My amazing dinner and other adventures

Last night was a get it yourself kind of night. James made bread in the afternoon and after filling up on bread and honey and also crumpets at my parents' place, there wasn't much room for dinner. The crumpets, I might add, had camembert and smoked salmon on them How can I resist?? So I made myself mushroom bruscetta! Olive oil and garlic-y goodness on homemade spelt bread with chili and homegrown herbs. the recipe is from 'Jamie at home'. So simple and so good, but the neighbours could probably smell my garlic breath from next door!

Some eye candy. An indian bag I bought a few months ago and a scarf I knitted years ago. Its just started to get cold enough to need it!! But that's not stopping getting into the ocean for a surf...

Tags that I made up last night to go in my book as dividers. I have also stamped and painted on the black sides. Looking cute!

Here's the back of them along with some doodling on my backing paper. I use the ikea packaging from things we've bought as its really big and doesn't leave ink on everything like newspapers can. Will probably cut out the tree piece and stick it in my journal - I like how the layers have built up as I've used different paints and stamps.And... viola!! Some yo-yos I've made from my yo-yo maker. So cute!! I'm loving doing all pinks. They're like precious little sweets! Anyone for tea??And some blue ones using the heart shaped yo-yo maker. It is as easy as everyone says. No hassle at all. I plan to fill a vase with them!! Somebody stop me now!!

Yo-yos galore!!

I bought myself a little pressie on ebay on the weekend and it arrived today! That's pretty good going - as its Wednesday. Tonight I plan to have a fiddle with my new clover yo-yo makers. I bought sizes for making round and one for heart shaped. I'm hoping I'll be able to take them on the plane and do some sewing when we go to the UK in 6 weeks. I've also been playing with some luggage tags that Carol sent me aaages ago. I have finally figured out what to do with them. They are eventually going to be a sample book. These will be the dividers for all the techniques I plan to experiment with over the next few months. Like most other people, I have heaps of supplies that I haven't even touched. But I plan to!! I do! So this is my little way of giving myself permission to play. Just make small samples and see what happens. After all, that's how we learn. I've spent a lot of time the last year or more making things but it is nice sometimes to purposefully not make things. No expectations. No product. just an experience. They need a little more stamping, then some fibres dangling off the eyelet. My little samples will be smaller than these tags which measure 10cm x 18cm and interleaved with the divider tags. I'm thinking off buying a bind-it-all tool. Has anyone got one? Worth buying? They aren't that cheap, but I think they are awesome. More only hesitation is getting the owires shipped to Australia. They don't seem to do boxes of mixed sizes and colours - only bulk buys of singles colours. People do some amazing things with them. There's some great stuff on flickr like Patrick Ng's work and Jo36's. Her work is just stunning. Righto. Off to find a better blog template. Ciao x