New Art Work for our walls

My Hj loves to draw - she loves working with textas or biro the best and her favorite thing to draw in is my personal journal, daily planner, library books or the walls!

Cleaning in the Bathroom

Last week we started cleaning our bath room using baking soda paste (after our supermarket purchased cream cleanser finished)

I have to say it cleans much better and the store purchased product and was really good on my skin.

Most of all it is non-toxic and when it goes down the drain it isn't going to have such a big impact on our water ways than the store purchased product.

I have been thinking a lot about all the packaging our family goes through each week - where do you go in a regional town to buy food and other products that you can take along your own packaging?

My creative Mum

My Mum is a bit amazing - she is not only the mother of SIX kiddies but an author in her own right.

She has also taught us all how to sew and here is some pics of items that she has recently made for Hj








Hj recently started walking and of course Mum got inspired and wrote this:

Little Sister

My little sister has robot legs

stiff steps her first walk taking,

how she comes so quickly

plunging down the hallway

to my room.

She's the height of first cupboard shelf

and her hands are more super hero-

fast pulling and choosing

the best of my pencils

to draw robot whirs

on my cupboard door.

(c)Lorraine Marwood

Sister & Mum Sewing Afternoon

I spent a lovely afternoon with my Mum & one of my sisters R - making things - I hopped on Mum's machine as mine is at the doctors to try and get Kd's library bag ready for his first day of pre-school on Thursday. Got a whole heap of hand sewing to do to get the bias binding down - keep sitting on the computer instead of in my studio!

Above is Chell making a bug with four tricky legs - can't wait to see how it turned out.


I love this drawing R found at an op shop - it is from the top of a puzzle and all the puzzle pieces are still intact!

bunny boy

This week my train project was sewing up this little bunny for a friend who has just given birth to her first child. The pattern was from a free download from Hillary Lang.

Good fun - a few problems; didn't quite stuff it to the gills as Hillary instructed and also I left the gap to stuff it at the bottom of the bunny, when it should have been the side - this makes for problems standing the bunny up!

I hope he eats all those weeds up in my garden.

Stuffed it

Started sewing an appliqué t-shirt for Hj - a project I have been meaning to get to for ages and I stuffed - it... Mum thinks my machine needs a service & she is right - tonight I started putting together Kd's library bag and it was VERY unhappy - going around to Mum's tomorrow to steal her machine for a bit

My sister's crafting

I am the eldest of six children; who are all extraordinary and inspiring people. Who, without the knowledge that they are in my life and always who I am I certainly wouldn't dream of and then work towards my dreams

Here is a little of my second little sister's crafting; R (or Chelly pops!)




These are pattern pieces from some fantastic quilts that my Mum made for me - my greatest and most hidden regret is what happened to these quilts - please don't ask - I don't have them any more...

My intention it to make one for my daughter Hj for her second birthday - WATCH me stitch (hope it doesn't end up being her 12th birthday!)


This last picture is my brother restraining himself from going mad (although his muscles look impressive) and my new sister C (ooh and she has her Christmas apron on too - also made by R) - packing wedding invitations - we got ours in the post today and they look fantastic - although it ended up just being my drawing and not my sewing - hhhhmmmm - when am I going to be SUPER MUM?