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Date: 22 August 2007 22:10:39

There has been rather a lot of Real Life going on around here lately, hence the lack of updates. Nothing of any great note - just quite a lot of it! And as we're off to Greenbelt (the day after tomorrow - wheee), and there's no sign of it letting up after that either, I thought I'd leave you a couple of links to read.

My bloglines list is just a great long list of craft blogs really, so these might be of limited interest to you, but still... These are my two favourites, which I find interesting because they are so different, yet both of them remind me of me a little bit in different ways. Very excitingly, the writers of both these blogs have just finished writing books, although they are not published yet. Actually, it seems that's not unusual - in the blogs I read, particularly the American ones, someone seems to be offered a publishing deal every two minutes - but these are the two I was very excited about and am really looking forward to getting. So, without further ado:

SouleMama is written by Amanda Soule. She makes lovely and beautiful things, and also writes a lot about her children, and the things they all make and do together. I've always really hoped that Groover will enjoy making and creating when he's bigger, and I think we're getting the beginnings of that now*, and I find the things this lady does with her kids really inspiring - check out this entry about her littlest one's first sentence - it's brilliant: Her one word sentence.

Yarnstorm is written by Jane Brocket, who knits, quilts, embroiders, bakes and is generally fabulous. Her book is called The Gentle Art of Domesticity. The thing with this blog is the colour - I love the way she puts colours together in everything she does, but to me it's most striking in the quilts. Look at this baby! Fabulous. And the baking is pretty fab too. (It was on this blog that I discovered the existence of the apple peeling/coring/slicing machine.)

*We've been having the beginnings of imaginative play this week. There is, apparently, a tiger living in the laundry basket. It's not fierce - Groover spends a fair bit of time with his head in the basket stroking it.