I'm Back - What I'm up to

I know it's been a while and there has been so much that has happened since I last blogged. Christmas, Brisbane flooded, my son started high school, there was a death in the family, I returned to TAFE, ticked of  couple of my day zero goals and we also have some very exciting news that I'm going to share with you all very soon.

So today I'm going to share with you all what I have been working on 

As some of you might remember we are currently making over my sons bedroom, if you didn't catch that post you can read about it here. Over the holidays I spotted a crochet rug on a website (I cant remember where, oops) my son loved it and wanted one like it for his new room. So here is my work in progress.  

It was only about 50cm across here and has grown since I took this pic. I'm making it using 180cm wide stretch jersey knit that I got from J.J's at Redcliffe for only $4 a mitre cut into strips and sewn together to make a very long cord. I don't have a pattern so I'm just winging it, I have had to undo a couple of rows a couple of times but I think I'm onto a formula now that is working.

Stay tuned for follow up pics, I will also be blogging some of the things that have happened since I last blogged.

A Change of Face

I have had this chest of draws knocking around my home for the last at least 8 years but I have never been happy with them. They started off being plain wood which I dont like so I decided to paint them but the colour was just not right either. So for over a year or more they have been moved from room to room until we could find the time to once again make them over. So with this being the holidays for getting things finished and fixed up we picked up the supplies.

Here is the little man sanding away.

I think that this time we might have got it right.

We are going to be painting it in a colour called Preschool Half. Which gave us both a chuckle considering what I'm studying at the moment. We are also going to change the draw pulls to these beautiful brushed silver mushroom ones.

I will post pics once the chest of draws has been painted.

What I'm up to......

What a crazy couple of weeks its been for us. With the end of term at TAFE I was like a mad woman trying to catch up on all the assignments that I had missed during to the term due to being sick a couple of times during the term. I managed to get them all finished which was a miracle in it self as I got sick again and was running a temp for the last week. but that is all over now, time for relaxing and creating.
Yesterday after my last class of the term we headed of to Lincraft to pick up supplies for the holidays. Over the last month I have been gathering together a nice stash of chenille for a rag quilt. So yesterday I picked up some cute flannel fabric for the back and some bamboo batting. With any luck by the end of the holidays I will have a beautiful single bed size rag quilt.

I have slowly been cutting out the chenille in between assignments, I found it really relaxing.

So stay tuned for updates as the quilt starts to grow.

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Suitcase Rummage and Other things

Last Sunday Dion and I set off to King George Square to The Suitcase Rummage.

This was the view from our spot.

Here's Dion with all our goodies.

I have been working on a brooch idea for a little while now and I was able to get some made just in time for the suitcase rummage.

They are now in my madeit shop

Meet the new addition to our family

Sparky. My son picked out the name, I wanted to call it Juice as in orange juice.

What I'm up to....

I just had to share with you all these lovely fabrics that have arrived in the last couple of days.

So far I cant bring myself to cut them because they are so beautiful but that is going to have to change. With any hope I will have some good sun tomorrow so I can take photos of some more headbands. I will also be working on a new product the end of this week, so all going well I will have it in the shop by the end of the weekend.

What I'm up to...............

OK so I will admit it, I really dont like op shops. Lots of my clothes as a child came from them but I haven't ventured into them since.
Today while out I mentioned to my Gran could she keep an eye out for any great looking fabric if she ever goes in an op shop. Well later on while I was in the post office she popped into the local ADRA shop and spotted something but Gran being Gran didn't know if it was right. I went back and had a look and its fantastic. And for only $3.00.

I will now not be walking past my local op shop. I hope I can come across more great finds like this.

What I'm up to..........

With my first sale this year, I realised that I am down to only 2 headbands. Oh no, dont know how that happened. So I am making some more with some new and wonderful designs.

I have also been trying to get myself back into drawing and painting. At the moment I have been working on this little guy, he still needs some colour but this will have to wait until the weekend when I can paint for the whole day. I really love working with inks so I cant wait.

When this little guy is finished he is going to look really cute on notebooks.


I'm going out on Thursday to gather more supplies, so I plan on having a very inspired weekend.


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Shop News..............

My new pencil rolls and travel pencil rolls are now on both my Madeit and Etsy shops.

Coming very soon is Water Colour Pencil Rolls, made with an extra slot to hold a couple of paint brushes.