Craft, Clutter and Chaos

It's been craft central around here, but unfortunately only for the little people. I live in hope that one day, a concentrated hush will fall over the house as small hands snip, draw and paste in ONE CONTAINED AREA while I quietly potter away at my own tasks, namely cleaning this messy house.

Until that day, we live in chaos and clutter and we craft together.

And sew, a new hobby.

I have a new toy and and am yet to learn how to drive it. I missed my chance as a kid to learn how and recently when I asked mum why she taught my sister how but not me, she replied "because she was interested". Oh. So now I'm interested but I think I'll be learning how on my own. Although I have enlisted the trusty best friend for a 'sewing day'. Don't know how much sewing will get done though with three kidlets between us.

My sewing ambitions are humble. But I'd love to be able to whip up a little frock or a pair of summer pants for my girls, do a minor alteration and perhaps tackle the occasional softie. That's all. Watch this space...

Project Abandoned

ninja

Not many words are coming to me tonight but i thought I'd share my failed project with you. It took me a while to realize that felt is probably not the best fabric to use as an appliqué on teeny tiny baby singlets.



hippo

Lucky i hadn't yet sewed the little fellas on.



hippo on singlet

Back to the drawing board.

A Blog is Born!

Ok. Here i am. Hello. I've been deliberating and procrastinating about starting my own blog for months now; inspired by the writing and photos of others and feeling a bit cheeky about enjoying other people's blog without contributing anything myself. My apprehension was mainly because i couldn't quite decide on a topic or theme to stick to. I love craft blogs but i'm not a particularly prolific crafter, i love yoga but i couldn't be bothered writing about it all the time, i love being a parent but i'd rather read about it than write about it and i enjoy writing occasionally but not usually for the consumption of others (i am perhaps scarred by the comments of my year 10 teacher who said my writing was "obscure"...i had thought i was being poetic! ).

However, with a little encouragement from the lovely Leah of Hyena in Petticoats, here i go! I realised that what i really enjoy about other blogs is the day to day stuff that is shared and occasional bursts of inspiration from a beautiful photo or story or humour. I can have a humble little blog (and i've got nothing to sell) and create a collection of snippets of things that i love or am inspired by.

Anyway, the photo below is of the thing that i love the most in the world;


And here is another beautiful thing;




but i only had a hand in creating one of them.

Jasmine