Naming!

Okie Okasan just posted her responses to this name game. Here's my turn.

1. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet & current car) Coco Vectra

2.YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (fav ice cream flavor, favorite cookie)Banana Monte Carlo

3. YOUR "FLY Guy/Girl" NAME: (first initial of first name, first three letters of your last name)S-Mur

4. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal)Green Cat… Continue

Posted on October 3rd, 2007 at 9:55pm — 1 Comment

On The Front Page

I was so excited to be featured on the Etsy front page recently, along with other Australian sellers, particularly Jodie and Anna, who have been featured on this blog as Etsy Artists of the Week before.

Posted on September 28th, 2007 at 11:30am —

Happy Birthday Conor

It was Conor's birthday on Saturday. The boy that turned a couple into a family has turned seven, and at the risk of sounding oh so cliched, it seems only yesterday that he was born.

Happy birthday my beautiful, clever, pedantic, with an answer for everything, sweet, sweet boy.

For the last few years we have given the boys the option of where they would like to go for their dinner.

This year Conor really wanted to go to a Japanese place and his clever Dad hit on the id… Continue

Posted on September 25th, 2007 at 11:44pm —

etsy artist of the week

&Time again for my semi regular feature on another Etsy Seller. This time I've chosen Andria from Shagpile who is a fellow Australian, from Sydney this time, but let's not hold that against her. Lots of great Australian comes from Sydney - John Howard, Bec Cartwright, two name two. Of course, Melbourne too has bred its share of great Australians - Kylie, Shane Warne and Chopper Read come to mind.

Andria's written a great profile about herself and the history of Shagpile at her…

Posted on September 12th, 2007 at 6:55pm — 1 Comment

spring is in the air

Wow, what a weekend we've just had in Melbourne. Absolutely glorious weather if you can ignore the fact that we are in desperate need of rain.

Sickness continues to reign supreme in our household and this time its Conor who has gone down like the preverbial sack of shit. Poor boy, he's not a stoic at the best of times, but his laying on the couch moaning bit, when all he has is a cold, took it to new heights. I'm not known for being the…

Posted on September 10th, 2007 at 11:30pm —