New Notty Necklaces now instore

New Notty Necklaces now instore at Bits & Bubs.
Lots of lovely new colours to choose from!

Pretty Pencil Rolls

What do you do with some spare time, a box of pencils and some vintage fabric?
Make pencil rolls of course!
These pretty vintage and vintage style fabric pencil rolls will be instore tonight are instore now.
Be quick as there are only 10 to choose from, all one off designs.
They come complete with 12 thick and vibrant triangular coloured pencils- great for promoting your little ones pincer grip development!

Lounge Pants Love

I just love receiving positive feedback from delighted customers, and it is especially lovely when they post pictures of their adorable girls wearing my items and loving them!

Thanks Linda from Lulufroufrou for posting about Bits & Bubs vintage Holly Hobbie Lounge pants. Little Lou looks totally adorable!

check out Lindas madeit shop for lots of lovely hair pretties for your little girl.

I would love to see pics of other happy customers in their Bits & Bubs clothing & accessories so don't be shy and send them as I would love to post them here.

I hope all you Aussies readers had a relaxing Australia Day yesterday and that there are not too many sunburns and hangovers today...very easy when you are at the becah all day under perfect hot blue sunny skies sipping vodka fruit punches...

New Blog- Bits & Bubs

Pop on over to check out my new blog and keep up to date with my Bits & Bubs Label!

Bits & Bubs News

Very exciting news!

I have been a very busy bee trying to get my new website up and running for my sad and neglected Bits & Bubs label...fingers crossed it shall be ready by Thursday at the latest.

I will post some pics of some pretty little items I have been working on tomorrow.

{Bits & Bubs}

I finally added some new items to my {Bits & Bubs} madeit store last week.

I have been so slack lately...

Nellie's Notty Necklace $10.95

Addie's Apron Dress $22.95- wow- sold 3 of these in as many days! Made from vintage fabric with white contrast binding on the straps and red and white polka dot covered buttons.

Lou Lou's Lounge Pants $9.95 (SOLD OUT) - these groovy little pants sold straight away!
Made from vintage fabric. I love this fabric but unfortunately I only had a small amount...

2nd Giveaway Prize

Not in my wildest dreams did I think I would get so many comments from people wanting to win my Holly Hobbie giveaway!!! Thank you so much! I am having a great time reading all the comments and checking out every ones blogs and profiles.

As promised here are the details of the 2nd giveaway prize...more yummy fabric necklaces from {Bits & Bubs}!

The second prize winner will receive one Fabric necklace made from Amy Butlers honeycomb fabric in linen pictured below. This is a longer length for mummy!! You also get to choose one other fabric necklace (child size) out of the five pictured above.
The 2nd prize will be drawn by random from the comments on my main giveaway post.

It's Giveaway Day!!!

OK, I have been through my box of goodies of my items for {Bits & Bubs} and have chosen these 3 items for all you vintage style lovers out there.

The giveaway parcel consists of a white Tank with vintage Holly Hobbie applique (available in size's 1-5: if you win just let me know the size you want), adjustable fabric necklace and a yo-yo broach with vintage fabric covered button detail. (the dark fabric didn't picture too well- its a soft and lightweight dark denim).

How to win? Its easy! Simply comment on this post and you will be in for the chance to win.

Do a post on my giveaway and link back to my blog and your name will be entered an additional 4 times!! ( be sure to let me know!) If you win and have blogged about my giveaway you will also receive a mystery prize!

If you like my giveaway items check out more {Bits & Bubs} items at my madeit shop here (new items will be added over the next few days).

Comments/entries close 5pm Monday 1 June Australian eastern time (12pm Sunday 31st May Pacific Time for U.S. - hope I have converted that right!)

The winner will be chosen at random by a random number generator and announced Tuesday, 2 June 2009.

Please leave your contact details when you comment or check back here on Monday to see if you are a winner!

Oh, and I will ship internationally!

Check out who else is joining in the giveaway day fun here

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!

Finally, items at the {Bits & Bubs} store!!!

Jaynie's Jammies in "all wrapped up"
$24.95 (4 piece set)

Sadie's Smock in "I'm a little teapot"
$22.95

Sissie's Singlet in "Vintage Holly Hobbie"$9.95

Well today I finally managed to add some items for my {Bits & Bubs} store on madeit.com.au. Check them out!

{Bits & Bubs} and the requisite indecision

Finally! I have found a few spare minutes to unnecessarily play with my {Bits & Bubs} shop front on madeit.com.au with the final result looking...surprise surprise...exactly the same as it has for the last 5 months- still sitting sad & empty while my box of goodies to sell is ever expanding.

Part of my problem is that

• I don't like to part with the items I have made- (side note) I am a massive collector (of anything) - I like to know the items are safely tucked away somewhere where i can pull them out or stack them so I can view all their pretty fabrics and colours and pretty much just sit and smile. It makes me happy!
• I like to keep them for my daughters, friends children, gifts etc
• I never get around to taking fabulous photos that do them justice- I am a terrible photographer and after I put them on the computer I see that the clothes need ironing, the model (read daughter/s) was dirty, something in the background was off etc etc. This is because I do not prepare for anything- when I decide to do something I just do it bull at a gate- and it is always a waste of time!

Anyway, back to my madeit shop- I have been meaning to add items on here for so long but always put it off for some reason or another. 2 weeks ago I had added incentive as when I was out shopping for the girls for winter I had a lady asking me what label my eldest daughters outfit was and where could she get it.

Yes, she is a bit of a ruffian...

Due to me being lost in my own world (on a shopping high) and having no real brain comprehension after 3 hours of trying to shop with a 6 month old and "energetic" nearly 3 year old, I thought she was asking me what brand my pram was and after a moment of clarity realised she was referring to the outfit and managed to tell her it is my label and that I sell on madeit.com.au.
My first 3 /feelings were- CHUFFED: she loved my items! everyone loves some praise... DAMN!: wish I had some business cards! Must design some when I go home so have on hand for future instances like these... and CRAP!: I had better add some items to my store, don't want to miss a possible customer! ....and of course I still have not added any items...I did however go home and do up business cards and swing tags in record time- it just all flowed and with hardly any indecisions!

Note to self: I WILL be listing items on my madeit store tonight come hell or high water tonight!