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April, 2013
- A bit of this and that Sent Tuesday, April 30, 2013 whip up » Newsletter Have you been enjoying the series this month on Functional Creativity? Shelter and Clothe are the latest additions :: with a tutorial on giving new life to old clothes and the Handmakers factory fitting in really well to this month's theme too! Also this week a new reviewer at Whipup reviewed Textured Stitches. Next month we have a new theme and a new set of guest edited posts -- very excited as there are lots of resources for starting up your creative business. […]
- Change Sent Thursday, April 18, 2013 whip up » Newsletter Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. Rumi When we make a change, it's so easy to interpret our unsettledness as unhappiness, and our unhappiness as the result of having made the wrong decision. Our mental and emotional states fluctuate madly when we make big changes in our lives, and some days we could tight-rope across Manhattan, and other days we are too weary to clean our teeth. This is normal. This […]
- Right now I am Sent Wednesday, April 10, 2013 whip up » Newsletter Right now I am ... Sitting in the library in a lovely little town in the South West corner of Australia. I am catching up on emails, fixing a few illustrations for my upcoming quilt book, and writing blog posts. Thinking about the swim i'll be enjoying later this afternoon. Smelling the bread roll that is sitting next to me, I can't eat it in the library so i'm waiting to finish up here so I can go and sit in the park and eat a fresh roll and finish up with a […]
March, 2013
- Easter craft edition of the whipup newsletter Sent Wednesday, March 27, 2013 whip up » Newsletter Easter is on its way -- a little earlier than usual -- end of March, so it will creep up on you before you know it. As we are camping without extravent cooking facilities I am thinking of making some chocolate easter bark -- which I think will be achievable, delicious and not too fussy -- I was thinking of a toasted almond and a ginger or mint snap version. This gorp version would be great for camping and this coconut and macadamia version would go down very […]
- News and quilts Sent Wednesday, March 20, 2013 whip up » Newsletter The past month has been a bit quilty in the online craft scene With the first of what looks to be a biannual event -- QuiltCon was apparently a resounding success even taking teething issues into account. My good friend Julie (this is her quilt), attended and participated in workshops and volunteered her time, as well as helping to hang the quilts -- she met an amazing bunch of women. Hopefully next time i'll be able to attend too! This pic above is the quilt […]
February, 2013
- Action Pack :: Elements – WATER Sent Thursday, February 28, 2013 whip up » Newsletter 2013 Elements: WATER edition Cover image: Jo Newman and her children make natural watercolour paint The first issue for 2013 is part of our Elements themed year, and begins with WATER. So versatile and so necessary for life. In this issue we have 15 contributors, and more than 20 projects, these wonderful contributors from around the world walk us through arts and crafts, science, experimentation, adventure, cooking and play -- all related to water. :: Jo […]
- Some things that have been happening Sent Wednesday, February 20, 2013 whip up » Newsletter As I work and play and read and relax while camping, it is not all fun and games. Camping can be hot, and strenuous and sweaty and dirty and tiring too. It is not all starry nights and birds chirping, sometimes there is blaring music and noisy neighbours. However after a week of moving around, fixing broken stuff and staying in some run down sad caravan parks, we have found a little corner of paradise. Fishing is good, the weather is hot, the campsite is small […]
- Right now I am Sent Friday, February 8, 2013 whip up » Newsletter Enjoying the amazing weather. No rain, wind or tears. Sunny blue blue blue skies, green water and soft grey pebbly beach. The water is calm as are tempers. Reading Sherri S Tepper books -- first Grass and now The Margarets. Complex and interesting characters -- science fiction but concentrating on the people and the environment rather than on technology -- I like that. Listening to the crazy noisy bird life -- Cockatoos and Galas. Observing the people -- fellow […]
- Knitting and crocheting on the road Sent Monday, February 4, 2013 whip up » Newsletter This town has been yarn bombed The first day of homeschooling on our year long road trip luckily coincides with us being in a glorious beachy campsite, with wonderful weather. We spent an hour this morning discussing the slang used in Enders Game, as well as the prisoners who were hanged at Adelaide gaol. Quite a mix! But what I really wanted to tell you about was the very cool yarn bombed town we recently spent some time at. The whole town had trees wrapped in […]
January, 2013
- Childhood dreams and ice creams Sent Wednesday, January 23, 2013 whip up » Newsletter I missed a newsletter last week, due to travel and beautiful weather and beaches and not very good internet coverage. This week I have the internet and I still have the beach too. We are chilling out, slowing down, relaxing, reading and swimming in a sleepy South Australian coastal town where the fish are biting and the water is an ethereal milky green colour because of the limestone -- and the waves are perfect. Slightly overpriced and under facilitated camping […]