Morning Distractions

The cats are upstairs sleeping on my bed all wrapped up and cosy.

Even though the day is looking a bit overcast, it is still looking like a glorious day. Andreas dropped Tori off to childcare nice and early and then he came back home and we sat down to breakfast. I can't remember the last time we did that. I have have a full day of sewing ahead of me and I am going to try not to be distracted by the ideas and sewing jobs on my "Not Important But Nice" sewing list. These are the non-paying jobs or product development ideas that I have.

I have been distracted by a few interesting sites last night and this morning ...

• I am slowly registering my presence on a variety of web sites. Reading through the interesting blog of Assential Scrapbooking, I came across the link to Bub Hub. So I have applied for advertising in this space. Jenny's site on scrapbooking is quite interesting and I am enjoying reading about her journey into the online world, as it mirrors my adventures!
  
• Simone Walsh handmade jewelry. Her stuff is just divine, truly divine. I love these Victorian cut out earrings and similar styled jewelry.
• I spent far too much time last night strolling through The Design Files .. lots of interesting things in there!
• AGIdeas Conference looks like something I could benefit from, unfortunately I have to work on those days, but there are some interesting names in there that I might get distracted by later on. The business "advantage" keynote could be something worthwhile.
• Meet me at Mikes twitted about this book - "The creative family". Might be something to check out. The funny thing was that I had a conversation about this very topic yesterday.

Another cup of tea and then into the sewing ....

Crafty Buggers

I only got around to reading the Sunday Age the other night and noticed this article in it spouting how "Craft has got it's groove back". Was it ever out of fashion?

The article was quite good talking about how it is very much a lifestyle choice and it also made an interesting comment on some of the not so crafty, craft out there.

A very lovely picture of Pip on the front looking very glam from Meet me at Mikes on Brunswick Street and a picture of Gemma the gal who organised the Bushfire Raffle that my Skull and Cherry Blossom swaddle was donated to, from Kaotic Kraft Kuties.

The empowering thing for me is that you can contribute to social change by the very act of donating something that you have made or supplies for others to make things with. That is pretty powerful stuff. Make quilts not war! *chuckles*