crochet crime

crochet bikini anyone?  well, maybe it’s a bit brief to even be called a bikini.  i have no idea how i ended up looking at these beauties

image: what not to crochet

while i was looking for a picture of cate blanchett in her granny square dress.  weeeeell, actually that’s not true.  i found what not to [...]

repurposing

nearlyMabel comes home from visiting grannyMin with a plastic bag of dirty washing.  she’s 8 months, so the laundry is fair enough, but i thought i could do something about the plastic bag bit.  i fossicked through the stash, snipped a few inches off a pillowcase and sewed it into a drawstring, then turned down [...]

my morning

this

plus this

equals seventeen jars of food for nearlyMabel

Words and Pictures – Sweet

yeah, maybe I’m a dork, but still, i think this decal for sale by freckledhound on etsy is sweet as

Meet me at Mikes for other kids words and pictures

can’t let this old t-shirt go

from daddy’s old t-shirt to bubby’s new pants.  the shirt had been round the world so we couldn’t throw it out right? and 10 minutes work? su-weet!

thanks for the tip Rookie Mums

hawaii style

born on a rainy day from a repurposed skirt and a made up pattern