The sky is golden through the windows today, and I've had a bit of time for playing with my watercolour paints. I noticed a bit of a yellow/gold theme when updating the etsy shop today – the mustard-coloured case shown above was made from some really beautiful vintage barkcloth sent to me…

      I love almonds. I found a packet of sliced almonds in the back of the pantry and baked some cookies. I pretty much just used this recipe but decreased the amount of sugar by a bit, replaced the vanilla with almond extract, and swapped the chocolate for sultanas and almonds. Also today, I…

    Thank you for all your good wishes for the craft fair on the weekend that I attended- it was a fantastic show and a lot of fun. I met lots of lovely blog readers at my stall- so thank you locals who came and said hello!  And of course, I did some great…

      I don't have much to say today, so I thought I'd share these pictures that I took last weekend. We want walking along the beach at twilight and K couldn't help but dance near the shore. Looking at these pictures makes me smile- and hope that she never loses this kind of…

Here are a few more things I've made for my table at Craft 2.0 this weekend- a little collection of 'woodlander brooches', featuring a rabbit, wildflowers, weeds and a feather.  And some hydrangea headbands too from velvet ribbon and wool felt petals. When we were having a particularly cold and grey day earlier this week…

    This is a dressing gown that I began making about a year and a half ago, but lost. It went missing during one of our house-moves around that time and I feared I had sent it to an op-shop in its ghostly, half-finished condition. But then I found it again the other day,…

  A few months ago I saw the film Bright Star, based on the last three years in the life of the poet John Keats. The film was directed by Jane Campion, who is my favourite film director (I especially love An Angel at my Table and The Piano) and the whole film is lush…

  We're having a long weekend holiday for Queen's Birthday, and its been raining nearly non-stop. Perfect weather for drinking wine with family and friends, watching a movie, knitting a green scarf. I've also been doing a bit of work for next weekend's show, including this little stack of embroidered linen and wool needlecases. Hope…

  (first photo by steve visneau) I designed these dress-up wings for the 'small project' section of small magazine, summer 2010 edition. This free magazine went live today- you can read it here. I was pretty excited to be asked to submit a project, as i've loved this magazine for a long time. There are…

  What do you do when you have a hundred things you really should be doing? Start a cross-stitch project, of course. Actually, it's not as silly as it sounds, because I found that making the little stitches in black thread on counted linen was rather soothing last night. I probably should go and do…