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Hi, sorry for our untimely disappearance. I’ve been struggling with neurological problems for a long time. For the past year, being sick has become the norm. I’m hoping that a hospital stay has sorted out the major problem and I am hoping to be well. Gosh, I’m crying even writing this. I always see myself as a healthy person.
Anyway, at the moment I have also taken on another mammoth task – renovating the house I bought in order to move in.
In the past ten days Mr Steel and I have chipped tiles off all the floors, cleaned the floors, painted the house (nearly finished), had new lights put in (thanks dad), put down a new floor. Still to go – painting touchups, built-in-robes in bedrooms, curtains, thinking about the kitchen, then finishing the move in.
I will come back in a few days and announce the book winners. Thanks for all your emails. They were really helpful.
Also, I have some photos if renovation coming.
Oh, it’s not like me and mr steel have done it on our own. What would we have done without Benny Boy, daddio, Millie, John & his gang? What a group effort.
Keep creating!!
Mia
xxx

January Giveaway & 2010 Fashion Focus

Hi everyone!

We have been thinking at OHC of having a focus for two thousand and ten, or two thousand and zen (whichever you fancy). And we have come up with one of our favourite things in the world. a word that always makes us smile: Fashion

This year we will be making all things fashion, quick tutorials to make, longer tutorials to make more complex things and links to great fashiony ideas and things to make. We will also be having a One Hour Craft Monthly Challenge again – starting in February.

I am also here to announce our first giveaway of the year. I have two copies of my first book One Hour Craft, available to two of my readers – Free of course!

How to enter??
Please send me an email at mariabinns@hotmail.com and make a suggestion for the kinds of fashion-y things you would like to see more of at OHC, this year. I get a lot of emails so please put in the title of your email “OHC January Giveaway” . I am really looking forward to hearing all your great ideas. I will choose my two favourite entries.

The giveaway will be decided on on Monday and sent on Tuesday.

Have a good one,
Mia
xxx

Tips for a Great Australia Day!!

Hi. Happy Australia Day!!!!! Sorry I didn’t get a chance to post a tutorial for you. Sick. Bit better now. Well, I did make some koala cupcakes but they were so naff I couldn’t post them here. I can do most things but cake decorating is not a strength. Oh well.
Well the weather in sunny Perth is…… Sunny, if course & we are planning a great evening. Every Australia Day there is a big fireworks show in the middle of the Swan River. Over 200,000 people crowd around the banks with their picnics & radios. At 8pm a local radio station blares out music for half an hour & the fireworks explode in time to the music. It is amazing. It always ends with the purple chrysanthemum, a huge violet firework that blooms into the sky, set against a backdrop if the city skyscrapers & the river. It is amazing. This is the biggest day of our year. It will be different this year because alcohol has been banned. For an Aussie event this will be extremely strange & I’m not sure how many people will pay attention.
Anyway I thought I’d list some cool ways you can join in & help celebrate Australia Day, wherever you are:
- Have a BBQ of course. But please no shrimp on the barbie (we call them prawns not shrimp).
- Lamb is the meat to eat for an Aussie BBQ.
- Buy a round of beers for your mates. When we to to the pub with a group if friends, one person buys beers for the whole group. Everyone has their turn buying beers during the evening. It’s not ok in Australia to just buy yourself a beer.
- Make a pavlova. A meringue pie topped with fruit & cream. A divine twist is to make a chocolate pavlova. For the chocolate use a Lindt Intense Orange bar. It is the best thing Eva!!
- Eat small meat pies with tomato sauce. Aussies seem to love meat and beer. )
- Pump up some great Aussie tunes. My favourites are by the John Butler Trio. Some classics are by AC/DC, INXS, Cold Chisel, Crowded House. Other great artists are Natalie Imbruglia, Silverchair, Grinspoon, Wolfmother. Crank the volume up……
- Go for a surf or just to the beach for some bodysurfing. We literally to everyday to the beach like thousands of other Aussies.
- Buy some great Aussie fashion from labels like Country Road, or higher end like Colette Dinnigan, Josh Goot, Akira Isogawa, Sass & Bide. Beautiful!
- Wear Ugg Boots. Yes of course these are Aussie. We get our first ugg boots as toddlers to wear in winter.
- And. Have a few more beers in the backyard, near the swimming pool, with all your mates. Get a little bit rowdy. And have a lit of laughs and a wonderful, relaxing Australia Day.
Now I’m better, the giveaway is happening tomorrow.
Cheers!!
Mia
Xxx
PS We love you Australia!!!

I love a sunburnt country...Inspired by Australia

This year I am really looking forward and getting inspired for Australia Day on 26 January. I have never really made anything for it before but I am going to be making a few things and posting them in the next few days….. just for fun.

So many iconic places, animals, scenes to inspire….

And, because I have been crazy busy this week, working, planning a renovation, packing, we are having our giveaway on Monday.

This weekend should be interesting. I normally love the Aussie summer but there are some cruel temperatures. Sunday is predicted to reach 43 degrees – and the airconditioning is broken. I will have to find somewhere to hide out.

See ya Monday,
Mia
xxx

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Customisation: Tutorial & Tips For Tranforming Denim

Customising denim is so much fun. We went to a thrift store and bought a pile of jeans to play around with. This made the whole exercise affordable and we weren’t too worried about the outcome – and we can always use the scraps for sewing bags and making softies.

Tips for Cutting Off Your Jeans
1. Cut them longer than you want them and then cut them inch by inch to the length you want them.
2. Always cut the bottom edge on an angle the same as the jeans are. They don’t go straight, they are longer on the inner seam and shorter on the outer seam. This will mean that your shorts sit well, especially if they are really short, they won’t ride up your butt.
3. Not only for summer time of course. If Kate Moss can wear leggins under her shorts then why not try it in winter too??

