Hello everyone! I've had a good break and although we've been going through a heatwave, that will end today and the weather will be ...

This post is about a few small things that I've wanted to write about for a while but larger topics overtook me. My life is full of smal...

I don't work nearly as hard as my mother or grandma, or, no doubt, their grandmothers. I'm fortunate to have appliances that make ho...

I've enjoyed sewing this week. There were a couple of mending jobs, I fixed the waistband on a skirt and made set of six white kitchen c...

I finished my bread bag a couple of days ago and it's a nice bag to use. I'm not sure how good it would be in other climates but wi...

Making your own household linens is a BIG step towards a simpler life. You'll use numerous simple living skills such as sewing, recycli...

We don't go away on holidays anymore but always make sure that the time between Christmas and mid-January is like a holiday.  We both d...

One of my nephews, Charles, is a volunteer wildlife rescuer and he spends a lot of his spare time in the Blue Mountains bush rescuing nativ...

It's been a crazy week with many visitors, reading, gardening, rest and a lot of busyness snaking through my days. The highlight of the...

It's been a busy week. Shane, Alex and Eve slept here last night. Jamie is here now, Shane is at work and soon they'll go over to K...

Today I've been working on another felt rabbit, this time for my granddaughter Eve's fourth birthday next Sunday.  Eve told me last...

I wanted to hold this world-wide sewing bee so that we could work collectively on aprons that we use everyday. It's economical to make ...

Well, that was a delightful surprise!  I didn't expect so many ladies would join the sewing bee.  We'll have a good time and hopefu...

It's such good weather here at the moment. The nights are coolish at 15C and the days are warm and comfortable around 28C. The true mar...

I intended to post yesterday, and wrote something to accompany a video I made of Gracie running around the house like a ratbag. When I trie...

I read this article about the downside of microfibre cloths a few months ago and started looking for a new set of dish cloths that I feel ...

August in The Simple Home “Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.”  William Morris ...

Hello friends!  Here are the cushions I made yesterday. The pink is a Tilda fat quarter found with the other one I made into a lamp skirt a...

I've been sewing a few odds and ends to suit our new lounge room colours and style.  I didn't want to spend much, or anything reall...

While I've been writing The Simple Home series, you've probably noticed I'm not writing much about what is happening here on a...