Love this vintage...

Mid-century child's stool.  So cute with the hand painted butterfly.  I love it.

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From Vintage Modern Design

Guardian.

On Tuesday night I had a go at this.

And I found out a lot about myself.  It was like reading my mind on paper!

Turns out I'm an IFSJ.

And a Protector Guardian.

Interesting.

Free Stuff I love: Easter

One week to go people!  I've been thinking about what I might be able to make Ellie for Easter - something little for her to keep and remember the weekend, rather than just a whole heap of chocolate.

On my travels around the web I've shortlisted.  Here are my five favourite Easter freebie tutorials....still yet to decide...


1.  A Spring Chick from Making Ends Meet!

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2.  Bunny Finger puppets from The Purl Bee  (I also love the little lamb pillows!)

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3.  Easter Birdy at Mollychicken  

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4.  Cashmere Bunny tutorial by Betz White

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5. Fabric Easter Eggs at Retro Mama

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I must say I do like the chicken tutorials because they're a great celebration of new life and so darn cute!  Hmmm, which one would you do?

Love this vintage...

70's stackable mugs from Rust Belt Threads.  I miss mugs like these!!

Good one.

OK.  This is perhaps the cutest and most accessible tutorial for baby clothes I have seen in a while.  I just had to share it.  Please, if you have a little person to sew for, head over to Made by Rae now, and bookmark it!

Good one Rae!!!

Poppy

Well, I can finally reveal what I've been working on for the last few weeks.  The wearer of those tiny clothes is finished, and she now lives at her new home with a young lady who deserves her very much.

What a delightful pattern.  I was fortunate enough to receive the Poppy doll pattern by the beautiful hop skip jump for Christmas, and I've been itching to give it a try.  As always, there were some mistakes made and things to do differently next time, but I'm very please with how she turned out over all.  The nice thing is that she has been named Poppy by her new family.  Sweet.

The main changes I made were to use velcro on the clothing instead of buttons (as her owner is very young) and I also made a faux button from felt in her hair to pretty her up a bit.  

Poppy looks nice in green, but when she's feeling a bit retro she can reverse her shirt and change to wearing her brighter, cheerier outfit made from vintage linens and bright red corduroy.

The only bad thing was trying to explain to Ellie that she wasn't staying with us.   

Have a lovely weekend and don't forget to check out the many cool creative spaces at Kootoyoo!

Wednesday

Wow, it's Wednesday and today feels like the first day in ages that I've had in sometime where I am able to catch up.  It's been a big week of appointments and parties, and looking at our calendar, it's not likely to ease up until May.  

Last weekend was hectic.  Multiple events and engagements, one of which was a fun day at a park overlooking the beach for my niece's first birthday party.  We really didn't expect it to be as chilly as it was, but in true Australian cool weather style, we were rugged up and still got sunburned despite cream and hats (you can see Ellie's gorgeous hat with hoodie fashion below).  I should have known...those windy overcast days are always the worst for sunburn. Oh well, it was a great day anyhow, teaching the youngster to play frisbee and enjoying great company.

Today I've finally found an hour or two to start cutting out a bag pattern - I'm trialling some heavyweight IKEA fabric using this pattern, so we'll see how we go.  Any thoughts on IKEA fabrics?  I haven't used them much.

Anyway, off I trot, thanks some guests last night, there's not much cleaning  or cooking to do.  We'll be having slow cooked Massaman beef leftovers tonight.  Yum.