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Oooh tea-parties . My favourite . I promise I'll be on my best behaviour Are you sure you put sugar in here ?? OOPS !!! WAH !!!!! I lost all my tea ! But I still have the shiny spoon mmmmmm Really ? How come you're not supposed to eat the shiny spoons at ...

In the garden tea for two or more... seven cups, seven saucers and one teapot. (Tomorrow I'll let you know who came to tea with me )

seven saucers sitting.

Short and stout here is my handle here is my spout When I get all steamed up......then I (then, quite obviously I send abusive emails to spammers)

So today is the end of the working week for me ...and it been a kind of prickly one - Not dreadful, but a bit uncomfortable - like bad undies.... and the toilet has finally given up the ghost. Regular real-life visitors will know it has been a bit of a disaster for a while...with strict ...

With time out for good behaviour, (because I have NAILED two patterns over the weekend) I have been making tea-cups for a display tea-set... 42 outer pieces and 42 inner pieces - just for the cups ! I once read, on a blog funnily enough, a person who said if they became ridiculously, ...

Does anyone have any info on this fabric.....

So , having devoted the whole weekend to pattern-writing I am not really here. I have been quite productive so far, made the most stupendously ridiculous mistakes and mis -printed far far too many pages. But, in a dash to Aldi . ..I found this little cart. I had seen these months ago and ...

So I liked, but didn't love the little guys..... I'm not sure why really, they are quite cute. I kept thinking about them and I just wasn't sure they were finished... I thought it would be good to make them a little bag to be carried in...something simple...maybe drawstring? But because its ...

Man, I have been busting myself to get this project finished today.... But no matter how many times I tweak and re-tweak, the inevitable crunch came when the perfect fabric ....was about 10 cm's too short. Oh the agony of a finish that is soooo close. (insert chest beating and clod ...

With Master 15 off at a huge group stay-awake-over (the amount of musical instruments packed is in direct proportion to the lack of sleep planned) and Miss 18 at some (very very wet) festival in Melbourne, Mr Ric- Rac and I find ourselves at home alone. Given the situation, is it surprising ...

Craft camp has put the spring in my step, the smile on my dial and the duck in my truck! I laughed, I guffawed, I snorted ! It was only the utmost concentration and leg clenching that kept me from total embarrassment. (Personally I find this guy oddly appealing, right after I took this photo ...

So whilst we all ignore the elephant in the room (which is my distinct lack of any bloggable crafting) I'd also like to point out that I am not in fact ignoring you, Bloglines seems to be hiccuping a bit at the minute and not updating properly...or updating days after event ..Crazy ! So I am ...