We had the adoption ‘group information session’ last night. It was a bit of a poorly organised farce and I came away from it feeling oh so slightly depressed. They had the wrong powerpoint slides on the computer and on top of that they forced us to sit through a terribly acted role play. And [...]
Entries from June 2008
June 24, 2008
Totally gratuitous blog entry
I’m just really proud of making this little guy. He’s the hardest thing I have sewn without a home economics sewing teacher to help me. There’s hope for me yet.
June 21, 2008
What makes a good day
Finding a free bar of chocolate in the mail on a Saturday was the sign that it was going to be a very good day.
We got given a free box of chocolates by my grandma later too. And both my grandma then my mother had a chocolate cake waiting for us to have a slice. [...]
June 18, 2008
A tisket, a tasket, two more for the baby basket
The baby basket is a basket in the cupboard where I put all the stuff I have collected for my future baby. It sits next to my thrifted dolls cradle. There’s a few little onesies I bought to try applique on (and still need to try), two exquisite birds from Eva, a absolutely gorgeous wooden [...]
June 14, 2008
In absentia
In the absence of anything intelligent, life changing or funny to say and no new crafts to show right now here’s some stuff that has seriously been inspiring me on flickr lately. The cat picture is not so much inspiring as just plain hilarious.
1. How to Make a Chocolate Chip Cookie, 2. Pattern sample all [...]
June 10, 2008
love stitches indeed
I have bells on the brain. Well baby rattles probably but really anything that tinkles. When we got the cat back we promptly put a garish flouro yellow collar on him with a bell on it. Wearing a collar was never his thing plus we further tortured him by writing his name and phone number [...]
June 6, 2008
Putting my ducks in a row
I have to apologise for the lack of a giveaway which I promised. I have taken on way too many commitments lately and need to cross some off before I take on more. One of my 101 in 1001 tasks involves writing down all my financial data so I know where I’m at. There’s a [...]
June 3, 2008
Swamped and erratic
My blogging has been rather pathetic of late. I am completely swamped and am really behind on everything. I have 3 meme’s that I have been tagged for and will eventually do. One of them calls for you to flip to page 123 of the book you are reading. So I flipped and it only [...]
