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Last week was a terribly busy one - my baby turned six, I turned forty-something, it was the last week of school with Letterland Day for t...

The  Burlap Pencil Roll  I showed here a while ago quite unexpectedly became a big hit on Etsy - it has been on the front page twice and ...

Remember Lily and Gus , the Etsy shop I featured here in March? I got one of their whales for my youngest son, who loves cuddly toys. I g...

Today is the first anniversary of my Blue Jacaranda shop on Etsy! It's been a great year and I am looking forward to the next one. To...

Yesterday I designed this fabric (and some more) on Spoonflower . I thought you might be interested in the design process. The picture abo...

My ongoing love affair with burlap has produced a new item. I added a vintage doily (bought from an Australian vintage seller on Etsy, as ...

Here I am in front of my stall at the Bleeding Heart Market yesterday. The weather was perfect, the location was beautiful (the deck ...

Yesterday and today I was at the Artful Business Conference . It was an amazing experience; extremely inspiring, stimulating and useful. T...

How lucky am I?! I have won a ticket to the Artful Business Conference  in a giveaway at the Epheriell blog . It is on here in Brisbane to...

It's still very quiet on this blog... I am busy quilting the new quilt and, as always when I am at the quilting stage, not happy at al...

I have been AWOL for a while because I am working hard on a new quilt! Very exciting, but I can't show it here yet... In the meantime ...

A while ago I lost my mobile phone case , so I thought I'd use the piece of threaded burlap that I showed in the last posting to make ...

UPDATE 2016: The pattern for this pencil roll is now available in my Etsy pattern store . As you may have noticed, I have a soft spot fo...

Remember I did some screen printing on the legs of discarded jeans? Here are the art cards and the canvas I made with the prints: Look...

Today my friend Yasmin and I visited the Wooloongabba Antique Centre , where they have this ginormous shoe-shaped bicycle (or tricycle?). ...

Yesterday I made this sunglass/eyeglass case, in a gorgeous piece of black and white Aboriginal fabric. It's up for sale now in my Ets...

I suddenly realized I haven't shown my monochromatic quilt for Art Quilts Around the World here yet! (the reveal was on the last day ...