Mission Impossible

Your mission should you choose to accept it is to take 2 children to the Remnant Warehouse Sale on a 35 degree day. This message will self destruct if you stop reading!

Yes I chose to accept. Of course it was crowded (although not as bad as their Marrickville closing down sale), I had Lucy in the pram and Charlotte wandering around. Do you know how hard it is to push a pram, and a dodgy one at that, while holding blots of fabric!

2 Amy Butler fabrics Denise Schmidt County Fair Cheaters Quilt fabric. I actually went for this and got the last 3 metres.
Didn't actually need that much but I am sure I will use it

So it was a quick fire mission today. I grabbed some fabrics I particularly wanted, including the last of the denim I love for more S-cargos. I managed to have a quick chat with a fellow agent and then we were gone.

Heather Bailey (Charlotte picked this for a Christmas dress)

Some more D & J panels

Last night I popped into the Finders Keeps market. There were lots of people around but I did manage to pick up the Frankie Afternoon Tea book. I have been eyeing it off on the web for ages but I like to look at cook books before I buy them.

Lots Happening

There seems to be so many things happening lately it's doing my head in. Today was Lucy's play group Christmas party. My brother was Santa and the kids all had a great time chatting to Santa and telling him what they want for Christmas.

This week we have also had Lucy's child care Christmas party, Lucy happily played in the sand pit all night and Charlotte ran around with some other girls from school who were there.

Since the Mathilda's Market I have had a couple of orders to do. The first one is a larger version of the Traveller. I made a few smaller ones of these for the market and they sold like hotcakes. I am hoping to have some more in the shop soon. The small version has a pocket Moleskin notebook and 4 pencils. They are great in your bag when you need to keep the kids quiet. You can also put pens in and keep them for yourself. They were based on something I made for Ingrid's kids in last year EB Secret Santa Swap.

These photos have caused so much hassle so sorry they are small. For some reason they are huge and I had to adjust them in photoshop

I've also got some S-cargo's to make too.

And finally if you live in Melbourne you will soon be able to buy some of my things in person. The lovely Gale from The Local Shop in Northcote will be stocking some S-cargos and some scrabble tile pendants very, very soon. So if you are in the area pop in and check the shop out. (262 High St).

I nearly forgot look what arrived in the mail yesterday.

Next week is a busy one including a concert (don't all laugh Jeff and Charlotte love him, I'm just tagging along for the ride)

Secret Package

My secret package from last week has arrived at it's destination.

Yes last week's package was the prize for Blogtoberfest and it finally arrived at Juddie's.

This is what I sent her

An Amy Butler SwingBag

It's reversible

Some ribbon

And some twine

A scrabble tile pendant

Hopefully she liked it

Christmas Parade

We took the girls to Christmas Parade in the city yesterday. We must have gotten their earlier than last year because we got a great spot near the start. I don't think there were as many floats as last year but the kids still enjoyed it.

Playing along with Kootoyoo

This one's for you Kirsty

Still feeling totally inspired by the handmade issue of mankind mag from my favourite design blog.
Q What is the blog author's first name? ANSWER: Erin
use the first letter - LETTER: E

We like to keep lunch casual, I've found some fabulous BBQ recipes for the big day.
Q What type of meat is pictured on the rotisserie? ANSWER: Lamb
use the first letter - LETTER: L

Getting some great ideas for upcycling (my favourite craft) & enjoying the revamp over at this fabulous craft website.
Q They list everyone's favourite Portland based author mama as one of their inspirational sites. Which Portland based author mama is she? ANSWER: Amanda Blake-Soule
use the second letter of her last name - LETTER: O

Looking forward to being able to buy handmade at the shopping shindig with the craft book Queen.
Q What type of car is pictured? ANSWER: VW
use the first letter - LETTER: V

All these letters unscramble to reveal:
WHAT? is all you need. LOVE

On my fridge

I've decided to play along with Amy's on my fridge but I'm not sure I really want to show you my fridge because it's not as neat as Amy's.

There's lots of kid related stuff - party invites, Charlotte's news schedule for school, old receipts, photos, Lucy's child care Christmas party invite, Kindy mum's night out invite, drawings, word whammer and lots of stuff hiding in the next layer.

I really should tidy it up.

And a sneak peek of a parcel going off to the post office tomorrow.

