elsa and emery

Elsa and Emery are patient. They have sat quietly together waiting to be finished. They've waited whilst we went away on a little holiday, whilst a little rednut ventured off to school for the first time and watched all the tired tears and tantrums that resulted. They've waited whilst we had in-laws visit and whilst I changed, washed and tried to dry a gazillion nappies and little peoples clothing.



They've waited whilst I've breastfeed children whilst surfing blogs (what better time to waste on the net than when a child is attached to you), whilst readers are read and homework done. They've waited whilst sunny days gave way to bone chilling winds and heavy rain.



They've waited, with increasing excitement as little aprons were made, knowing their time must be coming soon. And then they waited as each was lovingly stuffed, cuddled and popped up away from little hands. Then we all waited for the sun.....finally we caught a ray, snapped some piccies and here we are.



Now Elsa and Emery are waiting for tomorrow night at 8.30pm (sa time) to be listed on made it. Hopefully they won't have to wait for too long to meet a new friend.

settled

It's all been a bit NUTS of late in the my little part of the world. A house move with 4 little people was just a little more challenging than I expected. Boxes were packed and rapidly unpacked, floors were cleaned then muddied again. Finally we got everything out of the old house, hired a cleaner (genius) and started the big unpack at the new house. Finally after what seems like ages, e're pretty much settled in. There are still boxes to beunpacked and things rehomed, but it's nearly there.

I must say I do love our new home. We now have a very big blue lake pretty much in our backyard, well three houses down. Yep The Blue lake, we live in mount gambier. Our house is two storey, with my space taking up the room which is the second storey. No views of the lake though, just the town but that is pretty nice though. Today I've been up there with my smallest two rearranging bits and bobs and finishing off a few softies that seem like it's taken me ages to complete.




Finally, finally they are ready and all set to go. Two long legged polly dolly's and two long legged olly dolly's, which is my very first stocking of these guys, along with some babushka's and hopefully an alien, who is currently only half stuffed, will make an appearance over on my made it store Friday evening. Time yet to be confirmed, so please check out my facebook page for more details.

That's if these two little champs let me photograph, upload and do all that stocking jazz without too much hassle.

super dooper stocking

The markets are all finished up for the year, so now it's time to restock the store. I have a super dooper stocking planned for tomorrow night with over 30 items added! Yep over 30 little bits of pint goodness! phew that's some job listing sooo many things.

Please come and take a look. I have bits of everything; pixies, polly dolly's, aliens, gnomes, babushka's, angels and santa sacks all needing happy little homes.

8pm cst over at pint, hope to see you there

checking my list, ticking it twice....

Oh my, the look on miss Tully's face this morning when I told her I was really one of Santa's elves and was very busy making toys for little boys and girls! Priceless really. I think she actually believed me. Well how could she not with the many piles of softies in progress around the house.



Seriously, my house has little piles of softies, santa sacks and brooches in various stages of completion everywhere! Everywhere that is that little Miss Sage my wonderful little helper can't reach them.



With only a couple of weeks until the jelly bean market and then another 6 weeks until chrissy, my plate is feeling rather full. Add on house hunting, inspections by prospective buyers, tandem feeding and the general shenanigans of school and kindy, well my plate is pretty much overflowing. Bahhh, well it's all good really, cause I enjoy it in a weird sort of frazzled kinda way. It's not really that bad, cause I can see the light and am very much looking forward to it. I had such fun at the last market and am very much looking forward to the next one on November 27, Warrnambool show grounds if you're local.



So for now its all systems go...interspersed with some crazy dancing to the latest soundtrack in the house, Justine Clarke, and lots and lots of time snuggling on the couch feeding my sweet little Sage and Otis. Who as it happens, will be 4 weeks old on the weekend! 4 weeks! wow!



I know, he's beautiful! yep I made him. Pretty pleased about that

getting ready for chrissy

Today as I put up the last frankie poster calendar for the year, I marvelled at the speed of how 2010 has just zipped by. Really, just two months left of the year! Crazy. But I must admit I absolutely LOVE this time of year. The warming weather, the lengthening of the days and of the approach of christmas. I do so love christmas! It's such an exciting time of the year.

