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Cheap Easter Gift in Less than 1 Minute

07:42PM | March 24, 2013 | 6 comments

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We’d spent all weekend up the coast relaxing and forgetting about the real world only to return home to a never ending to-do list. One of those things was Easter, the time of year when mothers across Australia get their craft-on and buy all the feathery, shiny and crepe-papery things from the $2 shop. I [...]

She Wore Flowers In Her Hair

11:57AM | January 3, 2012 | 16 comments

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I’ve been slightly addicted to Lana Del Rey, she moves me, I can’t wait until her album is released at the end of the month. She has beautiful videos and she’s always seen with flowers in her hair, so glamorous. I thought it might be fun to make my own headdress so I bought several [...]

Stuck to My Goals

05:16PM | January 2, 2012 | 10 comments

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Being accountable helps me achieve goals which is why I think posting photos of my breakfast everyday (#dailybreakfast) will be successful. The thing is, I’m usually so zoned out in the morning it’s not that I don’t eat breakfast on purpose it’s just that I forget so I had to figure out a way to remind [...]

Full Throttle

11:44AM | August 15, 2010 | 5 comments

I decided I wanted to make my sister (my one & only) a cute handbag for her birthday. I could easily go out and buy her things or send her money but I knew that this year, with all the brave choices she’s made lately, would appreciate a lovingly made gift more. She could cart [...]

Celebrate!

10:16AM | July 26, 2010 | 19 comments

I bought Handmade Home by Amanda Blake Soule last year and I loved the projects inside it, highly recommended. One thing I wanted to do was make a bunting flag, not for Aidan’s room, but for his birthday party. The bunting could be used for ‘all’ my kids’ birthdays and even for mine and Steve’s, [...]

The Boy, The Quilt & The Ball

12:04PM | May 15, 2010 | 16 comments

I finally finished the quilt I started back in February. It’s nothing worth framing but I know the baby I have (and babies I hope to have in the future will) think it’s worth all the effort I put in. All the pretty patterns and colours to stare at and all the textured stitches so [...]

Easter Party

02:48PM | March 30, 2010 | 5 comments

This week at Mothers Group we had a little Easter Party for the kids… ok, well for us. We each brought a plate of goodies and I organised a few craft activities. Here is Aidan sporting his bunny ears. All I did was draw some ears, cut multiples out and stick them to a strip [...]

Pinned in Place

09:00PM | March 5, 2010 | 6 comments

The quilt is actually starting to look like a quilt now. I added a pretty border around the edges (man I hated cutting all those damn little rectangles) then took it to my local quilting lady to give me a hand putting it all together. I bought some cotton batting (with enough left over for [...]

Sew Cool

10:07AM | February 19, 2010 | 11 comments

Photo taken with flash… I hate flash but it was midnight Last night I managed to get all those squares sewn into panels and I’m quite proud… sleepy, but proud. I haven’t sewn the panels together yet, I just laid them out for a photo. Steve’s sister Heather arrived this morning so I might be [...]

Slow Progress

10:14AM | February 18, 2010 | 4 comments

It’s taken awhile but I’m slowly getting there with the playmat project. I can’t believe I thought I would be bored with Steve gone, I have so much more to do around the house. Steve pitches in a lot and it took him going away to remind me. Anyway, after measuring and cutting a bajillion [...]

Starting Out

04:15PM | February 13, 2010 | 8 comments

Steve’s going away for a week and leaves tomorrow so I twisted his arm and dragged him to Spotlight to pick up a few things I required for Aidan’s playmat. I needed a project for whilst he was away or I would go insane. The reason I chose to make a playmat is because the [...]

Get your craft on

10:37PM | February 4, 2010 | 8 comments

by Lilley’s Handcrafted Lovelies Lately I’ve been feeling the itch. The itch to stitch, sew and stuff. I don’t know where the urge is coming from but it’s been lingering in the back of my mind for awhile. I haven’t started anything because I’m afraid I wont be committed to any project long enough to [...]

Blocks

07:15PM | January 7, 2010 | 5 comments

My gorgeous BFF Rhian made Aidan these gorgeous blocks for his nursery and I adore them completely. She matched the colours from his room and added little details like paw prints to represent Toby & Charlie and a little soccer ball for Steve. I should mention these are completely handmade. Aidan loved staring at all [...]

