High chairs are one more THING that I believe you just don’t need. For starters, if your family eats their meals sitting on the floor, as some cultures do, then your baby certainly doesn’t need a high chair. Why don’t the Thais, who adore children, use highchairs…? Because the tradition of Thais from ancient times »more
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Board Book Graphs
I’ve got three interesting bar board book graphs for you. This one shows you where our board books come from. The op shop (charity shop) is always worth a look. Most of our op shop books came from one strike-it-lucky visit to Saint Vinnies last year. And unfortunately, from this ‘graph’, it looks like books »more
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Things you don’t need
Many years ago, when I was living in the UK, I flew to Egypt for a short holiday. It was a one week package holiday so I packed just a small bag. In that week I was going to learn to scuba dive in the Red Sea. I had a wonderful time; the Red Sea, »more
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Blogging without obligation
The tag-line on Tartx’s blog says she has been “blogging whenever i get the f***ing urge since january 06”. And with that in mind she coined the phrase “blogging without obligation“. I release all the logos, thoughts and words mentioned here about this concept into the public domain. Take the idea and run with it. »more
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How to make FAT cloth books
I started making cloth books the turn & topstitch way pictured above on the left. But I wanted FAT pages to highlight the colours of My Chewable Book of Wheels. And I liked the result so much that I no longer make skinny books. (The original skinny book tutorial is here.) Fat Cloth Book Tutorial »more
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Where do you keep baby’s cloth books?
Do you keep them stuffed in a box like we used to? Or do you show them off and display them on a book rack. (Not a book shelf, a book rack!) Imagine keeping your baby’s board books, or your books/novels, jumbled up in a box instead of stacked orderly on a book shelf. I’m »more
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Baby’s first craft show
We’ve been to a small town baby “expo” before but today was our first official small town craft show. See here my humble little stall. Simple. Minimalist. Very sparse compared to most of the other crafty stalls on display. Perhaps that’s what the problem was? Or perhaps it was the wrong target market walking past »more
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Pretty rainbows!
Can you see why I switched from skinny to fat pages? A fat cloth page (with padding and no top-stitching) shows off its coloured fabric beautifully when the book is closed. Plus a cloth book made with fat pages looks bigger, softer, chunkier than the same made with skinny pages. The most common way to »more
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And the winner is…
So we only had five entries in my first giveaway. Five lovely ladies from the UK and US took part and I wish I could give them each a chewable book to say thank you. But there is just one winner, drawn from the hat by baby Ben.
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Baby eats books, chalk, dirt and now…
So besides heaps and heaps of paper and cardboard, and chalk, and dirt, I think I can add one more thing to our boy’s list of things he’s eaten that he shouldn’t have… Our one-year-old bub was playing this morning wearing his training pants, not nappy, and I noticed he had pooped, so I picked »more
