Happiness round here lately

It's spring here in New Zealand :-)

Great bargain -- cake stencils at The Warehouse in the cooking aisle for $4! Imagine they would cost a lot more if found in the art & craft aisle...

I'm still journaling

I've started a new project  

And very happy that I've discovered the poetry of Tara Sophia Mohr - The Rhythm is about quiet times in your creative life. I am moved by her collection The Real Life : Poems for Wise Living

Simply Delicious Quilt progress

I shared these blocks as I fused them together in 2010! - this was the start.
It's been an unfinished project for too long, and I decided to take my own advice the other day and have been using micro-movements to make some progress. Threaded up the sewing machine so it's ready whenever I am

Sorted the sashings I've started putting together

Gradually piecing them into longer strips

and adding them to blocks

Building them together in stages

So gratifying to see how small amounts of time add up to satisfying progress

Hopefully more on this soon....You can see the original 12-block quilt and download your own pattern from Piece O' Cake designs here.

Journal page in stages



Enjoying using different elements on my pages. I called this finished on 2nd September - dated the page and everything. But every time I looked at it, something just wasn't working for me. After doing all the doodles on the pages in my previous post, I decided this page needed more work.

Click on the photo to see the details larger. NOW I'm calling it finished