Goodbye WordPress…Hello Blogger!

Just to let you all know, I now have a new blog, based at Blogger.com.  CLICK HERE to go right there…!
Cheers,
Amanda

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ANZAC Day and the Battle of Passchendaele

This week has been a very moving one for our family.  A “Memorial Scroll” commemorating the sacrifice of the life of my great uncle, LIONEL EUSTACE PARKINSON (aged 20 years) at the Battle of Passchendaele on 12 October 1917 has finally found it’s way back home.
The scroll has lain buried behind a print in a picture [...]

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Creativity runs in the family

Well, the new website’s finally finished – yippeeeeee!  I estimate I’ve worked on it for about 6-8 hours per day (after work, into the wee hours…) for over 2 weeks, so you do the math…I’m too scared too!  But, it’s up and running and looking pretty spiffy too.  Thanks to all who’ve left me comments [...]

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1.36am and only 68 bracelets to go….aaargh!

Well, I’m almost done updating to the new website.  I only have my bracelets section to go…and it’s got 68 bracelets in it – eek!  Never mind.  It’s taking ages cos I’m taking new pics as I go, so that slows things down abit.  I’m starting the bracelets tomorrow (partly cos I do procrastinate when [...]

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Would you like fries with that?

At this time of the night/morning, I’m wondering what on earth I was thinking, building a new website…
Yes, it does have a whole lot of features that my current site doesn’t have, but man – it is REALLY hard work!  I estimate I must’ve spent a good 30+ hours on it already, and I’m only [...]

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Creative Gift Design

If you haven’t yet, click on the link to the right hand side of my blog – www.creativegiftdesign.co.nz.  This awesome website showcases the talents of one of my favourite people (and creative inspiration!), Sheryl Sefton (of Birkenhead, Auckland, NZ).  Creative Gift Design is her baby   Sheryl makes amazing art quilts, personalised books, cloth [...]

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Easter weekend and Tummy bugs

After having an uber-busy week (custom orders aplenty), Easter weekend came and we were all sooooo looking forward to it!  Four days of fun, sun, relaxation and A&S were coming up from Wellington for the weekend – woohoo!  We hadn’t seen them since their monster tour of NZ and Australia, so we had lots of [...]

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Almost another week gone

I’ve had such a busy week – can’t believe it’s Friday already!  It’s bang on midnight, so it’s “officially” Friday (and I should be in bed…).  
Sunday my sister and my neice and nephews visited for the better part of the afternoon, so that was lots of fun.  Always minor chaos when my 2 kids and her [...]

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A wee bit of fun

So, I’m doing abit of web-surfing (as you do!) and I came across this link below – it’s a link to see what celebrity you look like!  You just upload a pic of yourself, and it will show you whose famous face is similar to yours – cool or what?! 
You guessed it – I did [...]

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Introducing…Jackson!

I made the coolest bag on Saturday (yes, still on the handbag mission…taking a short break from jewellery-making for a bit).  It’s made from gorgeous red felt which has been overlaid and inlaid with wool swirls and it’s just so striking (see pic below).  It was one of those bags that I made and then [...]

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