Birds, Bunnies and Flowers

Recently I have been crazy busy filling shop orders and they have all been wanting 

the Birds, the Bunnies and the flowers.

Which is wonderful as I love sewing all these designs.

I read this beautiful quote by Tolstoy the other day.

I have been so busy that I have not had a lot of me time.

But this week two friends have been so kind to me.

One came and spent 3 hours just cutting leaf's for me and

another lovely friend took me out to lunch yesterday to
"Mondays" in Kingsland.

They were both really kind things to do and it made me realise

that I have been so busy that I have missed out on spending some 

great quality time with some of my lovely, kind friends.

Its time for me to pass on some kindness to the people in my life.

New Shades

I experimented this week with different colour shades

mixed in with a bit of cream and green.

I am pretty happy with the outcome.

Both Ipad Cases have already found new homes.

Little Rabbits

Its all about the
"The Little Rabbits"

at the moment

Little Bird

Recently I have been so busy with shop orders that I have

had to squeeze in new design works here and there.

So I apologise for not having anything new to show you lately.

I have always since I started sewing loved doing bird designs.

So I started this new design as a "Little Black Bird" range

which I really liked. 

However Master O felt I should make some other coloured birds too. 

So he choose the colours for the orange and green bird.

It is a lovely sunny day today so I quickly took some pictures of my new

"Little Bird" range.

What do you think ?

With Christmas coming I have also been working on my "Special Hearts" range for 2014.

I love doing these hearts as I get to do a lot of free hand embroidery.

I have also been working on this years "Pixies"

I will try over the next week to load my new designs in my online store.

Little People (2)

I read this the other day and it really resonated with me.

My son is a sensitive soul and I do worry at times how he will get on in the world.

I read this and I thought its true the world is a better place because

he is a sensitive soul.

Several weeks ago now it was the school holidays.

So we jumped in the car and went down to the Bay of Plenty for 

a holiday with family. 

It rained and rained and was freezing cold.

So we spent a lot of time in doors.

Before we left I found some old wooden dolls tucked in the bottom of a box 

so I took them with me.

I went back to my roots and I made a little people family.

I had such a lot of fun making these little people.
I plan to take them to sell at the Michael Park Steiner school fair in November.
In fact I enjoyed making them so much that I order a few more doll bases to make up.

If you would like to make some.
You can see a tutorial that I did way back in 2011 that will help you.
Here is the link.

I have had Sinus for a few weeks now thus my absence.
A girlfriend said to me recently that as she has grown older she has learnt a
really important thing. It is that we have to learn to 

"Be kind to ourselves"

So I have stepped back from a few things these last few weeks and
I have learnt that is ooh so true.
Often we are so busy being kind and helpful to everyone around us that we forget about ourselves.

So take a moment and think about when was the last time you were kind to you ?

The Vikings are coming..................

I have been wanting to make a new design for boys.

So after having a chat with Master O about all things cool for boys.

I came up with this new design for Cushions and Ipad Cases.

I had hoped to reveal them at the  

Auckland Art and Craft Fair

but they have been snapped up

by Mixt .

So I am creating a few more to take to the Fair.

What do you prefer the Beard or the Moustache?

New Stockist

I have a lovely new stockist

called

Kina

they are based in New Plymouth

and I just sent them a big box full of goodies.

Here is a little peak

As you all know I love colour.

Look at these beautiful colourful people that I found online the other day.

I find them so inspiring.

I leave you with these words.