back to my past – Page 3

cooking & clearing & heading south

4 Jan

WEEK FIFTY-ONE (december 21-27) This year has been very different for me and it has continued to be different right to the end. I have, in a very orderly fashion, been preparing for Christmas all month and have lost the ... Read more »

plums and trees

14 Dec

Jan Mullen

WEEK FORTY-NINE (December 7-13) The shadow that is Christmas is looming and for the first time in many years I need to make more of an effort for the little ones in our family. Festive traditions that can send low-key ... Read more »

short week squished

2 Nov

Jan Mullen

WEEK FORTY-THREE (october 26- november 1) This week starts with me still in Geelong. It is check out day, travel day and getting back to my bloke and my bed day. It was also a day made more lovely, quite ... Read more »

simply empty the fridge

30 Sep

Jan Mullen

WEEK THIRTY-EIGHT – (sept. 21-27) If you’ve been reading my blog of late you will have noticed an increasingly stressed undertone….but not this week.… Ages ago I promised to take a few friends to our little house, to get together ... Read more »

pieces of precious

3 Aug

Jan Mullen

WEEK THIRTY – (july 26 – august 2 ) Laminex….. I spent months drawing on these little ‘pieces of precious’, then I put them away to work slowly on another feathering thought-line which finally resulted in a finished piece. Because ... Read more »

chasing warmth

27 Jul

Jan Mullen

WEEK TWENTY-NINE – (july 20-26) The first half of the week was spent finishing the first FEATHERING piece. Firstly, I needed to pin down the feathers needing hand stitch to hold them in securely in place. The feathers are three ... Read more »

precious time & precious things

6 Jul

Jan Mullen

WEEK TWENTY-SIX – ( june 29- july 5) I have been really pleased to have had a friend from Uni days visiting Perth for a short time, much of it spent with me. Very little else was achieved this week ... Read more »

visiting haunts whilst my team launched

22 Jun

Jan Mullen

WEEK TWENTY-FOUR – (june 15-21) The week started in Melbourne and finished up back home in Perth. I did miss a big event whilst away – the launch of a WAFTA (Western Austalian Fibre & Textile Association) project that my ... Read more »

baby bunting & cosey corner

4 May

Jan Mullen

WEEK SEVENTEEN– (april 28 – may 3) As you are now likely aware from recent posts, I have been working, very slowly for a couple of years and very quickly of late, to re-edit my older STARGAZEY quilt patterns, updating ... Read more »

a glorious link

20 Apr

Jan Mullen

WEEK FIFTEEN – (april 13 – 19) Disaster on the feathering front. I have run out of Posca pens and so has every store vaguely close to me. I have ordered online but they won’t be with me until next ... Read more »