Rourke and Henry

iSew Academy......

here is what I referred to this afternoon...... 

Ok, so a couple of years ago I met this now Head Girl. I met her before she was Head Girl, we had fun and caused some raucous at  particular Stitches and Craft shows in two states!! Yep, we danced in aisles, giggled loudly, checked 50's,taught fabbo crafty classes, coffeed and lollied, along with a few other fabulous Incubator Chicks.....we rocked the conventional socks off craft!  

And now my friend Lousie is heading back to school with an Academy, no less. She along with her friend Belinda are launching the iSew App......woohoo, woohoo... Its just so exciting.... its going to be an amazing library jam packed full of fabulous patterns and tutorials and just way cool ideas.

And guess what.....I'm a visiting professor...cool I know, I'm over the moon excited and there is a tutorial for the heart brooch above, head over here and you can make one too.

I can't wait to get myself this App, it's all Australian and that is ACE too. You should head over and check it out, join the Academy, it's going to be an absolute HOOT! I think I see myself with the Wonglepong House, I do love a good spot!! And Louise, love her too!! 

  

Draw, Sew, Paint,Bake

This is where I have been this week, drawing, sewing, painting, baking. I love all these things but my fav this week, cause it was a new thing, is the spray painted memory jars, they are so, so, so cool and look amazing with a photo in them. My favorite are the Moose's. I love them.

I also assembled a flat-pack bookcase for Coco's this morning. I took my time, and did this slowly and much to my delight I have no spare bits! Hooray for me. Then I dusted, not that exciting but needed and now Coco's smells all vanillery, which is nice.

And I have some divine oilcloth totes, super duper for the beach or the pool or really whatever tickles your fancy.

I have some whizz bang news too, will chat about that tonight cause I can't link what I need to link right just now. So pop back soon and you'll see my friends amazing new site...... Oh I may have said too much already.....

Do you have the bloglovin' app? I like it tons cause it let's me know when my favorite bloggers have a new post, cool huh?

Me and the Mr.

This is me and the Mr. I like him a lot. These snaps are from like, light years ago.....almost an eternity, almost. We both had more hair then. He makes me smile and smile and smile. He is a good egg. The first photo is our first ever photo together, holy crap I just worked out that was 21 years ago, Lordy me, gosh....

My Creative Space..... Sew Baby Sew!!

Woohoo, my creative space this week is newness for me. Yay I love testing out new stuff. Back at the sewing machine, it's been quite neglected of late so it has been lovely this week to be playing with some Mexican oilcloth. It's like way bright and fabulous and spotty and happy. I like happy fabric, it makes me smile. And it wasn't quite as daunting to sew with as I first thought, phew.... You know how I don't have much patience well I tried to find some and read some stuff about sewing oilcloth and the like and well I wasn't all gun-hoe about cutting it, I read a bit more, and then I finally drew myself up a pattern and after adjusting the pattern three times, the first two were a little large, the third one worked a treat. Pictured is prototype number 2, great size for my multitudes of make up or the Mr.'s lunch.
And the best handy little tip, so you don't have to buy a Teflon foot for your machine, if your going to sew on the bright, happy side, otherwise known as the right side pop a piece of baking paper over the top and sew straight through it. When you are finished carefully tear it off and wha-la it works, give it a burl. And also make sure your machine needle is sharp- that's a no brainer!
For the rest of all our creative spaces toddle off over here.....

My Creative Space....

Wow I haven't played along in quite a while, I sneak over and am always amazed at the creatives over here, full of makings it is a lovely place to see what everyone is up too.

My creative space this week has me realizing I may need a new sharpener..... I sharpened and sorted all my colour pencils into my coloring station, very chuffed at myself, a little OCD maybe as they all have their own colour cup to belong to. My smalls (who seem to be not so small anymore) think it's pretty ace too as they have been drawing up a storm all week.

I got to play with yeast this week and have decided me and yeast could be friends after all. I have been scared of yeast for an awful long time, I don't know why, I think that yeast and I may become great friend infact! Thanks to my fabbo cousin for introducing us...... The pizza was a hit!! Especially the herb and garlic pizza bread.

The obligatory covering of school books has taken place this week. I convinced Mr.Magoo to let me have creative license on 1 of his books - it got the thumbs up too, smiles all round and hopefully food for thought for him with a sock monkey picture and a Ben Franklin quote, cause Ben Franklin is of course known in our house from the movie National Treasure!!
The quote, which I love is "in the morning ask yourself, What good shall I do today? As the day draws to a close ask yourself, What good have I done today?" Nice words to think about in Year 5!

The rest of my creative week has had me covering buttons for hair ties and slides for Coco's, and I managed a new window today at the shop. Generally I don't do Valentine's windows but I have red paper heart doilies so they kinda lend themselves perfectly to Valentines, I wrote stuff on them, not too lovey, stuff like "I love you more than Lollies" and stuff like "you are sweeter than bee vomit". And "PS I love you!"
There is a red bike in the window too, Its a cool red bike, I like it a lot.

Lots and lots of creative people hang out over yonder so do pop over and if your creative play along or just have a squizz, you'll be glad you did!