February 2005

Christina's Shopping Tours Inc.

Christina's Shopping Tours Inc.

This morning I met Christina in Patchwork on Central Park for the beginning of a wild stash enhancement tour of Malvern and surrounds. I swear, Christina needs to start organised tours for fabric fiends...

Studio-arama

Studio-arama

In just over a month’s time we will be gaining possession of our new house. Unsurprisingly it still doesn’t feel particularly real, but there are things that need to be done before we move...

Lane Smith Interview

Lane Smith Interview

Just a short entry this evening. I really love the work of Lane Smith – he is one of my big influences. I remembered the other day that we have one of his prints...

Stuff and nonsense

Stuff and nonsense

I didn’t write yesterday due to leaving it until the evening and then we watched Collateral after which I was way to stressed to write a blog entry. I was too busy sitting around...

All in the family

All in the family

Well, it’s obvious that Ward is incredibly talented — but now we also get to enjoy “Ava Thursday”. Every Thursday Ward is publishing some of his 4 1/2 year old daughter Ava’s beautiful work...

Keeping on moving

Keeping on moving

Today was flat-chat with play dates. A playcentre was loads of fun this morning until the big rough boys (who were surely over five) moved in and wrestled their way around the room, and...

Monster heads and patchwork quilts

Monster heads and patchwork quilts

This afternoon Amelia made a playdough “Roz” – her favourite monster from Monsters Inc. As you can see, she looks pretty scary – kind of like an alien head. Mum and Dad have just...

A sometimes awful truth

A sometimes awful truth

Some days just seem to be bad days just because I wake up a little more tired than usual, and so does Amelia and all day our moods feed off each other and it...

Prickly Pear

Prickly Pear

I took a little time off cat dress sewing this morning and made this pin cushion out of Heidi’s felt. Little Prickly Pear is looking a tad alarmed as she has been stuck with...

Roll on

Roll on

My show has been put off until June which is such a huge relief. The date planned for March was going to coincide with house settlement date and painting and floorboard polishing and moving...