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Are you up for a game? If you could invite five people (living or dead, real or fictional) to dinner, who would they be? The Dinner Party by Jules Alexandre Grun I would choose... Sir David Attenborough He would have so many interesting stories to tell!  Plus I know my daughter would drag out all her wildlife books and ask him dozens of questions...I hope he likes kids as much as animals!

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I've been all about blue and green lately. But a bit of orange snuck into my home via my cooking today. Pumpkin Soup... and Mango Icecream... I'm in love with my Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker which I got for Christmas - it's wonderful to be able to share ice cream with Miss Seven, who can't have the shop bought stuff due to her peanut allergy.  I couldn't find a good mango ice cream recipe so

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I've been having a blogging break while getting to know the newest addition to our household.  It's a bit exhausting, this baby business - especially since I havn't done it all for a while.  But lovely at the same time.  Things are beginning to settle into kind-of-a, sort-of-a, somehow routine now, so hopefully I will be able to get back to blogging a little more!  I've missed it. Here, by the

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How do you feel about 2011?  I generally have mixed feelings about every year, but this one in particular seemed to be falling on the not so good side of life.  So much so, that I was pretty well wishing it away. But then, at the last minute, here came this little fella - to remind me that there is always a fresh start, that nothing is ever all bad and things can always be redeemed, even at the

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Have you ever made your own muesli bars?  If not, you should try!  It's super easy and you can put in whatever grains, seeds, nuts or fruit you like!  Or leave them out if you don't like.  It's really versatile and the combinations are as limited as your imagination and taste buds will allow. I found my recipe here, but I changed it to suit my own ingredients because while I was cleaning out my

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Unless you happen to come to my place...

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Can you believe that we still have these sitting in our pantry? I think it's testament to how much choc Miss Six actually received at Easter time!  I must admit though, since it's hard to buy nut free chocolate for her at other times of the year, we all tend to go overboard a bit. So anyhow, I suggested to Miss Six that we could add some of her chocolate to some nice lunchbox treats which

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Lookit!  I have FINALLY  finished Miss Six's crocheted granny square throw. Wow.  I think I started this last winter? (Yes, I did!)  What an effort.  I have to say, stitching it all together was not my most favourite thing....it was not at all soothing like the hooking together of each little square was.  And it took ages and ages and ages.    But I'm pretty impressed with the final product

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HELLO! So obviously I've not been around for a while and I have to say that I have a very good and perfectly just reason for taking such a long unannounced blog break.  You see, there's been quite a bit of pain, some nausea, a scary moment (or should that be, 12 hours), a whole lot of absolutely debilitating exhaustion and this... I'm currently 18 weeks, the exhaustion has lifted and I'm

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It took me a while to get round to doing it, but here's my next crocheted rock.  I used a brighter variagated green this time and made the pattern up as I went along.  The illustrations are from "The Complete Book Of House Plants" by Russell C. Mott and illustrated by Alan Singer, which I picked up at a second hand bookstore.  

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What's not to love about a catchy tune who's vid comes complete with a granny square blanket? Also, tee hee at 2:57. "Something In The Water" Brooke Fraser

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Just recently I (and some other bloggy commenters) won a lovely little suprise from Georgina of Perpetual One just for leaving a comment on her blog.  It was very unexpected and dreadfully nice.  Wasn't that kind and sweet of her?  Here she is! This gorgeous pic is from Georgina's blog I have been wanting to visit Georgina for ages - she has a gorgeous caravan-stall at the Peregian Beach

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Do you know what I've been loving for quite some time now?  Text as artwork.  There's been lots of it in the interior design world - a huge interest in decoration containing fonts, alphabets and writing. I've even considered printing out and and framing my very first post ...I can't help but smile when I see it and I have the perfect spot! So if interiors arn't your thing and you havn't a clue

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Supakitch and Koralie Found via Angie May Handmade Aakash Nihalani Found via  Happy Mundane And some of my old faves... Joshua Allen Harris Ford Ka advertising campaign from a couple of years ago

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I have finally finished the blue ripple baby blanket which I began making last year...and which completely stalled when I discovered I'd made it waaaaaaaaaay too big (single bed size!!!) and so I had to start a whole new blanket three weeks ago when I actually realised the mama of said baby was in her final two weeks! (Where the heck did that time go?) Lucky for me she went over by a week.   The

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I went browsing the nearest antique centre a few weeks ago looking for old jars which I might use as vases.  The cheapest were $15...waaaay too expensive.  Then I wandered down the road to check out the local oppie...and found three old Fowler's No.27 canning jars for the grand price of $1 each.  They are an absolute perfect size for filling with blowsy blooms. Thankyou, thrifting gods.

