leap

Happy Leap Year !

To celebrate the occasion when you visit my bigcartel shop

and purchase any two patterns you will receive

29% off !

Offer ends midnight tonight AEDST.

Just enter the code word leap.

That'll make your heart leap !

stuff we like ~ gutermann glow thread

The stuff we like (or may not) this week is Gutermann Glow thread.

Yes a bit out there for some but I think this has the potential to be a bit of fun.

You could use these threads on tutus or fairy dresses for a bit

of a glow in the garden of an evening .

You could stitch motifs or random scrawls on t-shirts for blue light discos.

Just think of the potential for glowing outfits at Halloween .

Glowing Christmas angels sound so pretty too .

Gutermann Glowy 100m polyester .

Guaranteed up to 50 washes with diminishing glow .

The intensity of the glow is determined by the length of light exposure.

Available from your local craft store .

So what do you think ? Would you have use for these threads?

Do you have something you would like showcased ?

Have a great week !

more but smaller

According to my stats lately my blog is receiving lots and lots of visitors.

They have all been coming from other sites that have kindly directed them this

way for my tutorial for Fabric Carrots .

Either way I'm glad you're here .

If you've been making fabric carrots this is a great way to use your scraps .

Make little , teeny carrots !

excuse my mess

Cleaning , cleaning , cleaning.

Sorry for any flickering and jumbled posts

as I am just trying to get some housekeeping done on my blog.

If you can see any glitches that I am unaware of please let me know.

Is the font too big ? Can you read it all clearly ?

Anything I'm too flustered to know about ?

A brand new header will be coming soon , I hope .

stuff we like

Hello there !

Like many of you I spend a bit of time on the internet.

Often I'll find fantastic and sometimes a bit quirky

craft thingies and thought you might like to see some too.

What I'd like to do is

 ~ feature one item a week

~ it can be from anywhere in the world

~ it may or may not be useful

~ it will be something that will appeal to

my very creative readers.

~ it will not be a product bash 

Would you like to help ?

If you come across a product that is cute, funny,helpful,

quirky,silly, timesaving or just really pretty

let me know , I'd love to put it on here.

As I said it is not to criticise products but to share the finds

so of course I need all links to direct readers.

I showed the girls on facebook this gorgeous

 button chocolate mould

and they suggested it could also be used for

fimo buttons and can you just imagine

filling the moulds with hundreds and thousands

and resin to make fun buttons.

The chocolate mould can be found here. 

I have a few more things to show you but I'd

really love your input so please send me

some things that you love .

20/2/2012 Edited to add ~

I have had a couple of big companies offering

items to be reviewed , many thanks.

I think it is only fair that if I find your product

suitable and you are giving me one to try,

that an extra one is offered for my readers to win .

I think that's fair , thanks for your interest.

hop to it

Just hopping in here very quickly to say hello

and to let you know I have a few

Funny Bunnies in my bigcartel shop .

I'm working on some Easter tutorials

so I hope you can hop back soon.

Have a great day !

have a heart

It wouldn't matter how many pretty hearts I cut

out and hung around the place there

is still no way I'd ever get a Valentines gift.

We have just never celebrated Valentines and after

over 20 years eeeeekkkkk together

 I don't think we'll be starting now.

Instead we make a donation to The Heart Foundation .

This really makes my heart feel good .

just one more pin

I've been spending way too much time on pinterest.

I have built beautiful homes with gorgeous furniture,

crocheted a rainbow or two,

collected the most beautiful selection of vintage things. 

Created a recipe file that I'll never get through,

looked at things nostalgically

and then of course there is the craft .

So much craft I don't know where to begin .

This is a quick little project that I found

and the original tutorial can be found here.

For the life of me I couldn't link to this blog

but it is called Craft and Creativity.

 

 Craft and reading wins me every time.

Do you read ?

What sort of books do you like ?

If I'm not crafting or reading you'll probably

find me dreaming away at Pinterest.

yoo hoo

credit

Funny how some things happen ...

I love watching Australian Story on the ABC

and a while back the program was about the woman

from Australia who trained the horses for the

movie that is out now ~ War Horses .

While I was in our town the other day I was chatting

with a lady I know that is very horsey about this program.

She was smirking at me as I was enthusing

about this wonderful horse trainer .

She then thanked me for speaking

so nicely about her sister !

Yes it really was her sister (lucky I was being nice )

 I came across a comment from Andrew

in the Where are you ? post.

He was not meaning to visit here , he landed here

via Google but stopped to say hello anyway from

near Brighton in England .

He also suggested I might be interested in this painting.

Andrew was right it is a beautiful work .

So anyway , yes , the Where Are You ? post

is still going and it's never too late to pop in there.

Have a read through the comments there

you never know what or who you may find .

Fingers crossed next post will be my new bag pattern , yay !

words

I'm having a little laugh to myself as I imagine

when people see this title and photo they are

cringing and saying

"oh no what is she going to whinge about today "

I'm not here to whinge so ha ha !

 You remember a little while ago I did a

crafty crossword and a few people asked

for a find a word so I've done one .

If you missed the craft crossword you can download it here.

The find a word can be downloaded here.

As before , please feel free to share them around

and do extras for your craft/sewing groups .

I hope you are having a great week xx