GILLYBEAN

A thank you to all who have read, smiled, frowned and reflected at this wee place for almost 4 years. It has been a pleasure to share here. ...

I set up my handcrafts at the "Country Occasion" a couple of weeks ago. My photography skills on my son's camera do not do the...

It sure does take a village to raise a child. How lucky we are to live in such a good one. Several times over the past few weeks one or othe...

It sneaks up. I don't mean mother nature's changes, I mean the energy levels and optimism I feel within myself, come spring. For abo...

I was shuffling through the photos looking for a good one to illustrate my lovely new cottons, but instead all I could see in the photos wer...

I've really appreciated the comments latley, especially one I got from Briar today about enjoying me keeping it real. I like to think ...

One of my fabulous Aunts has worked for most of the school holidays helping PJ with her reading. I feel very guilty that PJ doesn't fin...

Oh you'd think a quiet life in the country with a garden, a few kids, pets and no bad habits would be a pretty quiet one, but something...

My thoughts are with the people in Australia who are dealing with the massive bush fires. I was born there, I have family and friends there ...

It is so wrong to have Christmas in summer as it is in our hemisphere! Instead of slowing down and sitting by the fire knitting and sewing i...

To my son you are 12 today, I remember your birth well. I'm sorry that the next year or two was a blur in the post natal depression haze...

I've got an obsessive need to de -clutter in the holidays, so that I feel in a tranquil space to sew. I should pretend I'm going on ...

Along with the other decisions I'm trying to make at the moment I've been contemplating the summer market season here. I love to sew...

I wish I could really write. I haven't blogged because alot of what I have to say in spring is the same year in and year out. Blossom, s...

In the free box at the op shop, a birthday present for me. 35 feels good.

I guess I should have known that as soon as I posted my tra la la spring post we'd be hit by a huge snowy winter blast. L wasn't ab...

I've been playing with the layout and adding to my link list because everyone has probably had enough of garden photo's and goings o...

Yesterday we celebrated the red head's 3rd birthday. It was very low key, we all have awful head colds, sore throats and two of them hav...

Think I have got "french knots" sussed now with this wee consignment of brooches for a local craft co-operative shop. Have had my...