Here is a little craftiness after Julia and I had a crafternoon on Sunday… I had been thinking of upcycling a charity (op) shop cardy/jersey since last year’s stitch n bitch session where our friend Kari made amazing mittens from some old jerseys she had gathered from the Goodwill. It sewed the seeds of using […]
Read More Upcycling – Cardy and Hat from Op Shop JerseyIn June our friends Tom and Claire in Manchester sent us (via our visiting friend, Caroline) a wonderful crafty book by Aranzi Aronzo, who are a quirky Japanese/Mexican/Norwegian/Vietnamese/Indian design team. The book, Baby Stuff: has been tantalising me and inspiring me ever since, and I finally got my act in to gear this week and […]
Read More Aranzi AronzoAfter burbling on about how annoying it is that the pool closes this coming weekend while the sunny hot weather will probably go on and on (last year it went into late October) and bleating about how summer is NOT over etc etc… the weather took a turn on the weekend and the mornings and […]
Read More Crafty Sewing WeekThis week we received our new Phil & Ted’s Metro Backpack in the post (well, not the new model we had ordered, but that is another story)… just in time. Kazuo has been rapidly expanding and so our evening walks around the neighbourhood in the witching hour between dinner and bedtime had been rather a […]
Read More Walking the ‘HoodWe have been extraordinarily lucky so far this summer. St Louis is notorious for the sticky high humidity of its long hot summers and last year I toughed out the morning sickness in the air con of our apartment and harboured nostalgia for the calm sunny days of my Nelson adolescence. Thus far, it has […]
Read More Dealing with the HeatLast Friday our little lad passed the 6 month mark. To celebrate this milestone, he cut two teeth and slept through the night (8 – 9 hours) two nights in a row. I was amazed as I thought that this epic event would be a long time coming, and would involve some agony from me […]
Read More A Big Week for the Wee ManOne of my friends posted a photo album in Facebook with this title last week. She displayed all the amazing things she has been doing to avoid working on her English PhD dissertation. A master procrastinator myself, it made me realise that I left procrastination out of my musings on what people get up to […]
Read More Things to do instead of working…Last Monday I made a much-overdue foray to the local charity shops. In New Zealand, we call these Op Shops (‘op’ being short for opportunity… not sure why) and they have been a favourite haunt since my teens – at the age when having a whole new wardrobe every week just meant going to the […]
Read More Op Shops, Passports, Helmets and Art…This has been a week of wonderful outings and much much cooler weather, so better for all of us to bear. Having had a very harrassed afternoon at the university pool last Friday, where Kazuo did manage to have his first swim, but also seemed ready to expire from the heat… I was keen to […]
Read More Of Water, the Web and Wimbledon…Outside it is an evil 35degC and we are struggling to keep the house cool enough for Kazuo. Shame really, as this is the kind of weather I would enjoy if it was just me… trips to the pool, getting hot and then loving the feeling when you could cool down. But our wee guy […]
Read More Summery Saturday Afternoon
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