Blinking Flights

My Creative Space: I'm back!

Well, I'm back after having missed the last 2 weeks of this fun post... which means that I must be slightly more organised, and/or slightly less busy than I have been. This is what I've been up to:

Screen printing-- nice people tell me all the time that I must be so talented and creative to do what I do, I tell them that I'm just patient, and I believe it. No one is an ace at anything when they first begin, some people might be better than others, but it's all down to sticking at it... keeping calm when things stuff up (as they inevitably do sometimes), and persevering... here's some proof that I can be patient... using this one small screen (a little smaller than A4)...

+ a pot of red paint

+ a squeegee

+ only a minimal amount of bad language and deep breathing

= a whole lot of hand-holders!

And I'm loving these orange curtains...

And so much for foxes, when I sat down to do some drawing for new screen designs last night, all that came out were birds... but this is a good warm up for the foxes I plan on drawing, since it's been such a time since I've sat down to do a proper hand drawing-- I've been addicted to Illustrator for way too long!

But this is how today looks... at least I can add 3 more lambs and 1 more dew drop girl... not to mention all the blinkies I plan to make from the red hand-holders! :)

Happy Thursday! Hope you get to use your creative space where ever you are, and don't forget to check out everyone else's space at and via Kootoyoo.

B.

I've been busy!

First attempt at my little PJ wearing, afro hair-styled little girl... I've gotten a taste for painting since the wooden dolls, and that's been making me think about my dolls in a whole new way...

Tracing drawings onto fabric to paint, which meant that when 2 young and extremely enthusiastic crafters visited, we ended up with some stunning art work-- which will be sewn up into softies very soon!

2 dolls, a bunny and a puppy!

And I mastered (well really just survived) the art of attaching woollen hair to a fabric doll, which Bella-- who is only 8-- had made herself!

And of course, there has been a little bit of toy making going on too... although it's been a week of trying very hard to get ideas to turn into reality, which did not go hand in hand with productivity...

And I've been working on my Dew Drop Girl pattern which I plan to sell soon-- hopefully in a couple of weeks!

I'm exhausted, but hoping that Glebe will go ahead tomorrow after having been cancelled last week due to atrocious weather... whilst it's looking pretty miserable at the moment, the showers are meant to clear tomorrow, so fingers crossed!

Happy Friday!

B.

Miss Tallulah-- the black sheep of the family!

It doesn't happen all that often around here anymore, I mean I love my toys and I pull the uglies apart and reuse the fabric, but still-- I love this one! I don't want to sell her to anyone, because she is perfect for me-- just the right size for cuddling, all cozy and made of fleece and a really soft thick winter cotton on her dress, and one of my fave prints in a long time to boot! I realised that in the photo from this morning, I failed to show off the little lamby tails that I've given to all these critters... I hope you can see it in the photo below:

And I'm quite happy with my new batch of blinkies... although I know this spotty-dotty fabric is getting a little 'common', I was having trouble mixing it with other fabrics, so let it do all the talking on it's own... and a brave mum with a tough washing machine might like to snap up the fleecy white blinky underneath...

I'm a little sad to have used up the last of the green spotty fabric in the fleecy one's ear though. I had been holding onto it for a couple of years... precious!

Ok, well thanks for all the lovely comments today-- my creative space is such fun! :)

Nighty-night, I'm still sewing!

B.

A hard day's work...

Henry is slightly confused about everything being so tidy...

But Abigail is happy...

 

And Sofia is happy...

And the up & coming blinkies have a well-ordered new home...

I know where all the cotton is...

And where all the bobbins had gotten too...

And the fabric is as tidy as it's ever going to be.

But Joe just smiled and asked how long will it last... I give it about 36 hours!

B.

Bug Pattern!

Well, I'll get it linked up proper a little later, but I'm super busy at the moment, so I've uploaded the PDF file to Scribd, so you can click on this picture and download!

Hope you enjoy making bugs as much as I do! Let me know if you do!
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Cheers,
B.

Catching Up

I've had lots of catching up going on lately! I got to see my parents last week (they live a LONG way away), I got see my best friend's parents a little while ago (they live EVEN further away), I got to see one of my best friends in the world all day Tuesday (God bless holidays), I got a text from my brother yesterday telling me he's thinking of me and he's going to call me, which warmed my heart a little... he lives the furtherest (in Melbourne actually), and today I got hang out with Joe pretty much all day, and it was a lovely sunny Autumn day that was chilled and productive at the same time.

Okay, so this isn't the best photo of us, because we took it, but see the colour of the sky in the background???

And then there's the other kind of catching up, which I have to do, because of the first kind... We'll be heading to Orange next week, and I'm going to aim to have this quilt finished so that I can give it to Joe's new(-ish) little niece! We'll see whether I get there, I HATE machine quilting, but I started it before remembering this important fact about myself, and then put it back in the cupboard quite quickly... it makes me nervous, but since I've started, I can't very well turn around and finish it by hand... not sure about the border colour though... any suggestions???

Remember: more words and pictures via Meet Me at Mike's! I think they're fun, and you can join in too!

xxx, B.

P.S. I'm going to be giving away some bugs really soon!

Sunshine and Lollypops...

Can't believe I EVER had any cold feet over this little critter...

The joys of living with an artist in a very small apartment! I do love this painting.

The sunshine is back... yay!

Biscuit Baking Frenzy... it can be addictive. Half are pear and poppy, the other are lemon and poppy.

I've been dragging my feet with my rainbow girls, only one to go, but I'm like this with everything, I race through a book, and savour the last chapter for a month... I think maybe I'm saving purple for my Nellie. Her fave colour was purple, and I used up a lot of my purple stash in projects that had me happily thinking of her... don't have a lot left these days. I am going to try to get it done this arv... but I am also in the middle of writing this business plan, and I'm finding that 'determining my market size' is a painful exercise!

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Ilka Inglebottom

Yay! Only 1 to go!

B.

Meet Ms. Olympia Orange!

And so I am up to orange. I have indigo and violet to go! I must admit, that I am losing my 'beans' a little with this project, kind of feel like I'm pushing myself through it, but when I see the dolls finished, and all together, it does warm my heart. Starting to daydream about making colour coded bugs, and also had an idea about a softie ninja... that could be fun, I'm always thinking that craft is so girly, and there must be some really cool stuff to make for little boys!

And so, I think making little Olympia, and surrounding myself with orange for a little while, resulted in me baking another batch of orange and poppy seed biscuits... my faves. I'm thinking that pear could work too. Yum yum.

B.

Rona Redlegs

Meet Miss. Rona... ignore the little bits of fluff that stuck to her hair, it seems my camera has better vision than I do! Now I'm off to work on Olympia... the orange one.
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