our creative spaces....

After spending an age making a cross stitch counting chart for Kitty when she was born I'm busy deliberating what to make for bub number 2 (don't want them to reach an age where they realise mummy didn't bother second time round).

I've decided I'm going to make an embroidery. I used this pattern to make the little cowboy as a practice run and it was super easy and so much fun so I now have to hunt (or make myself) an intricate pattern that will look like I've made similar effort with both my children for their birth pressie from me.

If anybody out there has a really cool (unisex) pattern they know of please feel free to share!

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our creative spaces....

Finished a few little projects this week.......

....was asked to 'spruce up' this top for a girlfriend so I made a fabric rosette brooch for it....
....have started adding extra patches to buntings with short names like stars to this Leo bunting which is now on it's way to the UK......
.....this custom order for newborn baby twin girls is on it's way to NZ......

....and I just popped this fabric door plaque in the post to a country town in Tassie....

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how do i stop....

.....myself spending a million pounds here....
....oh, easy peasy, I don't and probably never will have a million pounds...phew!
....I was starting to worry I'd send myself broke after discovering this super website that is far too easy to find your way around and gives you lots of different shopping search options....
.....for now I'll carry on browsing and oooohing and aaaaaggghing over my Sunday morning cuppa.

animal tops

I saw a little girl playing at the beach the other day with a giraffe t.shirt a bit like this. I thought it was super cute so decided to do a bit of a copy cat. Picked up a cheapy t.shirt from KMart and appliqued a giraffe onto it, blanket stitched around the edge and added a bit of trim.

Looks pretty sweet doesn't it? I'll do a run of these now, thinking elephant next, until I get bored of them and move onto the next thing....

our creative spaces....

I've had a heap of these embroidery hoops sitting around for a while doing sweet nothing and so thought I'd put them to good use. Also wanted to update the shop so decided to make some initial door signs!
I picked out some fabric for the background and stretched it into the frame. I then drew some letters, appliqued them onto the fabric and then blanket stitched around the edge.
I think they would look pretty sweet on the bedroom door or even just hung on the wall. OK, off I go to make some more whilst you head over to Our Creative Spaces to check out lovely things being made.

at amy's house...

Felt compelled to take a couple of shots at my friend Amy's place last week as wanted to share a couple of things that she had made and scrummy bits of her house. She found this wood in the junk and along with some pretty knobs and a couple of supports knocked up this fabulous bag/coat rack/hall tidy. Didn't she do a great job! I love the wood colour, what a nice find.
She also made this bedhead. The vintage fabric is gorgeous and sets off the whole room, I want one!
I'm also slightly in love with her kitchen but I think she'd be pretty happy to rip it out and modernise it. I would pay big bucks for this 1950's wallpaper for my kitchen! She probably thinks I'm crazy.
She made us a delicious yogurt and banana cake with cream cheese icing. The kitchen booth is to die for with black and white chequered vinyl top (heaven!) and the contrast 1950's coloured bench seats and walls.
This is our friend Jack and Amy's son Kawaii playing in her playroom. So simply done but a great space for the kiddies.

I don't happen to have a playroom in my tiddly unit but when I eventually move into a big girl's house it's top priority. Who am I kidding? Kitty and the unborn child will probably be graduating university by the time that happens!

i NEED this party to be mine one day...

I just stumbled across this amazingly special safari themed birthday bash and had to share it and hope you get as much oohing and aahing over it as I did.
One day I have to host this party and I'm sorry to say I will be stealing a ton of ideas from Ah-Tissue who has just won the themed party Oscar in my opinion....
There are some sweets in the UK that are called 'something or other' rocks which when I'm next home I will have to invest in for the African Rock feature alone!
In the meantime I'll busily collect my jam jars to make these genius drinking vessels..
....and gather animal print fabrics (in honour of my late grandmother who wore nothing else but) to recreate the fabulous bunting to finish it all off.

These gorgeous photos are taken by katietakesapicture where you can check out the rest of the pictures from this top notch party.

I just have to work out who I'm throwing it for now!