AJ's Antics

School starts next week for most of the country....for me it starts tomorrow! Ekkkk! It's my first year as a 'school Mum' as my boy starts Prep and my first year teaching Prep. I get to meet my little ones tomorrow as the come in for orientation. I've spent all week doing long hours, 7am til 6pm, at the classroom and then many more hours into the night  to get ready with name tags and fine motor games, and curriculum planning and resources for the classroom. I'm basically building a Prep room from scratch as resources and funds are low. I'm being thrifty where I can and excepting donations from family and friends. Which brings me to sharing my next #finishitfifteen project!  You can read more about it here . but basically the aim is to finish 15 projects in 2015. 2 in less than a month means I'm winning....so far... MIL gifted, ie left them at our house, these foam cushions and I've always had intention to turn them into cushions I can use a...

Quilting was practically non-existent this year :( Returning to work full time has seriously taken a HUGE chunk of my crafting time. I'm going to make up for it this year, although still working, I'll be doing only 1 full time  job not 2 part time jobs that was like 2 full time jobs! In December I finished a quilt for Aden's beloved Kindy teacher. Embarrassingly this quilt was started in June 2009 when I was 8 months pregnant! I added a border and sandwiched it at Quilt Camp 2014 (which I must blog soon too I guess). The colours were perfect for his teacher Aden had 1 Kindy teacher and 2 assistants so I pulled 2 finished quilts off the shelf that were made for no-one in particular and gifted those as well. He has super excited to be giving quilts to his teachers and so was I. They have often complimented me on the quilts Aden  took to Kindy for rest time. I've got some lovely pictures of him wrapped up in quilty-goodness with his teachers.  We ...

Didn't think I would be back so soon did ya! Well here it is... my first finish for the year for #finishitfifteen 1 year ago today we were visiting London and when we got back I found these via Instagram. I'm going to add the date and frame them for my craft room. I can't decide if I should leave them in a hoop or frame them under glass. Any display tips welcome!  It was super fun to stitch up and the perfect little carry around project.  I also have Pretty Little Paris to start soon.  The holiday planning goes into overdrive when you see the other cities that NEED to be stitched!  1 down 14 to go! #finishitfifteen

I'm usually pretty hopeless at these but I thought I'd try anyway! So the Challenge is #finishitfifteen  The rules: FINISH Fifteen half started projects in 2015. The projects can be anything you want. Car is challenging us to finish 15 projects in 2015 . You can join her here . Like Car I have a HUGE mess in my craft room....with bits of everything everywhere. I've started tidying it up and get overwhelmed at everything and don't know where to start! I've separated my work stuff from my craft stuff and hopefully that will help a bit. And because I'm clever like that I've already finish a project! I'll share it soon!

Well actually there was no ringing to be heard, just noisy neighbours and heavy rain, a few drinks and family chatter. An appropriate end to 2014. It was a bit of a 'meh' year....nothing too terrible, nothing too exciting, just busy full-time work and the stress that goes along with it, family events and getting on with things. 2015 is bringing some changes and with it a new outlook. I'm still thinking of my 'one little word' for 2015 and I'll post about that as soon as I have it nailed. My boy is starting school in a few shorts weeks and we are both feeling some anxiety towards it.  . He is more than ready both academically and socially, I'm just not sure how he will go with the 'sitting still and listening' part of school. He always has a thought to express or a question to ask. He doesn't like to 'do it wrong' and sometimes is unwilling to try if he perceives that he might fail. I've handpicked his teacher (the perks of hi...