On Anzac Day, April 25th, we honour and acknowledge those who have served and protected Australia with dawn services, street parades and games of two-up in RSL clubs and pubs.  We also bake Anzac Biscuits and today I'm sharing my recipe. If you follow anyone from Australia or New Zealand on social media, you'll probably notice us acknowledging Anzac Day and baking Anzac Biscuits on April 25. Anzac Day is the anniversary of the day Australian and New Zealand soldiers landed at Gallipoli in 1915 as part of the Allies Invasion of WW1. It's a day of remembrance. A day to give thanks ..read more

Seven inspiring projects, seven talented makers! Quilting, crochet and baking links to inspire you to create every day of the week! Happy Sunday lovely! I hope your week has been kind. I've read some amazing books so far this year (some that moved me far more than I expected - A Little Life), so I thought it might be fun to share some bookish projects with you this week. If you have any book recommendations, please share in the comments or follow me on Goodreads (Rose Johnston) and I'll follow you back. My recommendation to you - The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese. This book is bea ..read more

How well do you know your quilting acronyms? Let's have some fun and crack the secret code so you can speak quilter's lingo like a pro! Acronyms make communicating quicker, but who can keep up with all the abbreviations?  They're a great memory tool because you only have to remember the acronym and then each of the letters serve as a prompt to fill in the blanks. But cracking unfamiliar acronyms can bring you out in a cold sweat! Our son (22) sends texts that are absolute letter gibberish, and it's a brain workout trying to decipher what he's saying. His generation has a very unique ..read more

Seven inspiring projects, seven talented makers! Quilting, crochet and baking links to inspire you to create every day of the week! Happy Sunday lovely! How has your week been? I helped some lovely ladies learn to crochet this week! It's so fun to see their excitement when they create something with yarn for the very first time. We started with some simple Granny Squares and hopefully this begins their love journey with crochet. I also found some wonderful projects for you this week, so let's go: Early in December, Maddi, Iris and I had a girl's day at Bridestowe Lavender Farm, and I p ..read more

Orange Marmalade was my father in laws favorite and Sunday is his heavenly 100th birthday, so I'm sharing the recipe I made for him over and over again! My father-in-law was an extraordinary man with very basic needs. Give him family, his dog, time in the bush, food in his cupboard and a comfortable place to lay his head at night and he was content. He was a meat and three vegetable kinda man, but his absolute favorite was bread and jam. Sunday will be his heavenly 100th birthday, so I'm sharing a recipe I made for him countless times, Orange Marmalade. When I first started making my ow ..read more

Granny squares are versatile and easy to crochet, and you're not limited to just blankets or cushions. Turn your yarn creations into wearable art with these gorgeous sweater patterns. One of my favorite lifestyle You Tubers wears the most darling crochet sweaters in some of her vlogs. She has quite a collection and I know some of them she found in thrift shops. They're feminine, cosy and super pretty and they've inspired me to crochet one of my own.  Granny squares have become trendy and they're a quick way to make your own wearables as there's minimal shaping and you're working in sma ..read more

Seven inspiring projects, seven talented makers! Quilting, crochet and baking links to inspire you to create every day of the week! Happy Sunday lovely! I hope you've had a creative week! Now that Easter is over, we can finally embrace the cosy season. Autumn is the time when we pause, reflect and let go, before we settle into our long winter hibernation, and I couldn't be happier. It's time for soups, chunky sweaters, candlelit rooms and a big thick book to read while the rain and wind batters against the windows - there's no better place to be right now! It's also time to craft and this ..read more

Seven inspiring projects, seven talented makers! Quilting, crochet and baking links to inspire you to create every day of the week! Harvest Throw Happy Easter Sunday lovely! I hope you're enjoying time with loved ones! It's officially autumn here and this cosy season grounds me. I love being surrounded by warm textures and colours and my ideal Sunday is snuggling under my Harvest Throw with a good book. What does your perfect Sunday look like? I found you some wonderful cosy projects this week, so let's go: I have to start with tonight's dinner and it's the Pot Roast Mushroom Soup re ..read more

The spirit of Easter is all about hope, love and joyful living. May your Easter season be filled with happiness, peace and family and don't forget, there's no such thing as too much Easter chocolate :) Happy Easter lovely ..read more

Seven inspiring projects, seven talented makers! Quilting, crochet and baking links to inspire you to create every day of the week! Happy Sunday lovely! I hope you've had a creative week. It's almost Easter and the week ahead is a full one. Landon and Iris have an Easter Playgroup party, I'm hosting a lunch for my craft girls, Good Friday will be spent together as a family and Saturday night is our annual Egg Hunt with friends. How are you spending Easter this year? I've found some quick and easy Easter projects for you this week, so let's go: Bake Play Smile has a 10 Minute Caramel C ..read more