How would you like to WIN a shopping voucher worth $150 to spend at Mathilda’s Market, here in Canberra this Sunday?
Mathilda’s Market is full of some of the best of Australia’s crafters and designers,  selling …

Finally a blog post!  Honestly, I have been meaning to get to this for DAYS and WEEKS.  Well, here it is at last!  Time for a cuppa and a read!

One reason that I’ve been finding it …

Can you BELIEVE that it’s about to be a brand new year?  It will be a new decade too…  Of course, this is a time to look back on the past and wonder what the future might …

What a week it’s been!  It started with Paul’s parents coming for a visit from Victoria, which was great!  Love seeing them and we wish we lived closer so we could get together more often.  …

Congratulations to Fiona who won the shoulder bag I was giving away in my Happy Blogiversary to Me post the other day.  I had 18 comments (one of them mine, replying) and so I used …

I really miss this boy.  Jack left for school camp yesterday.  He’s only 8!

I’m sure he’s having the BEST FUN EVER but I miss him.   More than I thought I would.  I hope he’s warm …

Recently I was lucky enough to get a long weekend trip down to Melbourne, sans kids, to catch up with my BFF Yvie and her husband Dan.  I even got to see her Baby Bump!  …

I’m a little behind in my blogging…  BUT…  Emma turned 6 last Sunday!

Here is my baby when she was just a baby - she had the bluest eyes and the longest feet as a baby.  …

LOTS of very exciting and fun things happened over the long weekend:

we hosted a BBQ lunch for 12 to celebrate Sam’s 17th birthday (also included some fun moments with the Wii) 
packed up some cards, zip purses …

Happy Birthday Jack! I can’t believe how big you are, and how wonderful you are.  Full of energy and full of facts - craving knowledge.  There is enough Lego in your room to open your …

Lots of new around here. I have been working hard on my RED INSTEAD handmade website - photographing and adding new products, making new graphics, tweaking the layout and generally sprucing things up.

I’ve also been …

I’ve been busy.  I’m sure you have too, with Christmas just around the corner.  Thanks so much for your lovely comments about my last post, but in the end I pulled the canvases back off …