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In between baby sleeps and school runs this week I've been finishing off this little round faced cat. I fussed over this one to a ridiculous extent. I'm so pleased with how he came out, though. Just like my sketch for once! It's all about the lilac coloured wool flannel - so pretty and soft. Do I have more lilac Marmalades queued in my head? You betcha. upesmgw849
It's Friday afternoon. Henry is asleep and I've just pulled some cupcakes out of the oven for Audrey's play date this afternoon. I'm hoping H will continue to sleep just a bit longer so I have time to put on a load of washing and make fishcakes for dinner.
I've had the urge to make another cat doll recently (it's been a while!), and Marmalade here is the first cab off the rank. Her face is too pointy. A visit to the fabric store this morning yielded some fantastic lilac coloured wool flannel, though, so a round-faced Marmalade is waiting in the wings.
Hope you're all having a good Friday.
So, I fell of the photo-a-day wagon around day 125 (minus two, but who's counting?) I'm going to try to dedicate the time I used every day thinking about what to photograph and editing photos to actually making stuff, and blogging more - I've missed being here. Taking a photo every day reaffirmed that while I like to take photos, I'm no photographer. It was fun while it lasted though, & lovely to have a record of the first 125 days of this year. A big salute all those people who see the whole 365 though!
Last week I was clicking around the internet, doing a bit of fantasy shopping (where you don't click 'checkout' at the end) and bemoaning the state of the Australian dollar. Right at the top of my wanty list was a couple of the gorgeous Paumes titles. The next day, I saw Claire had been doing the same thing, and I was thrilled to then discover through a comment on her post that a few of these fantastic Japanese books were now available in Australia through Lark. A couple of red wines later, the 'checkout' button had been well and truly clicked.
London Gardens is as inspiring as I'd hoped.
Those fantastic white chairs seem to pop up everywhere in the book. And check out that garden studio!
I haven't written about it much here lately, but we have an old house that we've been fixing up slowly. After lots of work indoors (and still more to do, oh, it never ends!) we are finally getting around to the yard. Lately, we've made a couple of new garden beds and planted some wild iris, a flowering plum and some ornamental pear trees. But most exciting for us was the arrival of three pallets of recycled old red bricks last week. Now we have a back patio. At some point we are hoping the back yard might even be an inviting place to be. It's a plan, anyway.
I dug around my blog archives and found this 'before' (ish) photo from November 2005 (another good reason to keep a blog!) That weirdy old pergola sat unsoundly on cracked concrete. Matt still goes into the foetal position every time he sees bougainvillea - removing that took 2 days and a truckload of bandaids. The 'after' photo doesn't look like much, either, but there is still much to do! Next up is a new pergola, some gravel for paths, and painting the back of the house (we are testing muddy greys up there to the left).
And because I clearly need all the inspiration I can get, I thought I might share with you some of my favorite home blogs at the moment:
The Seventy Tree (via a&b)
