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i really do have an awful lot to say. there are so many things to share with you - stories of our wedding and honeymoon and of visiting family and of wedding receptions. of packing my life into boxes and suitcases, and then trying to unpack and settle into a new house, a new area of melbourne, a new married life. there are stories and pictures and tales a mile long. but for now, with this dodgy

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it's been quite awhile, i know. and i have to say it will be a little longer. see we don't yet have internet in our new home, and that makes blogging - and catching up you guys, with my favourite bloggers, very difficult. but in the meantime, i thought i'd share these couple of pics of our wedding day with you all... taken by the lovely ilona from illlyphotography  so here's to

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well, here we are- in the final straight! we are nearly down to single digits in our days-til-the-wedding count! oh the things i have been doing: making lists, packing and moving and unpacking, the organising, more packing....  but, i've also been doing a little bit of crafting - hurridly trying to finish this blanket before the wedding for a friend who is due soon:    oh, and

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so, it seems like the "be free" stencil artist has been busy. i caught site of another one today, sorry the pic isn't great. was trying to take this before the traffic light went green... i've had lots of great feedback about the last one i posted. so i then went in search of the artist who is behind these "be free" stencil/pasties.  no luck sorry. images to live by has a couple of posts about

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the countdown is on - under 5 weeks to go - so things are pretty busy 'round here. but at least at the moment, there is some crafting going on... hope all is going well in your part of the blogosphere! we will catch up soon (hopefully)!

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well, except graffiti and stenciling and knitting and jam and... firstly: check this out! i rode past it yesterday and absolutely had to stop and take a pic  i love stencil art! and this one particularly - the cards are real. such a fabulous design! so i just had to share.  in other news, whilst i've been too busy to blog, i still have been finding scraps of time to get creative. i have put

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ahh, a night off. no one else at home and a few moments to catch up with some of my lovely blogging friends...  and to share this: image from here apparently his name is domo - and he is the mascot for a japanese tv station. but the reason he is here is more to do with wedding planning! see, i thought i'd do one of those cute mosaic photo-board things, to show you a couple of the things i have

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i've not forgotten you - life is just so busy! and there is no time for doing craft, let alone blog hopping and posting. so sorry.  but planning this getting married thing seems to be taking up lots of my free time and free headspace. the time and headspace i usually use for craft and blogging type things.  but this afternoon, well there is finally some time to catch up and have a bit of a

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i don't usually post much about personal stuff here. i figure i have a craftish and foodish blog - so that is what i usually post about.  but i wanted to show you this: eek! we're getting married!  i feel astoundingly blessed, very thankful and really very excited! (so i maybe a little bit haphazard in my posting and in my visiting your blog over the next few months in the lead up to our

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just one more post about my crochet addiction (for the moment at least). but what else do you do, when going into an op-shop and finally finding a pile of crochet hooks*! how could i possibly leave them there? lovely metal hooks, with such a nice feel! i never never never find crochet hooks in op-shops, and i got this whole bundle for 50 cents! love love love it so the bit not about crochet:

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ok, so as well as taking holiday snaps of crochet, i also worked on finishing a holiday crochet project, which i started some time ago: all pinned out  and here it is, all done: now all i have to do is make it from here to the post office to send it to my mum! its so far only a few days late for her birthday...

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hello there! and welcome to 2011! i've been holidaying, and i think i have a confession to make. well a further admission of my addiction: you know you're addicted to crochet when... you only take eight photos for the whole of your holiday, and SIX of them are this:    the crocheted tablecloth at one of the places we stayed. in my defense, i liked the pattern. and by taking photos, i can

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i have a very strict policy of not posting about gifts here until they have been opened by the receiver. however, given this quilt is going to my not-yet-born nephew, so he won't be the one to unwrap it, let alone be able to notice its existence for quite some time. and given this is my last post of the year, i thought i might apply that policy a bit loosely in this case. so here it is, my

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 ahh, don't you love decorating. we've put up and decorated the christmas tree i've set up my crocheted nativity scene (yeah, i know it's missing a lot of the people and animals involved. it's an ongoing project -i have also made joseph's head, but i thought i shouldn't just have his head rolling around. so mary and Jesus it is, until i get a chance to finish joseph)  and i've even been doin

