Category: craft

Week of 15 August 2022 Arty adventures Tuesdays are my half days at work. When I have a medical appointment at 12.00, which doesn’t happen very often because I normally get in at 2.20, my work day gets cut back to about two and a half hours. This Tuesday...

Week of 10 August My 20 for 2020 list. What did I want to do better this week? Start packing up at 10.15. Schedule 15 minutes of creative time every day and do it. So how did that go then? That did not go well. By the weekend I...

Someone asked me today whether I’d finished my scrapbooking organiser. You remember, the one that ended up covered in white paint . . . Well yes. I’m pleased to say that the salvage operations were successful and I have a functional (not white) crafty organiser. Here’s the finished product....

Today I was going to post a photo of my super new scrapbooking organiser that I was going to use for my Project Life supplies this year. I was going to have it all set up today, with all the cards neatly organised and it was going to look...

Since I wrote about the fun I had with making Juniordwarf’s Book Week costume, I thought I should post a picture of the result.So here it is. Hat by Spotlight. Makeup by Slabs. Cat-like outfit by me. Unfortunately the photos don’t show the tail. The skill, imagination and improvisation...

This week is Book Week. Juniordwarf’s school is having a Book Week Parade and the kids are all encouraged to dress up as a character from their favourite book. Two years ago he wanted to be The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and I did this. Last year he was a...

Juniordwarf helped me in the garden. What I mean is, he played in his sandpit while I spent hours clearing out vegetation from various parts of our yard. Then he wanted me to fill his little clam shell pool up. I didn’t want to say no, because I’d already...

A few years ago, in a rare fit of Xmas nostalgia, I bought a ‘beyond the page’ wooden Xmas tree from Kaisercraft.  Kaiser had a few example trees on their website and in their workshop magazine, but they all looked a bit too, well, Christmassy. (Yes, it is a...

This weekend is our local Garden Club’s Flower and Horticultural Show. The show is mainly for flowers, but there are sections for things like produce, home brewing and photography, and there’s also a kids’ section. For Juniordwarf’s age group, there were classes for photographs and for models of a...

Apparently it’s my birthday today. I took the day off work, because I really don’t like to be at work on my birthday. Last year I had Juniordwarf with me – this year he was at school, so I had a rare day at home by myself. Here are...