Last year I made my little cherubs each a santa sack for their christmas loot. I enjoyed making these so much that I decided to make some to pop up in my store. I was going great guns and whipped up four, but then as I got bigger and Otis became heavier, standing at the ironing board affixing fabric just became a bit too tiring. I really wanted to have a great load of these to offer but it's not looking like I'm going to. What I do have though is a little girl and little boy elf all ready to stock tonight.



along with a few gnomes.



and angels...



All will be available over at pint on made it this evening...when the babies let me pop them up.

my creative space

Today i would "like" to be sewing up a bunch of little heads to bodies, but it's still school holidays here in SA so instead I'm butting heads with some little ones. The children really should be happy and entertaining themselves, I mean shesh we've been out all morning checking out the Wolfensohn suitcases from the National Gallery, and running off some energy. It's even a nice day outside, well not wet anyway, so they "should" be playing in the yard but no they would rather wrestle on the floor until one injures the other. Oh lordy, come on Monday! And here I was thinking I'd like to homeschool, well bah not today! Oh and the suitcases were awesome! Many moons ago I had a hand in creating the same sort of thing for Canberra Museum and Gallery, so I was really interested to see how these would be presented. Unfortunately, the library was under-staffed so they didn't receive the attention they deserved, but it was great to see and handle some interesting art works.

Ooo and I have a very special new addition to my little creative space, another Joan Walsh Anglund children's sewing box. So I have two now, that's a collection right? Both have been found in local antique shops, what do think my chances are of finding a third? I was so excited when I walked in and spied the little valentine one straight away. You know how it is, your heart skips a beat and you just can't wait to have it in your hands, my partner just looks at me like I'm mad!



I have been able to achieve a small amount of creating this week, primarily in the form of a new Long-legged polly dolly named Holly. Holly is being stocked over at Gossamer dreams and will go live tonight at 8pm est.



There are heaps of wonderful things in this stocking so go and have a peak, there's sure to be someting there to interest you. Me, I'm loving a sweet little cardi knitted by a clever sis of mine and modelled by a sweet little boy...who's dressed in the prettiest dress rofl. Nice one tik!

More spaces can be found over at kootoyoo

pumpkin stories

Isn't it funny the things children are told about where babies come from? I was thinking this today as I uploaded these photos. I don't really "get" why someone would tell these sort of stories, I mean really, babies from pumpkin's? Brought by storks? We try to tell our kids the true story, although I must admit we do go along with Santa, easter bunny and fairies are very big here too. However, I'm not sure how much they really understand, particularly since Asher tells me he has an egg in his tummy and a tadpole is going to turn it into a boy baby and it's going to hatch any time now! hmmmm might have to clear that one up.

And the reason for all this talk is of course because we are expecting another little hatchling into our little family. Yep another bubba, nearly four months along now and I'm already looking like I've over-indulged on easter eggs. Oh well, must start telling people, although it would be quite fun to keep them guessing and see who would be game to actually ask!

So I "could" use the pregnancy as the reason for my hiatus, but nah I've just been a slack blogger and had little mojo, also not too much craftiness happening to share. I've had a lovely big break from the pixies and polly dolly's but that is about to be broken. Busy busy stuffing legs for a little stocking soon, kep posted I'll tell ya where soon.
xxx

Rose

So this is my 3rd attempt at writing this post. My wee little Sage thinks it's a great game to hassle out Mumma whilst she's at the computer. Hell if Mumma can press those keys it must be fun and she wants to have a go, of course she hits the button that deletes my post or better yet turns the computer off. So what do I give her to distract her? Well the closest thing being my camera, which she preceds to bash on the ground and the lens come apart. Oh shite, well i really did want a new camera, but gosh I'm a dill. Anyway's to help me get new said camera why not pop over here and check out the latest offering. She'll go live tonight at 10 pm, a time at which destructor babes should be asleep.

* And a small ammendment to this post for those with their own little cloth bummed babes, the very awesomely talented Lesely from Cherub's kiss has a giveaway over on her blog. Go and check it out right here, her naps are a fav around here and very hard to get hold of, so go for it enter her giveaway..I did:)

my creative space

Intensely pink,isn't it! My creative space today consists of invite's for Miss Tully's 5th birthday and a bit of clip making. Of course Tully's favourite colour is pink and the more intense the better, whose isn't at that age?