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Cocktail umbrellas are so sweet!  I don't remember where I saw the idea for this little umbrella mobile but I've been wanting to do it for ages and I've also been waiting for a sunny day to take a photograph so the colours pop...but days like that seem to be few and far between lately and I honestly couldn't wait any longer!  Oh well, rainy days and umbrellas - that does go together and you'll

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 A long while ago, the remarkable Allana from High Maintenance Hippy gave me a "Versatile Blogger Award".  I was completely suprised and abashed and amazed that the bloggy world could be so lovely.  And it IS lovely, you know?  Especially this crafty-cookingy-handmadey-vintagey-arty-creative bloggy world - everyone seems to get on with everyone just fine, there's heaps of encouragement and

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Back to school hairstyles for one and all!  Well, for little girls, actually.  I know quite a few of my readers have school aged girls and if they are like Miss Six and attend a school with headlice going round on a regular basis (isn't that every school?) then you might like to check out this fabulous, fabulous website (and many Youtube vids) for hairstyle ideas which will keep your little

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Beatles songs are always heaps of fun to wail along to but they are even more fun when sung by a cute amigurumi ukelele duo!  See?  I bet you're smiling.

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Lovely Pip from the legendary Meet Me At Mikes has shown what's on her table this morning. Here's what's on mine... 1. New and vintage crossstich and prints framed and waiting to be hung 2. Vintage crossstitch with broken glass waiting to be replaced 3. Vintage bird print in the process of being framed 4. Cocktail umbrellas I am planning to do something funky and cool with 5. Miss Six's

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I can't believe it's been over a month since I last posted, it was good to take a little break!  I hope everyone had a lovely holiday season and any of my fellow east coast Aussies who read my blog were/are not too badly affected by the floods.  We were lucky enough to have not a single one of our friends or family affected, despite some of them being fairly close to some of the worser hit areas.

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This song had me singing along the very first time I heard it on my car stereo.  Then I saw the vid and now all I want to do is hightail it to the beach.  Anyone coming for the ride?

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Today's lunchbox: Morning Tea:  Seaweed rice crackers and mix of craisins (dried cranberries) and sultanas. Lunch:  Chicken, sweetcorn and green capsicum cream cheese pinwheels with fresh fruit mix of green grapes, red grapes, blueberries and strawberries. Drink: Iced water The pinwheels are made with mountain bread which is a type of flat bread - simply spread your chosen filling on, roll up

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I've been wanting to make some terrariums for ages after finding some fabulous old bottles complete with glass stoppers at a local thrift store.  (Those are the two at the back.  The one at the front is an old coffee bottle with a plastic base on the stopper) I've also been inspired by some beauties I've seen on the internet (apparently they were all the craze overseas a few years ago!  How the

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Today's Lunchbox: Morning Tea:  Fresh orange pieces, homemade gingerbread biscuits Lunch:  Sweet and Savoury Jaffles - Savoury is "vegetarian pizza" with herbed tomato paste, cheddar cheese, corn kernels, green capsicum, tomato and kalamata olives in wholemeal bread.  Sweet is "custard and cinnamon apple pie" with vanilla custard, pie apple and cinnamon sugar in homemade fruit bread. Drink:

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Today's lunchbox: Morning Tea: Mixed grapes and two sorts of savoury mini muffin - 1.Curried cheese, chive and corn 2. Kalamata olive, feta and italian herbs Lunch: Homemade spiced fruit loaf fingers with cream cheese filling, cherry tomatos, carrot stars and celery pieces The spiced fruit loaf is made in our breadmaker - I have substituted the usual "mixed fruit and glace cherries" for

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Summer's almost here and I am completely dreading going togs shopping.  For those who arn't Queenslanders, togs are what we call swimsuits, ...I know they have lots of different names, even in different parts of Australia -   what do you call them where you are?  I've also noticed a sudden trend by all the magazine and designer folk to call a one piece swimsuit, a "maillot" (pronounced "may-yoo")

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Today's lunchbox: Morning Tea: Tropical fruit salad of strawberries, watermelon, mango, pineapple and baby mint leaves, pre packaged muesli bar. Lunch: Chicken and vegetable noodle cakes with cos lettuce, cherry tomatoes and cheese cubes Drink: Water I just have to say that I LOVE the fruit that is around at this time of year!  YUM!  It makes being healthy so very easy.  Also, I tend to steer

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Just recently, my little Miss Five became a very grown up Miss Six!  Where on earth has my baby gone? You can see what she got for her birthday there on her wrist.  She also got a cubby house (with a slide!) made by my hubby (thankyou so very much sweetheart, you're very clever.)  I totally wish I'd had a watch and a cubby (with a slide!) when I was six.

