the stuffings

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

some cute stuffing ideas from my favourites list. Take a peek.

Project 2# the stockings

Aren't these delightful?

wonderful free downloadable tutorial here

Warm December

click on the pictures to view items on Etsy

Summer is just about here and it's a balmy 28℃ today.

How do you fancy the idea of Christmas at the beach?

Treasury by Welcome to the Dollhaus

                  (my other shop and blog)

Treasury tool by Red Row Studio.

In our garden you will see...

...if you will take a walk with me

 parsley

potatoes 

carrots 

nasturtiums 

lettuces 

 silverbeet

leeks sprouting

brocolli, capsicum and eggplant

radishes

 sweetcorn and sunflowers

 green peas and sweet peas

 ripening cherries

 blushing quinces

 blood plums

 other plums

rununculi and pansies

strawberries

 red currants

 raspberry bushes

 white roses

 red roses 

 palest of pink roses

wild roses

wild flowers

...there are also green beans, purple beans, tomatoes and apples, 

red and brown onions, garlic, thyme, rosemary, lavender, daisies,

peaches and pears, a lemon tree, a young olive grove, bee hives, 

jasmine, borage, basil, mint, agapanthus, fir trees, fig trees, magpie 

fledglings, loquats, blue tongue lizards and perhaps the odd snake,

wild cherry plums, kookaburras, baby starlings and baby blackbirds, 

wolf spiders, a resident fox and kestrel, an owl or two, a rookery 

of crows, flowering succulents, a frangipani tree, mushrooms, wild 

fennel, fruit bats and a fairy garden planted beneath a 'faraway tree'....

After living through a long drought with tiny inner city courtyards 

and huge water restrictions, this garden and the return of rain is.... 

✶⠚  heaven on earth  ⠚✶

Teddy

The most precious toy I own is a bear named Teddy.

I have owned him for most of my life...

and over the last 33 odd years his velvet has worn thin, 

he has lost an eye and suffered a partial decapitation.

Still, he has pride of place on the love seat in our living room 

and can often be found snuggling there with Ari.

I can only hope that the toys I make and send out into the world 

will be as well loved as Teddy.

s-mitten

It's warming up here! My mittens are tucked away, but as half the world is frosting over I thought that someone might fancy 

a pair of these...

Almost too delicious to wear! 

They reminded me very much of this book↓ 

I was pleased to see Deborah mention it on Kickcan and Conkers 

a little while back.  I love the cover too. It's one of my favourites!

And yes, they do hats too!

tinytoadstool.com

Go there NOW! You really must.