It was such a nice day today – the sun was shining in Sydney so Master L and Miss D (Miss H was in pre-school!) took ourselves off to the big town and here are some pictures of our day.  We visited the Christmas Shop in David Jones and found a very nice advent calendar and this way we don’t have to throw out paper ones every year.  Then we hopped on over to Kinokuniya, the amazing bookstore with English and Japanese books – including a very good Japanese craft section.  I had to have the Papercutting book – full of lovely soft patterns like the flowers above.  The little pack on top – well I had no idea what I was getting there – it had some beautiful coloured papers peeping out so I couldn’t resist.  Turns out there were some nice little patterns in there along with the paper so – double happy.  Then we met The Viking for lunch and caught the train home.

Just before home I checked my post box and found a little package from Melissa of Tinyhappy.  It was a little needlebook I bought from her Etsy shop last week.  Melissa has a lovely blog all about life in New Zealand, filled with snippets of sewing (mostly from vintage and recycled things), family life and the nature of New Zealand.  It is really worth a look.

Hope that the sun was shining on you today too.