It’s all about the apron
Today I finally found some time to whip up an apron for a gift using the pattern Jona kindly gave everyone for Christmas via her blog Stop Staring and Start Sewing (good advice!) It was so easy ...
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New Years Craft-o-lutions
With 2008 rapidly dwindling and the promise of a new year almost at the horizon, I thought I’d make some New Years resolutions revolving around creativity. They are: General Do not spend ...
Brown paper packages….
All of the presents are wrapped and under the tree – in fact half of them have already gone to their new owners before I remembered to take photos of them (are we noticing a forgetfulness ...
The Grinch
We had a ‘who can decorate the best Christmas table’ competition at work last week. This was right up my alley, so I hastily gathered the department together and we came up with The ...
Apron Swap!
A little overdue perhaps, but here are the aprons sent and received in the Sassy Apron Swap! Sent I had Jo from sparklygreenknickers (best blog title EVER!) to whip something up for. I sent her ...
Christmas Stitchery
I rather ambitiously decided to do a Christmas stitchery for the hallway. I admit I traced the wee cottages from some clip art then embellished as I saw fit because I just couldn’t get them ...
Easy Christmas Garland
Need something to add some cheer to the hallway? Why not whip up one of these very easy felt garlands! You’ll need: 6 sheets of felt in green, white and red (or whichever colours you like!) ...
Counting to 100…
I set myself a little challenge a few weeks back – 100 posts by the end of the year. 24 posts in 34 days. Given my distinct lack of output lately, can she do it? I think the answer is yes, ...
spam gone and crafty goodness
I seem to have resolved the spam issue- I had a plug-in called Akismet installed on wordpress which works really well, but somewhere between installing the new version and now I had inactivated ...