Spent a bit of time this morning playing around with papers from the recycling bin. A little bit of collage-therapy in a busy week. Hope your Tuesday is going happily.

Here are some photos I took on the weekend. Here, where early summer is in full swing, everything is humming, buzzing, unfurling. We had sweet peas climbing, icecream melting, a cousin from the north island staying, sundresses on the beach, a tea party in a rose garden and a late-night movie date.  All the while…

This is an Antipodean-style summer wreath I made a while ago as a project for Extra Curricular magazine, the fourth issue of which has just now arrived in local bookshops here. Extra Curricular is a beautifully-produced little book put together by Ellie in Auckland, (I was lucky enough to be featured in the first edition)…

We have a bottle brush tree growing like crazy in our garden at the moment- aren't the flowers kind of outrageous? It's not a tree I'd think of to plant myself, but now I have one, I really like it. It's covered in bees and smells gorgeous, and I love the seed pods that grow…

I was excited to be asked to contribute to the third Spoonful zine, which is published in Australia by Anthea Krook and has just been released into the world. I submitted a project ('sprout pins') and some of my photographs, and it was a thrill to get my copy in the letterbox yesterday and see them…

It's about the time of year where I start to think about sending small gifts and cards to my friends living overseas, and that means trying to send everything before the Christmas-crazy-panic sets in around here. I made a watercolour + collage card last week, inspired by the leaves of a tree we have in…

These simple little clay ornaments were made to hang in the window for Christmas-time. They were very simple, as you can see. Just a disc of polymer clay, smoothed and rounded, with some sort of decoration and embroidery thread for hanging. I tried pressing pieces of old lace into some of them, but the pattern…

I don't think I'm suffering from sadness this week, but I am enjoying the calming nature of all these blues around me. Truth be told, it all started when I rediscovered this amazing blue herringbone linen on my fabric shelf. I had set it aside for a summer dress, but there's still enough of it…

I was sent some vintage embroidery books by Ellen, thank you! They are from Holland, and date from the 1970's. I love looking through them and dreaming of having my own cross-stitched tea-cosy. The designs are really beautiful and intricate- geometric but with feeling, if that makes sense. I love them. I'm thinking that one…

Our favourite place to be at the moment is our local beach, early evening, running in and out of the waves, digging the deepest hole possible, collecting a pile of driftwood and looking for interesting crab shells. At least, that's what the children did, while we lay on the sand, watching them. Finished by ordering…