Op Shop Tuesday

A Wrap around for me!! A retro knit, with buttons, going to wear this with a shirt underneath, but not with the skirt!

Same, but different

I've been trying to work out a Spring/Summer skirt, for toddlers and their kind, that is multi sizable, without doing just a standard elastic waist job. So I've made this up, and think I'm going to go with this style. It's reversible and ties up at the back (via a button hole in the side). I got the idea from those long Indian wrap-around skits that I do so covet at the Op-Shop.

As this is a sample, it will go to Miss P, who will probably not like it a bit at first, then after wearing it once will make it her favourite and best.

21st Century Homilies

I found this link to an interesting embroidery artist called Kater Westerholt. Check out some of her other work here. Amanda I'm hoping you can do me a pattern for Emily The Strange sometime soon!

Confessions of A Slack Tart

The last thing I did last night before I went to bed was let the water out of Parker's bath. I just could not be naffed scooping the multitude of bath toys out, so I left them to dance and bob around the plug hole. That's a pirate squeezed between 2 water balloons, he looks cute I think!

I can actually bend at the waste, but during the course of a day I just get really sick of picking things up, wiping things down and folding things up!

Robert Kaufman Dress

I made this summer dress for P today, the fabric was bought for me by a friend. I'm pleased with the back closure, cause I love ties (it's the pini thing) but I think Big D will not like all the ties. I can't see why, it's just as easy as doing a button and kids can take them off by themselves. Any way - I never let his ambivalence dictate what I make!!

Want it

Watching this on ebay - even though I have NFI how to knit!

The Egg Rock, From Ingaland

I know this pebble looks much the same as all the other pebbles on the beach, But this one is the very personification of love. You see my Niece who is 4.5 years old picked this pebble up in a little fishing Village on the far north coast of England, and carried it all the way back to Sydney via Vienna and Bangkok, for her cousin, Parker who is 3.5. I can only imagine the negotiation that my sister would have had with her daughter, but my niece just knew that Parker would really love this rock and would have to have it, so heavy or not it came back with them, and although this 'egg rock from England' has no monetary value, it resembles all the things that we hold dear in our house - mainly that love is worth more than things, and people are far greater than objects and stuff. It's priceless, and I think I'll have to make a special box to house it, and write a little story to go in the box, so that it can be kept forever.