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An online diary documenting my love of fabrics and sewing and my dabbling in other crafty adventures. I also have a daughter with congenital heart disease and I like to document about her health.

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  • Hot and Not - Eva home! on Nov 20, 2009 in Eva hot and not

    HOT* Healthy and happy kids at home!!* Terrific inlaws bringing dinner and taking kids for the night.* Friday - hello weekend!NOT* Sick Evie, pneumonia, hospital, hospital "beds"* Crazy too hot weather.* Kindergarten mums not pulling together.Loobylu...

  • Eva - follow up on Nov 17, 2009 in Eva congenital heart disease

    Eva is doing much better today. Thankfully her heart is not to blame for this current sickness (I realise how completely unprepared I was to go through all that again)!She has a bacterial lung infection and is on IV antibiotics. Not sure when she wil...

  • Eva on Nov 15, 2009 in Eva

    is sick and in hospital, probable lung infection, possible early heart failure. She is on IV antibiotics. Will be seeing cardiologist and lung doctors tomorrow.Keep her in your prayers.

  • Fabric Collections I'm Loving! on Nov 13, 2009 in fabric

    Hope Valley - Denyse Schmidt - what else is there to say, everything this woman does is divine!Spellbound by Pat Bravo - Every pattern in this collection is beautiful.Germania by Jay McCarroll - for the sheer weirdness and randomness of the fabrics,...

  • Hot and Not on Nov 11, 2009 in hot and not

    HOT* Eva greeting everyone today with "Ahoy there me hearties" - made me smile even if it left people a little bemused!* The weather we are having right now, beautiful and hot but not too hot. I love daylight savings!* ALDI - cheap Aussie fruit, che...

  • A little more sewing on Nov 10, 2009 in sewing Lucia fabric home

    Yesterday was officially my sewing day, it was fun to put this little tunic top together for Lucia as it was made from about 3 different patterns so was a bit of a dot to dot and sometimes I was just winging it. You can't go wrong with something as b...

  • A little more sewing on Nov 7, 2009 in sewing Lucia Andrew parenting fabric life family ikea

    Lucia in a new dress I made from some Ikea fabric and a pattern from one of Bianca's Ottobre magainzes. Her prop is a lilly pilly called lulu, she had to have it when she saw it at Bunnings!It has some serious twirlability!Works out really nice on th...