Gotta love pressies!

A wee while ago the lovely Apryl from Merdian Ariel organised a vintage swap and I was lucky enough to get get her as my partner.
Here is part of my present I received,an original painting from the lady herself.
I love it,it's on the wall above my sewing machine.
Check out her etsy shop,she has to die for jewellery too.
Pictured here too is a gift for our little friend,Simeon,who turned 2 last week. I don't usually do boy's clothes,so I'm glad it was well received,he looks super cute in it.
I've been feeling a bit like I can't be arsed with stuff at the mo,here in Sydney it's been raining for 2 1/2 weeks,nothing for some,big deal for moi,were are you Mr Sunshine???I promise I'll never take you for granted again.....

Dolly Birds

Ow!I have a headache.
When I woke up this morning I decided to list these 2 dolly birds on my etsy shop.
Little did I know it would take me 1 1/2 hours to take the photographs.
Wow!These little babies are hard to take.
Time for a cuppa,me thinks!

Domestic Goddess' and Mail Bliss

When Mairi was born I was over the moon to have a healthy baby and I had secretly wished for a little girl,I got my wish but I was determined to bring her up free form gender stereotypes.
But come 18 months old,she really did seem to prefer baby dolls was interested in social happenings and domestic stuff more so than anything else.
When Skye came along it happened for her even earlier I saw her at 10 months old nursing and playing with babies.
I guess the point is, before I had children(and my experience only being girls thus far)I would of never imagined posing for a picture like this,but the more I get into this game(motherhood and housewivery)I realise that it's a really important job we do and more so in my experience something fundamental to being a female whether we are mothers or not is the need to nurture.Whether it's looking after our children,partners,friends and/or animals.
So why not look spunky while we are at it!
Wow!That was a deep paragraph to show off the little pinny I found for Skye at the oppy.
Don't we look great?



Also received some lovely mail this week,some Ottobre mag back issues(they really are fab check them out)and a book 'The Kept Man'by Jami Attenberg from Nikkishell,which she sent to me after I commented on her review of the book on her blog.Thanks Nichola!

Etsy Shop

The girls and I have headed north to Newcastle to visit Grandma and Poppa for the Easter break.

Today-all it did was rain.The kid's were whingy.

The good news is,I have finally set up my banner and everything for my etsy shop.I even managed to put something in it.

Bootyful Blue puddy Cat for sale.

Yay!

Left and other images at home so will update more items after Easter break.

Stay tuned

Happy Easter,I think I've hit my chocolate limit already.

Enjoy!

Bunting

Here is the bunting that I started a few weeks ago.I'm loving that it is finished.Before(pre-blog)life it would of undoubtedly been pushed aside for some reason or other.But,because I posted that I was making it ,I made a commitment to show it off. Love that! I'm becoming quite productive.Thanks,Blog!

I found this blog,Syko, today.Beautiful work. Just stunning! I love the little art quilts. Check out her flickr page too.

Buddy Bag sewn by Mairi

Mairi's bag is finished,with a little help from mum.
It's a little tote with a hand embroidered love heart.
Mairi had the idea to create this for her buddy,Jai at big school.Now it's finished she's to scared to give it to her.She's wants me to ask Jai's mum for her address so we can pop it in the post.Oh..the social intricacies of big school!
Well done,little one,you did a great job!

Mairi's library bag

Back from the brink,finally,I hate being sick.

We've all had bad colds in our house and mystery 24 hour viruses.Yuk!

Anyway,we have finally finished Mairi's library bag,I'm very proud of it,although it hasn't photographed very well.

We had such fun making it together.