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our crafternoon last saturday was so much fun - full of old friends and new, old crafts and new and, well, old and new cocktails! it was very christmassy.  inspired by the gift cards i was sent, i decided to try out some potato printing! not something i have done since primary school, i think. but i am really happy with how they turned out. (the cow design is based from here).    a friend

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ooh, there is so much to say! whenever i have been too busy to blog, i always have so much i want to blog about! like this: how cute are these! i visited chantal's blog a few my creative space's ago, and left her a suggestion for her christmas tag prints. low and behold she not only made some tree ones, but she generously sent some to me! these look so cute in red and green. they will go so well

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it started a few months ago. i was busy, really busy, with a list a mile long of things that must be done. it was the weekend before i was heading off on our 5 week overseas holiday. and i found myself in a fabric shop, (legitimately, i had to buy wool to take with me) and, well looking at some clearance fabric (much less legitimately).  see i had been inspired by the textured leaf's creative

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neither of which i made, but i just wanted to share:  firstly, this knitted bike lock cosy, on the bike i was parking my bike next to this week. isn't it cute! and secondly, this baby cauliflower, growing in our garden! i'm not the gardener around here, so i can't take any credit, but still, its so cute, and soon to be so yummy! hope you are having a great saturday!

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...i admit it. i really do have to stop going into op-shops. i know. i do. but if i did that, well, i wouldn't have found this: a round table cloth - how cute! or this: fitted sheet - what fun! or this! square tablecloth - isn't it fabulous! the best part is that i bought them for a specific project, which means they won't just get added to my stash. *coughs* except for the bit where i

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this weekend has involved a nice bit of opshopping. love it. i found lots of fun things, and was proud of my restraint a couple of times. but mainly i wanted to talk to you about this...  see i bought these great pants that someone had thrown out, just because they were missing a button. so this afternoon, out came one of the jars from my button collection. spilled all over the bed and poured

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this quilting thing really seems to be taking hold. after the success i have been having with the quilt i am making for my new nephew-on-the-way, i thought i'd have another go at a simpler quilt. basically the idea stems comes from the fact that my friend has wooden floors and wanted something a bit soft to be able put her bub down on. a floor quilt. i whipped this one up in an less than two

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i'm tired tonight. work has been really crazy recently, i'm only two days into my working week, and i have already done an extra half a day, and i can't see it calming down anytime soon. so i really don't have much in the way of words, but i still did want to share a few pics of what's been going on in my creative space over the last week. lots of creating...  sewing the binding on this project

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i somehow forgot to post this poor little guy. so it's a bit late, but here 'tis, all done!.

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i thought i'd show you this. it's what my mum posted down to me for my birthday: ok, it's not that she got confused between celebrating my birthday and celebrating Jesus' birthday. she just gave me some of the christmas decorations that i made as a kid. and that is pretty precious. the fact mum has kept them all these years is pretty amazing. and its pretty special that after keeping them for

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i won a giveaway! from the very lovely catherine over at pencils and pins. they arrived in the post this week, on my birthday would you believe! i find it pretty amazing to get such a fabulous birthday present from someone i've never actually met. i'm not going to gush about blogging and friendship and stuff (i'm not really the gushing kind), but i will say it's really quite amazing to be

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eeek! i'm so excited! check this out:it's pizza dough. and look at this: see it's not just any pizza dough, but this baby is gluten free! i've been making gluten free pizza dough for awhile now, and each time it has turned out somewhere in between cake batter and a very wet scone dough. sticky, impossible to roll. i had to coat my hands in flour and press it out into shape. but last night - it

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ahh, what a saturday we had. unexpected sunshine. good food and a crafternoon.   there was great food (easy peasy chocolate cake, fabulous and melt in your mouth macaroons and blue cheese scones)        i was working on making a quilted sandwich for my next quilt project there was drawing and painting going on, but mostly i wanted to show you this: sculpture by my lovely

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so, i'm not actually doing blogtoberfest. (despite the fact that i have posted pretty much every day this week).  no, i've signed up for the salvo's nothing new challenge. it means that i am going to not buy anything new for the whole of october. given my everpresent love of op-shops, i didn't think it would actually be too hard for me to do (is that dodgy, signing up for a challenge cos you

