Eye Spy... A new development...

... in the back yard. Maybe not exciting for you, but exciting for me!

Remember when I showed you this shot?

(Note patio roof - comes out half way.)

Patio roof is now... in a pile.

(Don't worry, it is going to a friends to be reassembled - not to the tip!)

Bare house... (no patio cover)

Ta-dah!

NEW PATIO ROOF!!!

Special...

Now twice the size!

Still a work in progress...

Floating deck the same size as roof to be built...

New out door setting...

Paint gutters, tiles and render... eventually....

Hubby digging up the pipe to connect it to new down pipe.

Yesterday there was...

...rain.

...hubby, Cohen and I in the Valley with friends. ...my twin sister, Fiona, at the 'Draw More' exhibition at 'Jugglers Art Space' (in Fortitude Valley, Qld.) with Cohen.

...two of her drawings, in the group exhibition.

... drinkies afterwards...

P.S: I also brought my first original piece of art, by artist Kitty Horton! Will show you when I pick it (once exhibition is finished), or if you go see the exhibition it is number 54! :)

Eye spy... this weeks theme...

Eye Spy... a new development

I am constantly amazed, watching this little boy learn and develop on a daily basis.

He can roll on to his tummy now all by himself, as of yesterday.

There are other developments a foot at our house too...

What new developments are surfacing in your life?

Craft, love, work, family, holidays, adventure?

Thanks Cindy for giving me the opportunity to pick this weeks theme!

I love op-shopping...

Where else could you find these lovely things...

Now I need to work out how they are made... So I can finish them off with the black wool and join them together... HELP! Does any one know how? PS. Here is a sneak peek at the "Pay it Forward" gifts I am in the midst of making...

Eye Spy... a discovery

Megan, blogger of The Byron life, has the honour of choosing this weeks Eye Spy theme - Eye Spy... a discovery.

Well, yesterday was full of discoveries...

A trip to the Fortitude Valley markets with the baby and my sister, where we discovered many beautiful things for sale... especially a beautiful blue dress for a certain exhibition a certain sister is in... Exploring the corridors between the malls... and finding a cool ceiling. I love the juxtaposition of the old and the new in this photo. Isn't it amazing what you can discover sometimes if you just look up? Discovering a rather strange and fun installation... But forgetting the artists last name... first name Zoe... Discovering ducks in Chinatown... Re-Discovering yummy sushi and Japanese lemonade... hmmm... Discovering that the baby loves a big day and seems to forget about his teething pain... Discovering that the UQ Art Museum has a free Margaret Olley exhibition on until the 19th April - go if you can, it is beautiful, even the entrance doors are beautiful... Discovering on our way out that you are allowed to take photos in the UQ gallery... would have loved to have shared some of the Margaret Olley with you, but we were running out of time by then. We did stop and photograph this piece on the way out....

Peter Hennesseys's "Humvee"

It is 6 meters high and made out of plywood! Pushing the line between what is 'art' and what is 'craft'?

Then last night hubby, baby and I went to an exhibition opening at 19 Karen Gallery. I just loved the work of Abigale Wittaker!

"And I wanted to give you a chance to miss me" - 2009

Thanks Cindy at Bug and Pop for the meme - hop over to check out other Eye-Spyers...

Sewing and baking...

Last night, when the baby went to bed and the husband went off to play sport, I finally sat down in front of the sewing machine and managed to do this...

(48 squares for my quilt are now sewn together, only 96 more to go...)

Inspired by (Inside A Black Apple)'s Macaron cooking adventures, using A La Cuisine!'s post as well, I tried my hand at the difficult task of making my first Macaron's...

Ready for the oven...

(not supposed to have that peak)

Out of the oven...

(sort of have frilly feet) Ready to eat... (Oh, er... are they supposed to taste like this?)

Oh dear, I wish they looked and tasted like these....

Hmmm... do I try again?

My Creative Space...

A teething baby does dampen the crafting spirit some what, and gobble up time, especially when said baby doesn't want to sleep and wants to be held all the time...

(He is sitting on my lap right now.)

So my Creative Space has not changed at all in a week,

look familiar...

I didn't even notice until I sat down to write this post... scary isn't it?

Where does the time go?

However, I have managed this week to take baby to the doctors, list some of my unloved clothes on ebay, go to a parent's group and out to dinner on the same day, I have washed a mountain of clothes and you could eat off nearly every surface of my house after my domestic goddess cleaning effort today, the bills are paid, emails read, lots of blog hopping, give away entering and some comments left... phew... while comforting, feeding, playing with, bathing the baby and keeping my eye on him as he tries to roll over in his cot and play gym...

(last night he ended up with one leg sticking out between the bars of his cot - he was stuck and not very impressed about it!)

But crafting related news: there has been fabric goodness in the mail...

(part of the reason why I am banned from credit card usage...)

I couldn't resist buying this gorgeous hand printed olive bonsai fabric from the lovely INK & SPINDLE shop...

... and I gave in and brought some Amy Butler fabric from ebay seller 'the persian bazaar'. So pretty...

I brought these fabrics to go in the quilt, but they don't really go now that I have them all out together... I'm not worried about this though. Who would be? Now I have the beginnings of another project that I can day dream about...

PS. Check out other Creative Spaces at Kirsty's blog Kootoyoo