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I'm not a little teapot, short and stout :Op-Shop Show-Off : Tuesday, Oct...
Spring, and all my thoughts have turned to the garden. As you can see from the background to these shots all my actions have not yet turned to my garden, but op-shopping garden gear with rustic charm...
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42/52 Portraits of my Children in 2013
Claudine-Ever since we mentioned she might be getting a bit too heavy for the backyard swing she has swung at every opportunity, apparently desperate to squeeze every last swing out of the thing before...
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Fete Acompli: Op-Shop Show-Off: Tuesday October 22nd, 2013
Welcome Spring. Season of dung-outs and school fete fruitfulness.Welcome another lovely bit of home-hewn kitchenware.At last, an elusive chopping board: alas not sycamore, but Rimu; from the white...
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Quilts Like Hugs
WHAT A QUILT HUG FEELS LIKE*Photograph by Linda at the fascinating Wetcreek Museum blog.There is a marvellous local to me woman in the blogosphere whom makes the most marvellous quilts, quilts with...
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43/52
Findlay-"Aww, you look so cute, let me just get my camera... Fin...Fin?". He found his feet last week, this week he found fast.Claudine-Post sausage sizzle, mid-terrier racing, pre-bouncy castle...
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Serendipity-do-dah :Op-Shop Show-Off:Tuesday 29th October, 2013
So there I was, minding my own business, reading blogs on my phone, supervising the two napping children in the back of the car. Terry was outside, pillaging the Rangiora tip shop, when I came across a...
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44/52
Claudine-At messy play. She thought the squelching noise of her wellies on the way home was absolutely hilarious.Findlay-Having examined the entire perimeter of the house and garden he is now...
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Chop, chop, chop on wood: Op-Shop Show-Off: Tuesday November 5th, 2013
The annual elderflower cordial making, always a pretty affair, with fragrant confetti redolent of long hot down-under summers, rendered even more lovely by the addition of a previously op-shopped WMF...
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45/52
Just sneaking in week 45/52 portraits of my children in 2013, in the nick of time...ClaudineGardening from a nearly 4 year old perspective. It's all about the mud and sprinklers.FindlayAlmost nearly...
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With a rainbow under my arm: Op-Shop Show-Off; November 19th, 2013
This vivacious older sister of trug was brought home for me by my clever op-shop roving husband. As I tote her around the garden she radiates good cheer, and makes me wonder, who made her and when? I...
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Little Red Hen: Op-Shop Show-Off: Tuesday November 27th, 2013
It had to be mine. It must be Scandinavian or Italian, do you think?Rangiora tip shop, 50c.Late, and brief this week. Apologies. Fin is waking approximately hourly at night and we are zombies, though...
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And the dish ran away with the spoon: Op-Shop Show-Off: December 3rd, 2013
$8. Rangiora tip shop. Modern Czechoslovakian bohemian porcelain, 'Blue Onion' pattern. Pretty.Still mono-syllabic with tiredness I'm afraid, but fortunately my nose for an op-shop find is...
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Portraits of My Children: 1/52/14
Findlay-Film star good looks down the paddling pool.Claudine-Awaiting the judge at the sandcastle contest today.Week one of the 2014 Portrait Project at Practising Simplicity.Happy New Year to you all....
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You are invited...
Dear Blogging Friends, Neighbours, Waimakariri-ans and indeed Cantabrians,You are cordially invited to the January Rangiora Food Swap on Sunday January 19th, 2014 at 2pm. We are a newly forming social...
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Portrait Project 2/52/14
Fin-Likes to play crawl-chase and busts in to peals of laughter when his family get down on all fours and say "chase me Fin, chase me".Claud-Likes to skip everywhere, and breaks out in impromptu dance...
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Clip-Clop: Op-Shop Show-Off; Tuesday Jan 14th, 2014
Claud was gifted this hobby horse recently by it's original owner who was given it as a child by her grandparents who bought it out from a London department store quite a few years ago. Claud...
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The Tea Towel Dress
I made Claud the Martha Stewart Tea Towel dress for her birthday, in stolen minutes here and there. Except it's the Max Bennett Tea Towel Dress because the Martha Steward dress pattern is in fact...
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3/52/14 Portrait Project
Fin. Oh-ohh. You can't walk but you can climb?!!! Nothing. Safe.Claud-Love the faraway look you get in your eyes when your thinking up something funny. (In this instance the knock-knees dance).Week...
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Darn It! Op-Shop Show-Off; January 21st, 2014
Haberdashery. Great vintage word, great vintage stuff. Notions, lisle. Also lovely words. Ahh.
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4/52/14 Portraits Of My Children
Fin-Scrumptious and serious.Claud-Laughter on legs.Week 4 of the Portrait project at Practising Simplicity.
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Op-Shop Show_Off; January 28th, 2014
From my before-Christmas-$3-box-of-tricks. A small silver platter. Husband thinks it is silver plate though isn't hallmarked. In service, serving up Her Royal Claudness'es breakfast.
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5/52/14
Fin-Beseeching dad with his eyes to 'please push'!Claud-New term, new shoes.It's all go here. How is it with you?Participating in the Portrait Project at Practising Simplicity.
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6/52/14
Fin-The serious business of having fun.Claud-The long wait over; watching his wings dry.See you on Tuesday for the Op-Shop Show-Off.Week six of the 2014 Portrait Project at Practising Simplicity.
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The Ghost of Kitchens Past : Op-Shop Show-Off; February 11th, 2014
Welcome back to the second-hand-gadget-of-cooking show-off.Miniature toilet brush in appearance, miniature broomstick in gait; utilitarian, actually cleanable (the little metal cap retracts) and...
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