RE DRAW

01:39PM | December 18, 2009 | 2 comments

And the winner is… Permanently Twenty Three Please email me at danielle.melnyczenko@hotmail.com to claim your prize. As “dainaminkus” never emailed me to claim her prize it was redrawn today as forewarned in the post below. Thanks again to all those who participated. Don’t forget to enter the current DVD GIVEAWAY drawn this Sunday.

Giveaway

10:56AM | December 7, 2009 | 21 comments

I told you there were more goodies on the way! My lovely friend Bethwyn is the mother of two gorgeous boys and began making little pretties and clips to fill the void of girlie trinkets in her life. Her boys are crazy about dinosaurs so all that repressed femininity resulted in some pretty sweet goodies [...]

Unexceptional

12:30PM | November 29, 2009 | 11 comments

I’ve realised that I can’t be great at everything, when I attempt certain things they just seem to go bad, no matter how much I persevere or how big I dream. I can sew and make plenty of things, I just simply cannot make toys. This little guy is proof. I wanted to make a [...]

Frame it

08:55PM | November 25, 2009 | 4 comments

As I mentioned in an earlier post I’m in the middle of a lounge room make over. Nothing really drastic, it’s actually more of an update than an overhaul. The point is I’m having fun and Steve’s enjoying the results with minimal impact on the purse strings. One thing I wanted to change was the [...]

Knitted Joy Editted

04:27PM | July 13, 2009 | 7 comments

These are the knitted toys my grandma made me for Little Mezza. I totally adore them and had to share. She also made mittens & booties, blankets and little knitted overalls. LM is one lucky little baby. The softest white baby shawl with matching booties and mittens. The cutest little knitted overalls with pom-pom beanie [...]

Nursery Art Swap

04:18PM | April 21, 2009 | 2 comments

My lovely friend, teacher and artist Rhi is making me some beautiful blocks similar to the one’s pictured above. She made these for a friends new baby and has since been asked to make several more for up coming baby showers and personalised gifts. I thought they were so sweet I just had to have [...]

Pay it Forward

04:49PM | February 9, 2009 | 2 comments

Thanks Alica for letting me be involved. I’ve done some thing similar to this already but I can’t help myself and I’m jumping back on the bandwagon and you can too. All you have to do is share the love. Mention “Pay it Forward” on your blog and have something to offer others. I will [...]

Cute as a Button Tack

03:49PM | August 20, 2008 | 3 comments

I’m loving this crafty idea by All things Lovely blogger Kylie. Basically you cover buttons with gorgeous fabric and using hot glue, attach a thumbtack to the back of the button. So sweet and easy. Perfect for anyone stuck in a cubicle at work or even just to jazz up your cork board at home.

More Dinner Party Dribble

01:08PM | August 14, 2008 | 7 comments

Hello Gorgeous I tend to dive into projects as a way of distracting myself. It works for me. It’s not denial. It’s healthy. It’s productive and more often than not it’s fun too. I know the lanterns are a little off center, the table will be dragged out to sit underneath it to give my [...]

Wonderful

05:56PM | August 12, 2008 | 1 comment

It’s so lovely to receive mail, you know the traditional kind, not electronic. So you can imagine that it totally made my (very shitty) day when I found this little lovely in my mailbox. Alicia wrote to thank me for ReVamping her blog. She even made the card and isn’t it gorgeous! I love it [...]

Ambience

12:27PM | August 8, 2008 | 0 comments

After being totally inspired by the domestic goddess Martha, I took on her challenge and came up trumps. Our dining room (space) is totally barren. The room isn’t wide enough to also house the buffet, standing lamps or anything interesting. It just has huge big windows and prison-like white venetian blinds. So when I saw [...]

Boxed Goodness

12:37AM | July 31, 2008 | 7 comments

I bought the little black boxes and ribbon from Spotlight. I already had the black and white paper and I think it makes it pop even more. While watching TV tonight I made these little beauties and I’m quite proud of how they turned out. I have a few ideas of what to put in [...]

More Framing

09:08PM | July 30, 2008 | 3 comments

The new sign on our bedroom door. The Ulysses Butterfly we got in Bali. I painted the frame to match. Art on one wall of the guest room. Simple and Perfect… “Dream” My charms that were on my wedding bouquet. Me on my wedding day :) The art on the opposite wall in the guest [...]