Lots to show you!

We have a new place to call home and it feels really good.  We have so much space and storage and a room which I call my creative studio. My husband calls it his office but I don't like to pull him up on his mistakes. Our lounge/dining room is really open and spacious and has an amazing view it instantly puts you in a good mood. It would be selfish not to share these images with you.

welcome come in!  

such a lovely view

oh the serenity

we are even lucky to see the beach in the distance,
less the crane and construction site would be nice. 

my studio in the making

just some of the many loves of my life.

what a lovely little girls range these fabrics will make

 So easter here was really nice and relaxing 

 rain hail or shine it didn't matter to me or

 my troupe, the easter bunny still comes when

 it rains we found out. x

 H A P P Y   E A S T E R   X

hello out there,

It's been so long I know - we have been moving house and settling in and packing and unpacking and all that so I have a heap of closet blogs to post but firstly I wanted to show you a little piece I made for myself before we moved house.  Fabric from The Fabric Store in Surry Hills, I really love their stuff.

This is a little close up of the print, it is really delicate and the muted colours make it.

Here is the finished product, pattern is mcall's and was another make in an hour number (yep that's right I have little patience) sorry this was taken after a million tapas and a couple of cocktails under my belt.  I would prefer not to have any pics taken of me. However pleased to be wearing some thing I have made. yah!

a quickie....

Things have been rather hectic around here, we have to move from our amazing little spot on the beach, so with the house hunting and the normal house hold stuff that goes on there hasn't been a lot time for creating.  I have been doing a lot of fabric "research" one might say - ok buying lovely fabric. Ooooo I love you "the fabric Store" Surry Hills.


Anyway just thought I'd share a little dress that I made out of some of the sale fabric I bought at the end of last year, very inexpensive so a great one to wear to kindy.  It is a variation on the Willow dress with a sleeve which is cut away and left un-hemmed. 

Hi mum

I did a size five in yellow and white stripe (photos on the way) and it literally took less than an hour to cut and sew. I used stretch needle which made the fabric easier to work with.

Jersey fabric

It is very hard mum to watch Charlie and Lola and text at the same time!

DA DAH !!

This is something one of my girls says - all the time and this is exactly how I felt when finishing my first quilt. Some how I thought it would be easy making a quilt especially one which is just squares! Little did I know and sorry to those I made light of. So machine stitching squares together should technically be quite easy however it wasn't until I put the whole thing together with the backing that I realised how accurate  one must be with their measurements. 

With much perseverance and about a year later I completed my first quilt and I must say I do love it, all top fabrics are Ami Butler. The free motion quilting was beautifully done by a clever crafty friend of mine and I used a bamboo batting in between which is not bulky however lovely and warm. The edges were bound together with pre-made bias binding (to save time not money!). 

Now I just need to make two more so I have one for each of my lovely girls.

our twirly whirly dress

What is it that is so exciting about a dress that twirls? Every dress that doesn't twirl seems to be a disappointment to our little 4 year Ivy. I have been playing around with patterns and using up bits of fabric which were added to the stash merely because I had to have them.  You can imagine how excited little miss was with this one.

This was a voile from spotlight which I picked up in one of their sales for $5 per metre, it is lovely and light weight for hot days like these.

long time no speak...

It has been a long time between posts and although I am not a daily poster I am a closet poster. I post in my head, however anything that has come to mind in the last week or so seems so menial compared to the natural disaster happening across our country. The stories in which are unfolding have been tragic and devastating for us to watch, imagine experiencing this first hand. I am so lucky that nothing this devastating has ever happened to me.  The most tragic thing I have experienced in the last week was my twins pulling the keys and their plastic casings from the keyboard of my macbook! clearly not even worth mentioning.  So my silence is just, one would say and if like me funds are not flush any thing helps and if you have a little or a lot, any help is welcomed. For cash donations head to www.qld.gov.au/floods/donate.html.

oh please!

handmade love

I must have put the handmade love vibe out there as for christmas my girls all received new pj's from their lovely nanny gez.

nanny made shorts and button up tops for the twins, as they love to remove all items of clothing if given the opportunity and she figured buttons were too hard for the little ones.


and Ivy received a lovely nightie in which she must feel delightful in as it's all she wants to wear and has even taken to putting her silver ballet flats on and dancing around the house.

too cute!