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Happy Birthday Blog : 2 TODAY!
Happy Birthday Blog!
2 Years ago TODAY, Here is our very first entry!
TODAY is number 187!
to many many many more . . . . . . . .
thank you to our followers
for reading our blogs
for drinking tea with us
for celebrating all things craft
for joining hearts & hands
for creating community
we do craft. in a hive of activity.
yes, we do!
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eggs, cricket, kale, roses, fire, beanie love
How was your Easter Break?
Did you get creative?
We did!
We read a lot
Mowed the Cricket Pitch!
Planted out our Autumnal Vege Garden
Noah Waters
from my rose garden – perfection
brothers silliness unites
Caedence builds our FULL MOON fire
a delight to watch my beautiful son, a powerful fire he builds, and tends – we sit, drum & give thanks until the last flame flickers and the rain falls
Brothers melt some of their eggs in the cauldron on the fire and add milk for hot chocolates!
I finish Caeds green beanie complete with pompom
much cricket is played, Noah learning from his big brother is keen to practise
Caed makes yum spinach & pepperoni pizza
I did some painting and rearranging
and finally got the artwork my mum made for me up on my bedroom wall
it is a work depicting my biography from birth until the move into Apple Tree Cottage in 2007
“Wallpaper of a Life, sealed with heartstrings of love”
Thanks Mum x
and now I am on to Noahs yellow beanie!
What are you up to?
x
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hop hop hippity hop
FIRSTLY
Look at this knitted rabbit my 10 year old Caedence has entered into the spoonfulzine competition
Up against some tough competition
But I have my ‘carrots’ on him – how delightful is he! (yes, the rabbit is pretty cute too!)
SECONDLY
I love planning what craft I will get up to over the easter break
I have a pompom to complete my fullers oliver jeffers beanie
I have started a beanie in shades of green for my boy Caed
and had a terrific session with Deidre at the Quilted Crow yesterday and am on track to begin one of two quilts planned for my boys
HOW ’bout YOU?
Have you got Easter Craft at the Ready?
In – Joy
THIRDLY
pop into MoMA this Saturday afternoon: Caed continues with Finger Knitting Fun & you can see my completed pink floor mat!
too cute!
much cuteness, smiles, sunshine, beach walks, leaf collecting, time to be, to you all
x
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Easter with blessed.bee (alias Juliana Bartulin)
Wondering how Juliana Bartulin
blessed.bee
has been passing her days in the Blue Mountains?
wonder full
delight full
beauty full
as Juliana truly is
Easter Blessing All
May your Easter days be filled with the Golden Light of the Sun
and your tums be filled a little by easter treat yums!
X
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Special’ness
It has been a special week
A weekend at the Seven Sisters Festival, Priestessing the RED TENT with lots of my favourite women
Knitting RED hot water bottle covers by fire light
Meeting Lara Owen
Watching dear hearted friends present their workshops, so proud was I
AND filming Jane Hardwicke Collings for TED – I do hope I am carrying her drum bag to San Fran!
You can watch . . . . here
The boys and I started dreaming into their quilts
I am making them for their birthdays
One in greens (Caedence) and the other in yellows (Noah)
We found this terrific book, Hobo Quilts by Debra G Henninger
and the boys have chosen the blocks – Hobo Symbols they resonate with
Will be fun to learn,
I have always wanted to learn quilting and what better way to learn than creating in celebration of the days my boys were born
I had a marvellous time at The Quilted Crow choosing material under the guidance of Leonie
AND next week Deidre is going to get me started, make sure i am heading in the right direction
Such lovely hearted women
The kids came home from school this week with chatterboxes
Do you remember making these?
My eldest could not believe I knew what they were!!!
And was even more amazed when I said I was his age (10), the last time I made one!
What FUN
Spent a lovely lunch hour with the gorgeous Jen @Fullers casting on with a super group of needle ready women
Making beanies we are for the highly anticipated Fullers Ferrets welcome of . . . . stay tuned!
Only 3 more Mona Markets
booohooo
What will be next I wonder?
Come see us Saturday for more Finger Knitting Fun with Caedence
+ Music + YUM (oh and don’t forget the Cider!)
& to see my crocheted Zpaghetti grow – a floor rug by market end, I am sure
happy crafting all
pop in on wednesday from 11am – 2pm
check out our new signage!
WOWSIE
thank you Stuart
he is a legendary traditional sign writer
coolness, huh!
x
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Pink Tents, Orange Tents, Red Tents, & More
How was your weekend?
