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Archive for February, 2012
Frozen Grapes
22 months ago
in Other news
Have you tried? Especially refreshing on our hot and humid autumn days (I know, weird eh?). Going to try freezing some other fruits now.
The Victa
12 months ago
in Other news
Apparently one of Australia’s national icon – invented by Mervyn Victor Richardson in a backyard shed in 1952. And to celebrate its’ 60th anniversary, the company had a mini fair in the suburb (Concord) where the inventor lived and made his earlier model lawn mowers. So we went to have a look. This model was read further...
Persistence
22 months ago
in Other news
This week, I had the wonderful opportunity to attend a business development program run by Bizness Babes, a not for profit organisation which aims to help women, especially mothers to create and run successful businesses. One of the activities we did was to discover if we had or could develop the necessary traits of an read further...
I Spy Bag – The Prototype
43 months ago
in Children
Believe it or not, I’m going to be super organised (yeah right!) and get all the Christmas presents done for Sunday school this year. Now normally another teacher from the class organises the Christmas presents, but since I had fabric and vinyl left over from the peekaboo drawstring bags, I thought I might as well read further...
Baking Quarter: Muffins for school
23 months ago
in Other news
Did you know that I used to bake a lot? That was before kids and before I discovered sewing, yeah when I had too much time on my hands. Since then, I haven’t really wanted to bake at all but little miss asked if I could make her some muffins with raspberries in them for read further...
Get up and go
33 months ago
in Other news
Do you know what these are? My feet certainly didn’t recognise them. I think it’s been about 2.5 years since they last met. Time to get acquainted. Today was also the first day that this pram has been “outside” since it got retired 2.5 years ago but it was still useful as my fabric horse read further...
Love Always
13 months ago
in Other news
I’m sure you’ve heard it before, the bible tells us that love is an action word, not just an emotion or feeling but a doing word (verb). Love should always motivate everything we do, which I don’t think is ever easy at all. As a parent, we sometimes let tiredness, busyness or selfishness be our read further...
Ready For Another Week
13 months ago
in Other news
Little Miss finished her first full week of school without too much dramas. Some weekly chores for her and me of course, with her polishing her black school shoes and me ironing her uniform. I don’t iron anything except for my sewing, so this will be a new challenge for me for the next few read further...
MIP Modified PeekABoo Toy Sack Tutorial (Part 2)
03 months ago
Ok, here’s the other method, first one can be found here.Again, follow Toni’s tutorial until Step three. 1. Then press 0.5″ from the top edge. 2. Mark with disappearing pen 1″ and 2″ from the folded top edge. 3. Sew around the three sides, but do not sew between the two marks (this will be read further...
