Felted purses

I love felting, wet felting that is.

I haven't actually done that much of it, but when I do I enjoy it so much.

I have made most of my Christmas presents this year, fun fun fun, and I have two cousins 22 and 19 that I wanted to give a small gift to.

these little purses are a design a fellow crafter friend makes and I keep admiring, she suggested they would make great little tampon holders. I thought so too, and decided this was the perfect gift for them.

I made one square piece of felt and cut it down the middle, blanket stitched up the sides leaving a flap with a decorative edge.

the first one I added a tie that just wraps around and folds under, so cute,

and the other has a button.

I also got my 3 1/2 year old making apiece of felt, she had a ball with this, soap all over........

and I sewed it up into a slightly bigger purse
which perfectly fits a pair of sunnies, a present for her MarMar/gran.

making kids presents

I am starting to panic a bit about what to give my girls for chrisi, i want to make them stuff, I have been thinking about making other family members things and now i need to focus on making christmas special for them too.

and for me this means, not loads of commercial stuff, stuff that i cant afford anyway, but i just dont want to support all that commercialism.

i want to at least by local this year, that is from my small town, where there really is an abundance of quality goods.

but when it comes down to it, it really is just all stuff, so what to do?

i whipped up a skirt and top for each yesterday, and i mean whipped up, i would not be satisfied with the quality of workmanship for anyone else, but somehow i can get away with it for them.

i have a feeling she may not be into this top, but it is sweet, very 70's.

i looked at the skirt i made the other girl this morning and really there is no wow there at all so its ditched!

argh

I am getting so much enjoyment out of making these dolls

here are 2 more


if anyone would like to order a doll they can email me tiffinsing@yahoo.com.au and i can give you details, and i am working on getting some better shots to show.

the markets

the markets????

some girls and i are doing the local markets and attempting to set up and creative co-0p in town, hopefully to eventually get a premises where we can all come together and work.

woven doll

I recently did a basket making course, it was really inspiring, a room full of people and lovely smelling fibres strewn over the beautiful earthy space we were doing the workshop .

The majorty of the fibres were collected locally around Bellingen, which set my mind racing with ideas, it was like the idea of endless op shops to scour.

during the course of the next week my girls and I were collecting bits of palm flower frond and casurina and other fibres.

anyway, getting to the whiplash thing, I make dolls and have been working on one particular style, like this one below, inspired by a drawing by my daughter Coco who is 5. So when I began thinking about alternative craft, this was a classic whiplash for me, i just had to weave a doll.I really loved making this doll, the way the fibres do their own thing and seem to shape the doll themselves. I used palm flower frond and philadendron and some casurina in her hair, with a bit of felt.

here she is

a woven wind girl
I hope someone is inspired by this, thanks fellow crafters for the inspiration.

Cheers Tiff

welcome

what I've been doing,
gifts for lovely friends with new bubs
and some more root babies

Thursday

its thursday and I need to be sewing, I spent most of yesterday sewing and I am not motivatied to do it today.

instead I am distracted by the compter and taking self portraits and looking on the net at things i like.

Theres no wedding for us now but I still made Arkie a pretty cute skirt that she has worn to kindi 2 days in a row and even slept in it for 2 nights, I havnt even hemmed it yet and it drags on the ground and she loves that.

I have so many ideas running through my head............... yaha it is quite overwhelming, but i keep telling myself its okay to be feeling that, it's just how I feel at the moment. it helps a bit i guess, what i need is an assistant to do the sewing and i can design and adjust, the sewing just takes so much time.

anyway some shoes i am loving ..........








the shoes are from www.earth.us

Apparently when you where them it is like walking on sand and they are great for posture etc.

A cute Arkie shot

and a photo shoot care of Coco

wedding outfits

we are off to a wedding, it will be the first wedding for Coco and Arkie, so I have 3 weeks to make an outfit for each of us.

Not so easy, limited funds to start with and then, do I go with the flow of the child and make something not entirely what i want to create, i've got a few things in mind, all including bits of vintage goodness and trims and pinks and greens, and I also like red and white, maybe some dots mixed with patterns, a bit of rick rack here and there, big fabric flowers, or pinwheels etc.




Well it seems these girls are a little more conservative and like a little less rick rack and not so much cutesy vintage.

they want Cinderella, puffy sleeves, dress down the toes, prefferably touching the ground, etc.etc.

I will post some pics

soooo cold

hole in one

What a champion!
I think this is pretty cool, 15
holes in one in the family.

new bag

start of something?

new bag from recycled fabrics, nice vintage red, white, blue and white stripey jersey lining.
It was fun to make and I can see some more coming for the market stall...............

One happy customer

Arkie finally got her flouncy, sparkly, pink touching the ground with bimbles ( that is flouncy sleeves in adult speak) yes she quickly realised when she swung on the rope the wind caught the dress and oh how good that felt...
5 minutes later...
10....you can't see but within this time it took on an Arkie smell and look....
Vegemite mmmmmmmm
Yep into the wash already!!!

Pressies

Arkie exclaimed a little bit too excitedley " now I can do the dishes like you mum!" Thanks paulxxxx
She was literally shaking by the time she got to this present, who was promptly named Cinderella.

We're working on a new name, seeing a disturbing pattern here, washing up...... cinderella????

A snuggly doll
Thanks Aunty Laura and Uncle Josh and Orlando xxxx

Showing off her skirt at kindi today

Oh sweet Arkie

3 today.................mmmmm