Things For Which I Am Grateful

It's been a whirlwind couple of weeks. Returning from a Bali holiday with weird lumpy arm-pit virus. Cramming madly trying to prepare for a market that I've had a whole year in which to prepare. Starting the medication process for becoming an egg donor for a gorgeous couple of friends.

Lots of opportunities to choose either the glass half full or the glass half empty view on life. So do I collapse in a giggling heap or a hysterical frenzied one? I've just read a fantastic post which sums up life as a work at home mum hilariously! Check it out!

To get back to that glass half full kind of perspective I thought I would do as Belly Beyond, the author of that great post, has done.... A Things I Am Grateful For post.

• 34 degrees today before another two days of 41 degree forecasts
• How Bamboo/Soya doesn't fray during my beginners crochet attempts like Bamboo/Cotton does
• Our gorgeous emerald green front lawn thanks to subsurface irrigation
• The jacaranda trees in full bloom either side of our yard
• That my daughter will munch on celery as if it is the yummiest thing in the universe!

Anything you are grateful for today?

Ooh La La Part 2!

Here's a copy of the article written about being a crafty mama working from home!
Click on the photo to read.

Ooh La La!

Check out these three crafty chicks on the front cover of our local glossy magazine. We've had a fantastic write up in the magazine outlining how it is possible to be a successful work at home mum running a crafty business.

Left to right: Carolyn Cattrall of Belly Bottom, Kate Du Bois of Red Ted and myself.

Note to self...... deflate hair for next photo shoot so my hair doesn't have a postcode of it's own...

Happy Tangle

A view of my desk yesterday during Dancing Rainbow Ribbon production time!

This week sees Adelaide with temperatures above 35 degree all week. Noice. Not the optimum working conditions in the studio. I'm looking for a split system air-conditioning system to be installed in my studio as soon as possible. Hopefully I can find an installer in a week where I'm sure lots of other Adelaideans will be seeking those services too!

Here a Clip, There a Clip!

I'm in full production mode. Well as much in full production mode as one can be when one is a full time mother to a 'I'm a fairy... I'm a robot... let's play hide and seek' almost four year old.

I go to a felting class each Thursday which has the blessed bonus of a creche for the poppet and a gorgeous teacher who doesn't care if I do my felting craft or cut my toenails! Of course, I left the personal grooming for home and this week I used my time to get my growing collection of hair clippies ready for market.

All colours of the rainbow and using two of my favourite things in the studio. Buttons and scraps!
More bags have been cut out for sewing tonight and tomorrow I'm thinking summer hats...

Back from Bali.... again!

The Silly Gilly family returned today from their second trip to Bali . We had a lovely time over the ten days and I can highly recommend Bali as a wonderful family holiday destination. The Balinese people are so kind, friendly and appreciative of your visit.

Some happy snaps from the holiday...

The beach at Legian was crystal clear and so peaceful.

We were honoured to meet Api (prounounced appy), the most beautiful animal I've ever had the privilege to meet. Api is a 3 year old orangutan... same age as my daughter. I desperately wanted to take her home with me! She was amazingly affectionate and so very much like a human child. Amazing.

And, no, my daughter and I hadn't been dragged through a bush backwards. Our hair looks like that as it was 40 degrees all week and we were sweaty spaghetti heads!!

I'm now feeling very refreshed and ready to tackle some big crafty and non-crafty projects that have been simmering on the back burners whilst my mojo and I didn't want to play together.

* Three markets in November for which I have to get my skates on and churn out Silly Gilly stock;
* Start on the medication side of being an egg donor for my lovely friends in NSW;
* Getting my studio all kitted out, including air conditioning, in preparation for more work hours coming available when my kidlet starts kindy!! and
* Designing more secret squirrel projects for BIG secret plans coming soon........

This week will be kept busy with the catch up one has after being away for a week and a half. I have a Mt Everest of of washing of my very own. And the paperwork never takes a break either! But the crafty mojo is most certainly back. Yeah Baby!!

Blogmeet update!

You may recall I mentioned that Kellie of Don't Look Now Fame is coming to grace the doorsteps of little ol' Adelaide this very weekend. Saturday and Sunday Kellie will be holding a weekend long workshop on how to make one of her own designs. Hopefully I will manage to master Kellie's amazing technique and have a great time doing so.

I've heard from Kellie herself that it will be head down and derriere up, serious kind of work so I'm mentally preparing myself for some concentration time. Not so much like my primary school days of being known as the girl who talks too much and disrupts others......

The Saturday night in between the two days of fun and frivolity a dinner will be held at Enzo's which is next door to Hettie's Patch, the shop where the workshop is being held. If you would like to join us for dinner then feel free as this would be best instead of having a separate blogmeet dinner/catchup.