We had a busy one, both at home and out and about
Creating here and there
And preparing for this and that
Grateful for the sunshiney Autumnal light of the eves
& the mist and sparkly’ness of the sun rising through the moist droplets
Beauty Full
I had sew much fun making the new kits from Tonia @The Paper Shed
Saturday morning I have a date in The Wine Bar pre MoMA with my boy Caed
I drink coffee, he drinks hot choc and we eat cupcakes
‘Tis a good thing
Then onto Cider from Captain Blighs, I am a cider girl (my children will tell you!) and this is cider with a capital ‘C’
St. Paddy’s Day
Look at those sweet Leprechauns
more finger knitting fun with Caedence & Mini MoMA Minoring food tasting with the lovely Jen & Jo &
the market kiddies
& kick back time in between
I began Zpagetti Crocheting : a pink circular floor mat for our market stall – stay tuned, come see me and see it grow
Sin&Tonic - THAT double bass (!) and GoGo girls (!) kept us highly entertained!
Home with our chocolate eclairs from Lizz Martin from Divine Addictions
(we eat one in the car on the way home and one for dessert later)
and for a salt girl like me, how ’bout this SoSO salt from Chris of Bottega Rotolo - it is yum!
Sunday morning the boys did the Triathalon Thing!
WOW, totally impressive and well done all
Sunday arvo, I began my preparation for The Seven Sisters Festival
Along with other Graduates from the School of Shamanic Midwifery, we are Priestessing a Red Tent
Drum is ready for journeying, red knitting bags ready for knitting up red hot water bottles
and my luggage has a new pompom tag – pink pompoms, love
Sunday eve wind down with the almost completion of our world jigsaw
We love love love map jigsaws – spaces left just the plain blue sea
and today, a last minute knitting needle hunt
look what I found
thank you huonville vinnies
happy week all
X
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seasons of mist & domestic bliss
I’ve had boys home from school off and on for the past couple of weeks
With the arrival of Autumn, I love the feeling of coming ‘back to home’
Probably accentuated given I have been ‘away’ all summer
It is rare to have my boys at home during a school week – they both love their school
and skip off most days happy and ready
So, when they are sick and really unable to go, it gives me that nostalgic feeling of the before school days,
which I loved so much, blossomed in, found my true love: being with and creating home with and for my children
We have stitched, sewed, knitted and baked this week like in times of old!
Snot aside, a treat of time and created warmth
Harvest Blessings All
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cupcakes, cinnamon, cumin, cider & connecting
’twas a wonder filled MoNa Market Day
menagerie of photos below: to be surrounded by the talents and energies of all these folk was a truly treasured time; from elise helping with parking, Simon who helped me out when my car key broke off in the ignition, the MoMA boys helping out with tents, lifting, carrying & dismantling to the exceptional organisational skills of the beautiful & talented Natalie Holtsbaum , it was a day to be remembered. And such a view, top of the world
So awesomely lovely to put faces to favourite blogs of mine
Michelle from HUGO & ELSA
“We ditched the bright lights of Sydney for the Tasmanian countryside looking for a simple life with love,
chooks and plenty of cake…”
DO FOLLOW : SHE IS ANOTHER TALENT ON OUR ISLAND HOME
And super excited to meet & hang with
she inspires me on sew many levels, check out all her super cool creative endeavours
a lady with irish energy & two groovy sweet chaps like me
NEXT WEEK
join us: same place: at the tail end!
Two Finger Fingerknitting following
MoMA Minors Kids Workshops
right next door @ 1:30pm & @3:30pm
creative lov’in with our kiddies
X
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Tell Me About The Craft Hive
I would love to, it would be my absolute delight!
we do craft. in a hive of activity
AND
we are about
C.ommunity
R.evival
A.rtistic
F.amily
T.raditions
as with all growth, change comes too . . .
the twists and turns the TCH has shown me, her path, the way of her evolvement
TODAY
The Craft Hive has evolved into the dreaming that I originally had, in the very beginning . . . .
A place people can meet through their hands, connecting and creating
AND
A place which has connected both locally, australia wide and internationally through our making; it is a large network we are a part of, with over 18,000 hits on our website and many, many subscribers, the ‘work’ of TCH both for individuals and collectively has been a joy ride – and continues to bee
The Craft Hive can be rented for meetings and get togethers of all shapes and sizes
We are like a home away from home, comfy, bright pink kitchen and pillow comfort abounds
Upstairs, in the CENTRE of Hobart town!
read more here . . . . about how you or your group can rent The Craft Hive as Community Space
for Teachers renting to teach classes read more here . . .
Our website keeps you up-to-date with all the goings on
So,
we don’t have a timetable as such, as classes are added at varying times throughout the year, sometimes less and sometimes more
Check out what’s.hiving for an updated goings on of classes and workshops and gatherings
AND
our blog, facebook page, tweets and instagram keep you up to the dot up-date!
come join the crafting community that is yours for the making
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