I had planned on making the invite's with the gocco but after wasting 3 screens and 3 sets of bulbs, I realised the image wasn't carbon based and thus would not work, so I just printed them on the printer. The same printer that I've bought with the intention of using for gocco! derrrrr. Oh well, Tully doesn't care and I'm sure the invitee's won't care either....but i do!

The clips are for the local love stocking over on ozebaby. There's a few others up and going up today or tomorrow (depends if the baby who is attached to me and refuses to sleep by herself, will actually settle). Auctions that are up will be finishing today. Crazily there are a pair of tikki's awesome pants that have not even had a bid! Do you know how awesome these are!!! Quick go and bid on them now!



And this is my big soon to be 5 year old. She finished kindy yesterday and starts school after the holidays (weirdo SA schooling). Oh my goodnes they just grow way too fast! And yes, she does believe she's a princess, although she does want to grow up to be a fairy or a mermaid and thinks she should be going to mermaid school.

sneak peeks

So finally there's a couple of promo piccies up of the much talked about stocking tikki and i are having soon, very soon.



Mind you it's not everything, there's still more to come. Keep posted, it's gonna be ace!

tee's are up

I finally found some sunshine and the tee's are up and previewing now. They'll go live tomorrow night at 9pm. Polly Dolly is actually the sketch and inspiration behind the softie
polly dolly I made a couple of months ago. I still haven't found the time to try another version but hope to very soon.



I've made a range of sizes from 00 to 2 and have used up most of my stock of tee's. I won't be purchasing the brand I normally use due to some recent developments in the company, I don't really want to support them anymore. So I'm after some new tee's to use. I'd prefer fair trade and i'd love organic cotton as well but that may be dreaming as I would also love them to be very affordable and have a nice cut for little girls as well. Any suggestions?

I've been.....

to paradise...

Nah not really but that's what popped in to my head when I re-read my title. Oh my it's been a long day....... Anyhoooooooo I 've been...painting:D Should be packing but I'm not. Well I started packing but then I came across this box of blank tee's and then the paint and thought I'd have a quick dabble and come up with some stuff for the shop as it's been aggggges since I put any tee's up.

Tee's will go up for preview tomorrow some time if I can catch a ray of sunshine and then I'll put them live Friday night at 9pm. Yep a set stocking time (thanks Claire for your comment, not a pixie but they'll come;)).

Anyway back to packing......although those local love pixies are just sitting there waiting for me to get to them. Hmmm packing can wait:D

sweet

I'm not sure which is sweeter. The gorgeous little knot doll or that tiny little fist. awww I love em both. The knot doll was made by Donna from bits for bots. After seeing Toby with his I had to get one for Sage. I'm sure Sage will love it in a couple more weeks, she's growing so quickly! We now get the most heart warming smiles and gurgles. Haven't captured a smile on film yet but I'm trying. We do get lots of sleeping shots though. Here is the chubby faced little one hanging with me and the little artist boy. Asher was caught red handed, literally! His hands are thick with red paint.



Crafting has been a bit slow of late. I think I mentioned that in my previous post hey. I did make some crowns for the kids to wear to Lily's princess party but Lach was struck down by a bug or food poisoning, either way it was yucky and we couldn't go to the party.



We did catch up with Lily and she loved her crown as does Tully, Asher lovedit for about 5 mins and Sage, well she doesn't give a .... Silly me didn't get any shots of the kids wearing them though. I used this tutorial along with the instructions from the creative family.



You know how I promised pint pixie Florrie would be up for sale soon a while ago, well finally she's just about ready. You see I really want to buy this nappy and I don't really need it but it's cute and all that and we're moving house and have to save money for bond, so I can't really be spending money on sweet little nappies....but I really want it! So I'm getting my butt into gear and finishing off Florrie so I can justify buying. cool?



And here's a sneak peek at the next big thing tik and I are working on. See that ace fabric??? uh huh....local love.... keep tuned and hopefully they won't take to long to make a proper appearance. Lots of great local designers on cool tikki and pint stuff. Awesome +++

Oh and I'm a bit curious about stocking preferences. After seeing Lesley's poll I thought I'd ask, do you prefer random stockings or a set stocking time?

amber

Will be going up soon over here.

Florrie is still a few days off. She's taking her time:D

meri

Meri is up for auction over on the Victorian Bushfire Relief site at the moment. She's a bit of cutie if I do say so.

