Etsy Finds

I love all of these... so where you can find them

rocket ship ... the indigo toybox
flower hairclip ... spiderella studio
rain cloud necklace ... wild thing
stunning owl tee...  sealmaiden
cloud softie ... good bye blue monday
sea coloured quilt ... b taylor quilts
bird button... a place to lay my thread
facinator... hats by cressida
pirate print (made me think of my sister in law) ... monorail

think i might buy some buttons.

My Ice Header ... an ordinary moment of inspiration

What is up with the wintery header??? I know I know, I live in the tropics we don't have propper winters. This winter has been much more wintery than last years winter of 2 weeks. My jumpers have got a bit of use this year, all of them are cotton jumpers my wool jumpers are buried in a suitecase dorment dreaming of france where they got worn on a regular basis. So I feel my wintery pic fits with our actual winter this year instead of the bypass winters we normally get. but really its a snapshot I had to take, last month I got a frozen meal out of the fridge and thats what was on the lid, a delicate little ice world I just had to photograph it. I went into photoshop and vamped up the colour and contrast and the photo looks as magic.

It originally looked like this ....  I knew it would work with a tweek

Green Bags

I won some fabric last month from the crafty minx blog, and this is what I made with it some eco or green bags.  I will stop using plastic bags, and with some funky girly bags I will have more incentive to remember my eco bags when I go shopping. One bag I sold to  a lovely friend, one bag is going to a sister for Christmas (shhhh don’t tell her) and the stripy one with the braided handles has been to the shops and library with me this week and I love it love it love it. I extra love the pockets. I embroidered ‘walk’ on one side and ‘don’t walk’ on the other. The stripy fabric reminded me of the big zebra crossings I used to walk on every day in kings cross when I went to uni, so that bag is definitely mine. I think you will see a lot more shopping bags as I detest the ordinary supermarket green bags I have.

         

ps. my husband, tortoise, looked at top photo and said "wow my gate really looks good in that photo" never mind my sewing its all about his fence!  

the crafty minx , Clothfabric

oliver and s - lazy days skirt

Look what I whipped up today, easy, except my boys made a big mess pulling all the wrapping paper out of a draw and spreading a bag of chalk over the lounge room floor, and Eli started to eat the chalk. When I took the chalk off him he crawled outside and sat in the light rain, protesting his lack of tasty chalk.

I adore this fast skirt and I make lots of versions of it, this is one thats going in my pressie stash. And I have enough fabric to make another, I really like this fabric if i had a girl she'd so be wearing one of these. I also used the scrap and a bit of felt to make a matching headband. Hope the 2 little girls that end up with them enjoy some twirly skirt dancing.

below is link to the oliver and s skirt pattern.

http://www.oliverands.com/blog/2008/08/lazy-days-skirt-free-pattern.html 



Sassy Scribbles Friday

every friday i am going to put up a scribble i have done ( some may make good kids colouring in pages )

The fish I dug out of my sketch book, was the original idea for Eli's mobile in previous post.



funny face cards

I let my big boy (3 and a half) Flynn make some thank you cards today, we had a few odds and ends and together we made some funny happy faces. Perfect for a wet day like today. We used some cardboard shapes we already had cut, some googely eyes, pom poms for ears, feathers for hair and a bit of glitter, pva glue and I let flynn draw on the smiles ( that was done first). I love the "train crossing smile" x face the best, really who has a train crossing smile I wonder?

love sassy

Eli's fish

Toys I have made for little people

When I was pregnant with my second little boy Eli, I satisfied the nesting urge with sewing. The Coolest thing I made was his mobile. I took a really basic fish shape and embellished them in every way I could think of.  He loved looking at them hanging over his cot when he was tiny and now that he’s 1 he hits them and points at them chatting in bub language.