Tips for Bleaching Jeans
1. Fill the washing machine with cold water then add a bottle of bleach to it, then add the jeans. If you put the jeans in first the first place the bleach touches will be the lightest.
2. Soak the jeans for a long time if you want them quite pale.
3. When you have washed them, wash them again with washing liquid to get out the bleach.
4. After using the machine, run it again with only whites in it to get rid of the excess bleach.
5. Don’t just use the machine for bleaching. Also use a spray bottle for a splatter effect, eyedropper for blobs that look really great, a sponge, anything you like. Just don’t leave pure bleach on them for more than a few minutes.

Tips for Shredding Denim
1. Bleaching helps to weaken the fibres and makes the jeans easier to shred.
2. Take the jeans and use a cheese grater to shred them. Rub the grater back and forth until the jeans start to shred.
3. Mark out where you want the shreds to be before you do them. Shreds always look better (and non-skanky) on the front not the back of the jeans.
4. You can also try using a very rough sandpaper on the jeans to shred them.

Tips for Adding Studs to Jeans
1. Buy the studs and the tool at a leather shop. I looked everywhere for them and this was the only place I could source them.
2. You will need a hammer and a hard surface. It doesn’t work doing it on the living room carpet – concrete is best.
3. Watch out for your fingers!!!
4. Mark where you want the studs before you add them to the jeans. Make sure they are evenly spaced on the jeans, then start to bang them in.
5. It takes quite a long time to bang in the studs.

Other Stuff to Do To Jeans
1. Die them a wild colour before shredding them.
2. Add fantastic patches made from vintage fabrics to them.
3. Screenprint writing onto your jeans. Scrunch the fabric and screenprint onto it. This makes a really amazing effect.
4. Splatter them with white or any other coloured paint.

Best of all, make a day of it with your girlfriends!
Mia
xxx

Denim Love

Hi, back from a very wonderful getaway weekend down south… couldn’t have been better…

Now onto the obsession of the moment…denim. I completely love all the denim trends around at the moment and Kate and I have been playing. We have been scouring thrift stores for cheap and cool jeans to play with. This way there is no guilt if our jeans turn out a little less than wonderful – whcih always happens when you start to play. Often there are a few attempts before you find something you love love love.

In this vein, I have a tutorial coming in the next few days on denim. But for now, some inspiring images which grabbed my attention….

We also have some sad news this week. Darling Emma, my twin sister as all my readers know, is moving with her little family to Adelaide. That is a few thousand kilometres from Perth. This means a lot of time will be spent on Skype and some plane trips in between. But it won’t be the same. Hopefully she will be able to flick me pics of the things she is making.

Have a lovely day!

Mia xxx

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An Aussie Summer & A Happy Twenty-Ten!

Hi. Sorry I have not been around in the last few weeks. It is just so easy to get distracted in this beautiful city I live in. In summer our days are spent at the beach swimming, boogey boarding, sandcastle competitions and kite surfing (well, not me, yet, but maybe soon).

I’m sure you won’t hold any absence against me when you see where we live……..

But… I promise to be back after my little weekend getaway…. we have our giveaway coming next week & a very cute tutorial to copy…..

Wishing you at least one Aussie summer in your lifetime and a wild and amazing twenty-ten. Go for it. You only live once…

Have a good one!
Mia
xxx

2010….It’s so close…. how exciting!

Hi ya,

I am so excited for 2010. It will be great. I can feel it. I am feel of hope and positive resolutions.

I love spending the few days before the new year working out my goals for the next year. I usually have ten goals in the areas of Family, Health and Wellbeing, Career, Fun. But for the next year I have 12 goals. They are big…. and I continue to be a big dreamer.

My goals for this site are big for 2010. I can’t wait to tell you about the decisions we have made for it. We are going to grow bigger and better. We are also inviting sponsors to join us in 2010. I will post more about that in the new year. We are also writing another book. Yay! I am finally ready for this challenge again. And there are lots more fabulous surprises in store.

As you can see we are still playing around with a new look and will be doing so for the next few weeks. Please be patient with us while our renovations are under way.

I just wanted to take this time to say thank you for reading this site. I appreciate all the encouragement and feedback I have had for the past four years. It has been an amazing time for me. I want to wish you and your families a wonderful and hopeful new year….
Love Mia
xxx
PS Christmas photos are coming (hopefully tomorrow) and we have our great giveaway taking place in the first few days of 2010.

Happy Happy Holiday!

Hi everyone,

I hope you are all having a wonderful holiday. I had an awesome holiday, went shopping, spent a lot of time at a day spa, more shopping, eating delicious food, room service… very decadent.

And Christmas was two days of family, food and fun. We had a feast both days, played croquet, swam, watched the eight kids having a ball, ate more….. there are photos to come.

And now it is back to blogging. We have big plans for 2010. We are spending this week doing some house cleaning on the site and re-designing. Please forgive any hiccups for the next few days.

And we have a New Year giveaway next week. I will update you later.

Have Fun!
Mia
xxx

Holiday Time & Christmas Inspiration

Hi everybody! Very early tomorrow morning (even before the sun has thought of coming up), I am off to the airport and away on my holiday. I am so excited! But I have so much to do… clean the house, put up the tree, get ready a room for mum, make sure the animals have enough food… oh and pack my bag…

Will be back in a week. Until then I will leave you with some gorgeous, inspiring images and of course, there are my Christmas tutorials to make.