Dana

My Showbag

Stitches and Craft Show, originally uploaded by acoustitch.

Amongst other items (which have already been given as gifts!), here are some fabrics brought home from the Stitches and Craft show - including - Aunty Cookie, Kokka from Kelani, Kristen Doran and One Red Robin. (I am SO in love with those mushroom girls!)

Still good!

Okay, first of all I would like to thank all the goddesses whom left me comments (and those whom did not but sent me actual e-mails!) about my last post. Clearly I was a little wigged out.. I have recovered from this by:

a) reading the comments of other mama's confessions from the playroom.

b) booking a trip to Sydney for 3 nights with a girlfriend at the end of October to shop, drink and read magazines in bed. Even though we can't afford it - can you put a price on sanity?

c) digging out my copy of "Kid Wrangling" and having a giggle. One quote in particular - "if my kids are alive at the end of the day, I've done my job". - Roseanne Barr

d) bitching to my mothers group which opened a can of worms I tell you... hours of entertaining conversation about screaming at children to make me feel normal.

I never really blogged about the woes of motherhood before - I thought it was dull reading and we all just wanna look at great pictures and get good ideas and you know, buy great craft and vintage stuff... Nope! Talkin' crazy mama brings out the lurkers and strikes a chord with everyone! Perhaps I shall whinge more often...

Aside from all of this I have missed a few days of my self-challenge "digital spring cleaning" and now it's the last day of September so I will just purge at the last minute (isn't that how all spring cleaning ends up?) and throw a bunch of shots at ya:

Some Bali Purchases - glass fishing floats VERY cheap yet VERY hard to bring home.
White Rabbit - carved timber, so beautiful and I had to stop myself from buying one of each 5 sizes. His limbs all move, so sweet.  Hobby horse, owl and deer - also carved timber to add to my collection of lovelies, cos you know, I don't have enough ornaments...

Leon and his amigos - Owen and Hardi, all whom have now turned out to be total boofers can't wolf down enough breastmilk/formula/food. Boy do we go through apples around here...

A birth gift from Megs.  Can't.pull.tag.off.  Must.preserve.vintage.goodness.

So there was my marathon clean-out post. Now I can go back to normal blogging - a post per month! (kidding - I think I may have re-trained myself to be here more regularly - but don't mark my words!)

 

16 of 30

Country Road Catalogue came in the mail. I have decided I LOVE these leather gloves and would also like her hair colour... (OK - I am a bit of a sucker for Country Road, if you can tell me where to get these gloves or similar from a handmade shop I will support them instead!)

heard it through the blogvine

Somewhere online today I found this new shop! I already have some faves to drool over. Go and have a look - it's called The Curiosity Shoppe. I love so many other things but I will let you do the discovering for yourself... x

Hate to say it...

...but I'm still sick. Can't keep a thing down. There was about 5 days where I was really good and things were looking up. Got some sewing done, went to Magnolia Square, went shopping for new clothes. But now it's back to the drawing board. In the midst of the sick I dragged myself off to Apollo Bay for 2 nights but the car on those windy roads did not help one bit. We got some nice shots, though! view from our accomodation: Anyhoo, hopefully I feel better soon and will have a cheerier post to share. Thanks for the recipe, Mel - I will save it for a rainy day! Strawberry+Chocolate+Pavlova = my favourite. Back to my bucket I crawl..

Embroidery Night @ Mikes

                                                       Last night was cool. A bunch of us gathered at Meet Me At Mikes to have a go at embroidery. There were cupcakes, cordial and champagne. There were so many great templates supplied for us that I just could not choose one, so I decided to be a bit ambitious - having never done embroidery before, and chose two. I think I will add a "beautiful pea green boat" and a "silvery moon", to my little owl and pussycat. I hope Shannon doesn't mind that I pinched her little owl away from her illustration and put it with another! And hey, what a bonus - I won the first door prize of the night. It was the 'Keep Calm and Carry On' tea towel which I have been lusting fter for quite some time. Upon leaving I couldn't help myself and bought Mahlie a t-shirt and some Aunty Cookie fabric. (I keep missing out on Etsy - got no moula in my paypal account!)

A special thankyou goes out to Jhoanna who bought two of our things for her girls at Mikes this week and has posted them on her blog. I can't wait to see Ava and Aurora dressed in them! I think her and I should just swap for each others stuff from now on - her Chibi dolls are adorable and it was very hard to walk out of the store without one last night!

Last but not least, I have added nursery furniture to my range of Marketbaby stuff and here is my first footstool! I am also doing cushions, hot water bottle covers and wall art. Any other suggestions?

dolls and dentists

   

Yesterday I got lost in the Western Suburbs trying to find our dentist. I've been there before, but Pete has always driven and I've never taken any notice of the roads. And I come from the 'other side' originally. After winding through estates and passing through little villages with milk bars and fish'n'chip shops, I made it on time and Mahlie was held by the lovely receptionist for the duration of my appointment. (what do other people do when you only need a babysitter for an hour??) We left and turned the street corner and there was a little antique store where I found the above lovelies. The doll is brand new with the tag still on! I had to take a photo of the tag as it is sooooo cute. I love those '60s kiddie illustrations. I think he might have to appear on a little t-shirt! Retro Kid is pure eye candy for me. And there behind the counter was this little beauty in a frame. She really is so sweet and only cost me $8! I always dreaded going to the dentist but now I know there are treasures around the corner, it doesnt seem so bad... The rest of my day was spent at Knifepoint dealing with a teething little monkey that wouldn't sit still or go to sleep and soiled her nappy twice immediately after I had waited in line in the baby parents room to change her! I lost my travel baby wipes and my patience. So much for trying to do something for myself - I was shopping for my party dress and accessories for the big "gasp" 30 which is next week. Boy, am I gonna get drunk!

PS: Mahlie started crawling last night! Half of me is going "finally" and the other half is going "uh-oh". I am so proud but she is such a menace already. Here she is after gutsing down her milk.