Hello dear reader,
It's been pretty busy around here with two small children to entertain and occupy for the last couple of weeks.
We've been on a bit of a mission to keep the TV turned off for as long as possible during the day. It's no TV before 4.00 pm, and when we do, it's a movie, and you know, the kids are actually having an old fashioned holiday.
The house is a complete mess, but they're having fun.
They've been drawing,
drawing on the footpath,
seed planting,
walking to the Milk Bar,
building cubbies out of cushions,
cooking with me,
threading beads,
playing complicated pretend games together,
trampolining,
painting,
playing with guinea pigs,
making sweets,
indoor swimming when it was too hot for outside,
stuff! It's good.
I have been going bananas in the garden.
Here's pictures
Sour dough bread I made
Elsie's play dough man
little man with a beret
Little Parisian pickling cucumbers...
Carrot flowers!
We call these fairy lanterns, not sure of the proper name
This is beautiful! Purple!
Corriander flowers
Lovely plant and planter for Christmas, and my new "no dig" beds.
Lettuce, basil, and sunflowers
Another "no dig" bed...looks a bit like a shallow grave...Tomatoes up the back
I am lucky enough to have some of my new necklaces in this very stylish and tasteful new shop. Quirk, it's located in Shop 85 Pakington Street, Geelong West.
Here are some pictures of the space...and things that caught my eye.
I adore these cups, and when I get my head straight...because this whole end of the year thing is making me Ca Ray Zee right now, I'm going to get me some.
oh, and here are my things, on the counter...not displayed quite at the time of picture taking.
I have been making things for markets...and the last market I did, my oldest came down with a yucky version of gastro! No one is prepared for gastro....so I left the house in the wee hours of the morning and crossed my fingers as I set off for Yarraville. She coped, and everyone else coped and the market went reasonably well for me. Then my youngest got it...then I got it, then P got it...so, that took care of a couple of weeks. And I've been working on a custom order for a very good customer of mine...here is a sneek peek.
I just have to put the ribbons on and away they go.
I also got an invitation to put in an entry for the miniature textile exhibition in Angers. It's a biennial exhibition...last Time I entered a tapestry...I don't think they're really interested in tapestry for this...I think they look for gorgeous 'other' kinds of textile work like this
by Cecile Dachery
Or even this
Pamela Campagna
Well, that's what I think anyway...we'll see...here are my bits and pieces
We are all completely in love with the movie Fantastic Mr fox...it's so funny, and our kids love it. This is a clip of all the "cussin'", it's funny.
And the other thing I've been doing is working very hard at making my girl an Agnes...what prey tell is an Agnes... well here is the gorgeous original
Agnes is the one in the middle...do you want to see progress?
yes, she's creepy, she's a practice one, don't judge her!
Firstly if you yourself want to make Agnes...or any other cute foxy toy...here is a great start, and it's free. I have made a practice Agnes...and she's kind of creepy, but it will be great when I make the real one, with fur, I'm also going to modify the pattern a lot. Firstly the Teddy fox pattern is quite a wild animal fox, the one I want to make is more like a human shape with a foxy head...Practice Agnes is also great for making the clothes on. Also I'm getting eyes delivered...they look like this
I'm in the middle of knitting a cardigan for this poor creature, and a scarf. I just found these great dolls clothes patterns that I photocopied a thousand years ago...lord knows why, but they have come in handy! I'm really looking forward to making all these cute things.
Also this month I joined the quilters and patchworker's guild! Yup. Who would have thought it would be so much fun? It's kind of funny, because the things they make and kind of love are really not my thing at all, and I'm waiting for the time one of them looks over my shoulder and says something like, "you'll get there love"...Little do they know ...he he he.
Well the trip to the Gardens proved to be very fun,but there were loads of mozzies. Me and the wee girls hung out with the old Ginko tree. And here are the results.
So, pictured here are the three sets of 5
There is the orangey set, a pinky set and a red and creamy set.
I was recently asked if I had ever thought of making fabric flowers, "well, no," I said, "I hadn't". But, that got me to thinking of when I worked as a milliner, and all those pretty flowers I used to see a Cyril Preston's back in the day when you would have to go upstairs...to what is, perhaps apartments, the Majorca Building in Degraves st? Anyway, after much research and careful cutting, and thinking...here is some new work
Thank you the lovely Heather of the Oliver Shop for suggesting this...this is a sneek peek.
