hello there!

it's been quite awhile, i know. and i have to say it will be a little longer. see we don't yet have internet in our new home, and that makes blogging - and catching up you guys, with my favourite bloggers, very difficult.

but in the meantime, i thought i'd share these couple of pics of our wedding day with you all...

taken by the lovely ilona from illlyphotography 

so here's to the internet coming soon to a house near me... we'll catch up then!

a continued pause...

well, here we are- in the final straight! we are nearly down to single digits in our days-til-the-wedding count!

oh the things i have been doing: making lists, packing and moving and unpacking, the organising, more packing.... 

but, i've also been doing a little bit of crafting - hurridly trying to finish this blanket before the wedding for a friend who is due soon:   

oh, and i've been doing a little bit of cooking - remember my caramel slice - well, i'm part way through making 180 pieces to serve to our wedding guests! 

mmm, massive amounts of gluten free caramel slice....

but mostly i've been wedding/reception/moving/honeymoon/travel/second reception planning, and hence not around here very much...

and it will be a few weeks still - see after the wedding and honeymoon, we are heading overseas for a month or so to celebrate our marriage with the engineer's family (and have a second wedding reception - woo hoo!). so i won't be back here 'til July. but needless to say, i'll still be doing crocheting, knitting, sewing, making food and stuff, but i won't be able to share it with you all til then...

see you in July though, by which time i'll be mrs marjoryjane!

not much time today

the countdown is on - under 5 weeks to go - so things are pretty busy 'round here. but at least at the moment, there is some crafting going on...

hope all is going well in your part of the blogosphere! we will catch up soon (hopefully)!

nothing to do with anything

well, except graffiti and stenciling and knitting and jam and...

firstly: check this out! i rode past it yesterday and absolutely had to stop and take a pic 

i love stencil art! and this one particularly - the cards are real. such a fabulous design! so i just had to share. 

in other news, whilst i've been too busy to blog, i still have been finding scraps of time to get creative. i have put down the hook and picked up the needles for a bit - and learnt a new stitch - moss - its really easy and quite enjoyable and works perfectly with this wool.  
don't you think? who knows, maybe this year i will get addicted to knitting!

i've also been making burnt fig emergency jam - its fig emergency time of year-

and in other other news - 6 weeks to go. woo hoo!

inspiration..

ahh, a night off. no one else at home and a few moments to catch up with some of my lovely blogging friends...

 and to share this:

image from here

apparently his name is domo - and he is the mascot for a japanese tv station. but the reason he is here is more to do with wedding planning! see, i thought i'd do one of those cute mosaic photo-board things, to show you a couple of the things i have been checking out in the last few weeks. but i haven't figured out how to do that, so instead - here are a couple of the other pics that are flying 'round my head...

 

from here

from here

from here

 i like blue and red together. what do you reckon?

hello!

i've not forgotten you - life is just so busy! and there is no time for doing craft, let alone blog hopping and posting. so sorry. 

but planning this getting married thing seems to be taking up lots of my free time and free headspace. the time and headspace i usually use for craft and blogging type things. 

but this afternoon, well there is finally some time to catch up and have a bit of a break.

ahh, (choc-caramel slice recipe from here - turns out AMAZING!) 

and reading this book, with some fabulous inspiration, for when i again have time to create!

nice. 

eek!

i don't usually post much about personal stuff here. i figure i have a craftish and foodish blog - so that is what i usually post about. 

but i wanted to show you this:

eek!

we're getting married! 

i feel astoundingly blessed, very thankful and really very excited!

(so i maybe a little bit haphazard in my posting and in my visiting your blog over the next few months in the lead up to our wedding - sorry in advance!) 

EDIT: just after posting this, i visited maxabella, who is co-hosting a "bling on love" lead up to valentine's day blog hop - check it out! mazabella has great timing!