Good Food Affare

On Friday my mum, Lucy and I headed off to the Good Food Affare after dropping Charlotte at school. Luckily we got there early as I don't think the stall holders were anticipating so many people on Friday. We wandered around as we usually do planning to come back and buy just before we left but lots of things we wanted had sold out by 11.30am, no pies, no strawberries, no peaches so that was a bit disappointing.

The had an old carousel so Lucy had a couple of goes on that which she loved.

We tried to have devonshire tea at the Country Women's Association but they had run out of scones and cream by 10.30 and were busy trying to make more and find some cream. Their cupcakes were good though. We left at 12 and the crowds were huge, definitely not easy to push a pram through.
It was a great event though and we would definitely go back.

Amy Butler

Last night Ingrid and I, along with a lot of other crafty ladies (and we definitely need name tags with blogs on them) went to see Amy Butler at the Sofitel Wentworth. After champagne and canapes, which were very much needed after my traffic ordeal getting there, we all went in to hear Amy speak.
Amy was very interesting and down to earth and spoke about her designs, her processes and her inspiration. She showed a great slide show of her home, life, travels, new work space and more.
Afterwards she had books, patterns and fabric for sale and she did signings. I bought some fabric so had to get her to sign one of the free patterns we were given in our goodie bags.

It was a great night and a big thanks to Living Creatively for organising it.

P.S. Ingrid too these shots on my camera, thanks Ingrid

Shop Update

I've finally updated my Made It shop. Please stop by and have a look

Gone Shopping

The market is over and it went very well. Thanks for all the good luck vibes. Ingrid and I wonderful day, we were so busy for the first 2 hours then things quietened down a little and we were able to chat with some blogging friends and some real life friends who popped in to say hello.

Here are some photos of our stall. There is more photos on Ingrid's blog and also over at my flickr

I have to say a big THANK YOU to Ingrid for making it a great day out.

And lastly a photo of the cake I made for Lucy's birthday. I saw it on someone's blog (sorry I can't remember which one) and thought it was a great idea.

Two

I can't believe it's been two years since you were this little bundle. Now you are 2!

You are:
loving
firey (it must be the red hair)
tight with kisses and cuddles
bossy
a dancera talker
a little sister
curious (just like George, your favourite movie)
always hungry
beautiful

Happy Birthday my darling

For Kootoyoo

My answer is Cam (Curlypops)

So much to do, so little time

The market is fast approaching and my head seems to be swirling with things to do and remember. To take my mind off it my VIP package from Amitie arrived today and I am so in love.It's from the Joel Dewberry Ginseng Range and it is devine. It's home decorator weight so I am thinking it is destined to be a bag or maybe a cushion.

I forgot to show you some ribbons I picked up wholesale last Friday. They are from Vandoros.

Now back on to the market. In case you can't be bothered to click the link it is on this Sunday from 9am to 1pm at St Ignatius' College Riverside, Tambourine Bay Rd Lane Cove. I will be there with the lovely Ingrid, so make sure you pop by and say hello if you are in the area.

I've been making some gift tags and envelopes for the market from damaged vintage books and I have been wondering what to do with the covers. So I decided to make some wall hangings so I'll have those on Sunday just to see how they go.

Now for all my lovely blog readers if you do pop by on Sunday make sure you mention that you read the blog and you'll receive a lovely gift with purchases over $20

It's Lucy's birthday on Sunday (bad mummy will be at the market) so we are celebrating on Saturday so I will try and do a post about my baby then.

Please Don't Enter

Dana is giving away another quilt (ok well not just one quilt but THREE!) but you can't enter because I really, really want to win. This is my favourite but I will happily take any of the three.

So remember go over check out the quilts but DO NOT ENTER so I can win.

More Doll Quilts

Just thought I'd better show you what I did for the swap. My partner was Meika and I sent one for each of her girls even though her littlest is too little at the moment.

First up I made this Holly Hobby "Daisy Chain". I used some Amy Butler squares I got from Etsy and a Holly Hobby applique. I quilted inside each square in a little daisy stitch in a circle.

The second one I used some vintage Peter Rabbit fabric (I still have some left that I am saving for a special little project), I just quilted around each individual picture in kind of a vine stitch. I backed this one with some fabric with little tomatoes on it (very appropriate for rabbits I think)