Although sometimes it feels like it, I’m sure I’m not the only one with a feral kid who will flat out not behave in a restaurant, we take along colouring pencils, books and cars and that will amuse him for the first five minutes, but after that he’s kicking his little brother’s chair and moaning about how hungry he is. I’m hoping this naughts and crosses board from Julie of Jaybird quilts can cure some of that boredom, or maybe [...]

Digital photography is an awesome thing, I have gig upon gig of photos stored in hard drives and dead laptops, the not so awesome thing is that I am completely crap at printing off any photos. I printed my first photos this Christmas as a gift to my mother in law, I have no photos of the boys on display around my house, if it wasn’t for the obstacle course of toys that resides in my front room you wouldn’t [...]

I few yards of fabric, a rotary cutter and some bulky yarn was all it took to add this little splash of colour to my eldest son’s bedroom. It’s super simple to make: Cut a strip of fabric the height of triangle you want, stack your fabrics as many as you think your rotary cutter can get through easily in one swipe. Cut triangles at a 22.5 degree angle along the strips Finish the edges with pinking shears (or, even [...]

With another baby on the way and the incentive of saving up for a car that can actually fit all five of us in, we’ve been working hard on saving money over the last few months. This is the first season change where we haven’t had any hand me downs to rely on from my nephew, as Declan, my weed like two year old, is now the same size as his five year old cousin. My one year old isn’t [...]

Christie of Childhood 101 has hit the jackpot again with this absolutely superb homemade cardboard car. The total cost of which was a mere $9.63! Featuring a hot purple paint job, a moving steering wheel and ABS*, it has everything your toddler could need, but much cheaper, much more green and far more imaginative than popping down to target and picking up a Crazy Coupe. Thanks to Leigh of That’sNoice for tipping me off! (*so maybe I went a bit [...]

Okay, so it’s not Tuesday, I’m two days late on the blog love post, and I haven’t put up Flickr Friday, but damnit, I don’t care because I’m so excited about this tut – which is why it’s going up early. Hot Christmases like we have in Australia are still a very strange concept to me, growing up Christmas was about snow (or grey British drizzle!), log fires and roast dinners, then five years ago I suddenly had to adjust [...]

Christmas is fast approaching, you’re short on time, money and ideas, this blanket is the answer to all your problems! Well, maybe not all of them, but I can give you a present you can knock out in 45 minutes and (if you’re in Australia) all of the fleece at Lincraft and Spotlight is on clearance for 40-50% off to clear out the old winter stock, so it works out fairly cheap. If I hadn’t have been overcharged on the [...]

My eldest son has just made the move from his high chair and onto a booster seat at “the big table”, yay for creating more space by putting the high chair in the garage (at least for a few more months until his younger brother needs it!), less of a yay for my dining table constantly being under a barrage of crumbs, melted cheese and sticky pesto. So, as with most tutorials on here, out of necessity I made up [...]

I just sat down to get started on taking the pictures on today’s “Tuesday Tutorial” and then realised that pattern pieces and designs are currently sitting in my husband’s laptop bag, that is currently sitting in an office in North Sydney. Oops. I guess that’s what I get for scribbling down my ideas the moment inspiration strikes… and writing them on the back of his meeting notes! In my defence, I promise they did just look like scraps of paper. [...]

I really like batik and the effect it gives, but don’t have the spare change to buy a proper set up to do batik traditionally, which is why as soon as I saw this tutorial I had to try it out straight away! Tutorial: Flour Paste Batik Level: Easy Time taken: Probably only an hour worth of actual work, but there’s a lot of waiting time as well, this isn’t an instant gratification project! Give yourself a full weekend to [...]