The Red Wren

Belated Christmas

For the second year running we decided to give handmade goodies to our extended family. This year they received: Embroidery hoop decorations – a last minute idea after I ran out of time to complete option A, then option B was a big fail. I was really pleased with how they looked. ...

Our Home, Sewing and Craft

Belated Christmas – Part Two

Just some of the decorations around the house. The bunting in the top photos was made from a Spotlight panel. Funny story; when I purchased the panel I felt a bit miffed that the panel was so small. Thinking it wouldn’t go very far I went back the next week and bought another panel. As the lady ...

Sewing and Craft

Belated Christmas – Part One

Now that my blog is up and running again I think it’s well and truly time to show you all some of the things I made and did over the Christmas period. First off I participated in a Christmas swap which was coordinated by Jodie from The Haby Goddess. The theme for the swap was red and white. The ...

Life and Outings

2012 Goals

Each year I set myself some goals. Not resolutions, the very term ‘New Years Resolutions’ seems to spell failure. Here’s my goals relevant to the subject matter on this blog; Meal plan, buy local food, cook more. Pretty simple! It’s just a matter of being organised to achieve this one. Get the ...

Sewing and Craft, Update

2012 Creative Goals

I’ve split my goals up this year into categories. If you’d like to read all my goals for the year visit My Renvironment. Set up my Red Wren shop. This one has gone on for far too long. It’s not like I’m trying to set up a business to pay the bills, just a little hobby shop so what is ...

Gardening, Update

In the garden

I’m testing an iPhone app to see if I can publish reasonable looking photos to here straight from my phone. It will make things do much faster if I don’t have to upload everything to my computer before blogging!

Life and Outings

Wrapping up 2011

Last year I posted this post with a list of what I wanted to achieve for the year. As last year was a bit of an unknown with the baby on the way I didn’t expect that everything would be done. I’d like to revisit that list and add and remove as appropriate to create some sort of direction for ...

Update

Welcome to 2012

This year has begun well for me with respect to this blog. Long story short – I was able to do some changes in the SQL database that made it much faster and easier to relink all my missing images. There’s still a few things missing (mainly on really old posts where I wasn’t ...