Olifant

Olifant for baby M...

My best friend recently gave birth to the cutest little bubba, whom I finally met last week...such a sweet little angel...as is her gorgeous toddler who is growing up so fast...here is a little sleeping olifant I made for her little one, and matching singlet too...I'd like to get a few of these up in my shop soon, one thing at a time, at the moment, I'm still settling into my new blog home. The fabric I used here is the most beautiful vintage childrens fabric...It's absolutely my favourite fabric ever, and I felt the pain as I cut into it. Is anyone else this fearful of chopping into their favourites?

little singlet...

Don't give up your day job...

Especially....if like me, you have a habit of spending twice the amount of your allocated budget at the craftfair...Still.. . was so much fun, I know you can buy all of these lovely fabrics online, but there is just something special about being able to wander around and see them all up close. Anyway I picked up some gorgeous yummy scrumptious fabric, so now all I have to work on, is my fear of hacking into it.

yummy fabric goodness here:

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and notions too:

I've also found a renewed zest for embroidery, thought it would be fun to try beading, and have tried to start convincing myself into attempting a quilt. I've wanted to do a quilt for ages actually, the only thing stopping me, is I crave quick projects with an almost sort of compulsion, prefering to start and wrap up something fairly quickly before losing that initial wave of enthusiasm. The other thing, is knowing that once I've managed to finish one, I then have to start round two, for the second child...surely can't be alone with this ... 

Jemima...

This is jemima, named by my little Mia, probably after the playschool character, as we watch alot of playschool in this house these days. Jemima is off to join her friends at the softies for Mirabel cause. She is wearing a dress made of thrifted vintage fabric, which is personally one of my favourites. I'm loving the mustard and olive green in this one.

On the craft front, The quilt and craft show is on at Darling Harbour this week. I'm loving the excuse to go and play amongst all those beautiful fat quarters. Hopefully I can bring a few home with me, if the budget stretches...

Pizza Time...

So today, we started out with a turf war over the tv stations in our house. In the red corner we had my youngest Hannah insistent on the morning ABC Kids schedule. Whilst in the blue we had my older child, Mia, determined to start the day with yet another rendition of Charlie and the chocolate factory - again. It wasn't pretty, but it was definately understandable. Especially considering that today made day five of being confined within the walls of our house.  In part due to the wonderful sydney weather that we have been fortunate enough to receive (read torrential). but mostly due to our car deciding that this week was a great one to break down. In any case, 5 days housebound with two busy toddlers hasn't been easy.

It was with this in mind that we decided to do some cooking for our craft time today, and the suggestion of pizza was met with enthusiastic Yayyyy's so pizza it was...

so here we are, the girls busy stiring the pot

followed by the random application of toppings:

and then the really good part, pizza yumminess just in time for lunch...mmmm

All in all, a good day for us here, and especially as it is friday and the promise of a long weekend awaits us...happy weekend everyone!!

Softies for Mirabel...

Today I have been busy putting together a little doll for this wonderful cause. She still needs an outfit, so she won't be ready to go just yet. The girls both decided that she was a pirate and that she needs to be wearing a dress. Sounds good to me.

Welcome post...

Hi there, I am a stay at home mum with two little girls aged three and two. I love to sew and craft and thought it would be lovely to chronicle these pursuits in the form of a blog. I'm inspired by vintage fabric and patterns and love thrifting to source new old items.

I'm inspired by the many wonderful artists that make up the craft blogging community and look forward to sharing my blogging adventures with you all.