Here you can find the archive of tiny happy blog, 2006-2025. Thank you so much for reading all these years. You can find my new online home at melissawastney.com – Melissa

Hello! Thought I'd share this pic of a recently-finished quilt I made – the colours are bringing me a lot of joy! For this I used leftover linen scraps and some hand-dyed cotton on mustard yellow, greys and pinks. It's very soft and warm, with wool/cotton batting and is currently brightening up the bed in…

Well I'm still out here, making things and taking photos. But I've not updated this blog in months – my apologies if you check back from time to time. Truthfully, I've been having problems with the platform I use for this journal – my photos haven't been loading properly and so I tend to give…

Kia ora, hello! It's been so long since I last published a post here on the blog. Truth be told, I've had some trouble uploading my photos here – some sort of technical glitch with the platform. I'm sorry if you popped in for an update, it's been such a long time coming. The platform…

My last post was titled 'winter makes' and now we're close to summer! I'm so sorry, little blog, for abandoning you for such a long time. I've been telling myself I didn't have much to share but when I looked through my phone photos, I realised I have finished a few projects since my last…

The last time I published something here was at the end of autumn, and now we're nearing spring! For some reason, I thought I had nothing to share, such a long, dark winter it's felt, with little space and time to work on my creative projects. But looking through some photos, I can see that…

It's been such a good while since I wrote here, some of these things to share are from the past two months. I hope you don't mind! They include some autumnal scenes – our kitchen early one morning as I got ready for work. That golden light of autumn, I'll never get tired of it.…

Warmer shades, tones and textures for autumn… Here are a few photos I've taken over the past month or so. I finally finished that 'No Frills' sweater! For this I used some Shetland 4-ply yarn in a charcoal shade, held together with a strand of black Camarose Midnattsol, which is a Danish yarn that blends…

Kind of a bittersweet time of year, this one. It's always hard to say goodbye to the long, light days of summer and welcome in the darker ones. But looking back I can see it was a lovely autumn we enjoyed here at home, with some good social times and projects alongside a busy time…

We've just marked Waitangi Day here in Aotearoa NZ – the commemoration of the signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi / The Treaty of Waitangi in 1840. An aspirational and deeply meaningful document to us here, at the moment its principles are being questioned by our new coalition government, and so it seems more important…