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is still full of owls... i thought i'd be done by now. i really should have been done by now. but due to badly thought out cutting out. (read as forgot to add decent amount of seam allowance) i've had to hand stich these buddies up.  i've come to the conclusion i HATE hand sewing. well, HATE is a bit strong. but i certainly don't love it, and i've come to the realisation that an embroidery hoop

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and after my gluten free cooking boasting last night, tonight its all about the gluten. orrechiette with multicoloured broccolini.  good pasta, with home grown* broccolini, a bit of chilli and a handful of parmesan. easy and so so good... and so full of gluten. good thing that in our house its only about having less gluten, rather than having to be totally gluten free! *i must

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so, with the encouragement of sandrine, i have been experimenting with gluten free. and its actually turned out easier (and tastier) than i imagined. so here you go: gluten free potato and sour cream muffins (adapted from this book) 2 medium sized potatoes, mashed 2 eggs 1 cup milk 3/4 cup of sour cream 60g melted butter 315g gf self raising flour 1/4 teasp paprika salt and pepper mix

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for me! how lovely is this scarf! a good friend of mine bought it in Columbia for me earlier this year. she couldn't wait any longer, so she gave it to me early for my birthday (although my actual birthday is still a few weeks off). such a lovely lovely present, from such a lovely friend!  

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so, at least this time the possum is on the outside of the windowsill. last time we had this noctural visitor, the window was open and in he came.  let me tell you, trying to chase a baby possum out of your bedroom at 2 in the morning is not my kind of fun!

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so, its been pretty busy round here. as you may guess from my lack of posts. sorry 'bout that.  but see, my very good and very lovely friend got married on saturday (yay!), so its been wedding central round here for the last week and a bit. particularly the last week as we had some of her interstate and international family staying here. the beds have all been full, and even the floor in a

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so, i didn't finish my owls from thursday yet, but that's ok. see i've packed them all up to take with me today. i'm going to a bbq, yep a footy grand final bbq... caveat: for those who are not from melbourne/victoria/australia, footy (aussie rules or afl as it is also known) is not just a sport, but its more of a religion 'round these parts (personally i prefer the kind of religion that's about

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ok, so i know our lovely creative space hostie is on holidays right now, but i thought i'd still creative space it up tonight. see, i'm making owls: its the same pattern that i used for the finished owl in the corner. but i am experimenting with their faces. i'm pretty pleased with them so far, and i am hoping that they will all look different enough for terrible comfort's show (see the call

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it felt like i hadn't done a good lot of op-shopping for a while, so it has been great over the last month or so to catch up on some of my favourite op-shops and even check out a few new ones.  i've gotten some great things! like these fabulous shoes: and some more great linen (table cloths and serviettes).  and best of all, a spare crochet hook... (one of the downsides to teaching all my

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it's just one of those days. when it feels like there is too much to do and no time to do it. what it really comes down to, i think is that idea of expecting too much of myself and my abilities to achieve things in my day off. but there's no time to post a reflection about that today. i'm late! but i did really want to share a sneak peak of my new crochet project.  who knew a circle was so hard

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unusual i know, but this week, my creative space got a bit portable and oddly saucepan-able. see, i help run a sewing group on sunday afternoons. its for women on a local housing estate who otherwise wouldn't have access to sewing machines or overlockers. but on sunday this week, it was very quiet, and so i began to riffle around in the scraps bags to see what i could find.   see i had been

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my lovely friend found my this book at an op-shop and she knew she just had to get it for me...  before giving it to me, she read me the introduction: Today, when crochet is enjoying such unprecedented vogue,it is natural that many woman of all ages wish to become accomplished in this fascintatng craft. Crochet has a variety of uses and is now as popular in the field of high fashion as it is in

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this week reveals my new project. ta da... i'm making a quilt! i was going for a brown and orange theme to match the back panel fabric. but instead there is turning out to be a bit more of a mix. see, there were a few fabrics that i really wanted to put in (like the blue ellipsoid one on the top right) and so a blue theme got added in. then finally a little bit of plain yellow, which i think

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one of my favourite kinds of weekends - one that involves a bit of op-shopping and some vintage linen. like this sheet (oh, i have such good plans) and this tablecloth (what fun!)... i hope your weekend was full of goodness!

