Lighting up my night

Lastnight was another fun night at Brown Owls....and my last one for the year.... Boo Hoo!

We made these sweet tea light candle holders....

We very nearly had an entire table full of bloggers.... Liesl, Cindy, Lara, Steph, Hollie, Myself, and Kerry (who will remain blogless)! It was lovely to finally meet Liesl in person.

Gemma drew my name out of the magic prize barrel and I won one of Kirsty's fabulous swizzle stick rings....

....and this is Kerry modelling her fabulouso chain stitch embroidery!

Looking forward to next year.

Brown Owls Badgemaking

Lastnight was a fun night of badgemaking at the Brown Owls clubhouse. Gemma was the badge machine protector and queen, which was lucky because I just couldn't remember the correct sequence for all the little badgey bits and pieces!

Special guest star Anna Laura showed us how to make these cute little stuffed felt badges.

I borrowed Steph's Lolcats book because it just makes me laugh out loud....and Steph also bought along a themed pressie just for me.... a Smash Hits INXS badge from the 80's...how's that for cool!

I also started a cute little house badge that Pip had created but didn't get time to finish it just yet. I might keep stitching that one on the couch tonight.

Thanks again Kirsty and Pip for a lovely crafty night out.

Blogtoberfest Fave Friday

Steph aka Drewzel aka Shabby Chicken aka Stitchy Britches has decreed that today shall be Blogtoberfest Fave Friday, and so it is my duty to post my fave song of all time!



This is one of my all time favourite songs by my all time favourite band. I just love the film clip...fantastic Aussie 80's simplicity

and the perfect accompaniment to this one....



a bit of classic Midnight Oil... you'll just have to ignore the fact that Peter Garrett is wearing an extremely ugly shirt.

Play along Blogtoberfesters!

The Blogtoberfest Motherload!

I don't really know where to start with this post.....

I had such a fantastic day out with Cathy yesterday...great company, great food, great op-shopping and lots of laughs were just what I needed!

We visited 4 local op-shops and we're splitting the motherload between the two of us (we figured that then we wouldn't have to argue about who found what first.....and anyway, Cathy can run much faster than me...he he he)

The chicken print was a fabulous find for this great chick...it's right up her alley.

...and these farmyard pillowcases were way too cute to resist.....

I found myself some semi-vintage tupperware containers (there's a nice shot of the art swap letterholder from Shellbells on my kitchen wall)....

These photos only show the motherload that made its way onto my kitchen table. Lets just say that Cathy will be returning at some time very soon in the future to pick up the four boxes of goodies that are in my garage (they wouldn't fit in the shopping basket on this)....and we had to leave something else rather large at the op-shop as we couldn't even fit it in the back of my car with the back seats down. It's something to do with a secret birthday pressie so I can't say any more.

There is nothing better than spending the day op-shopping with crafty friends!

More knitting.....

Now that I'm on my way to knitting something other than scarves (after the two that I currently have on needles), I thought I'd invest in some reference books to add to my ever growing craft book nook.

Lo and behold, Sam from Whizz Me is having a craft book cull via her etsy shop so I was able to pick up these three lovely books. I haven't had a chance to sit down and read them just yet but I'm hoping to get to them this week some time.

I also want to buy the new Vickie Howell book that I saw over here on the Mixtape blog and over here on Stephs Shabby Chicken blog. I might just need a little afternoon shopping spree to the local bookshop!

Lovely Suprises

I had some time to read some blogs lastnight after my nephews were put to bed....and to my suprise, when I read Steph's blog, I found this! Thanks so much Steph....this crafty blogging world is such a lovely thing to be a part of, and you just made my day, week, month!

Steph has multiple blogs (Drewzel and Shabby Chicken and Stitchy Britches). Her Drewzel blog has crafty bits, funny bits, thoughtful bits, challenging bits, musical bits and inspiring bits. Shabby Chicken was created after the first Brown Owls meeting and has all of her Brown Owls goodness. Stitchy Britches is full of everything vintage and retro. You should definitely head on over and check them all out.....

Recycling.....

This is the wool that I found at the op-shop in mid April (novelty yarn on right hand side of the photo)

I used a teeny tiny bit of the novelty yarn to wrap this package..........and then today I saw what became of it......check it out! Amazing!