Week 30/2024: Art and acting
Week of 22 July 2024 This week I took in some art and acting classes, and had a fabulous time doing it. Art and acting (and more acting!) Art from Trash Art from Trash is an annual exhibition held at the Salamanca Long Gallery by Resource Work Cooperative (aka...
Week 22/2024: Hacking and journalling
Week of 27 May 2024 Hacking and journalling There were two highlights this week, both of which meant I had to drive a car to get there. (I dislike driving and avoid it wherever possible so you’ll know if I drive somewhere I either have no choice or it’s...
Week 33/2022: Arty adventures
Week of 15 August 2022 Arty adventures Tuesdays are my half days at work. When I have a medical appointment at 12.00, which doesn’t happen very often because I normally get in at 2.20, my work day gets cut back to about two and a half hours. This Tuesday...
20 for 2020: week 33
Week of 10 August My 20 for 2020 list. What did I want to do better this week? Start packing up at 10.15. Schedule 15 minutes of creative time every day and do it. So how did that go then? That did not go well. By the weekend I...
crafty fails – the end of the story
Someone asked me today whether I’d finished my scrapbooking organiser. You remember, the one that ended up covered in white paint . . . Well yes. I’m pleased to say that the salvage operations were successful and I have a functional (not white) crafty organiser. Here’s the finished product....
crafty fails
Today I was going to post a photo of my super new scrapbooking organiser that I was going to use for my Project Life supplies this year. I was going to have it all set up today, with all the cards neatly organised and it was going to look...
Book Week – the result
Since I wrote about the fun I had with making Juniordwarf’s Book Week costume, I thought I should post a picture of the result.So here it is. Hat by Spotlight. Makeup by Slabs. Cat-like outfit by me. Unfortunately the photos don’t show the tail. The skill, imagination and improvisation...
(im)perfection
This week is Book Week. Juniordwarf’s school is having a Book Week Parade and the kids are all encouraged to dress up as a character from their favourite book. Two years ago he wanted to be The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and I did this. Last year he was a...
P365 – Day 361 – the pirate caterpillar (and year in review 8/12)
Juniordwarf helped me in the garden. What I mean is, he played in his sandpit while I spent hours clearing out vegetation from various parts of our yard. Then he wanted me to fill his little clam shell pool up. I didn’t want to say no, because I’d already...
P365 – Day 340 – 19 days til xmas
A few years ago, in a rare fit of Xmas nostalgia, I bought a ‘beyond the page’ wooden Xmas tree from Kaisercraft. Kaiser had a few example trees on their website and in their workshop magazine, but they all looked a bit too, well, Christmassy. (Yes, it is a...