Finger Puppets

a pirate

and his girl

next i'll be attempting a Ned Kelly puppet, stay tuned..........

freaky

a little bit of making going on, albeit a little freaky.
she started off a bit disco all night dancing kind of wired and well pretty freaky by the end of the night

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I think i need freaky to cope with this everyday

i actually had to do all these dishes so i could make dinner, it was intensly difficult to get started and i spent most of the afternoon in pain just thinking about it, yuk, and each time i let it get this bad of course i swear i will keep on top of the washing up.....

but this was nice.

and so was this,

snatching warmish days at the beach, it almost feels like stealing, too good to be true.

WIP

The current WIP, "embroidery" I use this term loosely as I don't really have any knowledge of embroidery. I have seen this done with kids drawings and love it, and doing it is so rewarding.
I love retracing Arkie's drawing, I am actually feeling it rather than just seeing it, which allows me to "see" it in a different way.

Those mad eyes and crazy mouth, so so cute, and I am really looking forward to retracing those wayward arms...

And something for me! these chicks look so cool in these dresses, although somewhat more petite than moi! My grading skills will be put to the test when I attempt this!

Back

so he's back

with his mate

and promply wrapped up by his desperately happy family!!!

lost

this beautiful little boy is lost, and i really miss him. i am willing him home, hoping he's just gone walkabout.......5 days.:(

good bad indifferent

i finished off those bunnies, made some cute labels and mosied down to the shop in town i had planned to put them in.

This one, who has already gone off to a good home:)

so i was inspired to actually use my etsy shop again and added a doll!
A tattooed wind girl!

i think i would yodel with joy if someone actually bought her.
then to top the day off a very talented friend offered to help get a portfolio of my work together to present to prospective buyers..yaaah

this is fun found here, via Red Current

And then there were 3

yes and we have arms, i'm quite excited with my new arms, just a hint of an arm really.

i got to use some of the felt i made ages ago

i think they have very cute little behinds too.........

bunnies

the begginnigs of the bunnies.

these are for easter, i'm hoping to get them into a shop locally and they'll arrive easter sunday sitting on an egg in some kids basket, and we'll all live happily ever after.

to do list

i have been inspired to do a to do list, actually hoping to actually to a to do list.

here goes.

make some better tags for my hand made stuff, I do make my own tags but they are generally made the night before a market or sale and would really like to get more creative with this and was totally inspired by these from bugheart.

make some bath bombs, just cos, inspired by these, a great tutorial

make some easter treats for my girls, it would of course be too easy to go and buy some generic thing i know they would love, but aghh,

some bunnies also need to be made,

and that is all

lots of sewing going on

well so much for blogging more, geez I'm not real good at this.

anyway I have bee sewing quite a bit I have georgous little a-line dresses, mostly vintage fabrics, buttons,from my own pattern.

,these will fit 1 - 2 years as a dress and top.

these will fit 3 - 5 or 6 as a dress and super cute over jeans or shorts.

I have some sweet little skirts, size 3-4 at this stage, from a vintage pattern.

I played around with making a cape for my nephew, ( what do you make 3 year old boys), well the cape looked smashing all shimery and fancy, hope he likes it!

I'm toying with the idea of entering the next big thing competition, maybe with some felted goods, perhaps a scarf, or a purse?

Fading away

I have been a bit stuck with entering the whiplash comp this month, as just about everything I craft with is inspired and created with recycled materials, usually fabrics .
so I've been pondering over what to enter.
i ve been wanting to make a quilt for Arkie, and
I have so many little scrappy bits of fabric that i hoard, not so much because they are beautiful, although a lot of them are, but we dont have an abundance of lovely old fabrics around here and every little bit is treasured.
I make kids clothes from them for the market and dolls, so the left overs have gone into this quilt.

there are sheets, aprons, tea towels, rags, (bits of lovely fabric unapreciated by the op shop sorters cut up into rags), table cloths, pillowcases and trims .

i love how all these mix matched colours and tones work, the softness and fadedness seems to pull it all together I am now on the look out for some recycled wadding, i am heading to sydney and plan to check out the bower, maybe pick up a rejected doona/blanket. Has anyone ever quilted with something other than new wadding, i would love some tips if you have.

go the recycling, I am loving this whole shift in awareness at the moment, doing our bit for
Mother Earth

more dolls

I finally got some shots of the 2 new big dolls I'd been working on.

again....so much fun to make.

I didn't have any luck with them at the last market, actually I was really surprised as this time i sat and watched the crowd more, and it was actually pretty conservative.

Alot of tourists come to the market to oohh and aahh at the stuff but would never actually buy it to display in their homes.

When I say I didnt have any luck well I sold one to a sweet young girl and that made me pretty happy, she was so excited to buy her, remember that feeling going shopping as a teenager with mum and dad, money burnig a hole in your pocket, you really want to buy something great to mark the day, to spend the afternoon thinking about the great thing in your bag.
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the dolls are in the shop too.......

I have a shop

I finally got something in my etsy shop, it wasnt so hard. Go and have a look.

a sweet little mermaid, again the inspiration came from coco, thank you coco.

i have another 5 on the go at the moment.

I'm also attempting a very quick quilt, I was inspired by kath red yet again over at whipup. my fabric stash is not all that great though and i am mostly using old sheets that i've collected over the past year in the somewhat opshop baren coffs coast, not alot of thrfting goodness around here.

it is still kinda lovely though