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mmm. i know it sounds weird, but it tastes so so good and its so so easy. basically take a conglomeration of vegies from the bottom of your fridge. for me this was: 1 brown onion 1 red capiscum 1 small chilli a quarter of a head of celery 2 carrots half a head of cauliflower a small head of broccoli a packet of baby spinach i fried these up with some garlic and then added1 can of tomatoes 3

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so it turns out that i need to pay a bit more attention to things. i made muesli and date loaf today: well, actually i made date-less muesli and date loaf. see my new breadmaker (brilliantly op-shopped for $20) has an automatic fruit dispenser. and having not used it before, i popped the dates into the dispenser, popped the other ingredients into the bread tin and walked away. (the walking away

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so, my creative space this week is full of fabric pulled from my fabric stash box and  strewn around the room and  sorted into colour piles. the first steps in my next project. eek, how exciting... as always, check out other creative spaces over at kirsty's...

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i can smell chocolate.   chocolate brownie muffins...  mmm....

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so, i've been vaguely mentioning my next project for some time now - since i finished my last one actually. its a project that is going to be dear to my heart. see, i've got a nephew on the way he will be my sister's third, after a bit of a gap. her other two were born while our nan was around. and our very crafty nan made them all sorts of things. things like this: i inherited a whole lot of

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so, i thought i'd do a little post-script on the baby blanket i had been making for so so long. as you know i gave it to the parents-to-be a few weeks before their baby was actually due. and well, i was glad i did, as their little girl decided to come early. all good and healthy, just teeny tiny.  anyway, i went to visit them in hospital, and was blown away by the fact that the first time i met

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 well, we are back up and running, and i am thankful for the engineers in my life - one who hassled and hassled me a few months ago, until i finally got an external hard-drive and did a back-up of everything (well, most things). and another engineer, who was able to save almost all of the other things, before fixing my computer and after quite a bit of work, finally getting it to talk to the

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umm, so, sorry about the lack of transmission. it seems that recovering a crashed laptop is a longer process than one would like. we will return to our regular blogging soon...

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ok, so, i'm really not talking about crochet this time. but i did want to let you know that i did manage to finish the mexican wrestling masks i was working on over the weekend.  the original is the blue one, out of a horrible synthetic, that (i am told) was unpleasant to perform in. the white ones i made are out of a cotton based jersey. the feature-y bits are out of felt.  they're for this

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ok so, i do know that not everyone crochets. and that not everyone is into crochet. and after reading and reflecting on this slightly mocking post from gina at clutterpunk* i've realised that i do post an awful lot about crochet. so today, i thought i'd do a post not about crochet. i was thinking, see, that i could post about the current sewing project i am working on for terrible comfort's

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... feels empty. see, its no longer filled with the baby blanket i have been crocheting. (and here it is, before i packed it up and gave it away to the parents-to-be:  ) i'm really happy with the way it turned out, the yellows and the grays. i loved making it and the parents-to-be loved it, but now i feel slightly at a loss.  see, i can't quite believe its done. i realised i have been making

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so, guess what! the baby blanket i have been making for oh-so-long is finally done done done!  woo hoo! and the baby is still 5 weeks away (or so, you can never be precise with these things). i'll post the finished pics later this week, once i have given it to the parents-to-be. so for now, i thought i talk about edging. see this is my first baby blanket. my first real one (there was this one,

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ahh, don't you just love crafternoons. craft, coffee, food - what's not to love!   some friends and i had another one of our semi-regular crafternoons yesterday. it was really lovely. curried pumpkin and parnip soup. double chocolate muffins, freshly brewed coffee and the star attraction - crochet.  i was finishing off the baby blanket (more on that another time), and a couple of my friends

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the ends of the ends. finally done (and i have to repeat my earlier statement. i will never again wait until i have finished the blanket to thread in the ends). now i just have to figure out how to edge the blanket, and i'm done! (and the baby is still 6 weeks away)

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 ...is full this week of ends.   and the threading in of ends.  and i hereby swear a solemn oath: i will never again put down a granny square until i have threaded in the end. i will never again wait until i have put together the whole of the blanket to thread in the ends. this threading in of ends is tedious to the extreme...   hopefully your creative space is

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every week, hannah at chicken willow does a forebear friday post. she posts about one of her forebears, with a photo and some of her family history. i've thought it is such a great idea and i am hoping that she won't mind if i join in with her this week.  this week i wanted to post about my maternal grandmother, my nan - marjory jane lothian.  pictured here with the love of her life, my gramps,

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so, it turns out that knitta please is not just for holidays. i've been riding past this for the last week or so on my way to and from work.  there's something about knitted graffiti that just makes me smile. and the added benefit is that it makes me think of holidays...

