Paul and I went along to “An Evening to Remember” on Monday night, which was a social event for Bosom Buddies, which is a non-profit organisation that supports women with breast cancer in Canberra and …

 
Nearly 8,000 blogs have already signed up for Blog Action Day 2009.   If you looked at one blog every five seconds, it would take take over eleven hours to get through all the participants!
At the end …

I have been looking around for a new watch for a little while now.  There are so many different designs - round face, oblong face, numbers, no numbers - but I couldn’t find one that …

Happy Anzac Day!  This is the day in Australia and New Zealand that we remember and thank all those who have served in war, and especially the ANZACs who fought at Gallipoli in WW1. Many …

It’s my Blogiversary today!  Yes, 3 years ago today, I started this little thing and I’m still going.  I’ve written 376 posts and I have 341 CSS readers.  I get about 350 views per day …

I hate purple. I don’t know why - I just don’t like it. On the weekend, I went along to join a choir - sorry, choral group called A Chorus of Women. …

At last Tuesday’s Brindabella session, we had the opportunity to listen to a great talk on climate change given by someone from the Australian Conservation Foundation. It was really helpful to have someone to answer …

Today is Blog Action Day and the theme for this year is the environment.

I can’t tell you how happy it makes me to see so many people making small (or big) changes in their day-to-day …

Here is a top that I decorated (with a train applique) for Jack last Winter. He loved it at the time but this Winter (ie. right now!) he has informed me that trains are just …

What to do with a much loved piece of clothing that has a stain that just won’t come out? I have had a couple of tops waiting for some kind of transformation and today was …

My first refashioning project since signing up. Four months of not buying any new clothes - instead I will be sewing and refashioning thrifted or other clothes.
I had bought a few very cheap on-sale oversized …

I, Jen Leheny, pledge that I shall abstain from the purchase of “new” manufactured items of clothing, for the period of 4 months.
I pledge that I shall refashion, renovate, recycle preloved items for myself …