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Oh, hi there.  I just thought I’d pop in and say thank you for all of the lovely comments on 51 posts.  I forgot to mention WHEN I would draw the name from the hat and I think I’ll do it Thursday so it could make in the post for Friday.  What do you say?

I’ve also cut my long hair.  Change is good.  Tidied my work room down stairs, would you like to see it sometime?  I’ll give you a tour when the drawers come in from IKEA.  2 weeks.

This week I’ll be tidying up in the Etsy shop, finishing some orders, getting prepared for a new crafty adventure with this girl, attending Master L’s first ever swimming carnival as a supportive Mum and watching Miss H’s first ever dance class.  Personally I think she should be in drama classes but we will try this first.

See you Thursday.

Wishing all of my family, friends and lovely customers and blog readers a very Merry Christmas, and a safe and happy holiday.  I really look forward to new and exciting things in 2010.  I am very excited about taking Holly Becker’s (of Decor 8 blog fame) ‘Blogging your Way’ course in the New Year.  I am also excited about Paperklip ‘primary’ – a very sweet range I am working on for next year and I am mostly excited about 5 days away in a CARAVAN with The Viking and the little vikings.  See you soon. xxoo.

PS – SALE starts Monday January 4th, 2010 with 20% off storewide.

The last one for 2009.  A pretty name for a new baby.

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.

Yesterday, Master L, Miss D, Miss H and I had a big adventure.  We visited Flower Power because we wanted to use a special Wedding gift voucher from our lovely neighbours and we decided on this gorgeous white glazed Strawberry pot, and some punnets of strawberrys too.  It is lovely weather in Sydney today, so we are going to plant it up this afternoon.  We are even going to use our own compost mix from our Tardis compost bin (made from an old turned up-side down garage bin (so resourceful!).

Underneath is the only snippet I could find of my all time favourite paper, and I have seen some in my four years of Paperklip.  It of course has little strawberries on it and it was one of the first sheets I ever bought.  Yummy.

Tommorow we are going to put our best shoes on and celebrate our little niece Indianna’s christening.  Her special gifts courtesy of 3 lovely Magnolia Square vendors -

A gorgeous kaftan for summer from Little Bubble and Tree, Haiku Baby from We heart Books and ‘Delilah’, the cutest doll ever from Leonie at Tippietoes. 

I am especially looking forward to lunch.

Thank you too everyone for your lovely comments on the Fair.