in the swing with starashan

Gee I've been meaning to post pics of this gorgeous little number I got from Sherrin of Starashan for ages but the camera and weather have not been cooperative the last month. Every time I would pop this on her the battery would be flat or it would be raining. Today we got lucky and here it is. So super sweet and wonderfully made. I loved it so much when Sherrin popped a similar one up on her blog and was super stoked when she offered to make one for Tully. I love red on Tully and really adore the design Sherrin has used.



Tully adores it as well and Asher commented this morning that she was like a ballerina in it. Er well...... he does like princesses and all the girly stuff Tully loves at the moment, so if he think she looks like a ballerina well that's fine.

I especially love the detail on the back of the pini. It's a really lovely touch.



Amongst getting ready to face the day this morning I also whipped up this little skirt. It has been absolutely ages since I made something for my kids and this was so gratifying. I've had the fabric cut out for about a year waiting for me to pull my finger out and ,voila, after 1/2 hour here it is.



All ready for some booty wiggling fun!

pixies and pirates

A couple of little tee's finished for some little boys. Loving both of them and so much fun to be painting again. Gee I needed the break and it sure was a big one but I'm right back into it now. Full steam ahead!



ahoy me hearties!

*** crap shots taken with flash. grrrr. Apparently there is no sun anymore. Just clouds and rain. Brrrrrrrr

on my desk ....

gee it's been a while since i joined in this meme. But to be honest nothing very different had been happening on my desk. However, the last few days I have been doing a little bit of painting and printing. It has been ages since I have done either and I'm really enjoying it.

I've been painting a couple of tee's for some trades for some very patient mumma's. My list of to do is getting shorter and I'm very thankful that these ladies have been so patient. I'll share pics of what I've been painting in another post when they are finished. After this lot are done then hopefully I'll get something done for the shop. It's been ages since I've popped anything up.

The gocco was pulled out last night so I could finally get some tags made. I'd been wanting to do these for yonks but wanted to photocopy the image to make sure I got a good print. It worked out great although I was a bit stupid and cut a lot of my paper the wrong size and hence have a lot of cropped tags but hey I'm not after perfection. Here's some of the tags being modelled by some pixies.



There is also a neglected pile on the end of my desk waiting for a turn in the washing machine. The weather lately has not been conducive to washing so my pile of material to wash is slowly growing. There's some denim waiting to be made into a painted pini for Tully, op-shopped wool blend, cord and some gorgeous prints from Hollabee. All destined to be clothing for she who must only wear skirts or dresses and the little dude who currently believes the only place he can sit is on top of me. Don't think I'll be achieving as much as I would like today!



You can check out some more desks over at kootooyoo

pixie perfect!

I often have this little phrase running around in my head. "pixie perfect" with a little american sort of twang to it. It's from Tully's little tinkerbell camera and I swear the bloody thing drives me a bit bananas sometimes. Whoever invented noisy toys needs to have a child continuoulsy pressing the buttons on one all day and see the effect. Mind you I did buy the bloody thing so am certainly responsible.

It has been quite some time since I last posted some pics of something I made. That's because it's taken me so long to achieve much these days. No morning sickness or anything just lots of getting around with kindy drop-offs and pick-ups and a bit of snoozing when the kids are and I would normally be working. Nanna naps have become a daily activity of late. Thanks so much for all the lovely well wishes for our very exciting news. I've already bought the new bub a little fitted nappy and tully keeps talking about all the little dresses we need to buy it.

I must apologise for the very disjointed flow of this post. Fuzzy brain today... So the pixies below. Well they're promised for pixies that will be zooming off to their new owners hopefully tomorrow if the rain abaits enough for me to get to the PO with them. The rain doesn't stop me getting around at all. Yesterday we braved the downpour in wet weather gear for kindy drop-offs and it was actually really lovely to be out in it. But I can't be taking little pixies out in the chilly rain.



Another reason for the quiet over hear in blogland is this is number 200 post and I really, really wanted to be doing a giveaway custom pixie or tee but have found myself just way too snowed under so promise to do a giveaway sometime between here and post 250. Cool?