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...filled with 70's inspiration. my fabulous friend bought me this fabulous book from an op-shop:  it looks like so much fun.  although - if anyone knows what you do with a crocheted "calypso barbecue holder," feel free to let me know!  as always, play along with the fabulous kirsty...

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one of the great things about travelling is being able to try new food. even better, being taught how to cook new food.  while away i learnt how to enjoy and then how to make rusks (not the baby food, or the dog biscuit, but one of south africa's favourite biscuits). we made them over there: and then yesterday, i made them here at home.   {photo to be inserted here. turns out although i have

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ok, so its a little embarrassing really. i took my crochet half-way round the world, had five glorious weeks on holiday, and yet managed to do very little hooking. oops... i did join a few squares together of the baby blanket. but really...the worst of it is, since i was home alone all of last weekend, and it was cold and quiet, i spent the weekend hooking. and so, lookie here: i got more done in

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i'd just like to say that i really am back. my advice though - don't unpack while jet lagged. it seems that i have unpacked my camera cord and put it away somewhere very safe. and now that i am feeling better and more awake, i can't find it anywhere.  which makes sharing crafty goodness very difficult.  so instead i'll share a few more holiday snaps (downloaded before i put the camera cord

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so here i am, back in melbourne - jetlagged and tired. and with a confession to make. despite my fabulously packed craft, there was much less crocheting done on my holiday than i intended. and much more of this: but it was so so lovely. i'd show you that i did do some crocheting and i'd love to show you the fun and fabulous fabric i bought, only i haven't unpacked yet... (the worst of it is

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 see, i am heading happily off on holidays tomorrow, and am so so pleased that crochet is such a travellable craft. i've packed all  my baby squares, spare joining wool, hooks and spare other wool for my ongoing (but not recently touched) crochet project in just the perfect bag.  and they just squeeze nicely into the front of my pack.  so it's going to be a bit quiet 'round here at marjoryjane,

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so i have finally made a decision. thanks to everyone for you help and suggestions (including thanks to the mum of the baby the blanket is for).  and the winner is:  carina's way.  i went out and got some more wool on the weekend, so i will have plenty to be able to join it all her way.  my only concern is that last time i joined things carina's way, i had some significant issues with the

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...filled with indecision. see i still can't decide how best to join my grannies. (see post below). and it seems that until i do decide, i am stuck in limbo land, with very little creating going on. so, i will leave you with the creative space of another.   our friendly backyard spider, who makes a web every night right in the path between the trees on the way to the compost heap. (i have learnt

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how exciting!  i have decided i am have enough squares for my baby blanket (70 is the magic number!). now for the next step. joining my grannies. i've done some research and there are three different ways i am thinking of doing it: pip's way:  carina's way: attic24's way:    (back view) so really, there are big decisions to be made. i really like the finish from attic24, but one of the big

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i'm joining in with my creative space for the first time this year, and my creative space today is filled with the smell of baking of my favourite kind of bread (i posted a little bit ago about my second favourite bread oaty grainy honey bread): but my favourite bread is: commitment bread.  ok, so i know it is weirdly named, but it is based off the fabulous pip's famous pane toscano. see when

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i unexpectedly found myself at home this easter. alone. and sick. which hasn't made for the funnest easter ever. but has resulted in me pottering around the kitchen making things.  like hot cross buns: and loaves of bread and pumpkin soup  and tomato chutney (this one was with some gratefully received assistance). the chutney is one of stephanie's and i make it every year (well, i have for the

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this crochet caper is definitely very addictive.  i found myself awake at 2am the other morning, staring at this jug cover (which i use to cover my glass of water beside my bed - we have kamikaze moths).  see, i have been inspired often by the fabulous M* and her amazing jug covers. so 2am saw me staring and staring bleerie eyed and trying to work out how this one was done and thinking about

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 if only i knew how many more to go...

