australian homesewn and stuff

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I am so excited!! The magnificent Mel from Day to Day has taken her crafty endeavors to the next level. Mel has been busy working on this fresh new mag. So happy and excited for her! Not only is she incredibly talented but she is a genuinely lovely lady. And one of my favourite twitter friends!! Read more about the mag over at her blog.

In other news, I pretty much suck today. Yep, the little violins are playing just for me. 3 sewing bobo's, ending in unpicking, unpicking and more unpicking (with a wee tantie in there somewhere as well!), left out 1/4 of the flour in our tea cake for afternoon tea, and we had guests and no time to run to the shops, and tea was, well, about 2 minutes away from being completely uneatable. And our dog has run away, again, and not yet returned. Can you hear the little violins? Just for me

After all that I did manage to sew something, finished a pressie for a very dear friend (have to wait until she gets it before I can post pics) and am just about to stuff a giraffe for my mum who will be here on the weekend!! Yay! With my sister too! Post pic when done.

How about you? Know any 'famous' people? Are the violins playing for you too?

postie love

"Hello Flat Stanly"

Friday we had Flat Stanly arrive in the post. He has come from down south for a visit and to discover the NT life. He would like to see fish.

The kids and I have had a lovely few days getting ready and posting out the Kids mail swap #2.  And we did it on time!! Unheard of here, organisation is not one of my strengths. Thanks again Christie!

I really don’t know why we don’t do that sort of thing more often, probably because I’m not organised enough! We have tones of people we could send letters and postcards too. Might make it a monthly thing.

And in other postie news………I WON STUFF! Lots of fantastic stuff from the lovely Miss Belinda from tutti fruiti. So generous! Thank you, thank you, thank you!! 

Lovely fabric!!

Belinda ran a blog give away after returning from her trip to Bangkok, without kids, luck duck!  She also sells gorgeous skirts and cute mother and baby dolls, check out her her shop.

And all these lovely things!

Still wondering what to do with the loveliness. Has motivated me to do a giveaway myself….once the crazy move is over, stay tuned! 

Now I'm off, packing and moving for the next week, so next time you hear from me we'll be in our new house!! No more wall to wall builders!! Yay! 

Thank you so much for all the love comments! I really miss my sewing group down south and having you peeps here is a lovely alternative :)