Lemons you ask?  Well, I have much to tell you about.  Around Christmas time I planted a lemon tree in my front yard.  My Auntie Wendy had a huge lemon tree in her backyard and I loved collecting buckets full with my brother when I was little.  She also had chickens, greyhounds, cats, birds – the whole menagerie; this all took place in a suburban Sydney backyard.  Well, my lemon tree does not produce buckets full, but it currently has 13 lovely ripe lemons hanging.  I picked one nervously and gave it to a friend.  She said it was good.  So I am lemon happy about that.

I feel it is almost to the point of embarassing that my debut as a teacher is still to come.  Unfortunately the collage classes for June for Notebook have been re-scheduled to July.  This time round they won’t co-incide with a long weekend (or the school holidays).  I have many lovely supplies to break out and lots to share, so if you are interested in joining a class, stay tuned – I will let you know of the new dates.

Tomorrow night I am going to a party.  Do you want to come?  You can!  It is an Etsy Craft Party organised by Notebook.  It is to celebrate Etsy’s birthday.  It will be fun.  And crafty too.  I am taking along some papercrafting to share, there will also be fabric yo-yo making and other fun things.  You will meet some very crafty people.  We are all taking a plate.  There will be tea and coffee and a goodie bag to take home.  It will be from 6.30 to 9.30pm at the Notebook Studios at 180 Bourke Road, Alexandria.  You can get a ticket from here.

I have also been moonlighting.  This vintage is taking me over.  It is taking me over so much that I am working on a little side project to feed my cravings for ‘the vintage’.  I can’t wait to show you.  I’m hoping in about 2 weeks.

So, I have been a busy worker bee too.  I am working on a wholesale order for THE English textile magazine Selvedge. You can buy the magaine at Artisan Books, Fitzroy, Vic in Australia.   Selvedge have an online shop here called Dry Goods.  I like that name a lot.  I am working on a project with Fiona Kate.  I have been watching Bright Star, at Amanda’s recommendation.  I loved it too.  I have been bidding on a copy of  Bless this House at Pilgrim’s recommendation.  I have been making garlands, drinking tea, talking to old friends and having a time of it.

What have you been busy with?

My $5 chairs

I was blog hopping over at Megan Morton’s lovely new blog (she has a lovely book too, called Home Love) and I found a link to this fun little gadget.  You can find out your Swedish furniture name.  Useless?  Maybe.  But fun.  Paperklip seems to be a chair.  Quite appropriate as I love chairs.  So does the Viking.  We grabbed a couple of special ones when we lived in Denmark.  We have Arne Jacobsen’s egg chair in the stue (lounge room in Danish) and our dining chairs are Jacobsen’s 7’s.  Both design classics and have held up well with 3 little vikings in the house.  We also have some 1950’s chairs found for $5 each at the local op-shop in our entry, love those too.  Do you love chairs too?  Do you have a favourite classic or just an old favourite around the house?

Happy Easter.  I hope you have a relaxing break.  I am actually in panic mode as my in-laws will be arriving from Denmark tommorow at 6.10am.  The house needs the once over.  We are all very excited they are coming.

We are going to try dyeing eggs.  We are going to eat Hot Cross Buns and drink Hot Chocolate.  We are having Tasmanian Salmon for dinner tommorow evening.  We are already counting the sleeps til the Easter Rabbit (hopefully) makes an appearance.   I am going to enjoy doing the dishes with my Rob Ryan tea towel (thank you Inside Out magazine!).  What will you do?

Do you ever play that memory game with your children?  We play it at the dinner table.  I went shopping and I bought – one cupcake, next person repeats and adds – I went shopping and I bought one cupcake and 3 apples, and so on.  We have a slightly different version that goes ‘I went to Farmor and Farfar’s house and I took’  – usually lots of warm things because they are in Denmark but sometimes the cat comes along. 

Well, I went shopping and I bought 1 vintage zebra figurine ($1.50), 3 metres of ticking fabric for a new market stall tablecloth ($25.80) and 1 vintage doll’s highchair ($10).

What have you bought lately?

Me

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.