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  • Selfies stitched in Lockdown 2020

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  • Lockdown walks; uncontrolled environments

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  • I used to find dead insects in your pockets

  • what remains – group exhibition DEMO 13 – 15th June 2019

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  • I say a little prayer for you; good results are difficult when indifference predominates

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  • Unbound for Suffrage125 the final coat in images

  • Unbound: Gathering Material for Unbound; Liberating women

  • Unbound: Gathering material

  • Social Bodies; Ocean of Air, in Water, a group exhibition opening next week

  • Free Speech at Demo this Thursday!

  • First contextual assignment from On the Smallness of Things

  • Back / Not back to school 2018

  • Academy 3568 in cream linen

  • Academy 3568 in Jacquard

  • On the smallness of things, and Where I wander in the Night, at Megan Dickinson Gallery

  • The Costume Designer: Edith Head and Hollywood at Bendigo Art Gallery

  • Fashion Revolution reading

  • Mycelia:Mycelium, at Geoff Wilson Gallery, the children’s workshop

  • Mycelia:Mycelium in the Window Space at The Geoff Wilson Gallery

  • Crustacea at Woolon 2017

  • Summer unschool

  • pssst…pattern stash reveal ahead.

  • McCall’s black dress

  • Butterick 6299 in Nanas fabric, and my cheat grading up method

  • Recent stitch work – Lichen

  • Sew what you got sewing challenge 2017

  • The Last Word – a prohibition cocktail

  • A touch of noir, Advance 6190 and Simplicity 5294

  • Mycelia:Myceliuim – recent work

  • More Vintage Suit Sew Along makes!

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  • Recent adventures, a visit to the museum

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Back / Not back to school 2018

Back / Not back to school 2018

22 February 2018
by Angela

A new beach discovered, Taiharuru While friends are celebrating back to school and the end of the school holidays, a whole year has rolled around…

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Summer unschool

Summer unschool

5 June 2017
by Angela

  In Blake’s dollhouse, big moves in here too The last six months or so for our family have been full of upheavals, massive changes…

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Recent adventures, a visit to the museum

Recent adventures, a visit to the museum

21 August 2016
by Angela

Luna and Blake are quite keen on fossils and geology. Just a year ago Blake had an on-going ‘project’ carefully excavating our driveway looking for fossils, creating and…

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Home Bay and the Beach Forge

Home Bay and the Beach Forge

20 August 2016
by Angela

It’s feeling like summer now, we’ll skip spring and get right on to hot beach days! We opted for a much needed abandon-all-plans-for-the-beach day this…

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Term three in pictures

Term three in pictures

8 August 2016
by Angela

Lego + cards = good times Luna and Blake don’t learn by the term timetable, but it is a marker for us with our regular…

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The lighthouse and the lichen

The lighthouse and the lichen

15 July 2016
by Angela

We had our first ever family holiday last week, we had a few days in Nelson together, an art project for Mr Carter and a…

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Spore prints

Spore prints

26 May 2016
by Angela

We had a couple of hours at the Auckland Domain yesterday, it’s peek fungi (is that a thing? It is now…) everywhere we go it’s…

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Ecological literacy

Ecological literacy

24 April 2016
by Angela

Luna collecting a seedling specimen she found, with plans to plant it up at home I came across this article recently, entitled; ‘Identification of animals…

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Not back to school 2016!

Not back to school 2016!

2 February 2016
by Angela

What happens when the kids are not back to school? I get all the ‘back to school’ photos of sweet children ready, dressed and into…

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Beach and bird bones

Beach and bird bones

10 January 2016
by Angela

We are fortunate to be able to jump in our car and reach some truly beautiful beaches, and while it’s a day trip (requiring food,…

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