Vintage Sheet Lovliness

Thanks so much Ange for organising the MOST wonderful swap.
Here's what I got in return for the vintage sheet fat quarters I sent for the swap and I love every one of them !
Next time you see a swap happening in blog land, Have a think about getting involved, It's so lovely to receive a gorgeous package in the mail and it's not hard to send something off either!

sweat shop mumma

Yep thats me !

My SIL always asks if I have been busy in my sweat shop, well I wasn't sweating thats for sure but I spent a good chunk of the day in there today, ( actually it was freezing in SE QLD today let me tell you ! )

Also finished off a run of 45 heat packs wahoo!!

I am still here!

Just thought I might pop in to say Hi and to let you know that I will be back soon.
I have been having some creative thoughts, so that is a good sign...yes...?

For all you lovely bloggers, I have been reading your blogs when I can.
I'm not sure if you are wondering whats happened to bubba, but I can tell you that getting back to blogging and sewing will start to happen this week.
You see, my dad passed away on 9th July after being diagnosed and admitted to hospital 16 days previously. The whole family was by his side and I guess it is a blessing that he wasn't in pain for very long. It still doesnt seem real, any way, I have been travelling quite a lot to help mum out, having family stay, etc etc etc.

Talk to you soon X

AWOL

Hi everyone, Just thought I'd drop by to let you know I wont be as active for the next undetermined time cos my dad is very sick and I need to spend as much time as I can with him and mum. I have been with him everyday now since last Wednesday and although I have been reading some blogs every night, I haven't been doing any bubba stuff to post about.
I have been dropping in to facebook, but that also has taken a back seat.
I'll catch up with you all when I can.
Keep creating and will talk to you soon.
Miriam X
aka mumma bubba

The Handmade Expo Market

I have been spending as much time as possible in my studio preparing for The Handmade Expo Market this saturday.
Stocking up on ECO Cloths,
Heat Packs and Hobo Pants.

You can find details for the market here and here too.

Excitement is building for this market ( held monthly ) as each month we grow with new stallholders, making beautiful handmade goods.

We have some great foodies coming this month too, you can practically have a three course meal and drinks!

The Pioneer Steam Train will be running again through out the market for short trip of approx. half an hour at reduced fares for market goers.

If you live in South East Queensland and love handmade, then this is the place to be on Saturday.

Like us on Face book, come to the market, mention Facebook to bubbachenille or Handmade Heaven and go into the draw to win a voucher to spend at The Handmade Expo market.

A Little Curious ?

The lovely Maleena from Curiouser and Curiouser has a quick interview of moi on her blog.
She is very generous of her promotion of Handmadies and is much appreciated.
Maleena is throwing caution to the wind in a couple of weeks and packing up her family and taking them off to Florence, Italy for three months.
I am soooo jealous and really want to go too....
You can follow her adventures here.
Thanks Maleena. X

Washing Macines DO eat socks and I have proof..

Recently, after helping my daughter with the folding, it frustrated me when there were so many un partenered socks at the end of the job.

She then produce a shoe box full of lots more unpartenered socks collected, I would say over maybe a two year period ! She says it just happens ! It never happened to me, Oh well, I sifted through them all and paired up what I could, but we still had lots of odd ones left over!

Today I was pulling washing out of the machine, and guess what happened ? The machine literally ATE a sock! Yep as I was pulling the clothes out, putting them into the basket, one tiny grandbabys sock jumped up and dove down behind the bowl. Well really it didn't dive, it was eaten by the machine. Luckily Mr bubba was able to tip the machine over, scrounge around with his hand to find it resting in the innards of the machine ! Heaven forbid I should ever lose a sock !

So machines do really eat socks !

This is how interesting my long weekend was after the 3 Grandchildren went home after their sleepover!

Thanks Lindsay for the use of your photo, lindsayjanedesigns.blogspot.com

My Creative Space

I thought I'd give My Creative Space a go this week as I have been busting to tell you about my new pants...well not MY new pants but the ones I'm making for little boys.



After some discussion with Kylie we decided the name of these pants from here on in shall be known as the HOBO pants.



When I was going to a patchwork and quilting group a few years ago, you need hand work to do whilst chatting away with your table mates.



So I started making one inch finished squares on papers and sewing them together and making nine patches.



The theme of my quilt was going to be tartans, stripes and checks, they could be woven or printed fabric, I didn't care as long as it was cotton. People would give me bits and pieces from their stash all the time ! You see they could really give me their scraps because I was the crazy woman cutting up tiny squares.



Well short story long I have heaps and heaps of these squares and really wanted to use them,I knew I wasn't going to ever get to that quilt, so I thought about how I could use them in my work today.







I wanted something different too that I knew no one else could possibly ever have, to embellish my vintage chenille pants...



So I offer you the HOBO pants for my creative space and will try to do it again next week too!



Why not pop over to Kirstys and look at all the really creative people.

Clever People Challenge

A while ago I won a spot in a challenge run by Handmade Kids.
It was called the Clever People Challenge, even though I dont really feel very clever.
Now that all the "clever people" have been revealed all the items made are up for a silent auction to raise money for a very worthy cause.
I'd love it if you could go and check out Handmade Kids blog and if you love something put in a bid.
You never know, everyone bidding has a chance to take something unique home.

Making signs

Yesterday we made this new sign to promote our next Handmade Expo Market on Sat 26th June.

It was a lot of fun sharing it with Micky who usually works on sign day!

We couldn't let the opportunity go by without some record of the event.

Thanks for helping Micky X O