Goodie bag stash

Thursday night was plenty of fun, out and about with our social bub at the ABCD meetup. I'd hoped to post this earlier but was busy entertaining Isabella and trying to pack the car for our first big family road trip. We've had a chillaxed weekend in sunny northern NSW and upon our return we've been greeted by amazing exploding home brew. Eeek, have just heard another explosion, more mess to clean in the morning. I should really finish faffing about with blogging so sleep well little Aussies if you're still awake or perhaps good morning.

My creative space.

Yippee the LBD family are off to the Powerhouse tonight for the Spring ABCD meetup. I get to meet and chat with local artists, crafters, bloggers and designers while Gav looks after (or is that distracts?) Isabella.

So my creative space this week is full of my little something for the goodie bags. I've made luggage labels from a vinyl tablecloth sample and printed them with a hand carved lino stamp. So looking forward to this evening.


For more creative space action head to Kootoyoo

Spring

Spring is sprung, the grass is ris, I wonder where the boidies is...

Fun at the Little Market

Friday evening at the Little Market was a really lovely one. It was great to catch up with the other stall holders who we missed last month as the car trip in was a bit traumatic with an upset bub and we ended up giving up and going home. Happily Isabella travelled better this month and we had a really nice night finished off with the obligatory dinner stop at The Forest, YUM.
Here's a peek at a few of the stalls:




My very thoughtful friend Rowena bought this up from Lismore for me. I can't really think of a more perfect present than an upcycled hankie with screen printed sewing scissors. Lucky me.


And I just had to put this up because she looks so sweet, though I do wonder what it is she's plotting.

Bits and pieces

Before I trundle off to the Little Market this arvo I thought i'd say a quick hello and let you know that the lovely folks at Bondville and Udessi are holding another ABCD (artists + bloggers + crafters + designers) catch up.
7pm - 9pm, Thursday 19th November 2009
Bar Alto (entrance level)
The Powerhouse, 119 Lamington St, New Farm, Brisbane
To RSVP go here

and show you my latest op-shop find:


I can't figure out whether it's a tablecloth or a throw and I also can't decide whether to be selfish and leave it on our couch or transform it into a RaRa skirt for some lucky soul to wear hmmmm.....

A wholesome shopping experience can be yours

Hello all, well I've finally started up my Etsy shop. At the moment I've only listed a few items including the baby rompers and some UPcycled bottle cap earrings. I do intend to have more items soon so if you've spotted something blogside that you would like to see up for sale on Etsy then please leave a comment.
Also the Little Market is on again this Friday so if you fancy checking out some great local craft artists, a glass of something yummo from Nectar or a catch up with myself, Gav and our chubby bubba then be sure to stop by the Avid Reader.

Let's support independent design YAY :)

Boo

You just never know what you might find in the blogosphere. Today I stumbled across a friend's blog: Kyla does stuff. She sure does! This is one busy lady who somehow manages to teach dancing, make brilliant mosters, take amazing photos and look after a super charged toddler.

International Day of Climate Action

This Saturday 24th October is the International Day of Climate Action. If you're ready for an ambitious, fair and binding global climate deal and want to call on world leaders to pass climate policies grounded in the latest science then head to 350.org to sign up and check out actions happening in your local area. So far there's 3769 actions planned over 163 countries so there's bound to be something near you.

Back online. Hurrah

Oh dear, hubby and I got through our downloads much too quickly so i've been offline until the reset today. There's been plenty to keep me busy though, including:
Watching Isabella grow and change everyday


Mountains of washing, aaaaarrrgh


Picking up and playing with my new (old) toy


Making fun shorts


Plus visiting the Handmade Expo last Saturday to pick up some great pressies, baby swimming lessons and eating far too much cream cheese mmmmm

Vintage Rompers

Now we've been joined by a little person i've finally been able to see what the romper suits look like on a real live baby. Here's our gorgeous girl in my latest creations made variously from offcuts, cushion covers and remnants. Little one is lots of fun and give's me plenty of opportunity to sew whilst she's happily curled up asleep in her sling. Perhaps as she heard the machine so often in the womb it must be quite relaxing (here's hoping anyway).