*gasp!* Amy Butler now does wallpaper!!!

Oh my!! I'm sooo excited! Amy Butler has brought out wallpaper!!!

I've been wanting to do a little freshen up of both my lounge room and my bedroom and have been looking around for some wallpaper to go on 2 walls for ages. I haven't found anything that I've liked, but now I have!

My bedroom makeover is going to feature blue I think. I want to make a quilt for our bed, pop a chandlier up and put wallpaper on one wall.

In the lounge room, we have a small wall behind our tv that is currently painted burgundy. We are ready for a change and I'd love to just have one wallpapered wall in our living area.

Now... which ones to pick????

Sunday Citar

Now that it's the last month of winter, I am getting excited about spring coming very soon! Yay!! I LOVE the sunshine and warmth and am ready for the cold weather to end. I love watching the flowers starting to bloom and hanging out with my boys outside.

My hubby took this lovely pic of a beautiful flower and now I'm really ready for spring!

Earth laughs in flowers. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us. ~Iris Murdoch

If you've never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom. ~Terri Guillemets


For more quotes and pictures, go to Tabitha's blog here :)

Happy Sunday!

I've been featured!!

I'm excited to say that today, Melinda over at Here we go Loopy Lou featured me today in her new regular segment, Monday Mention.

It was so lovely to see a blog post all about me! How exciting!!

To read the post, go here. :)

My Creative Space

This week I was lucky enough to have one WHOLE day to myself. Yes. A whole day. Wow! I  had to decide between sleeping or sewing... and what do you think I chose? I'll give you a hint... my eyes were not closed!

I put on girly movies (The Princess Bride and Legally Blonde) and sewed away to my heart's content. Without interuption. What bliss! I made the shells of 20 tote bags for my next market. 20! I felt such achievement for that day. And very relaxed.

Here's some of the totes. They just need finishing and handles.

Also this week I've been making up mini yo yo clips. I made big ones for my last market and I had people comment that they'd love smaller ones. So, I've been making some up and I really like them.

For more creative spaces this lovely Thursday, head over here :)

Sunday Citar

I realised yesterday that we haven't taken a picture of Luke in his cot and he is 15 months old! So last night after his bath we popped him in his cot to try to take a picture of him. Well. It took a while, but we got it! And I love it :)

"May your life be filled with beautiful sunsets, great waves and sand between your toes."

- Chere Nordstrand
 
For more quotes on this lovely Sunday, head over to Tabitha's blog here :)

Fabric order done!

Seeing as I've made it through most of the large pieces in my fabric stash (yes, I KNOW!?! How did that happen??) I have needed to do a fabric order.

Sounds easy, right?? Wrong! I have been trying to do this order for over a week now.

Things would go into my cart. Out of my cart. I changed stores. Changed back. I was dreaming of fabric. Thinking of fabric. Talking about fabric. And it's enough! ARGH!

I have, as of 2 minutes ago, when I should have been in bed, finally completed my fabric order. And it feels good!

I needed fabric for more of my bag bags that I make and needed fabric for more bunting flags for markets coming up and to list on my online stores.

Thanks to Hawthorne Threads my order is complete. Now starts the waiting game. Waiting for Mr Postman :)

Here's a few of the fabrics I ordered

Sunday Citar

Oh! Sunday Citar! I've missed playing along with Sunday Citar. It's time to jump back in there.





Last night, my husband took some pictures of me with my youngest, Luke, after his bath. It wasn't planned, and the pictures are some of my favourites of me and my boy.

My quote this week is

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. ~Stacia Tauscher


I like it because sometimes I find I focus too much on what's going to happen in the future for my kids that I don't enjoy who they are NOW. Need to remember that they are little people now, as well as in the future :)
Pop over here for more quotes and pictures.

My Creative Space

Morning!

In my creative space today, I thought that I would be writing about working on my bag bags that I'm making for my next market stall.

Here they are cut out and ready to sew

But, we had a bit of a sewing emergency this morning. Mister 3 year old was playing with his Iggle Piggle and there was a disaster..... WHERE was Iggle Piggle's blanket???? Gone. We can't find it. So, Jack suggested that I "make Iggle one on your machine."

We rumaged through the fabric cupboard and Jack selected a train print flanelette.

We cut it out, pinned it together and did a quick sew on the sewing machine. And voila! Iggle Piggle has a new blanket.

And, you know what? I think his new blanket much nicer than his old, red, boring one!!

Have a great creative day :) Check out other creative spaces here

Time to make a bit more of a commitment to this poor old blog!

I miss my blog. I miss participating in the little bloggy activities like my creative space and Sunday Citar. I miss reading all the lovely blogs I follow.

Time to get back on the saddle... erm.. back on the.. keyboard? yes. Time to get back on the keyboard and do some typing.

But, for tonight, I'm off to my sewing machine. See you this Thursday for my creative space. I *will* participate this week!

 

I did it! My first market :)

You may have noticed I've been a bit quiet lately.... yes??? no??? Well, the reason for the quietness (whether noticed or not!) is because last night I had my first ever market stall. And it went so so well!

It was a fundraiser night at a local preschool, and local crafters had a variety of stores there. There were 10 stalls in total, which was a great number as I don't think anymore would have fit into the classroom where it was held. A great variety too.

I had for sale my hair accessories, tote bags, bag bags (for plastic bags or tea towels) and some bunting. I had lots of feedback about things that people wanted more of and they also gave me some great ideas for my next stall. (yep, I'm inspired to do it again!)

Here's a few pics

(this hanging thing that I hung the tote bags on was borrowed from the preschool. Must get my handy hubby to make me one!)

Me! A stall holder!! lol :)