Her little friends Amber and Florrie will be going up over on Tikki's store sometime early next week so if you're after a little pixie to brighten up your world, make sure you don't miss the stocking:D

new

a new pixie......



and a new design. Both should be ready to go up in the shop tomorrow sometime. Only one lonely little pixie and about 9 tee's ranging from size 0 to 7. Then that may be it until after the bub....never say never though;)

Some more "new" things today...

a new journal. Nice and little to fit in the nappy bag, ready for inspiration to strike at anytime.



and new bargains for the new little bundle. I love 50 % off sales especially when it's stuff I've been wanting to buy for a while. Gorgeous pure baby newness. Oh and new bonds tee's (got some tik;)), I did say never say never didn't I:D



and new nappies....a fantastic, awesome, unreal, wonderful trade with a clever and creative Mumma. But these deserve there own post:D

where you came from

I just discovered this book today via "somebodies" blog but I can't for the life of me remember where. Seems my brain is as swollen as my feet.

It looks adorable and a perfect gift for the kids when bub arrives, so I quickly hunted it down and orderd a copy. Hopefully it arrives before the bub does.

I did want to post a pic from the web but can't seem to figure out how. Anyone wanna gives me some clues, told you I was a techno-phobe.

Man it's hot today. Hot and windy....not nice at all. I've just printed up a parliament of owls. I love that a group of owls has such a cool name! Had to goggle it mind you...I was thinking it was a jury. I tried to find somewhere to take shots of the tee's to pop up in the shop but the house is all dark as I'm trying to keep it cool and outside is sooooo windy. So maybe tomorrow a parliament of owls will appear in the shop

oh and no pictures in the post! I know...couldn't figure out linking from the web could I.. Oh dear my poor swollen brain

and the winner is.......

drum roll please :D



Lesley from Cherub's Kiss, Tully has drawn your name from the hat. Sorry no random number generator here, i'm too much of a techno-phobe. I'll be in touch to get your details Lesley:D Go check out lesley's blogs here and here. She's an awesome, awesome nappy maker and smocker extraoridinaire and makes a very mean cupcake:D

A big thank you to everyone who entered and left such lovely comments. It's great to see who's reading:D More owl tee's will be available along with some new designs in the next few weeks. Little Clara has gone off to a new home but has one friend still waiting for some finishing touches.

beside the seaside.....

We're squeezing in as much as we can before the bubba arrives at the moment. Figuring it may be some time before we can go bushcamping again we set off for the long weekend down to a pretty little spot near Port Macdonald. We'd been told there was quite a bit of a drive off-road to get to the spot, no worries, we have a 4wd and are used to having to travel a bit off road. ummm not when I'm 37 weeks pregnant!!! By gosh I thought that baby was going to make an early arrival! All's good though and we're back home with everyone still in their right places...might have to give it another go in a few more weeks though.

Anyway it was a lovely spot. Great camp sites, nice calm sheltered beach, pity about the young hoons who decided to camp there as well and celebrate aus day with much hooning around sand dunes, playing very loud music and partying all night and most of the next day. Sheesh! ahhh the serenity of bush camping. This is just why we usually avoid camping over public holidays. Better remember it next time....

We did have a lovely time beside the sleeplessness. The weather was perfect. The kids had a bit of a fish on the jetty with Lach. Both got to wind in their first fish. Tully caught three different species, which is apparently very impressive.



She also spent a bit of time chasing Mr.Percival around and wondering where "Thunder boy" was.



Whilst the little rednut avoids the water and particularly seaweed as much as possible. Loves the beach, the waves and weed freak him out though.



So there's a bit of bushcamping crossed off the list for the moment. I wonder how old the little one need be before we go again. I keep thinking maybe easter but the thought of the crowds/hoons out camping sure doesn't inspire much of a want to get back into nature.

oh and watch out for Clara over the next day or so. She'll be up in the shop soon:)

scarlett

Little scarlett here will be going up in the shop this arvo. She's sweet and sports a bit of a different hair do, the classic bob.

Thought I'd also share a pic of Asher in his new owl tee. Tully loves it that Asher has a tee "like hers". I love this green on him:D Don't forget toleave a message below if you would like a similar one for your own little one.




And lastly, Tully's photo for the day. There has been about 50 of them (20 of the bathroom plug) but this one I especially love.