Some much needed mending

Rohan has been going through the knees of a pair of jeans a week the last few weeks - I was up to four pairs in the mending pile and I finally got around to doing some! Just as well - he was down to his last pair!


I went for the open-the-side-seams-and-sew-in-a-strip-of-fabric-all-the-way-across method. They're not perfect but it's nearly summer and he's already in shorts half the time. By the time he's in jeans every day again he'll probably have gone up a size!

My Creative Space

Courtesy of some creative kiddies...


Just muckin' around as they do.

None of us has been very seriously creative lately, although Rohan's drawings are getting pretty good, I may have to gather a few for showing off...

I've even invited someone else in to muck around in my creative space recently - to make some curtains for me (wish I was clever enough to do it myself!). Pics to follow soon...

Itching to do some sewing, hopefully will find the time soon.

More Creative Spaces over at Kootoyoo.

My Creative Space

Some simple and satisfying sewing: a cot size doona cover for Angus. It was surprisingly hard to buy one and oh so simple to make that I feel slightly chastened that I looked around for one for so long!


The fabric is nothing to rave about but it is free from licensed characters and lurid colours, and it's 100% cotton. Besides, it was reduced to $4 per metre, and I can't argue with that when he could be in a big bed in a year or so!

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Photographer of the week... Irving Penn

I'm a bit late hearing the news from here that Irving Penn died last week. Hats off to one of the greats (pardon the pun)!




All images by Irving Penn from Artnet. More info from Wikipedia and another very good report about his life and his passing here.

Break... in transmission

We've been having a lovely break at home in the last week, in lieu of the break we should have been having in Mildura (which was canceled at the eleventh hour).


Once we got over the gastro that kept us home the first couple of days we embraced holiday mode, including...

Fitzroy gardens...
Ikea (not at the weekend - luxury!)...
Dinner out with the smalls at a family pizza restaurant...
The zoo...
Long day sleeps (even one for big peeps!)...
Gardening (including desperately needed weeding)...
A visit to the crafting superstore ALONE...
Some simple but satisfying sewing (a doona cover for Angus's cot)...
More weeding (oh the luxury of time!)...
Hot dogs...
Baking...
Tidying...
Throwing out some junk...
More tidying...
DVDs...
Washing, vacuuming, cleaning, sweeping...
Cooking (laksa = yuuuuuuuuuum)...
A bit too much sun...
Browsing and shopping (yippee - so long since I bought any clothes for myself)...


And now it's back to work...
And that's good too...
Otherwise it wouldn't be a holiday, would it?

Photographer of the week... Mary Ellen Mark

PJ Harvey

Melanie from Kimono Reincarnate reminded me about the awesomeness of Mary Ellen Mark. Coincidentally she has photographed many of the same celebrities David LaChapelle has (my photographer of the week last week) but in a totally and completely different way. And in a way I relate to her photography more in the sense that it's is much more like the way I compose photographs and relate to the subject (don't think for a second I'm comparing myself - I'm not).

Miranda Richardson

Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica-Parker

She has a very human/humane approach.

All images from www.maryellenmark.com.

NQR

Angus has been feeling a bit off all week, a bit NQR (not quite right).
And last night he vomited three times.
Three times I changed his sheets.
Three times I changed his sleep-suit.

Today is a new day and everything is drying brightly on the line...
but I'm feeling a bit queasy myself - oh no!

My Creative Space

I have started to get organised and have been cutting a lot of lavender. All the vases in the house are full of it and when it starts to fade I'll set it aside to dry for making lavender bags for Christmas.
The bees have been buzzing around me wildly while I cut but there's plenty left for them - we have so many lavender bushes!

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