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Author: Libby

  • Flickr three :: crimson

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    {images via flickr – click image to go to source page}

  • Overcoming an Obstacle

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    The challenge this week is to write about an obstacle that I overcame. This has been a tough topic for me… why is that? To say I have had a charmed existence may be an exaggeration but I don’t have a tale of hardship either. And then it hit me, what has been my biggest…

  • A Fabric Find and Hawthorne Threads

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    My gorgeous friend Rach sent me a link to Hawthorne Threads last week and I was besotted. I don’t think I’ve seen such a gorgeous range of fabric under one ‘virtual’ roof. Luckily for me I was in need of some fabric for my boys’ birthday t-shirts and then I was just so inspired by…

  • Colour Me Happy Wednesday :: Crimson

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    My colour of the week is crimson and here are the winners from my Esty colour search. A funny thing happened this week, I started to look past the product and focus on the photo, which is what attracted me to the last two, especially the Swarovksi crystal beads. Just goes to show that a…

  • Dorthe Hybel Ceramics

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    I seem to have an eye for jugs at the moment, which may explain why these caught my eye. Beautiful, right? I just love the shape of the milk jug (bottom left). These are by Dorthe Hybel a Danish Ceramics Designer and in Australia you can buy them from Elevate Design.

  • Flickr three :: light pink

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    {image: Kevin Steele} {image: Elizabeth Thomsen} {image: d2digital}   Keeping with my light pink colour of the week, 3 images from Flickr via the Idée Multicolr Search. All images are under Creative Commons license.

  • A Shameless Plug

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    I am shamelessly plugging Blogging for Bliss by Tara Frey which,  by the way, I haven’t read… does that make sense? Well, kind of, you see lovely Eileen over at bluebirdluxe is running a competition to win this book and I’m trying to check the boxes. Leave a comment (check), blog about it (check) and…

  • Quilting: A fine example of chaos theory

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    I have long held the theory that quilting is actually chaos theory in action. A small error in measuring or in my case in calculating yardage can result in a completely unexpected outcome. Maybe not of the magnitude of a cyclone caused by butterfly wings but try telling that to the quilter. Here is what…

  • Colour Me Happy Wednesday :: Light Pink

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    So here’s a new one for me this year. I’ve decided to combine two things I love in a weekly post. My first love is colour and I’m sure every creative soul out there would feel the same. Do you stumble when someone asks you what your favourite colour is? I dedicated almost two years…

  • More Fabric

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    This post was actually to see if I could post from my iPhone. The image came across OK but no text?