50's obsession

Ok, I think it's official. I am becoming obsessed with 50's aprons...

I have two very serviceable and beautiful aprons - 50's styled aprons - one which was a swap earlier this year made for me by the lovely Bianca.

One would think that two beautiful aprons (plus numerous unattractive but serviceable ones) would be enough, and they were, but then.... I received an email from etsy... and I just can't get these ones out of my head... They are gorgeous!

You can see the whole range here, and the worst thing of all is that they are just so affordable! I think I'm going to succumb..... this one is my favourite. I wonder if I like them so much because they remind me of dresses I'd love to wear if I had anywhere to wear them to?

Happy Birthday Eva

we had a great day on Saturday.

eva loved every minute of it and we had smiles all day

amongst the lovely presents received, this one brought a tear to my eye.

thank you J for your creative gift

Giving

It's such a lovely world here in the blogosphere.

I come here for inspiration, motivation,
education, friendship and encouragement.

The other lovely thing about all you ladies out there, is your ability to give freely without requiring anything other than a comment, support and and the opportunity of following your creative journey.

I have received a few beautiful items to date as you can see here and here.

Last week again I received a fantastic gift from Calico and Co.

Amanda Fuller from Sydney has a great blog with LOTS and lots to see. 

She sent me this after I made a comment here. Thank you Amanda :)

I can't wait to sit down with it and a large cup of tea and get my stunted business growing again.

And so, i am paying forward and will also be hosting a giveaway.... 

Keep a look out for it during the week :)

My Creative Space 29 July 2010

As it's been cold and wet for days and days, I thought I'd harness my children's creativity and get them to decorate some loot bags for Eva's 3rd birthday party.

I'm really happy with the variety of images they drew.

I've been preparing by making lots of lists and ticking of boxes. Plus runs to this and that shop making sure that I'll be organised and have enough things to feed the hungry munchkins.

 My only other concern is that the weather on Saturday behaves enough for Eva's party at the park to be a success... otherwise, it's lots of bodies at my house.

Get inspired here where there are always great things to see

Couples weekend

This weekend, my parents have offered to have my two cherubs over at their house for two nights!! I'm so thankful for the gift of time and space.

This morning hubby and I went to a local market and bought our missing children some bits and bobs and then went off to breakfast at The Estelle. 

We bonded and chatted and laughed and became a couple again. It was lovely.

On our way back to the car we spotted this gem,
lonely and abandoned on the side of the road.

Well, I couldn't resist, and had to bring it home

Now it will be loved at our house

I really love the fairy lining in the bottom drawer

Ahhh said one bed to the other

It's cold, but the sun is shining here at my side of the world

so out I go, to free my poor vegies from the weeds

Ahhh, said one bed to the other, I'm free at last

YUM said my tummy as I prepare the fresh crop of carrots and radish

Cold Wet Sunday

What to do with children that are tired of being inside?

Give them some cookie time!

Lumpy Bumpy blobs of fun

Turning my frown upsidedown

In a bid to get over my frustration at yet another canceled date night due to someone in the family being sick and feverish (4th date cancelled in the past 2 months), I decided to soothe my anger by turning to my craft table.

  
I have been neglecting the sewing machine and craft table in the past couple of weeks due to other commitments, but today, it was the only thing that was going to make me happy.

I took some wool that I had felted previously, and got to work.

I used the neck of a turtleneck jumper which I had not felted, and sewed it onto the ends of square of blue striped wool

Then I made sausages










 

A quick dip into my Mum and Granny's collection lets me choose the perfect buttons

 

The end result is that even though I have no control over the bugs that invade my house, and the mistakes made with over the phone bookings, I can still create something that makes me smile, and makes the day so much better.

A big sorry to J and C who arranged baby sitters for tonight

My Creative Space 15 July 2010

Yesterday I made my way to the oppy with my munchkins -  just before the rain started pelting down. I was on a mission to get some more lovely wool jumpers to make more arm warmers.

I'm really happy with the ones I found, which by the way was incredibly hard, as most of the winter gear there was made from acrylic. 

I'm going to do some felting today, and these lovely jumpers will be destroyed in the process. Such a shame, but I can't wait to see the end result, and then to see what kind of arm warmers I will come up with.....

You should also take some time whilst you are here to take a look at inspirational ladies who will also use their Thursday to create

ADDED INFORMATION.... 

Ive been happily unpicking the stitches on my jumpers and was taking piccies to show you

And then I suddenly feel like I'm being watched, and out of the corner of my eye, I see that I have an audience....  

He/she is sitting right above the window of my craft area/computer, and watching... 

 I'm not sure for how long, but now, knowing how quick these lovelies move, I'm moving to the lounge room i think to continue with the jumpers...

And I have to figure out how to catch it. I don't like killing these harmless huntsmen spiders, but he really is in an awkward position and  quite high, but I don't want to leave him there... 
how am i going to encourage him into a container without jumping or running on me, or without me falling on my head in the process?

 

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.