Stitches & Craft Show

images from The Stitches and Craft show website here

Help! Major, major indecisions looming...

I am off to the Brisbane stitches and Craft Show for the first time today with my mum and sister (check out her blog Wifestyle Files). I cant wait to see the plethora of goodies and to hopefully sit in on a tutorial or 2. All this PLUS, no kiddies! absolute BLISS!

My credit card is burning a hole in my wallet and I am ready to stimulate the economy.
I just know that there is going to be too much to choose from so I need to focus focus focus...fat chance of that happening!

I will post pics of my day and purchases tomorrow.

Hope you have a great day too!

My Life Motto

image via Sparkle Thots

Sums me up perfectly...Who else is with me on this?

Still Loving Scissor Variations...

Pretty Apothecary tutorial

Origami Couture tutorial

Paper Flowers tutorial

Pretty Recycling tutorial

Cotton Drawstring Bags tutorial

Buttons Without shirts tutorial

Security Envelope Rosettes tutorial

I have been stalking Scissor Variations again and thought I would post some pics of Janice's fabulous items in use and links to her fabulous tutorials.

I will definitely be making the paper flowers (stunning and so simple), the buttons (when I purchase a button/badge making machine), pretty recycling (I now have a use for my collection of tin cans I have been hoarding) and pretty apothecary (I need to source some glass jars- I am thinking for in the bathroom...)

I Heart a White House

All images via Marley & Lockyer

And gazing adoringly at these pictures, how could you not?

White is timeless, elegant, classic, light & fresh...pity its so hard to keep clean, especially with 4 kiddies....

Make Me Smile Monday- Buttercup

Some pretty buttercup yellow pics that make me smile on a Monday

image via I can read

follow the yellow brick road... image by Nick Owen found here

don't the delicate ruffles of this bloom look absolutely delicious? image by Comin or Goin found here

a lovely little yellow door...image found here

who said wedding shoes have to be white? image via Glamour

nothing to do but wander in a field of buttercups... image via Vogue: the prevailing practice, fashion or style

Lazy Sunday...

image via Captivate Me

What are you doing on this lazy Sunday?

Wouldn't you simply adore lazing around in bed all tousled and fabulous like this?

Heather Bailey - Happy Stacker fabric toy

Heather Bailey Happy Stacker pattern- love it!!!

Heather Bailey Fresh Cut fabric for the Happy Stacker

I just adore this pretty Amy Butler charm fabric. I had ran out so grabbed some more for I don't know what...

you've gotta love a yoyo!

This morning I was going through my bedside drawers and found a little brown bag - low and behold in it was the items I bought at the Gold Coast Craffest, back in March.

I cant believe I totally forgot I bought these lovely items.

Actually, yes I can believe it as I have stuff I have acquired over the years stashed all over my house!

Like I have said before I love to buy things and hoard them for "one day".

Well this weekend I think I will make the too cute Heather Bailey Happy Stacker, before my beautiful little A gets too old for it!

These are the fabrics I am going to use for the stacker.

The beige corduroy is for the centre pole and the other colours are for the rings.

What do you think?

I don't think I am going to add any ribbons as this would require too many decisions...

I will post some pics when I finish!

Have a great weekend!

xxx

Happy Birthday Little Sis xxx

Image from A Baked Creation

A big Happy Birthday to my Sister Ezza,

Hope you have a lovely Day!

See you for morning tea

xxx

Oh Me Oh My...I am in trouble now!

Too cute!

Theatre anyone?



Love these...

and these...

actually, and these...

oh and Love, love, love these!!!

love these, I don't know what I would use them for but they are fabulous!

Definitely LOVE these!

Oh My!!! Don't these divine vintage labels and bits and bobs make your heart pitter patter just that bit faster?

They are from Papier Valise.

Gee, where do I start? Sooo many fabulous things available here, AND Janice from Papier Valise also has a fabulous blog Scissor Variations full of lovely crafty vintagey pretty paper, tutorials, recipes and things.

HEAVEN!

Now what to do with these labels...and which ones to choose...

Gifts for S from {Bits & Bubs}

I made this card from a picture out of a vintage nursery rhyme book I found at lifeline for 50c and some offcuts of scrap booking paper. Love the card on its own but now I wish I used a different colour backing as the red doesn't really go with the colour scheme of the gifts...

Gifts for bubby S from my {Bits & Bubs} collection.

Cloth shoes, yoyo broach, sun bonnet and burp cloths.

Cloth shoes made from quilting fabric and vintage chenille with matching yoyo broach.

The 2 1/2 year old bonnet, finally going to a new home!

I thought I would post some pics of some little gifts for my new bubby niece, S.
I have so much {Bits & Bubs} stuff that I have made and accumulated over the last year or 2 so it comes in handy whenever a new baby or toddlers birthday comes up. I always leave buying a gift until the last minute so I just end up grabbing something out of my box of goodies.
Besides the card, these are all items I have made to sell at my phantom market stall or on madeit.com (by God, even if I am 95 I will get this damn market stall done one day!).
My problem is that I cannot decide on just a couple of items to focus on so I make 1 or 2 of 100 different things and end up in an absolute tiz as I cant decide what exactly to do, fabric, trim and accessories to use etc.
I actually made a few of these bonnets when my first daughter was 6 months old- and she is now nearly 3! And yes it has been sitting in the box of goodies since then.
How sad...

Anyhoo, I digress, I hope little S and her mummy loves her gifts!

note to self: learn how to take nice photos, these are appalling pics!

Vanity Fair- The Worlds Most Beautiful Women 2009

And the Winner is...

1) Angelina Jolie 58 per cent of the votes

(she is beautiful however i still cant get past the Brad & Jennifer thing)

image from Herald Sun

2) Gisele Bundchen 9 per cent

(she is a given- there is really nothing that needs to be said about that body)

image from Photography Arena

3) Halle Berry 4 per cent

(wow, rather large, ahem, boosoms in this shot- pregnant shot)

image from Herald Sun

4) Penelope Cruz 3 per cent

(pretty but not really my cup of tea)
image from Herald Sun

4) Scarlett Johansson 3 per cent

(beautiful, luminous skin- but i just cant take to her)

image from here

4) Jennifer Connelly 3 per cent
(stunning- fantastic brows!)
image from Herald Sun

4) Queen Rania of Jordan 3 per cent
(lovely)
image from Top News

4) Bar Refaeli 3 per cent
(what can you say about her? rather fetching- understatement much?)
image from My Super blog

5) Catherine Deneuve 2 per cent
image from Herald Sun

5) Freida Pinto 2 per cent
(gorgeous)
image from PicShik

5) Natalia Vodianova 2 per cent
(she looks like she is still 14 and can you believe she has a daughter?- wow)
image from Herald Sun

5) Ziyi Zhang 2 per cent
(love her! stunning in Memoirs of a Geisha)
image from Huffington Post

5) Beyonce Knowles 2 per cent
(hot mama Sasha Fierce- cant wait to see her show this year!)
image from Top News

5) Cate Blanchett 2 per cent
(classically beautiful)
image from Babble

6) Elle MacPherson 1 per cent
(will always be the original "the body"in my book, love this shot- one hot cougar!)
image from here

6) Kate Moss 1 per cent
(soooo stylish, even after her... habit)
image from The Worlds Best Ever

6) Gwyneth Paltrow 1 per cent
(hot now that she got rid of that straight waist length hair for the stylish "Shob")
image from Herald Sun

6) Kerry Washington 1 per cent
(cute)
image from Barbies Dreamhouse

6) Carla Bruni 1 per cent
(one of the original Supermodels, now First Lady of France)
image from The Fashion Insider