The Red Wren

USA/Canada

In honour of the fact that this time two months ago and this time five years ago I was in the USA, here’s a few pics from our recent trip. They’re really random, but eventually I’ll put all of them up onto Flickr. This is in the Cloisters, a museum in NYC dedicated to medieval art, mainly religious. It was AMAZING. The artworks you see on the walls are tapestries that are hundreds of years old. To stand in front of them and imagine someone/s working on them was incredible. ...

Sewing and Craft

I love packages!

This package arrived today: It’s my order from Kelani Fabrics. I plan to whip up lots of Rudy’s for Christmas pressies and the fabric is Petal Power by Sandi Henderson. I love this design and hope to make some sort of summery skirt out of it. Blogtoberfest – Post 7

Our Home

Collections – Holland

When I was little I read mum’s old Bobbsey Twins books, one in particular was my favourite- The Bobbsey Twins in Tulip Land. They didn’t actually travel to Holland, just a Dutch themed part of America but instantly I loved the sound of Holland and wanted to go. I’ve still not ...

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Is it a bird? Is it a plane?

No! It’s a Kitchen Aid or nine. I really want a Kitchen Aid to make my kitchen complete. 1. Lights, Camera, Action! 2. Kitchen Aid mixer 3. Heavy artillery 4. Go mixer go 5. Timeout 6. _1010485 7. no comment…. 8. In the pink…and Aqua 9. Kitchen Aid! Blogtoberfest – Post 5

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Yellow

It’s a while since I’ve done one of these. I’m feeling rather happy today, so yellow is appropriate! 1. Sunshine Quilt, 2. Yellow Owl Painting, 3. tea for three, 4. Liquid Amber, 5. yellow owl eyes, 6. yellow tutus, 7. Mushroom / Fungi # 1 / Flammulina Populicola, 8. ...

Life and Outings

Oktoberfest

Getting into the spirit of October, we went to Oktoberfest at the German Club Tivoli yesterday. It was lots of fun! Lots of festive decorations! One of the men told me they got the cute dancing decorations hanging from the ceiling from the Oktoberfest organisers in Germany! My husband modelling ...

Our Home

Some inspiration

On my craft bench sit these tins. Perhaps if I looked at them more often and believed what they say, I’d get more done! Blogtoberfest – post two

Life and Outings

Blogtoberfest ’09

In a moment of madness I signed up for Blogtoberfest, a clever idea by TinnieGirl. Why was it a moment of madnes? Because I have to post every single day of October on this blog! Aside from yesterday, because I signed up a day late. My first thought was to sign both of my blogs up- ...

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Gardens

We have a long way to go before our garden becomes my ‘dream’ garden and realistically there’s only so much you can do with a suburban block. I want a yard I can frolic in with an umbrella, have a picnic on the lawn and take tea on the porch. Aren’t these ...