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i did a random and unexpected bit of op-shopping today. and came across this... a CPR "pillow pal". what fun! a pillow case designed to help you remember and practice your cardio-pulmonary resuscitation. i definitely couldn't leave it there, not with my continuing pillowcase obession. for 99 cents this gem was mine. but what to do with it? well, a little lace, a little scrap material, and here

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one of the downsides of making burnt fig jam lies in the word "burnt". well, not so much in the word itself, but in the action it represents: i've been soaking this pot since wednesday night, and given i am stuck at home sick today, i will begin the scrubbing process. last time it took three goes and use of dishwasher powder to finally get it all off... but in other news check out this: i

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its the sweet sticky smell of fig jam burning (burning in a good way, trust me) it fills our house, and very soon it will fill these jars...  (i love abundant fig trees that belong to generous friends). 

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so, i am trying out my new crochet book, and it seems i am less good at following patterns than i thought. the first square i tried was, well, to start off with - not square. so i tried again, the pattern seemed simple enough...   i'm halfway through this "square" and things are not going well. (in yellow of course for my current baby blanket project) so i thought i would stop and make

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so finally, our internet is working again. it came back on friday, but then it sat in the corner and sulked for a few days, until we finally managed to coax it back into action. moody thing, our internet is. but in other news: fig emergencies one of my lovely friends has a fig tree. a very productive fig tree. it is magnificent, full of lovely ripening figs. and a week or so ago, she called me

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or: my internet has gone away. it seems to be taking a little holiday from our house. i am hoping it will come back on friday, like it promised, but we will see. hopefully it will, for i have such exciting things to tell (involving fig emergencies)...

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so here they are, the crochet present i finished last week: presenting some crocheted slippers: ta da... aren't they fab! the pattern comes from here. i did however, experience the confusion that comes from two different sets of terminology. but this was only after i was part way through the first one, so they are actually made from Aus/UK "doubles" not "trebles" as they should be given the

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so, it isn't really that much of a surprise, but i would like to put it out there - crochet and red wine don't mix. i discovered this the other night, when i thought after a bit of wine, i would pick up the simple granny rug i am currently making for a friend's baby.  its a yellow rug, using a variety of yellows to make two toned squares - such as these.  this is the square i made after red wine

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ooh... i am so pleased - i just finished crocheting something really really fun. but as it is a gift for someone, i cannot yet post about it. hence the need for patience.  still, while we wait - lookie here... a fantasitc present i received recently -  what a fabulous book, i am just about to make my first square from it.  here we go... 

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ahh, camberwell market - such a lovely place for a sunday morning jaunt. (for those who haven't heard of it, every sunday morning there is a rotary trash and treasure type market in camberwell - a suburb of melbourne). fondly referred to as camberwelly by many (well,  sayraphim and i call it that - or maybe its just me). anyway, it was a slightly unexpected trip to camberwelly this morning.

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 for a little baby's blanket...

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so, i'm on holidays this week (i know, who'd be me!) and just before i head off to the beach, i thought i would pop up the second in my holiday project series. button necklaces: the idea for these came from a necklace a friend of mine bought in england. i just loved the simplicity and the slight randomness of it. so i made two... and all of the buttons come from the fabulous button

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so, a few days late, i know, but i have finally taken down my christmas decorations and dismantled my christmas tree.  see, i am late because before i did that i had to have somewhere to put it. it being new and all, i was planning on popping down to the fabric shop and getting me some cheap christmas fabric in a post-christmas sale. but, instead on my last op-shop visit, i found this fabulous

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aren't holidays so much fun! mine were full of all sorts of lovely goodness. much food and family and friends and beaches and hanging round at home and (whispers quietly) cricket and of course, crafting...  oh the crafting i did - making, sewing, unpicking, threading buttons, crocheting. and as i slowly drag myself back into the everyday, i am keen to share some of my holiday projects... the

