Blinking Flights

Meanwhile...

So, it's been a lot longer than usual, but you know, some things cannot be helped! And I think I have a reasonably good excuse, I tried to keep up the blogging in the early months, but this little one was just not that interested in me getting up off the couch and participating in anything other than daytime tv and sleeping, and she really let me know about it... but I'm able to stand the smell of coffee again, and able to sit at a sewing machine without intense nausea... so hopefully there won't be any long absences for a while!

We're just over half way, and she already has a pile of sewn goodies as high as the roof...  if things continue this way, I might even be able to do an online shop update before Christmas, *fingers crossed*.

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A little bit famous...

This last week has been much, much better than the week before... I actually got some stuff done, including a nice big batch of screen-printed Anne-Sophie dolls which I took up to the Monsterthreads Shop in Newtown, and have just listed in my online shop. I also managed some dew drops, some meekoos-- the first few in a very long time! and of course some blinkies. And the new Monsterthreads Shop in Melbourne is opening as we speak, it's in Collins Street, and they have some of my pandas, alpacas, bunnies, sheep and a large batch of blinkies as well.

I was also lucky enough to be mentioned in the current edition of Inside Out Magazine, well, Anne-Sophie was mentioned, and pictured, and amongst the likes of some other very cute cushion dolls such as kitty by Lisa Max, and Louise by Thomaspaul. Woo hoo for me, I mean for Anne-Sophie!

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One of those weeks...

When everything that could have gone wrong in terms of sewing and time management did go wrong! One of my most popular little critters right now is little lamb, but little lamb requires white chenille... I'm all out of it yet again, and in a bid to find a viable long term solution I found this beautiful feeling baby blanket fabric. I thought 'score'... I made 8... I won't tell you how long that takes... I sat down to stuff the first one and poked a hole through the leg quite close to the seam with the stuffing stick. It happened again and again, but in all different places. And this was not the only sewing related disaster, but with some deep breathes, I'm chalking it up and starting again this week.

Wish me luck!

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Couldn't Resist!

I just came across this post at Blackbird Corner and couldn't help but pass it on... and she made a list of the things she'd prefer to him being PM... I'll just say that I'd rather not have him in charge of anything because it scares me, his politics scare me, and if I start with the criticism, I might not stop!

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A Sale...

Something I forgot to mention yesterday was that I have set up a sale in my little online shop. Everything is half price, and somethings are cheaper than the current wholesale price... when I stock up again things will be matching the new post-markets RRPs... so get in while you can and help me clear out some old boxes! Also, the Russian Dolls will not be continued, just so ya know, and pandas will be made to order since they are generally all the same.

Hope you understand my sale/sail/hot air balloon reference!!

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Stop motion at the Finders Keepers

I've been meaning to show this video for a little while, it's a stop motion animation  of the Finders Keepers back in May, and it's pretty awesome. It also happens to show my stall perfectly!

 

The Finders Keepers - Making It Happen from kodamapixel on Vimeo.

If you take your eye to the big vertical finders keepers sign in the middle, move it left and look at the table on the corner with the doll bunting-- that's me, right near the red doors and 2 big polls! It's so cool to see all the hard work condensed into just a couple of minutes.

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P.S. I am the girl in the black and white striped top!

Doll Love

Have you been to the Kase-Faz blog??? The dolls are mind-bendingly-beautiful and detailed! And they take my breathe away everytime I open up my reader and see a new post, and yet I've just realised that I've never posted about them. Enjoy!

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Paper Pie & Moda!

I spent the weekend catching up on blogs that I love, and one of them is Paper Pie... Liz designs lovely fabrics which she prints at Spoonflower and sells in her Etsy shop, Wonderfluff. I was thrilled to stumble upon the news that her Sugar Pop collection was picked up my Moda and will be available in shops in the US in December.

I managed to scoop up a couple of the fabrics a while back when I was still making lots of bugs, and the very first dew drop girls I ever made featured some of Liz's fabulous fabric. 

Oh boy! How things have changed!! Both dresses were made from Liz's designs, and you can see how well they mix with Japanese prints... and how much the dew drop girl has evolved over the last 12 months!!

And now, the colours have been worked on and mixed up, the scale of design has been played with, and voila!

I love them! And what a nice story!?

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Ya-ikes!

1. Wool Blanket#0300, 2. Wool Felt Ball or Round Beads, 3. lucy's froggy bonnet & booties, 4. Wool Blanket - Detail

It has been SO SO cold this week! One day was the coldest we've had in 60 years!! I'm sure Europeans would be looking at the temps and laughing, but for Australia it has been freezing... And it's another reason I'm glad that I'm not doing the markets anymore... standing outside in that bone chilling weather is not my idea of fun, although I must say, I'm getting to the stage where I'm really missing seeing all those people every weekend and getting to see all the cool new stuff that was about the place all the time. Mainstream malls and shops just do not compare!

I've been consoling myself with the internet and the op shops down here. I've even been looking on Ebay, where I managed to get this book at a great price. And I've been getting rid of even more stuff, the constant leftovers from having worked at an op shop once-upon-a-time. I made a pile downstairs in my building and a note which said 'free to good home', and bit by bit, it all wondered off, and to my surprise, others started leaving bits and pieces too-- books, kitchen stuff, even a big chair!

And for my Mum,who asked my for crochet links the other day, these are the ones I was talking about! Purl Bee and Whip Up. I hope they help!

Happy Sunday!

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Where have you been?

Well, I wish the answer was an interesting one, but alas... it wouldn't satisfy Lady Catherine, although I don't know if much would... I've been around. I've been a little bit fluy and gross again and my head has been all over the place, and every time I sat down to write a blog post, I would run out of things to say... and decide to go rejoin the couch, where something fabulous was actually taking place, and that was the third season Mad Men... which is EVEN better than the last two put together... OMG OMG OMG... since it hasn't aired here on Australian television yet I won't spoil anything, but wow! I actually started to like Joan this season, although Peggy is still without a doubt, my favourite character.

 

And when the fluyness subsided, the sewing had to begin again, and then I didn't have time to do anything else! I took a nice big batch of Japanese fabric blinkies up to Monsterthreads in Newtown on Friday, and they may be my best lot yet. I've used all these awesome fabrics from Matatabi's Etsy Shop.

And... in really big news, I've really stopped doing the markets. I've given up my spot at Glebe, and I'm not going to be making an appearance at any of the village type markets that I've been slogging it out at for so long now... maybe when things warm up and when people have more money to spend I might reconsider, but it's really been a drag on my time lately and on Joe's too. So now, people will have to buy my stuff through stockists or through my online shop, which I will try and update more often!

And thank you to all the people who read this blog! I was just looking at my stats and it's really encouraging to know that people do read my ramblings! And thank you to Abby, whose comment this morning made me feel inspired to sit down and blog!

Hope your Monday Morning isn't too cold!!

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