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Today's Lunchbox... Morning Tea -  Fresh mango cheeks, homemade trail mix of sultanas, raisins, popcorn, croutons and oven roasted pumpkin seeds. Lunch - Chicken and vegetable risotto arancini with cheddar cheese centres, salad of cos lettuce, mini tomatoes and carrot stars. Drink: Water If you make risotto, then you can make arancini with the leftovers!  Wear a pair of disposable gloves

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I have just stumbled on this beautiful little vid through the blog of one of my lovely, lovely followers, Tara, and I had to share it with you all.  I think you should head on over to Tara's blog On A Branch to read what she has to say about creating art as an adult when you havn't for some time.  I could definately relate and I'm sure many of you will be able to as well. When I was little, I

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Today at school drop off time, all the little girls in my daughter's class were fascinated by a small snaily fellow wandering along the seating. After I came home and was writing out my groceries list, this appeared from the end of my pen... I miss drawing. I need to make time to do it more often.

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Today's Lunchbox... Morning Tea - Strawberry yoghurt and nut-free choc-chip biscuit (both homemade) Lunch - Chicken, cheese and salad "Mountain Bread" wraps, fresh watermelon pieces Drink - Water I am a little excited that I now know how to make yoghurt.  Basically, you heat some milk, then cool it a little, then stir in a big spoon of natural yoghurt, then put it in a warm place (like a pre

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So, I was really hoping my blog would go viral but instead, I have. You guessed it, I'm sick.  Bleh.  Hopefully by next week, yours truly will have returned to her regular programming but until then here's a sneak peak of one of my current projects. I hope you have a lovely weekend.  I'm going back to bed.

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At the moment we have way too many paw paws.  Despite giving lots away to family and friends and the resident possum sneaking a few when we got a little slack about picking them, we are still usually left with a back log of three or four.  And I can only eat so much paw paw!  So what do you do when you have too much paw paw?  Make paw paw chutney, of course!  (But you already had that worked out,

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Today's Lunchbox... Morning Tea: Seaweed and plain rice crackers with tomato dip. Lunch: Homemade pizza fingers, fresh blueberries with canned apple and a sprinkle of cinnamon sugar. Drink: Water Because of Miss Five's peanut allergy we tend to avoid bought dips (not to mention the fact they often contain preservatives and other nasties) but it's no hassle as it is so very quick and easy to

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Before the school holidays, I finally finished my last granny square for the throw blanket I am making for Miss Five.  Here they are... All one hundred and sixteen!  I didn't do any crochet over the holidays but now they are all laid out on the loungeroom floor and I am painstakingly slip-stitching them together.  It feels like it's taking forever but I keep reminding myself that it takes time

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Today's lunch... Morning Tea: Ladyfinger banana and mini honey joy (see here for how to make these) Lunch: Spaghetti bolognaise and cheese open-topped pie, fresh blueberries in vanilla yoghurt (Jalna all natural pot-set yoghurt) Drink: Water Do you like our mini honey joys?  Miss Five loved the ones we made for camping but while they were the perfect size for adults she found them a bit much

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We had so much fun on our camping trip!  We went to Wivenhoe Dam which I definately recommend as a camp site if you are like me and enjoy having hot showers and flushing toilets available to make your "roughing it" experience not so rough!  I don't recommend unpacking to discover you've forgotten the cutlery and plates though.  Good thing the little country town of  Esk wasn't too far away!

