I’ve found that since becoming a mum, it’s been harder to carve out time for doing creative things – there always seems to be something…
Category: Make
Responsible Tourism with Fundación En Vía
It’s been over a year since this trip to Mexico, but I really wanted to make sure I write about this tour as it was…
Learning Pottery
As I’ve been mentioning in my Head & Heart posts lately, I recently completed a six session pottery course at TAFE, along with my mum!…
Eat Drink Blog (& sketchnote)
Australia’s annual conference run by food bloggers, for food bloggers rolled around again – this time in sunny Brisbane. I ate, I drank, I [micro]…
Drying Rose Petals
In case you were wondering about the fate of those roses from earlier this week – they’ve been dried and squirrelled away for sprinkling on…
On being a maker
There is something extremely satisfying about waking up, thinking “I really need some warmer pyjama pants”, then wearing them a couple of hours later after…
Review: DAGi Stylus
Over winter last year I fell into what I’ll call a creative siesta – I spent most of my spare time consuming rather than creating,…
Website Renovations
If you’ve visited my website over the past few days, you might have noticed that I’ve sneakily redesigned and rebranded. ChiGarden has always been a ‘creative…
Easy DIY Cushion Cover Tutorial
Took me a little while, but here is the cushion tutorial which I promised earlier! I would like to admit here that I am not…
New (old) Sewing Cabinet!
Lately I’ve been trying my best to source things that I want secondhand wherever possible. Normally I’m not very good at it – op-shopping takes…
On buying (almost) nothing new so far
I have now lasted almost 6 months of my ‘buy nothing new‘ thing. I have had to buy a few things here and there – things…
Winter Knitting
With short, cold winter days, I’ve been coming home from work and only really having the energy to eat some dinner and do some knitting…