thankful...

for a quiet afternoon at home...
for my love who sits beside me watching cricket...
for our beautiful baby girl who plays at my feet...
for a nice new flippy haircut that makes me feel snazzy...
for yummy treats...
and for a little bit of time to sew these...

ornaments #14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19...

# 14, more from the gorgeous auntie darling, this is one of what we like to call the "moulin rouge" collection...


#15, beautiful buttons...


#16, little red ceramic bird...mum do you remember the time we saw a real robin red breast?


#17, indian angel...


#18, ceramic star with words, one of my favourites made by miss j...


and #19, more 80's ikea goodness...

ornament #13

ha! i wish...we do however always listen to harry connick jnr "when my heart finds christmas" as we decorate the tree and pretend that it just might...

ornament #12

delicate and sweet, one of those times when i had to break the rule and buy two...

ornament #11

scandanavian chic...eighties ikea wooden decoration...

ornament #10

the princess leah angel...

ornament #9

this bauble always reminds me of a klee painting...

ornament #8

my gorgoeus auntie darling makes beautiful beaded pieces, this is one of the first decorations she made for us...

ornament #7

white dove with red berries, christmas 2001...

ornament #6

a few years ago we spent a wonderful week and half in new york and we just had to bring home a brown bag of bloomindale baubles...

ornament #5

naive reindeer, i fell in love with his simplicity...

ornament #4

first decoration for my true love, christmas 1998...

ornament #3

our daughter's first christmas decoration...

ornament #2

when i was a little girl, my mum worked for a lady who one year decided to have a completely new chrismas tree...she gave us her old tree complete with boxes full of beautiful old glass ornaments, many of them have broken and disintegrated over the years, but a few remain and i love to see them on mum and dad's tree each year...i couldn't resist this silver glass bauble, it reminds me of the christmas tree of my childhood...

ornament #1

over the years i have collected decorations (technically one a year but it usually ends up being more) and as much as i love the idea of a minimal colour themed tree...i just can't go past a tree filled with memories that don't necessarily match and that speak of remembrance and hope, joy and peace...having said that, i've actually decided to make soft decorations for our christmas tree this year because i'm not sure if little hands are quite ready for mummy's treasured (and breakable) ornaments...so along with showing you the new softie decorations (when i've had a chance to make them) i hope to share some of our christmas treasures with you each day in december and decorate a tree over here...these beautiful origami stars were a gift from dear friends who lived in japan for a time...

twenty-five boxes...

when the latest issue of notebook came out a few weeks ago, i too was inspired by their version of the advent calendar...so tomorrow night we are delivering these to someone very special....


they are filled with sweet treats and tiny treasures...

on the subject of advents, the new issue of australian family circle has instructions for a lovely advent tree...

blogkeeping...

lots to catch up on...
here are the other beautiful postcards i received in the postcard swap organised by nicola...
from christina...


from natalie...


from shelly...


and robyn...
(unfortunately customs confiscated robyn's because it had a flower on it, but luckily they sent me a copy so i got to read this lovely poem that was on the back)

thank-you all for your gorgeous cards, and thanks nicola for organizing such a great swap...

i can't believe a week and a bit has already passed since clay paper cloth...it was such a wonderful day, it was a delight to meet jackie from littlest flower, so nice to meet a fellow blogger in person...


it was a great experience to be surrounded by such a talented group of artists and i actually sold quite a few things which was lovely (yesasia here i come!)...special big thanks to the fabulous miss j for all the encouragement and for the space on her stand of amazing work!

three sisters...

kiku...

mimi...

& nono...

the show was wonderful, will be back soon to tell you all about it when i've had a chance to gather my thoughts...
ps...happy birthday mum!

busy busy busy...

just like these squirrels on this gorgeous fabric that fran kindly sent me...thanks fran, i just love it and will be saving it for a special project...
in the meantime i am madly sewing to finish some work for clay paper cloth on the weekend...

eeeek!

how can it possibly be the middle of november already?
hmmm...i'm having a bit of trouble keeping up with everything at the moment, there really should be more hours in the day...
keeping me sane...afternoon tea from nicole and a gorgeous postcard from suzy!
so beautiful...


and just delicious!


thanks girls!