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

sunday, sunny sunday

It's the first day of winter today, yet the sun is out and there is a lovely warmth in the air. Not in our house though. Brrrrr, it's a bloody icebox. Oh well, can't be whingeing on such a lovely day.

We're realxing a bit at home today. Some true winter activites have been taking place. Like gumboot wearing (well this isn't really season bound) however they MUST always be worn on the wrong feet. I want these boots for me!



Some pumpkin scone cooking. Pretty good although they could have had more volume. I can never get the height out of my scones that the country ladies from my hometown were always able too. What's the secret??? Later on today I hope to get the potatoes cooking to make this fabulous boston bun. Yummmy winter foods



And the budidng artist has been slapping some paint around. I love his work! But not his artistic temperament..... Gee this lad can chuck a tanti! He's so much more demanding than his sis ever was. Is this a boy thing?



And lastly a bit of prep for the listing of sweet Sunni for the shop some time today.

on my desk ......on a tuesday night:)

We're heading off to the zoo tomorrow so I thought I'd pop this up tonight. I actually cleaned up my desk today and it is looking rather spotless, for my desk anyway. I love giving it a good clean up and rearranging "stuff". It is never really spotless and bare though, just more organised.

I have a little easel that sits on my desk and usually has a WIP sitting upon it. Not at the moment though and since it was looking so bare I popped one of Tully's little paintings on it. I do love this one. She did it when she was about 18months old, can you see her little handprint? I think THAT is what I love so much about it. Most of Tully's paintigs do have her handprints on them though. She likes to get into her paintings but tends to end up folding the paintgs up and screwing them up these days. I guess it's just part of her experimenting with them but I do miss having her finished pieces to show off. She draws and paints recognisable forms now which I truly love. Such a delight to here her stories of what she is drawing.

the circus :)

i had so much fun with this little project :) and now it's all finished i can show it off. I hope that the recipient likes it as much as i do. Lachie's a bit sad we're not keeping it for our kids but now I'm inspired to get to and make some more paintings for them as well. The tones are pretty close in these photos to what it is like in real life. The flag is much lighter though. My favourite bit is the little mouse with the clown nose:)

I was pretty busy yesterday and finished off this little drummer boy as well. He should be making his way over to ozebaby some time today.

santa claus is coming..../sneak peaks :0)

i really don't like hi-5 but i can't stop humming this little ditty. I'm getting a bit excited about the upcoming festive season :) On the weekend we went along and checked out the much talked about christmas pageant here in adelaide. We only caught the end bit of it but it was very impressive. Tully and Asher loved it! So did the other 300 000 who attended :0 The next day we participated in the walk against warming. Unfortunately the south aussie's weren't as active partcipants with only about 2000 or so there.

Yesterday tully and i baked. I don't buy biscuits anymore as i much prefer to make our own. Much yummier and not as chock full of crap. This is our batch from yesterday. Tully just wanted to make circles but i couldn't resist the trees lol.

and this is a little sneak peak of what i've been doing and have just about finished.

and another little sneak peak of the latest pikkitint venture. My side done and on to tikki now.

and the last sneak peak is the beginning of my next project which should be appearing up at ozebaby before the end of the week.

what's been going on?

Things have been a bit quiet on the t-shirt front of late. Tully's is the only tee I've painted for ages. That's because i've been busy on another project using the above type of paints for a change. I used to be an oil painter but haven't used them since i've had kids as #1, i don't have the space and #2 the fumes are really full on and not safe for kids to be around in my opinion. So now i use acrylics when i do paint.

The other things i have just been doing is washing a bucketload of tees ready to be painted. The ever helpful tikki found a heap of tees for me and today they arrived in the post. Lots and lots of different types of Bonds numbers there. I was so excited i had to wash them immediately. I'm particularly excited about the little yellow, white and pink one as they are so hard to find now. I already have a sketch ready to go up on this little number.

waiting for my baby painting

i started this painting 3 weeks before tully was due and i still haven't finished it. it's one of the many shells i have in my house. it's about 60cm square..i normally do huge paintings so this is quite small. i quite like it and will hopefully get my but into gear and finish it.