It's dark and raining here again today, and I have a small boy home from school, suffering from earache. We made cake, because it always seems to make things better. And we used lots of lemons, for the vitamin C, of course. Citrus Cake 130 grams softened butter, 1/2 cup sugar, 2 eggs…

    I'd been eyeing up this blue fabric for a while in the craft shop and finally went and bought it: it's denim-blue with a very fine little herringbone pattern on it. Almost business-suit-like, but not quite. I made a dress for spring, using this pattern- New Look 6774. It's quite a good buy…

    More violets. Because i like them. These are some things I made for my etsy shop this week: some little shoes, and a brass locket with some embroidered flowers inside. I'm feeling distracted today- I don't know why. Might have something to do with drinking too much coffee, or perhaps listening to the…

    I was lucky enough to score a bag of limes from my parents' orchard, and so I made some citrusy tarts to take to a party last weekend. Tom's Mum often makes these, and so I pretty much stole her idea, but they were nowhere near as good. You could say, in fact,…

    Thank you for your emails about the earthquake here in NZ over the weekend. Luckily for us, we were unaffected in our city- but poor Christchurch is in a mess. One very good thing was that the earthquake happened at 4.30am, so the central city was pretty quiet and no lives were lost.…

    I hijacked a couple of other projects and made this garland from some of the yoyos lying on my desk. I'd first made them with the intention of creating a textile necklace like this. Or maybe a belt/sash-type of thing like this one I sewed a few years ago.  But I'm liking the…

    I love forget-me-nots. I saw a big patch of them in my mother's garden the other day, but here in my garden, I've got veronica flowers, which look a little like them, but are more of a weed. I think they also have the name Grey Field Speedwell, which sounds very grand. It's…