A Favourite Thing!

It is all go here in the KwozzieGirl household.  Not only is it a crazy time of year with happenings at school, trying to get just a little bit organised with the overseas Christmas cards and presents this year (not a hope), trying to get just a little bit organised with our own Christmas this year (no show) and just trying to get a little bit organised in general (yeah right), but we are in the middle of moving house too.  This is not an uncommon occurrence for my little family, in fact this will be the seventh move in seven and a half years of marriage and three of those moves were across the Tasman - sigh.   As I have made clear to anyone who will listen for the last two moves at least - this WILL be our last move for a LONG time - the problem is a LONG time in our world seems to be approx. 18 months.  Anyway, while we are quite practised at packing, cleaning, cleaning, unpacking, this move seems to be particularly mind-boggling for me.  I really don't know whether I'm coming or going, head up or bum up, fully-alert or fully-have-left-this-world-and-am-travelling-on-some-other-plane but somehow (mainly thanks to a husband who understands the concept of just getting on with it) our house has been boxed up and we are living on the barest of essentials for the next week until the truck arrives.  In amongst all of this chaos I have continued to try to complete some items that have been on my to-do list for a few weeks now and which I have decided must be out the door before that truck arrives.  It is while completing one of these projects that I have discovered what is currently My Favourite Thing!  and I just could not wait to share it with the world.

Please let me introduce you to the Crop-A-Dile.  A tool well known to paper crafters and now my new best friend for setting eyelets in fabric.  

For years I have battled with the piddly little tool included in the packet of eyelets and a heavy unwieldy hammer (pink of course).  Today I extricated my long-time owned but previously unused toy from it's prison of plastic and minutes later I had a line of perfectly set eyelets. 

I can not describe the satisfaction of knowing that this was a task I no longer had to look on with the memory of well-hammered fingers and black fingernails. 

I am looking forward to creating more of these beautiful pages for my Busy Books with much glee!!

Love Kazza. 


From one crafter to another, please respect the time and effort I have put into my designs and refrain from replicating any or all parts. If you are interested in purchasing a pattern please contact me at heplayedone@gmail.com

Let the good times roll..........

Hello out there,
I blinked and suddenly we are into November, do not ask me where the last 10 months went between the last post and this one, I have no idea!!
Life just seems to get busier and busier and I think it might be time to chill out and smell some roses.  I have been thinking I will take this blog in another direction, the trouble is my mind wanders so aimlessly I don't know which idea to settle on.
I think I'm just going to keep it free and easy and let the posts wander where they will so expect to see a lot of craft (have I mentioned it is the love of my life closely followed by children and husband?), a lot of celebrating the good in the world (we can all use a lot more of the good and a lot less of the doom and gloom), a little bit of this (cooking, kids and fun things) a little bit of that (my life in general, including that dragon in the closet, my multiple sclerosis and how I cope or don't).
So just know that I am full of good intentions and hope to get this blog back on track with updates more frequently than once every 10 months.
And as I have left this post laying out my plan of attack until minutes before my bed starts calling seductively, I will sign off for now with a pic of my latest work in progress.

Kazza xxx