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hotspots
Saturday, February 2, 2008 – 7:07 pm | 8 Comments
hotspots

I’ve been at it again. Tidying up the studio space and reorganising. Squeezing some more storage in and moving things around so they are easier to find and see.  I seem to do …

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today
Wednesday, May 16, 2007 – 8:29 pm | One Comment
today

Feeling better again today - nearly thrown off the dreaded lurgy, thank goodness. Today started off with a bowl of porridge and a new book to flick through:

The porridge was much anticipated - the mornings …

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little houses
Wednesday, April 25, 2007 – 6:58 pm | No Comment
little houses

Yesterday I received this cute little house patchwork book (ISBN 4834764427) from superbuzzy so I thought I would show you some photos:
 
Sorry, that shot of the cover is a bit out of focus.  This book is …

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Craft books for sale
Saturday, March 17, 2007 – 11:39 am | 2 Comments
Craft books for sale

There has been a little preliminary interest in this picture:

This is one of a stack of 3 stacks like this of books that I am soon going to be selling. In amongst this stack are …

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today…
Friday, March 16, 2007 – 11:08 am | No Comment
today…

today… 6 years ago, at 3.46am I pushed out a wonderful baby boy called Jack. He was born into a pool of warm water and I was so proud that I didn’t use any drugs …

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crafty books for sale - no. 1
Friday, March 31, 2006 – 4:08 pm | 2 Comments
crafty books for sale - no. 1

I have some books for sale and will be listing them here over the next little while.  Woman’s Day Complete Book of Handicrafts. Vintage Hardcover Book.

I am listing some of my excess crafting books at …

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bad book day
Wednesday, February 15, 2006 – 8:50 pm | 5 Comments
bad book day

Yesterday I made a terrible discovery. A bit of background - a couple of weekends ago I travelled in my cousin’s car on the way back from a wedding in Sydney and their airconditioner …

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6 books 4 me!
Tuesday, January 3, 2006 – 1:48 pm | One Comment

I bought myself these books for Christmas. I love them so much!
Want to see some images from inside the books? Of course you do! (scroll down for a few of my fave …

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Finally at Flickr!
Sunday, December 18, 2005 – 8:37 pm | No Comment

I have been meaning to do this for quite a while… I’ve finally updated heaps of photos to Flickr. You can see my photos here: www.flickr.com/photos/redinstead.
So far I’ve uploaded pics of lots …

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Coveting these books…
Wednesday, November 16, 2005 – 6:58 pm | 2 Comments

I keep reading about this quilting book by Denyse Schmidt and now I really want to order a copy for myself! Thanks to Laura at Thimble I found some excerpts from the book online. …

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