kookaburras

Loving this great print by Inaluxe.

Sewnslides

Amazing work by Lauren DiCioccio.

Pegged

In the Park Chaudfontaine (Belgium) by Mehmet Ali Uysal
via here

Norma Kamali

How fantastic for winter? It would be like leaving your bedroom but not leaving your bedroom! Love. Thanks Norma.

Logan Wines

Amazing packaging by Ivana Martinovic from Australian studio War Design for Logan Wines. What a great excuse to buy some wine!

Maison Sajou = Stitchers Heaven

Three things that I would LOVE from Maison Sajou - to begin with!

You can also purchase Sajou items from Purl Soho in NYC

Floss for sale

via ebay

Raggedy Anne and Andy

via ebay

Voila!

After about 3 years of trying our lemon tree finally bore us some lovely fruit!

Super Tapestry

So impressed with these tapestry kits by Emily Peacock. We have recently bought a house and there are a million and one nesting projects I have up my sleeves. I think I have just added one more...

Sorry!

This is terrible of me but I literally forgot my Blogger password! I have just this moment retrieved it from the dark recesses of my brain. This hasn't happened to me since I forgot my keycard pin number after a big night out in 2003! I have been trying to log in for about 2 weeks. Sheesh!

So many many apologies for my terrible non posting! I'm going to try to be a much better blogger from now on. Fingers crossed.x

Some great blogs that I love reading (who are also much better posters than me) are -

Jane's at Sea of Shoes and her Mum Judy's at Atlantis Home

I also love love Studio Violet and Fine Little Day. Studio Violet is the combined blog of both Camilla Engman and Elisabeth Dunker. Fine Little Day is Elizbeth's blog. Great reads both of them.

Places to go, People to see

Here are some things I would like to get to do and see.

There is a great new exhibition on at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney called I Walk the Line: New Australian Drawing. The MCA is somewhere I always head to when I get a chance to go to Sydney. I really love works on paper.

Children of the Wave have a great new album out on Inertia called Carapace.

I AM going to see Simon and Garfunkel in June!! Yay! The tickets cost me a ton of $$ but I think it will be worth it. I hope they wear skivvies!

And finally I am awaiting the new Yusuf Islam album, Roadsinger. I also heard a rumor that he may tour down here. Which would be amazing.

Reviews!

Well,

I'd just like to say thanks for the lovely reviews everyone!

So thank you Kristin from Craft Leftovers and Rachel Hobson at Craftzine.

Also, I would like to extend a thousand apologies for being such a bad blogger. I think I managed to out cross stitch myself over the summer! Who knew that could happen! Now it is Autumn here I am off to set up a new project and this time I am going to get a proper lamp. First stop Ikea.x

I wrote a book.

Ever so quietly and in a very short space of time (well, shorter than I imagined) I wrote a book.

You can buy one if you like from my friends at Barnes and Noble. It comes wit 6 pieces of cross-stitch fabric and embroidery floss as well as 2 embroidery needles! Let alone the pattern book!! Woo Hoo!

Do Dadds.

I was very lucky to recently inherit my Grandmothers collection of.. well, do dadds. Or thing-a-magigs..

But what a collection! This special box contains a good 30 odd years of little handmade dolls and the like from functions my Grandmother must have attended. I'm not sure why they were given but she always came home with this little creations. I think they were made with the place settings?? Whoever the hostess with the mostest was I shall never know.

I very narrowly nearly lost this precious box to my 8 year old cousin. But at the last moment I think it was deemed she had too many toys and Bingo! They're Mine!!

I'm just not quite sure what to do with them as I love them all so much. Suggestions anyone?


P.S. How great is the Santa!!

Tsuyumi

I have just found these lovely winter hats via the Steven Alan website. Tsuyumi is the handiwork of designer Tsuyumi Kumazaki. Now it's a bit warm here in Australia to be thinking of knitting but I find it's always the time of year I'm thinking of just that. I find it's kind of like enjoying ice cream in winter.. Does anyone else have this seasonal problem? Or is it just me?

Anyhow I quite love this hat. I love the combination of the crochet and the flecked wool. I wonder what type of scarf you would pair with it?

Please make sure you visit her website as they others are just as lovely. And if you're in America or somewhere that the dollar isn't as bad as the Australian one right now. You should snap one of these lovely designs. i wish I could (sigh)..

The Catorialist

My new favorite blog

Confessions.

Just to let you all know out there why I haven't been the worlds best blogger of late... I have been writing a book. It's a craft book on cross stitch and it has seriously taken every spare second of my creativity for the past so many months. It has finally gone to the printer and will be out in the US through Barnes and Noble in around April. Phew!

It was a really big project with a lot to be done in a very short space of time. A lot of stitching and sewing and trail and error but all for the best. I've very interested to see how it will be when it comes out.. So stay tuned.


Now back to blogging!

I have a lot to catch up on and share with you all.

Takashi Iwasaki

Embroidered GOODNESS!!

Make sure you follow this link to Takashi Iwasaki's website. Makes me want to get working again. So lovely.

Pronk

Pronk is Dutch for 'the display of one's best.' I love this blouse.