Awesome Milestone Goodness..

Achieved! Tick!

Giveaway will ensue.

Stay tuned for announcement of giveaway or death from Man Cold.

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Serenity Sunday Can Bite Me

I am sick, with Man Cold.

I care not for photography, or serenity, or children. I dont want to look at my world in a different way and discover the joy in the details.

I want to go to bed and not feel like shit and I want the kids to stop having tantrums every 5 minutes and I want to not feel like my skin hurts and I want to stop craving chickenbloodynoodlesoup.

I'm almost up to 100 Facebook Fans.  In fact, I have 99. I will have a good old-fashioned blog based giveaway when I get there, if I do not die beforehand. If you havent Liked me yet: for shaaaaaame!

In the meantime, have you added yourselves to my Reader's Blogroll yet?  Well get to it. Nothing wrong with shameless self-promotion.

Going back to bed now.

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My Creative Space

This week my creative space is being used for the betterment of humanity.  Project 18 are having an Auction on Facebook on July 20 to raise funds for childhood education in Indonesia.  They need handmade items to be donated to sell at the Auction.  So that's what I'm doing.

I've found lovely vintage tea cups in my opshop raids over the last week, so I am putting them all to good use.  After all, how many pincushions does one woman need?  Well, at least 3 by my reckoning, (wrist, tabletop and ring) so the rest are going to Cate for the Auction. Mostly so she will get off my case.

My creative space: filled with vintage china, polyfill, vintage fabric and some sort of altruism (even though I dont believe in it).

What's yours filled with? Share over at Kirsty's.

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Serenity Sunday

I am NOT a winter girl.

I hate the cold. I hate being unable to move three feet from the heater because otherwise my fingers will drop off from frostbite.  I hate having to pay SeventyHundred dollars for my power bill.  I hate not being able to spend any time outside for fear of freezing solid. I hate the dark days. I get S.A.D. And I get it BAD.

But I hate being trapped inside with two very active and very bored pre-schoolers even more.

Ella lovin' on some rocks

Felix writes the initials of all his friends in the dirt.

"This is the T-Rex bone and this bit is the thing that shoots out water."

 Basil loves wool.  REALLY loves wool.

So today we ventured outside as soon as the temperature got above ten degrees (at midday) and the wee-uns played in the Digging Patch and I sat in the sun. Then we went for a walk to the op-shop, where of course I found things to buy, and then took Felix's trike to the bike track and playground.

It wasn't so much Serene and Not As Bad As It Could Be, but that is far too long a post title.

Except for Basil.  I think he was rather serene indeed, sucking on that wool.  If you know what I mean.

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Reader's Blog Roll: Put Your Blog Self Here

Do you read SparklePanda Design? Do you have a blog? Would you like other people to read your blog?

I'm betting that the answer to all three questions is: YES

So here's what you can do: you can put your very own blog on this here list of lovely blogs people should read.  Yes! You can!  That way you don't have to ask me to do a link exchange with you, and I dont have to remember to put your link up.  Win/win.

I know, it's totes awesome!

Link away, peeps.

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Friday Finds

Another week, another collection of treasures from the op-shops.  This week, my local had a whole basket of awesome vintage sewing patterns out for 25c each.  It was pure heaven.

Have a closer look at the little girl on the top one. How adorable is that jumpsuit?

This is the piece de resistance really.  Check out the legs! 

Did the illustrator never see a real woman before?

I love Paua shell.  What should I use this for?

All these beauties were 20c each! I'm going to turn them into pincushions. Yes! Radness!

There was also much in the way of clothing for me and some fabric for making clothes for the shop.  And a totes awesome tablecloth which I plan on turning into a skirt for myself.  That picture will have to wait until said project is on the go.  Then you will swoon with delight at how totally awesome it is.  You will. You'll see.

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My Creative Space is Back

Which is kinda scary because it sure as hell doesn't feel like a whole week has gone by.  Dont ask me what I did; I couldn't tell you.

Today in my creative space there is some finishing going on.  Some of the finishing perhaps should have been done 2 years ago.  10 minutes was all it took.  Not sure why I couldnt find 10 minutes 2 years ago.  Perhaps it had something to do with being heavily pregnant and in 10/10 on the pain scale 24/7 and wanting to die.

Yes, that might've been it.

If you want to play along, head over to Kirsty's.

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