February 16, 2010 – 12:44 pm
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Number 12, Tanya, gets the fruity paper.
Number 90, Sue Young, gets the newsprint paper.
Congratulations to Tanya and Sue - I’ll email you shortly with details.
To everyone else, thank you so much for stopping by and leaving so many kind comments. I really appreciate having had the opportunity to meet you all.
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January 26, 2010 – 2:25 pm
This is just what I needed. An event to make me find time for myself. I am juggling so many things at the moment–the children, afterschooling, looking for a new house, trying to keep on top of work, plus the usual home chores–that I have dropped anything not desperately necessary (such as making art, blogging, [...]
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December 25, 2009 – 1:27 pm
To those of you who kindly wondered where I was in the last few months: I was relocating, moving homes, getting the children settled in their new schools, working…and missing both blogging and art making.
Plenty still remains to be sorted out, but I hope to be somewhat more present in January. Meanwhile, I’d like to [...]
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You know what? This business of being on holiday is really hard work. I have been with the kids in the Alps for ten days, and it has been an intense affair of watching Nicco climb high on old pine trees up on the Piccolo San Bernardo, helping Caterina ‘jump’ on the trampoline for the [...]
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Since I last visited it, my mother’s garden has turned into a jungle—some corners are so luxuriant that you have to squeeze between overhanging branches to walk down what once was a path.
Which can be inconvenient at time, but whatever the discomfort, it is more than compensated by the sheer abundance of dazzling coloured flowers—geraniums, [...]
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Oh what a lovely break we had. Plenty of walking, museums, food…the kind of stuff that makes you sorry to be back to everyday life. No matter, to avoid falling prey to the ‘back home’ blues, I decided to ‘make something.’
Perhaps it is summer approaching and the sudden appearance of sun and blue sky, but [...]
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This is where I was at the weekend.
Marvellous source of inspiration. Shame that I paid for the pleasure of going there by learning that one of the kids we met there may have chicken pox. Which neither I nor my children have had before. So excuse me while I wait for it to strike us [...]
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…Diane! Clearly you did good in being late to the party, because Random.org picked you. I hope you enjoy this collage sheet as much as you did the background paper you downloaded a while ago.
Collage sheet detail
For everyone else, the free background paper Diane downloaded, together with another one, are still available. The first one, [...]
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