Stop the press guys… A while back I pinned this super cute romper from Erin at Lemon Tree Creations, with the promise that if Hercules was a boy, I would be making it for his Christmas outfit. Turns out that Herc was Ronan, and so it was time to get stuck into my Christmassy fabrics. (and FYI, if Herc had been a girl, I would have been making this sunsuit from Made By Rae in Michael Miller’s Yule Critters in [...]

I’m under instruction from my husband to post more of my personal crafts on here (my in laws are getting stroppy about the huge amount of crafty updates on my personal blog drowning out the occasional post about their grandkids!) and Sherrie asked in a previous post about my Christmas Crafting, so I thought I’d show it off a bit. This is some of what I’ve been working on since the beginning of December, only the gifts that have already [...]

This weeks show and tell theme comes from my “tweep” (ick, hate that term!) Jennifer. Jennifer was the first to respond to my shoutout on twitter asking for ideas for the theme, she offered up the idea for Decorations and Ornaments. Show us your holiday decorations, tell us about your favourite ornament, sneakily photograph the house down the street with enough lights to bring a plane down. As always, interpret as you wish and post sometime this week. No new [...]

If you want everyone to get a little bit of handmade from you for Christmas, but don’t have the time to make up 30 different gifts, this is a great way to send a little bit of homemade festive cheer to everyone. They’re very quick and simple to make up, and look like they too far longer than they actually did, exactly what you need when you’ve got a list of handmade gifts about a mile long to make up! [...]

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 [...]