owls & busy bees


Have been having one of those very productive but not doing the things I ought to be doing days (I think it's called procrastinating). Today I went to the market with my mum & dad which was nice as I haven't seen them very much at all lately, but then instead of coming home and me doing some sewing we ended up going on a bit of a trip to the other side of Melbourne (St Kilda to St Georges Rd in Fitzroy) to buy my mum some garden ornaments... it was like living with my parents again! I ended up making some fun labels and things that I will show tomorrow when I have taken some photos - I really did need new labels so it's all good.


This is some paper I bought on Thursday from Rock Paper Scissors - cute! It's one of those huge pieces of scrapbooking paper (why can't scrapbooks be A4 sized?) and I really love the colours and shapes in it - going on the inspiration wall! When you look at the image closely you can see that the owls are actually pictures of decorated wood & paper owls with button eyes - it works so well though.

rabbit-child

Yesterday I went shopping with my cousin to look for paper for her wedding invitations - we went to Handworks & Dragon Papers on Chapel Street, and then to Rock Paper Scissors on High St in Armadale. It is amazing how many different papers there are... Rock Paper Scissors has so many gorgeous examples of invitations, it was hard for us not to feel slightly inadequate with our attempts. Will show pictures when they're done!

I like this little strawberries & cream look for this rabbit-child - the coinpurse is available at Dawanda.

This is my little pile of new Lara Cameron fabric... it looked so pretty sitting there I had to show it!

I'm having a very lazy, disorganised kind of day today, have been gunning it on the coinpurses the last hour or so though, so better get back to the grindstone!

spotlight

Oh Spotlight... So as I said in my previous post I needed to go to Spotlight to get some solid, sturdy denim for my clutches. I happened to realise yesterday was 20% off day everything at Spotlight, and even though I knew it was a bad idea I went anyway.

I got some good stuff - 5 metres of denim (woo), a bunch of thread, some cute polka dot stuff from the remnants tub and some orange zips (these are hard to find). BUT!! From when I took a number to be served and from when I was actually served it took just over 30 mins. In this time I managed to convince myself to buy 3 packets of mini buttons, more orange zips, brown upholstery thread, some plaques to paint onto, ribbons and some bigger buttons. I just don't know if it was all worth 20% off...

On a happier note, when I got home my new bunch of Lara fabric was waiting. Cheered me up :)