Fabric, quilts & birthdays.

Oh, it’s been too long between posts. Crazy, crazy sale, thank you to all the lovely customers who shopped ’till they dropped. We now have loads more room for the next round of goodies. Can’t wait (she says, rubbing her hands together in glee).

Super sale stash.

Also recently decided that the new Red Letter Days and David Walker Rockets ranges were far too yum to disappear without hacking into them for my own stash. The result?

A cute kinder nap time binkee for my pumpkin…

Tomorrow my wee one turns three- full of attitude, sleeping in a bed and giving up his dummy all by himself.

No more babies.

Sigh.

Obamarama.

Can you dig it?

Something new to believe in.

Clever, clever Denyse Schmidt. With links to the oldest, truest tradition of American quilters, this beautiful, powerful (and dare I say humorous?) Obama campain fundraiser. This is what Denyse herself said on her blog:

Long before women had the vote, they voiced their opinions by creating quilts with political and commemorative themes.

Wonderful.

New Quilt

Just finished a new Etsy quilt and am pretty happy with the results. I’m also trying to improve my little coin purses and I’m pretty happy with how that’s going. I’ve been needing to something a little crafty as I’m totally sick of the tedium of editing info on the site front. Feels good to get my fingers moving again and the creative juices flowing a little.

Feels so nice to have the blog and Etsy shop updated too. Kind of like a spring clean (in the depths of winter).

Apple pie and sunshine.

Had a crazy afternoom last Tuesday. Had pumpkin home from kinder sick (again- aaaaah! and it’s only the beginning of winter!) and so with no taxi duties to perform in the afternoon (picking up and dropping off small people) had a sudden wash of warm, housewifely, momsy good feeling wash over me and decided to bake!!!

I should have known better- it’s like this rush of hormones, or a schitzophrenic episode where my alter ego, a 1950′s housewife called Enid comes out and destroys my kitchen with two kilos of flour a dozen eggs and a kitchen aid.

I love it when I start, but I always get bored about half way through and then it just becomes a chore… and the cleaning up!!! It took me two days to get all the dishes washed up and the dried up dough scraped off the bench without gouging great chunks out of the wooden top.

However check out my grand creations. Jamie Oliver’s Apple pie- it’s great served hot with greek yoghurt, Nigel Slater’s easy bread recipie (a bit dense, but maybe I didn’t let it prove for long enough) and yummy roasted pumpkin and cauliflower and bacon soup (I didn’t take a photo of that, because yummy as it was, it looked like a vat of vom.)

Also just finished quilting my latest etsy quilt. I think it’s my best one yet, v. happy. Am off now to sew the binding on.

All around, it’s been a reasonable week on the homecrafts front!

Tags: apple pie, baking, bread, enid, Etsy, housewife, kinder, Pumpkin, quilt, soup, winter