Well, it's been ages, hasn't it?

Gosh, it has been a rather long time since I posted anything in here.

Actually, I was reminded of this blog by James when we met up with James and Kath (and Amy) yesterday. Kath spied my tattoo - and asked me how long I had had it for, and James said that readers of my blog had known about it for quite some time. So that got me thinking, what have my legions of dedicated fans been doing in my absence? how have they been coping without their weekly blog posts? I ended up feeling so guilty about it that I decided so post. So here I am.

I've been pretty busy recently - making - of all things, ugly dolls. If you don't know what ugly dolls are, then click here because I can't be bothered writing out a long-winded explanation:

http://uglydolls.com/

Anyway, I decided, for some insane reason, to make one for each member of my family. So in teh weeks leading up to Christmas, I have spent my evenings hunched over like an old Nana, with a needle in my hand and scraps of fabric all over the place. God, our house is beginning to represent the aftermath of a 'stitch and bitch' group session. Crikey. But the results were good, and I've actually passed on the craze to a few other people (mainly family members as they are as mad as I am.) and of course I've chalked up a list of people to make ugly dolls for. I just can't say no. (sigh)

Another cool thing I've done recently - I went on a 'mini-break' to Akaroa, and went to 'The Giant's House'. It's the house and garden of local artist Josie Martin, and it was full of insanely amazing mosaic sculptures. From the mosaic grand piano on the front lawn complete with stereo soundstystem to numerous water features and mosaics of all shapes and sizes, creating a crazy Dr. Suess like effect. It was definitely worth visiting, and I thorougly recommend it to those of you who may soon be heading down that way.....
In other news - Tim and I are now both on holiday, which is lovely. But it also means that we've got to get up off our backsides and actually start doing all these 'odd jobs' that we've been saving up for this very point in time. Like completely renovate our front garden...... I think we might be taking a trip to Mitre 10 tomorrow (our second home.)