Happy New Year

The new year is just around the corner, these are my resolutions

I was visiting a fellow Canberran’s website yesterday and noticed she had done a mind map of what had gone well and what areas she would like to improve on next year. I thought this was an interesting way to go about the whole “New Years Resolutions” thing, but I’m more of a list person [...]

Annoying Bella

Yesterday I couldn’t help but annoy Bella when she was having a nap, looking all cute and furry.

Market display items from the tip and Salvos

Last week just before Christmas I went to the tip with JA and Erin to dump some stuff, then we went and had a look in Aussie Junk (where I got the bedside table to make the DIY jewellery drawer organiser), and then the salvos in Mitchell. I got a whole bunch of stuff for [...]

DIY Work Desk

Over Christmas I decided I needed a work desk in the study to make all my handmade goodies so I could stop using the dining table and having nowhere to eat dinner (if we so chose to use the table instead of the couch in front of the tv). So of I trotted to bunnings, [...]

Happy Holidays to everyone

I hope Santa was kind to you this year =)

Handmade Christmas Cookie Gifts

The other day I tried my hand at baking some Christmas cookies to give as gifts this year, and I must say they turned out pretty cute! I just used a simple butter biscuit/cookie recipe and cut out circles and star shapes using standard cookie cutters. My initial idea was to create little Christmas trees [...]

Daily Photo – xmas lights

Thursday to Tuesday

Well gosh, what a week! Busy busy bee I have been =) Thursday was graduation, which meant spending most of the working day organising the set up. As the “decorating” team, we decided to go with student artwork as the backdrop instead of just bunches of flowers, and most people agreed it looked really effective. [...]

Daily Photo – pearls