Congratulations

A massive congrats to my daughter, Liesa who won Retailer of the year in Ipswich on Friday night for her shop Handmade Heaven.

Well done and you deserve it! Love you X O

Nearly Ready for The Handmade Expo Market Saturday

This morning I have been very productive, finishing off a few skirts and pants from a big sew up yesterday.

My rack floweth over!

Lots of new spring colours in little girls vintage chenille skirts sizes 1 - 4 and lots of boy colours in pants, sizes 0 - 5.

I have a little time left today before I have to start packing up the car for Saturdays Handmade Expo Market, I think I'll put some of those creative ideas into action and start cutting out some new things for next weeks sewing.

Melbourne Here I Come ( hopefully here we come ! )

I am heading to Melbourne Dec/Jan for 9 nights ( girl holiday only, trying to get Liesa and Micky to join me for a couple of days too ) and I am hoping to meet some blogging buddies for lunch one day, in the city maybe ?( thats where I am staying and I think it would be so much fun ) Interested ?Please leave me a comment and I'll make a list !
I am also starting a list..TONIGHT of totally un missable events, fabric shops, markets and handmade related places ( cos thats my passion other than food ! )
If you have some of the above that I simply must add to my list could you please either email me or leave a comment.
Dont forget I'd love to meet you if you're around!

Look where I went today!

I have been hanging out to go here and I wasn't dissappointed ! I even managed to feed my shoe fettish! Thanks Simone, It was so nice to meet you ( again! ) and your sister also. Congrats on a shop that is just plain gorgeous and I cant wait to re visit. Can you believe that ? I just got home!

Oh and P.S
If you are going, there are no road signs to Bulimba !
Follow signs to Hawthorne.
Or you know what else you could do ?
Take the GPS that your hubby got for Fathers Day but wanted to wait to install until he had read the instructions ( which BTW we know that will never hapen!) That way you could go straight there, instead of leaving Hamilton at 2.15 pm and arriving at Bulimba at 3.45pm.

Here is a link to this Just Plain Gorgeous Shop click here

Garden and sewing update

Well my garden is starting to come along with the structural help from Mr bubba!

I cant believe how well everything is doing,

We'll be reaping the rewards soon !

Just about all my seeds are up and the seedlings I planted have taken off too.

Following on from the cowboy pants I made, I have made these in chenille.

I popped 5 pairs on Facebook to show all the size 3 lovers and 2 have found new homes already.

Back to the drawing board, I had a huge cutting out day on Tuesday, concentrating on boy colours in pants and much more in the girly skirts too.

Lovely bright colours for summer dont you think ?

Gotcha holster ? gotcha cowboy hat?

Cos I got ya cowby pants!

Especially for Brisstyle Market

I have made these especially for the brisstyle market this Saturday, I wonder if anyone will make one of them a new home ?

Here's the details for this Saturdays fun !

This Saturday

Hope you are coming to this awesome Market on Saturday..
Stay tuned for some pics of a new design I will have for sale on Saturday. I hope to have enough to photograph and take with me..something different !

New Fabric

I got these new fabrics from the states today and I am ready to create something new !



I just need some time and inspiration, but at least they'll be waiting for me when the time comes!

More lovely Pictures from the market

The Lovely Linda sent me some more lovely pics from The Handmade Expo Market on Saturday.
It was such a glorious sunny day we couldn't have wished for a better one !

Justine from Trumans Flowers had her debut on Saturday and has the most gorgeous arrangements as well as really reasonably prices bunches ( from as little as $5 )

Boxes and boxes of these delicious little cupcakes, given to the first 500 lovely people who came in through the gate.

Liesa, Micky and I the lucky ones to hand out the cup cakes, very cold morning!

Did I mention we all had a great day! Cant wait until the next one on Saturday 18th September.

If you are interested in having a stall or know someone who might be, then all they have to do is to hop on The Handmade Expo Market blog where you will find all the guidelines and application form.

The Handmade Expo Market is also having fun on Facebook if you'd prefer to contact us there.