So it seems I can either write blog posts, or I can record videos. Doing either one seems to sap my creative energy for doing the other (or maybe it’s just that doing one makes me forget about the other). Which is a roundabout way of saying I’ve been even more terrible than usual at keeping…
My plan to use spare half hours to sew failed the moment the really cold weather set in, because I’d forgotten just how cold the study can get in winter (for some reason to do with the way the hallway bends just before the door to the study, the warmth from the fire, which happily…
ell, that’s a first for me – I was contacted by a PR person offering me a free ticket to the upcoming Christchurch Food Show – presumably they’re hoping that I will encourage my millions* of readers to attend the show too, and it’ll get all viral and social media-y and other buzzwords. I’m also…
or the last few months, when I was way too busy to do anything crafty, I indulged my need for creativity by watching YouTube videos on quilting, and looking forward to having the chance to put some of what I learnt into practice (oh, and by buying fabric. Lots of fabric. (See, this is why…
Dad was in town yesterday, so I took advantage of having access to a vehicle to go round a few places over on Blenheim Road and investigate wood burners (as my one has been declared too old to live by the dreaded ECAN, so I need to replace it before next winter or face a…
really wish on-line booking agents would just tell you the actual price of a ticket up front, instead of advertising one price and then adding on a pile of (unavoidable) additional fees. For example, today I booked a ticket for a seminar Harvestbird and I are going to in a couple of weeks. The advertised…
omeone has pinched my green bin!* I came home tonight (after yet another end-of-year function at work) and went to empty the wee compost bin I keep in the kitchen, and the green bin wasn’t in my driveway where it normally lives. The other two bins are there, so obviously whoever took it only needed…
irst of December, so theoretically it’s the first day of summer today. So of course it’s cold and wet and miserable. I don’t know why I’m surprised, really, because Christchurch does this every year – we have a hot November and we all think summer has come early, then it turns cold again in December…
I just got back from spending two hours at the emergency clinic, having managed to cut a lovely big slice into my finger. The culprit was my lovely rotary fabric cutter, which I was enthusiastically wielding while starting a new sewing project, when a moment’s inattention meant that my little finger on the hand that…
ery tiring day today. It got off to a bad start when I was woken up at 3.30 am – I’m not sure what by, but I suspect boy racers. And of course, having been woken up at that horrible hour, it took me forever to get back to sleep again, so I felt like…