Stuff

Life is full of stuff.

Good stuff.

Great Stuff.

Crappy stuff.

Amazing stuff.

Wonderful & breathtakingly beautiful stuff.

Heartbreaking stuff.

Really hard ugly stuff.

To my special few (you know who you are), thanks for helping with my stuff. You are amazing and deeply appreciated. xx

Thanks everyone for popping in and checking out Ohjoh during the year.

Have a lovely 2011!!

May your stuff be of the good variety

Jenny

Still Getting Festive

A production line on the table with big kids creating and a 4yr old sprinkling glitter.

Hand made christmas cards (yes Mum didn't get it together to buy some) for the school kiddies!

Our floor will shine with blue sparkles for months

(which may be saying too much about my housekeeping skills ...)

Hope there are sparkly creations at your place too.

Jenny

For the teachers...

A trip to Amitie today and the thankyou presents for teachers are all done!

Foodie goodies wrapped in tea-towels for kinder all wrapped and waiting (so I don't eat the Turkish Delight!) and for the two most wonderful primary teachers in the world (if only we could have them again next year.....) a little linen tote bag to ferry around their teacher stuff.

Now onto the next project ......

Getting Festive....

3 kids + 1 hole punch + a couple of pairs of scissors + coloured paper + a piece of string

equals

Lots of mess (or if you're a kid, lots of confetti that is still following me around the house)

and

a really pretty snowflake garland (which is not that relevant to a Christmas in Australia as it is currently hovering around 30 degrees C - and my kids have never even seen snow!) but all are happy!

Circle Work

Many years ago "circle work" involved my 2 brothers, 1 V8 Kingswood, 1 paddock and lots of dust. Not as much dust these days ...

Tea-towels for Sunday's market.

Pop down to Mulgrave Makers Market and Farmers Market on Sunday (8am - 1pm) and say hello!

Cheers

Jenny

One market done ...

Mulgrave Makers Market - done!

A lovely day. Well done to Sue and Fi for organising it so well.

Not looking at the sewing machine for another day or two .... then starting it all over again for the next one on Nov 28th.

If you're in Melb come on down - it will be big!

PS How do some of you girls keep on top of the whole blog thing (note it's Wednesday, the market was Sunday and I'm just updating now)? I'm hard pressed to get a weekly (well, sometimes fortnightly) post done. Is there a secret ? Are your children fed? (joking of course!!)

My Creative Space...

I wish it was like this...

but it is a crazy mess getting aprons and skirts finished for Sunday's market.

If you're in Melbourne on Sunday head to the Mulgrave Makers Market from 8am until 1pm. They also have their weekly Farmers Market on at the same time so you can get some fabulous fruit & veg and heaps of other yummy goodies. (I'm hoping the sausage people and Benny's berries will be there - Yum)
Make sure you say hello!
Hopefully I'll have some stuff finished to put on the rack.....
Check out lots more creative types at Kirsty's

My new friend - the red quilt

It's a new friendship.
We're still at the polite, get to know you stage and probably both wondering if we're going to "click".

We haven't seen each other very often as other things "come up" and our get togethers have been getting postponed. Maybe we can make some time this weekend .....

I do love her chooks!

New Bed ... sort of ...

Aahh our bed. It's served us well over the many years that we've dragged it around Melbourne. It's had kids sleep, hide, jump and puke in it. It's been broken and repaired.

It's nearly time to move on.

I found THE replacement in a magazine of ridiculously expensive furniture (why was I looking at that ???). Unfortunately it was "only" a couple of thousand dollars out of our budget.

So, one trip to Spotlight and some discounted funishing fabric later, we have a compromise!

It looks like a new bed! (Unfortunately it doesn't feel like a new bed but hopefully it can hang together for a bit longer ...) No before photo - sorry, I'm not that organised - just imagine a late 90's baltic pine type thingy with an orange tinge. I think this is a better look.

Cheers

Jenny

PS I'm still loving that coushion from Louise. How beautiful is it!

Another baby, another throw...

Welcome to the world Jett. The postie will be bringing this to you soon!

(It's becoming a predictable "welcome to the world" present as this is number 4, but I do like them.)

Actually made something for me - well, for the table which is close isn't it ?? Embroidery design is from the fabulous Prints Charming book.

I give it a week before it's drawn on, glittered on, pasted to something or covered in a foreign sticky foodlike substance.

Yay for spring!

Cheers

Jenny