Sew Darn Cute is an inspirational craft handbook from Jenny Ryan. The book contains 30 projects to sew and embellish, each of which is beautifully photographed and has step-by-step instructions to follow. I love the philosophy behind the book, which Jenny states in her introduction: “There is no right or wrong way to approach sewing. [...]

It is school holidays in Victoria. I was incredibly happy to see them arrive. Term 1 went ridiculously quick and was much busier than I would have liked it. I will certainly be trying for a calmer Term 2. I posted a couple of weeks ago about kids activities in Melbourne that you can take [...]

My children each have a buddy at school, the older ones have a younger buddy and the younger and vice versa. At Easter and Christmas time they like to give a gift to give to their buddies. I prefer where possible if the kids make this gift themselves, hoping to impress upon them that a [...]

Today we headed into the city to Melbourne Town Hall to see RODNEY. MISSING.. RODNEY. MISSING. is performed by Cave Mann Productions and is part of the amazing array of gigs that are playing in Melbourne as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. The whole family came along, including the 14 month old and [...]

There was a fantastic response to my review of Kathy Walker’s latest book Parenting: A practical guide to raising preschool and primary-school children. Kathy is certainly a respected and popular education and parenting expert. The winner drawn randomly was number 22 – ickle kids! To those of you who didn’t win, thank you for entering [...]

1. Produce Stand, 2. Watermelon is love, 3. PAPAYA, 4. Star Fruit One of my current favourite parenting podcasts is Parenting Unplugged. They were once a weekly podcast but it is now daily (week days), and I particularly enjoy their Tuesday shows when they have an expert on line to interview. Recently they had an [...]