Inspiration at the park

Last week I went to a fantastic children's park and was very inspired 

when i saw a group of Japanese mothers pull out their lunch boxes.

Everything came in little boxes and looked gorgeous -
there was not a single cut sandwich in sight. 

Instead there was lots of freshly made rice snacks and steamed vegies 

like broccoli and corn cobs and various unidentifiable items. 

So today for lunch I ditched the sandwich and cut apple for these 

salmon and sesame seed rice snacks. 

My Creative Space 8 July 2010

I was thinking that I had not done anything creative in the past few days and therefore had nothing to contribute this week to Kootoyoo's great Thursday online show and tell, and now that it's 10.40pm, i realise that my creativity has been directed into organising a party for my nearly 3 year old big girl, and designing a party invitation for her.

She is at the age where everything has a fairy reference to it, and as far as she's concerned girls are fairies and boys are Ben 10!


Now onto the outfit....

Northside Makers collective trip to Dalesford

I love going to Dalesford

I love it even more when I go with my crafty gals on a crafty expedition
here are some pics I took on the day....

And here is my loot for the day.
 

Lucho loves his superman dress ups cape



my favourites are the pocket warmer for my hubby (which took forever to find as he's hard to buy for) and the key hook.  

Gift from Made it and Silvermonk

I regularly forward on emails sent to me by Made it and last week, I won a pair of funky and fantastic earrings!

Silvermonk, who makes "delicious jewellery to embrace the spirit and delight the heart" sent me these ebony, coral and silver earrings that suit me down to a T. Visiting her blog, I discover that she is an all round artist who has an interest in photography as well.

I proudly wore them on my crafty trip to Dalesford

hope you are having a great day, and thank you Silvermonk :)

My Creative Space 1 July 2010

Bucket, toilet plunger, boiling water and a woolen jumper..... 

and LOTS of elbow grease...

I'm felting jumpers again!

I made a decision to keep the red jumper, as it looked so nice on! and went back to the opp shop to purchase another one.

I have not been happy with the felting results of my first arm warmers, the felting process had started to happen, but there was still a lot of elasticity in the wool, so I had another go at it.

Here are the results of felting jumpers using the bucket and toilet plunger. The left side of the image is the plunger effect, and the right side of the image is the machine and dryer effect in the original arm warmers. As you can see the plunger works a treat at felting the wool.

However, it hasn't worked so well on the green jumper, which makes me think that the wool had been treated somehow. In any case, it has felted to an extent, and I will cut and sew to suit.

Both arms are ready for embellishments and adjustments and by this afternoon, will be ready to warm arms - one for me and one for my mum.


And here are the finished items!

I used vintage buttons that have been in my moms stash for years.
I'm happy with them, although the red and white buttons one doesn't actually look so hot in the photo.

Things I love today

My son wrote his first letter today, to his dad.

It was prompted by some alone time with me, and I wanted to see whether he was ready to do writing and simple words.

(love the little tongue poking out while he writes!)






What started as writing his name turned into his first written message and letter to his father.

I'm so proud of my first born who will be starting school next year ....

Just Scrounging around

Have you ever been to Scrounge on High St - Nothcote?

I did, today. I was hunting something very specific, and I found it! Much to my delight



He's an unhappy white guy with a blue hat and a willy.


















Ok, so that's not what I was looking for, but I'm so glad to have found him, even if he's not too happy to be found in his birthday suit....


















But he makes the BEST lamp!!



















and he is proudly standing watch over my children as they sleep

Taking a walk through the 50's

Last night, I was looking through Google images for some beautiful pictures of dresses.

I don't know why really, as I might wear a dress once a year, but I really do love looking at them, and I can imagine myself in them in my fantasy life (in reality it's mostly jeans and a t-shirt!)















So here are a few beautiful pictures that sent me to bed with a smile on  my face, and the creative juices topped up.

In keeping with the interest in the 50's that is slowly developing and growing, I looked predominantly at 50's women.

They mostly seemed to be grouped into housewife, starlet and pin up.










I would love to dress up like this for a dinner party!

This one is my favourite!

Thread Den Market - June 27 2010

Next Weekend Little Cooties will be at the Thread Den Market.

There will be a few ladies skirts available to buy or view or try on.

I hope to see you there!

Here are the details

Splutter, cough and brrrrr

I'm feeling a bit splat and bleagh...

I'm at home rugged up but still cold....

I've got a warm cup of tea a good book and an old jumper....

So, I decided to felt the jumper and make some wrist warmers, to keep me warm when I pick the kids up from care

I got some GREAT tips from laughing purple goldfish designs here and went about punishing my jumper with the required abandon and ferocity, then chucked it into the dryer on HOT

I decorated the wrist warmers with spring in mind, so they remind me that the sun will come back. 

Am feeling better now, cosy, warm arms and wrists, and can get back to that book....