October 21st, 2008
I am currently over in Adelaide because my younger cousin Scott got married to his gorgeous (now) wife Jo last weekend. The wedding was really beautiful, so unique and personal. Jo’s parents did a fabulous job with the reception and my Aunty did a wonderful job with the invitations, order of service and place cards (and more!).
This was both Kezi and Luci’s first wedding. Kezi had the time of her life! Scott and Jo thought of so many details including a great little corner just for the kids with a little bag of goodies for each child. They had their own little plates and treats and toys to play with. Keziah however played there for a while but then spent the rest of the wedding wandering around saying hello to people, dancing, dancing, dancing and eating! She had such a fun day and was even holding hands, chasing and kissing the other little boys there!
My Mum looked after Lucinda for the most part and little Luci slept most of the time. I spent most of the wedding following Kezi around stopping her going off after the family dogs and getting into the sun (she has such fair skin and it was quite hot - around 30C I think). Here are a handful of pics from the day, congratulations Scott and Jo, what a gorgeous wedding!
October 19th, 2008
I had a fun custom order last week for Liza of Lillybuds including butterflies, roses, cupccakes, lemon meringue pies and fawns. She ordered these little things for her button bouquets a little bit before I left for our trip over here in Adelaide so I had to work hard to complete it in time. I was pretty happy with the end result and Liza is too (which is more important!). Take a peek!
I enjoyed making the little fawns as fiddly as they were and am really pleased with them. It was too tempting of course to put them in little scenes when taking photos!
October 12th, 2008
When we moved into this house Michael painted Keziah’s room in the two colours I have been planning on using, vintage green and light pink. My aim is to do a shabby chic style throughout her room. Well, finally she has more than just pink and green walls, she now has a doona to match!
Mum and I worked hard all week and sewed her a gorgeous doona cover and it really sets the walls off nicely. Next will be some curtains and I might make her a couple of little cushions to match with the left over fabric. We were very pleased with ourselves and so glad that we got to the end of the project in a couple of days!
Laying it out.
October 10th, 2008
This weeks PF theme is ‘Athletic’ and I had to find a way to work this pic to the theme, too funny!
Welcome to the snail athletics - this is the paper eating competition. Guess who’s winning. : )
October 7th, 2008
Today I found out that I have been accepted to sell my wares at the upcoming Made On The Left Market. The market is run by some of my Etsy WA friends and its so exciting to see this market take off so well. The first one back in July was a real hit!
The details of the market are:
Made On The Left Market
The Made On The Left market will feature a wide array of Western Australian handmade art, jewellery, clothing and more. This is the perfect place to pick up pre-Christmas gifts, fantastic fashions and treasures from local makers.
Made on the Left Designer Market
10am – 4pm
Saturday November 15 2008
Hyde Park Hotel
331 Bulwer St North Perth
I have been making things like crazy for three months now (basically since Lucinda was born) and today I did a stocktake to see where I’m up to. Not including those things that I put on the stall from my online shops (150 items in all) I have:
Barrettes (hair clips) - 5
Necklaces - 24
Single Pendants - 40
Sets - 6
Earrings - 60
Bracelets - 5
Tins - 1
Keychains - 5
Phone Charms - 6
Rings - 15
Cards of Buttons - 7
Brooches - 6
Bookmarks - 12
Magnets - 16
Tea Light Candle Sets (of 2) - 6
Small Bowls - 2
A total of 216 items. This does not include the jar of beads I’ll be bringing to sell off at 50c a piece and the other loose beads I’m selling off at $1 each etc…
As you can see I have a lot of earrings and pendants. When I add the things from my online shops to the range the number of Necklaces more than doubles. I worked out my pricing today and I won’t be making anything else for the market as I go off to Adelaide in a week and have a couple of custom orders to fill before that.
I hope I have enough items to fill the table as they are small so can tend to shrink into the space.
I also decided to continue with giving my profits to SIM but I also may go 50/50 and put aside half for my girls just on this occasion. Here’s a few other of my items that I photographed this week:
October 6th, 2008
I’ve been very busy continuing to build up my stock for the upcoming Melville Baptist Fete and Made On The Left market. I have been trying to turn my focus to less jewellery items to give me a lot more range. I’ve added more tea light candle holders, bookmarks, brooches, hair accessories and magnets.
Before you take a peek at the new items can I ask if you would click on this link and do a little survey for me. It’s in regards to my pricing. Pricing is something I’m not particularly confident in so all feedback would be greatly appreciated. The link is:
Survey for Polyclarific
So, here are the new items, thanks for any feedback:
October 3rd, 2008
Yesterday we went to the show and it was a fun day out. Michael is about to take off overseas and interstate for three weeks so we wanted to have a great family day before he went. Keziah had a really great time. She got to ride a pony, go on the spinning teacups (with me who also thought that was a lot of fun), pat lots and lots of different animals, see the cars in the main arena at lunch time and more! Keziah even got to record herself singing Bananas in PJ’s in the ABC Kids caravan and we got it on CD for free. Its very cute watching her sing into the mike.
We didn’t buy many show bags, just the usual sample type ones and a Bertie Beetle one for Kezi. I’m not much of a show bag person, they always look good till you get them home and realise that everything in them are cheap and nasty and that the lollies all got eaten on the way home. We were even clever this time and brought our lunch and snacks with us. It was a lot of fun as you can see from the photos, great memories!
These three photos were taken by my Dad, love that car one, what a great shot! You beauty Dad!
October 1st, 2008
I have been reading and watching other people sew out here in ‘internet land’ for quite a while and only now am I starting to really feel a bit more confident in what I’ve been doing. A couple of weeks ago I got the sewing machine out again for the first time in over a year and made Kezi a couple of skirts. My plan was to make a third when I thought I’d try something different and this time with no help. I figure I need to be able to sew things on my own otherwise what’s the point of having a machine!
Here are this week’s results. I made Keziah three pairs of shorts using a basic pattern, it did take me an hour just to work out what to do and to unpick attempt #1. Took me three hours to make three pairs but I think I’d be much quicker next time:
I was convinced that they’d be too big or baggy but they fit her perfectly and she really loves them (the cherries seem to be the frontrunner).
Then last night I tried something different. I got a pattern for a pinafore style dress and did a lining for it using a contrasting colour fabric. I figured out how to do it as I went and even managed to put in the zip. I didn’t follow the instructions at all and it turned out really great.
I think the more I do it the less stressful it will become. I nearly gave up on those shorts on Sunday night but I was determined to work out what the ’sewing language’ meant.
September 30th, 2008
My very good friend Simon returned from his trip to Peru with a big bag of Peruvian ceramic hand painted beads for me this week. You have officially climbed to the top of the totem pole : )
September 27th, 2008
The last week was quite busy and yet I have no idea what I actually did. I suppose the easiest way to figure it out is to look back over some of the photos I took. Of course I’m pretty sure that there was a lot more that I did besides what is shown below including shopping for a dress for my cousin’s wedding, watching Project Runway in the middle of the night (while feeding Lucinda) and losing my wallet sometime between yesterday and today!
Firstly we had a fair bit of ‘playing with the new (birthday) toys’ time:
I did a custom order:
Lots of Luci cuddling and playing:
A massive pile of washing:
We had some friends over:
Kezi did some painting:
and I created some tea light candle holders:
and finally, some mucking around:
I do wonder what this week will show when I look at my photos. I have a busy week including going out to tea, having friends over for lunch, enjoying the company of another Etsy seller and going to the Royal show!! Sounds very busy.
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