click each image to enlarge (for easier reading!) Argh. I love this letter that Isabel sent me, all the way from China. Hi Isabel! It made it! It seemed perfectly apt that I should read this the day…
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Hello peaches! I thought it was high time I stopped talking about my book for a while and started talking about all the other stuff that’s been going on around here… Let’s do that! Making : brownies Cooking…
This piece was first published in The Age Sunday Life Magazine on Sunday 3rd May 2015 When I was 16, I pretended not to like Neil Diamond, Kate Bush, homemade things and pretty clothes. I was earnestly trying to…
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One + Four = Life – Waleed, Cosytown, The Age & Tarts
* Disclosure: This post contains an item that was given to me by Freedom Australia Hello! I’m popping in early today with One + Four = Life, because I am throwing a little party for a few friends this afternoon.…
Oh my goodness. Just a beautiful letter this week from the super clever Gert Geyer for 52Hellos… This letter is super perfect, not just because it’s so lovely to read and look at, but because Gert is doing…
Craft For The Soul Creativity Pip-Life
How To Beat Information Overwhelm And Still Care About The World
I wrote this back in February and put it away… but I thought it was super relevant right now… Infomania Very often when I’m clicking about on the internet, I encounter people saying that they don’t read/watch the news…
Creativity Hello One + Four = Life Photography + Art + Design Pip-Life
:: One + Four = Life: Riberty Frogs, Printing, Pals & PomPoms
one: the one where you and your pals all have books out! two: this little suitcase contained my pompom arsenal for Wednesday’s workshop three: Riberty frogs – from my new book (made from Liberty prints, of course!) four: fabric paint…
Craft For The Soul Creativity Pip-Life
:: The One Where Your Book Comes Out And Your Realise You’ve Been Holding Your Breath For A Few Months
“Do you ever have those days where your heart just feels glow-y and warm because you have good people in your life and a supportive bunch behind you (even people you have never met?!) I’m having one of…
I’m doing a few fun things that you might want to tag along to (or listen to!) Feel free to ignore me though. I know that some people are only here for the crochet… In Real Life Events Pompom…
What better way to spend a Sunday than reading letters from interesting people? How about reading letters from interesting people and drinking tea and listening to Sarah Blasko?! Yes. That’s what I am doing right now. Here are…
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:: Craft For The Soul : A Peek At Some Bits Of My Book (& The Book Shoot!)
Above are some pics from our shoot. Now that the book is nearly out, I can spill some of the beans. It was just one day, but it was super busy! Julie Renouf was the photographer (she is…
It’s time for a little bit of a think-tank-de-moi! A chance to stop, have a cup of tea and work out what is happening in my life, right now. Without further ado, I’m going to do the Take…
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:: One + Four = Life : Crochet, Eggy Things & Books
one: a peek at my new book Craft For The Soul two: progress on my #100DayProject three: still an abundance of Easter eggs floating around my place four: egg cups – found at the Abbotsford Salvation Army Do…
Hello peaches! How are you? I am stopping in with an early dose of #52hellos for your Sunday morning! Okay. I WAS meant to post this yesterday, but I was so merrily doing offline things, that I didn’t. No…
The magazine The Great Discontent have started an ace thing called The 100 Day Project (beginning today!) I love projects. I love days. This sounds like the perfect thing for me. Perhaps you feel the same?! I’m going to do…
In the olden days, when you wanted to follow a program, you needed tapes. Cassettes. You’d often have to buy them from the back of a magazine or some such. They might be about changing the way you think…
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:: One + Four = Life : Blanket, Beast, Hellos + Peeps
This week in One + Four = Life… one: a tumble of blanket: after resting my sore wrist for over a week, I am finally back to crocheting! I’m not sure why it got so sore, but it’s something…
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:: 10 Things I Realised About Creativity When I Went On The Radio (& A Recipe for Corn Chowder)
Yesterday, Rachel Power (author/editor of Motherhood & Creativity), Clare Bowditch and myself were on the radio to talk about juggling parenting and creativity, with a bit of a focus on Rachel’s (great) new book. I love doing radio. There…
I thought it was HIGH TIME I did my March Taking Stock. I’ve really been doing quite a lot of different things and it’s always pretty nice to reflect on that and realise where I am (and how…
Image via Matt and Lentil’s Grown & Gathered Flower Exhange – a totally beautiful idea where you can trade your own talents or things for beautiful blooms. How great is that?! Hello… I’ve been thinking a lot over…
Hello! Hi! Here’s one for the bloggers! (If you are not a blogger, you might like to read this post instead?!) I’m excited to tell you about my very first eBook. Can you believe I haven’t done an…
I know. I call blankets ‘blankies’. Yes, it’s a bit juvenile, but ‘blankie’ is much more about how a blanket is and feels than ‘blanket’ could ever be. This blanket is speedy and stripe-y. It’s the Speedy Stripe and…
Hullo! I love finding cute fonts. It seems like everyone is using these gorgeous brush script fonts at the moment, the kind that look like they were painted by hand. Perhaps you’d like to use them too and didn’t…
Let’s talk about this… I’m making a granny square blanket. I’m actually doing it pretty quickly, but it’s a repetitive task and ‘quickly’ means it’ll be done in a month or so. I LOVE doing things that take…
CPA. It means continuous partial attention. “To pay continuous partial attention is to pay partial attention — CONTINUOUSLY. It is motivated by a desire to be a LIVE node on the network. Another way of saying this is that…
A version of this post was first published here (I’ve been thinking about this stuff a lot recently, and then my friend Defah got me thinking even more!) I was listening to a podcast recently. I am a big…
