days to Christmas? Yeah, me neither! Today I gave myself the day to enjoy. To play. I spent the morning with some of the wonderful Melbourne Casketeers. We are part of a world wide group of needleworkers striving to reach the pinnacle of a needleworker – create… Read More
What a crazy day I had yesterday! For the first time in more than 12 months I went to Mrs Martin’s Quilt Shop for a stitching morning! It was great to be able to just sit and stitch. No feeling of “I should be…” or feeling guilty because “I have to…” I just sat there… Read More
Just over 2 weeks ago, a friend asked me if I wanted to go to the Scrapbooking and Papercraft expo that weekend. I had been considering it, but as I am primarily an embroiderer and a quilter, I had not yet made the decision to go. But once my friend invited me … well that… Read More
(Warning: Super Long Post) Have you ever done something so totally crazy, everyone around you just shakes their collective heads? I do – regularly. And I did it again about a week and a half ago. At around 8am on Friday 10th January, I set off for Rosedale and Lily Lane, the first stop on… Read More
Last Saturday I had the most fantastic day! For the first time in around 12 months I spent the entire day stitching. Not only that, but I spent it stitching with around 100 like minded ladies. Lisa of Fig n Berry Creations runs a couple of stitching soirees each year, but this is the first… Read More
The past 6 months have been really crazy busy. Between work and home, I have had little time to focus on anything else. So with the start of the mid year school holidays, I decided to go on a little road trip. Just me, myself and I. This year’s Winding Ways shop hop was organised… Read More
I love this time of year. The plants are starting to flower, the days get longer and are slowly getting warmer. Most of the time I hate the colour of my house, though it does blend in with the surroundings. But right now, it really makes some of the flowers pop. Today we visited… Read More
For such a small country, we have some wonderful events for needleworkers. Each February I go to Grampians Texture for the weekend. Between then and the September school holidays, there are a number of other amazing events. For the first week of the September school holidays, Geelong Grammar is taken over by textile artists, jewellers,… Read More
Wishing a Happy Father’s Day to all the wonderful fathers out there. Today, as I celebrate Father’s Day with my husband and father, I am thinking of another father. An invalid. One who, despite being financially in a bad place, fought to get his son out of a bad situation. His son is a lovely… Read More
While I was at the Girl’s Day Out, I had the pleasure to meet a lovely lady from up near Horsham. I mentioned to her that I regularly went up to that area each year to attend the Grampian’s Texture. And promptly remembered that I had not yet put up a post about my last… Read More