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In keeping with the theme of vintage treats, here is a treat that's not only the right size for a lunchbox (and very treat-ish, I'm definately not claiming these to be healthy, but they are fun and it's nice to have a special treat every now and then, don't you agree?) but they are also a great party food and I really don't think you could get more of a classic Aussie treat than these!  And, more

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Whether in a lunchbox or not, who doesn't love themselves some treats?!  And especially, who doesn't love themselves some vintage treats?  No, no, I'm not talking about treats from 1987 that I happened to find hidden in the back of the pantry ('cause, ewww) but treats based on vintage recipes that whoosh you straight back to your childhood. When I was small, I used to go up north to stay with my

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Looking forward to this... Source Reading this... And you can too with the Meet Me At Mikes bookclub Watching this... (Anne is so pretty and Gilbert is so dashing!) Waiting to buy this... Poppies For Grace Wishing I could afford these too... Also at Poppies For Grace And thinking about making some of these... Source What are you up to?  Do tell!

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Today's Lunchbox... Morning Tea - Carrot sticks, cheddar cheese cubes, mini egg tomatoes, pumpkin scone with butter. Lunch - Mini hot dog containing barbequed beef sausage (preservative free), grated cheddar cheese and organic tomato sauce.  Fruit salad of strawberries and Pink Lady apple pieces (dressed in lemon juice) Drink - Water I cannot take credit for the mini hot dog idea - this was

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Harvest time!  Got any good green bean recipes?  We've picked 3.1 kilos of beans so far and there's still more coming!! Filling up the cookie jar...five different sorts of jam drop are definately evidence that there is waaaay too much jam in my fridge. Don't you love plants that take care of themselves?  Our king orchid (Dendrobium Tarberi) minds it's own business hanging out in our

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Here are the latest vintage linen finds...   And these last three are all part of the same piece... So pretty!

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Today's lunchbox... Morning Tea:  Orange pieces with sultanas, plain and seaweed rice crackers Lunch:  Cold chicken tenders, wholemeal sandwich with Philidelphia Cream Cheese, Mini egg tomatoes, cheddar cheese cubes, green peas.  Strawberries. Drink: Water We had the chicken tenders as part of our dinner last night.  I made them by slicing fresh chicken breast, coating with egg and rolling in

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While we love ourselves some good picture books and visit the library on a regular basis, I began getting really bored with the same old same old for our bedtime stories.  Miss Five loves any sort of reading or stories so I thought I'd try her out on chapter books - one chapter each night.  We started with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl and it was a great success - she couldn't

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Morning Tea - Canned peach pieces in vanilla yoghurt.  Two mini-pikelets (buttered). Lunch - Salad of tri-coloured pasta bows, capsicum, cherry tomatoes, english spinach leaves, feta cheese and kalamata olives dressed in drizzle of extra virgin olive oil and cracked black pepper.  Fresh watermelon pieces. Drink - Water It's the first time I've given Miss Five a salad like this for school.  She

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  Vintage linens...for a patchwork quilt maybe?  I'll definately need more!

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Right at the beginning of my blog, I posted about and entered a giveaway for a cute clip from Bluebird Russian, which I (amazingly!) won.  That really doesn't happen very often!  I was very excited to receive it in the mail and then life in general got in the way and I never got to post about it.  So here it is, better late than never! Bluebird Russian makes funky knitted and embroidered wear

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In keeping with last week's theme of mini-food... Morning Tea - Red and green apple slices*, seaweed and plain rice crackers Lunch - Mini-burger containing garden fresh cos lettuce and tomatos, cheddar cheese, beef patty and  organic tomato sauce.  Strawberries and blueberries. Drink - Water *Hint: Use a squeeze of lemon or lime juice over the apple slices to stop them browning. You could

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Have you seen these yet? I've been enamoured with them ever since seeing them for the first time and quite often since, on Geninne's beautiful blog. So here's my own first attempt at one.   I didn't use a pattern and since I only know how to chain and  treble stitch, that's what I did. Perhaps not as exquisite as Margaret Oomen's beauties but I think I did ok.  And it's just perfect for

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Todays lunch... Morning Tea - Stewed apple and natural sultanas with cinnamon sugar sprinkle  Lunch - Cold beef curry and cheddar cheese mini-pies.  Fresh strawberries in vanilla yoghurt (Jalna All Natural pot-set yoghurt) Drink - Water The mini pies can be filled with what ever you have on hand as leftovers from your nightly meal - a hearty stew or casserole filling would be just as lovely!

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I have two more rows of fourteen squares to go before it's time to start stitching it all together!!   I hope I have enough white yarn left!!

