Miss Polly the Dolly

Perhaps a little over-ambitiously, I wanted to make at least ONE gift this Christmas. Since Miss Mei wasn’t the happy recipient of any crafty items from me on her arrival, largely as a result of my working full-time and lavishing any spare attention on her brother in the gestation period, I felt compelled to remedy […]

Four Fab Years

We now have a big four year old in the house! Properly pre-school since this year marks the year Kazuo will start school. He is so proud of being four and being so big. We have had a delightful four years so far with our wee guy and we are so glad to celebrate his […]

Boy with a hat

Grandma made this origami samurai helmet many years ago for Dada. It looks quite fetching on the wee one! maker gif.

Christmas Countdown

Only eight more sleeps to go…This year I really wanted to initiate Kazuo into the counting down to Christmas that was such a cherished part of my childhood. He is still acquiring the capacity to deal with delayed gratification, so this has been an interesting lesson. I did feel that having a tiny treat each […]

Ten Things of Happiness

Thought it was time for a little summary of the things that make me smile right now…whether in fact or in wishful anticpation. 1. The weather is so lovely and warm and in the sunny springy mornings, I have been loving my walk to work. I trundle through the ancient St Mary’s Quad, complete with […]

This Moment

{this moment} – A Friday ritual. A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. Have a wonderful weekend. See other wonderful moments at Soule Mama.

How We Celebrated Two Great Years…

After Christmas came the birthday…and this year Kazuo had it all figured out. Birthdays involved a party which consisted of friends (thankfully we could finally muster up a couple of lovely ones with whom we have recently had the joy of becoming acquainted), balloons, his birthday banner and a cake with candles: I decided to […]

Made by Joel, the Paper City et al…

A couple of years ago I began reading the marvellous Aussie children’s magazine LMNOP online. Last year they introduced Joel Henriques of MadebyJoel as their regular craft contributor and I stumbled across his blog and had a fleeting infatuation. But Kazuo was still a little small for most of his clever innovations. Then, over […]

Christmas Stocking

It took me a couple of weeks to get around to checking if the Japanese step-down transformer Akira’s mother had sent me would work on my sewing machine after it arrived from the States last month…and then until this week for the postie to finally get through the snow to deliver the replacement transformer we […]

This Moment

{this moment} – A Friday ritual. A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. If you’re inspired to do the same, leave a link to your ‘moment’ in the comments for all to find and see. […]