A bit of pom pom

... and a crochet frill collar,

 black hearts,

and mustard trim boots.

These two have ended up being a bit too colour coordinated!

Let me know if you think the pom poms are too big!

Ta. xx

Pinning Hair

And doing a few haircuts with this new merino wool felt.

I've been trying to get back into face painting mode again.

Its been a while. And I always feel nervous starting up again.

We'll see how they turn out.

(the flat face always looks alot different from the stuffed face!)

*** check out this brilliant vid of some inspirational popcorn crochet! ***

More Creative Spaces are over here!

Squares

Granny squares!

This FANTASTIC fabric is by Cam ( Ms Curlypops )

We just had to make something straight away, as soon as this fabric arrived!

So the girls chose their favourite colour combos

 from the granny square collection.

Miss E stitched some brooch backings to some felt.

And carefully sewed the granny squares to another piece of felt.

Then fabric glued the two together

 to make each of us a fabulous Go Granny brooch!

Of course Miss G chose purple and orange - her faves,

and here she wears her brooch at an angle! Love it!

If you would like your own Go Granny fabric - pop over to Cam's shop here!

Items made from Cam's fabric can be seen in the flickr group here.

** Also - please read this post - Cam is on the lung transplant wait list -

and needs our help after receiving some disappointing news. **

Thank you.xx

My Creative Space - popcorn lampshade

My Creative Space looked like this at the beginning of the week.

(bit of a mess out of shot for sure)

I'm always looking out for wood lampshade bases at charity shops.

I got this one ages ago in New Zealand.

 Its been sat in a box for far too long.

So at 3am the other morning(during another bout of insomnia)

 I stitched the granny squares together and had a go at the popcorn stitch.

I got the hang of it - but it is much more difficult when you

 do one line of them ontop of another!

Anyway - so this is granny squares, a row of treble,

two rows of popcorn stitch and then two more rows of treble stitch.

I've stitched it together at the back,

 so it can be easily changed when the big girl gets sick of it!

I think it would look good completely covered with popcorn stitch now ...

More creative spaces here.x

Cushioning the landing

So we've landed in Queensland (well - drove 7 hours)!

I've eventually unpacked the sewing machines -

and with the rest of my fabric still all packed away,

 just taken out some vintage pieces I've been collecting,

 to make some cushions for the new place!

(this one was to go with the graded green rug)

This was a single piece,

just big enough for a cushion cover.

My absolute fave of the lot is this one, it was so hard to cut into.

But I do have a bit left to make some for the shop - or more for us!

(Will post some more photos of the new place when things are a bit more sorted).

Yes well, I'm just ignoring this pile of empty boxes at the mo.

Will hopefully sort them out this weekend!xx



Back soon...

Just moving interstate this time, so shouldn't  be too long!xx

(ps. been thinking about maybe a custom doll giveaway??)