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Today's lunch... Morning Tea - Strawberry and tinned pineapple fruit salad and "Mousetraps" Lunch - Cold cheese and baked bean mini-jaffles with matching "mini" apple : ) Drink - Water Miss Five begged for cheese and baked beans today so I had to at least do something a little different with them.  To get "mini" jaffles, just use your jaffle maker as you normally would, then once cooked, turn

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I absolutely love anything that's rainbow coloured!!  This week at our place there's been... Rainbow bands in our hairstyles... Rainbow lorikeets in our gardens... and rainbow coloured 100's & 1000's on top of our homemade icecream... You can only see a little of them here - I had to take the picture fast cause the icecream was meeeeelting, meeeeeeeelllltttttttting!!!!!!  Ha ha ha oh dear

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Today's lunch... Morning Tea - Orange and Strawberry fruit salad, plain rice crackers and chedder cheese triangles Lunch - Double decker sandwich fingers (Light Philidelphia Cream Cheese & Lettuce, Tomato), Ladyfinger banana Drink - Water with mint leaves Both the tomato and lettuce are from our vege patch.  Delish!!  To stop the tomato making the sandwiches soggy, I press it in between some

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Look!  My strawberry plants are flowering and beginning to produce berries!  Hooray! I love strawberries.  Now I'm off to make strawberry icecream for Miss Five (and myself!) with some awesome berries I picked up at the farmers markets this weekend. Yuuuuuuuuuum!!!

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In an effort to inspire myself a little more when making my daughter's school lunches, thus begins "Friday Lunchbox".  Hope you feel inspired too! Here is today's... Morning Tea - fresh strawberries, stove popped popcorn (gotta love those Nude Food Movers containers) Lunch - Stromboli and banana (yes those are butterfly and flower stickers on that banana, Miss 5 gets all excited when she finds

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Check this out - the official unofficial video for Train's "Hey Soul Sister"  (a song I can never get out of my head once I hear it). Apparently some of their friends put it together for them.  I think I like it better than the official one!!  And it's such a happy little ditty that it makes it to my busker list, no questions asked.

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Have you heard about the Book Depository?  If you love books and have (like me, until recently) never heard of them, then you should definately check them out!!  While I always try my best to buy locally, books are such a luxury item for me that I'm happy to go with what's cheapest.  And although it's a UK site, not only can I view my purchases in Aussie dollars, they also offer free worldwide

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I love looking through all the beauty and crafty goodness there is in the world of other people's blogs and online shops and design and decor sites.  So many gorgeous colour combinations, so many beautiful ideas, so many talented people.  Most of the time it's really inspiring.  It makes me want to get off my behind and get going with creating some crafty aesthetic of my own.  To get a move on

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Well, now that the school holiday madness is over I can finally get back to some blog love! Even though it's the middle of winter here, my vegetable patch is coming along quite nicely right now with a multitude of healthy deliciousness just waiting to ripen or to be picked and eaten. Growing up with migrant parents from farming backgrounds who've always grown their own foods, I've always known

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If I were singing on a street corner with an old guitar and an upturned hat, this song would definately be on my playlist. Paramore "The Only Exception"

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Here's some old fashioned kind of fun! Pip from Meet Me At Mikes is holding a lovely competition wherein you send her an envelope full of crafty bits and bobs you happen to have lying around.  She will take photos of the envelope and contents as they come in and all the envelopes will be hung in the window display of her shop.  You can be as crafty or as quick with your envelope and contents as

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Today I had a little spare time so decided to go web surfing in the hopes of discovering new and exciting stuff. And I happened upon a lovely little giveaway at Bluebird Russian .  Don't you just love giveaways?  I have never won one yet but it's exciting to try and you have to be in it to win it!  So get on over there - leave a comment and a link on your blog and you just might win one of

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I have a lot going on at the moment and I'm feeling pretty down.  It's so easy to let things get to you sometimes when it feels like the world is piling everything at your doorstep.  So to help chase my blues away I'm going to try my best to think yellow.  Here's some yellow happening at my place right now... A singing bird...   A fresh garden harvest...  Sunshiney flowers... Warm pumpkin

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Pip from Meet Me At Mikes  set a lovely little craft challenge here a little while ago.  I'm joining in!  And you can too!  (In the words of Pip herself, "Yes, you can!") Thanks to her awesomely easy to understand video tutorials, I learnt how to crochet a granny square in less than two afternoons.  Ok, my first one was completely wonky ( I blame the loosely woven wool I was using, cause it

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