Buttons buttons buttons!

Buttons don’t ordinarily fascinate me (at least, no more than any other item of haberdashery) and I’m not really feelin’ the current ‘vintage button’ trend, but this shop – Buttons Buttons Buttons down in The Rocks in Sydney – gave me pause.
I don’t know that I’d have gone in had it been open, but seeing [...]

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Honey, I know how to shrink the jewellery

Remember these? PlanetJune now has a tutorial for making your own ShrinkyDinks rings.
They’re still cool, but I’m still not going to buy ShrinkyDrinks. Yet.
[via Craft: blog]

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Still here!

I’m still here, just haven’t had much to share. We’ve got a wedding to go to next weekend (James’ brother’s), and I had the brilliant idea to make my dress. Cheaper, and way more satisfying, right?
Part of the problem may be that KwikSew patterns aren’t terribly size-specific, and when you’re making a dress with a [...]

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Stitchy!

I finally got around to finishing the lavender bags for Anna and Abby. I keep picking them up and giving them a squeeze, and it finally dawned on me that I should make some for myself. Then I wouldn’t have to part with them!

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Taste

The latest issue of Taste arrived on Monday, and it was out of it’s wrapper and half-read before I was even inside. Sounds impressive, but nothing enables new-magazine-reading like discovering you’ve forgotten your keys and are now locked out of the house. In the pouring rain.
James couldn’t leave work to let me in, but one [...]

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One sheet of paper

Danish artist Peter Callesen creates the most sublime paper sculptures I’ve ever seen, and many are cut from only one sheet of paper. Simple concept, beautiful execution, and proof, if you needed it, that less really can be more.

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