That Mildly Frustrated Feeling
I decorated another 4 postcards (the two remaining cards have manufacturing faults so I’m not going to bother with them). I scanned these instead of photographing them and they…
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More notes, discoveries and moments from the journal.
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Pencil Over Watercolour
I’m proud that I said I’d get my pencils out and then I actually did it! First I taped off my ‘frames’ and layed down a watercolour base. Then I got busy with my pencils 🙂 This…
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Now
Here we have Jasper watching Chris mow the lawn. When we got back from our holiday some parts of our lawn were nearly taller than us. Chris had to tackle it in parts over a number…
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Holy Mother of Crap I've FINALLY Finished the Tea Towels!
This project seemed to go on for-ever. My technique for hemming is too slow… hand basting the fold line, finger pressing the hems and basting them by hand, then mitring the…
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Dreamin'
I’ve been thinking a lot about patterns and shapes and I’m very happy to have found the textile designs of Mina Perhonen (via ah-yi). Lots of inspiration for my first ‘week-long…
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We're Back!
We’ve been home for a week, but I’ve had trouble getting my act together to post. You know how it is after a holiday, it takes a little while to get back into ‘real life’. I…
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Stencil
Instead of agonising over my swap tea towels any further… I decided to start! This may be the only one I do before I have to start packing for our holiday… but at least I now know…
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Show us yer sketches
I’m attracted to the concept of committing to ‘doing something’ everyday for a whole year. You know, like taking a photo or drawing or painting or something. But I couldn’t decide…
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Doodlebug
I love gridded paper! This notebook is fancier (black moleskine – la de da) than the ones I first used when I studied in Vietnam in the mid 90’s… I remember one of my exercise…
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A New Year
2009 was a BIG year for us. We moved to a new town, Chris started a challenging role at work and Jasper arrived in style! I think we’ve done pretty well adjusting to all the…
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Blankie
I’ve been stitching A little travel blanket, only two layers with the other side being a soft flannelette. My hand ‘quilting’ is crude, but I think it looks pretty good with the…
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Bunnies!!!
There’s a little production line going on here! Today operations moved out to the living room. Jasper started crawling last week and it is no longer safe to have him in my…
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