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so, i was going to post about this before christmas (which would have made a lot more sense than now), but life / holidays / christmas itself got in the way. so here is my (late) final post for 2009. i got this fabulous macrame nativity scene book for my birthday. it is so, so much fun. unfortunately though, i have no idea how to macrame - so i borrowed a friend's crochet hook (i didn't have any

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this is my second favourite bread - its a new one that i have made a couple of times now and i am loving it, so i thought i would share... oaty, grainy, honey bread 1 1/4 cups water 2 tbs milk powder 2 tbs butter 2 tbs honey 1 1/12 tsp salt 2 cups wholemeal flour 1 cup white flour 1 1/2 tsp yeast 1/2 cup oats 1/4 cup mixed grains 1/4 cup pumpkin seeds i throw it all into my breadmaker and

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as i predicted, i am love love loving making these stars... (although a confession, most of the yellow ones here were actually made by the fabulous sayraphim at another of our crafternoons)... and how fun are crocheted christmas decorations!!  check out the fabulous tree pattern from michelle at the fabulous royal sisters crochet really is addictive, isn't it? (but in a good way...)

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so, you may be starting to worry about me and these skirts (i know i am). ok, ok, i know i have already made and posted about these skirts twice (here and here). so far. so i thought when i made another of them the other day, i would add a how-to, (my justification of being able to post about them again). so here it is, made from the great op-shopped fabric i bought a few weeks ago.  this is a

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ok, so its not very good, but i have to say this is my first ever crochet by pattern - and i am really proud of it... big thanks to the lovely michelle at the royal sisters, for her easy to understand grandma twinkle star tutorial (found via the very talented and much more even crocheters miss muggins and kate). more stars to come!

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what fun! much credit to the engineer who did much of the drilling (for the branches - they thread through) and for a number of key aesthetic decisions (like the use of an old tomato garden stake for the trunk). now i just need to make a few more decorations for the bottom few branches...

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i am always amazed at the beautiful, neat and organised fabric stashes there are out there. (which are often showcased as part of kirsty's wonderful creative space meme). as i've mentioned, my creative space tends not to be as neat as other peoples'. but so far i have avoided talking about my fabric stash. its also not so neat. particularly like this week, when i was fossiking through to look

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i wonder if i should be worried. see there seems to be a chocolatey theme to all the recipes i have posted. i'd like to set the record straight - i do make non-chocolate based things too. and i'll prove it. right after i post about the choclate mousse i made... this is basically the chocolate mousse from the cadbury website. there only difference was that i used 200g of lindt mint chocolate (as

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so, there's been lots of busy-ness 'round these parts, but very little crafting. but even when there's not time for crafting, i can usually manage a little bit of op-shopping... i love love love this fabric - and i have such plans!

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its pillowcase and thread sketch central 'round here (you may have noticed already). i've been making more pillowcase veggie bags, and a request came in for a peg bag... i had to peg it both sides in this pic (simply to get the photo right), but it actually has a tab at the top for pegging to the line. i am so in love with thread sketching (and we have the wonderful gina to thank for it)

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it feels a bit like it has been all show and tell round at marjoryjane recently - i seem to be finishing projects left right and centre. so its almost nice to post my creative space with a still being finished project, its actually a project i have been finishing for about the last 12 months - but i really am starting to get there with it. its now tantilisingly close to done. i am loving stencil

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well, i don't know about you, but i learnt some very useful skills while i was at uni - like how to make candles. i have never actually done it though, and it has been a number of years since i was at uni. however, i had a couple of candles that had burnt through the wick, but with plenty of candle left. in the reduce/re-use/recycle way of things, the other day i decided pull out those old

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its been birthday central 'round here - with cakes galore in recent times. i thought i would share great recipe for the non-gluten eaters amongst us (adapted from the cupcake recipe of a friend) Flourless chocolate cake 2 tablespoons brewed coffee 125g butter, chopped 200g dark chocolate, chopped ¼ cup cocoa powder ¾ cup caster sugar 4 eggs, separated 100g (1 cup) almond meal 100g milk

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so, here is my sheet skirt all finished and done. i am really very happy with it. my first pattern-less skirt success. (you may well note the similarities with the pillowcase skirt i posted below - they are the same basic idea, but i did actually make this one first). and thanks to everyone for their great ideas on what to do with the rest of the sheet. i really like the pj idea, and

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