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Yesterday I was playing with wire, beads and scraps of antique lace.....I like it a lot.</div>
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Not sure what I'll use it in yet...maybe a necklace or perhaps an assemblage or collage. :)</div>
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Playing along with Simply Neutrals Tuesday #23 over at <span style="color: #351c75;"><i><b><a href="http://appleapricot.blogspot.com.au/2016/05/simply-neutrals-23-french-girl.html#more" target="_blank">AppleApricot</a></b></i></span>. </div>
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Thanks to the lovely Wen! ♥</div>
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well a 33 minutes quick for <a href="http://re-inventingfashion.blogspot.com.au/2016/04/mm-33min-cardy-refashion.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Jody</b></span></a> for Makeover Monday over at Sew Outside the Lines, but a couple of days for me! ;) But still it was easy enough.</div>
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I got these two cardies at Kmart at the end of Winter season last year for $5 each and hardly wore them. Mainly because the weather warmed up and they are a large size, but of course as is my habit, I figured I could alter them to make them smaller.....ahh yep, sure!! I think I'd call it mindless spending!!</div>
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When Jody put up her quickie re-invent I went with it. I've only done the cream/white one so far but will try to get to the striped one before the end of the cold weather......maybe. :P<br />
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Because it's not a very long cardy I cut off only the ribbing around the bottom, but as you can see in the pics, the arms are quite long so I also cut the ribbing off them. What on earth was I thinking wearing something that probably would have looked good on an orangutan!? I quite often question my stoopid choices in fashion!</div>
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The idea was to use a wide bias binding on these edges, but all I had on hand was a very narrow plain white one. Though I have to say I was very happy and surprised by how NOT like a mess it all turned out! lol</div>
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I'm off now to see what Jody has in store for this week's <a href="http://re-inventingfashion.blogspot.com.au/2016/04/makeover-monday-twice-rescued-butterfly.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>Makeover Monday</b></span></a>! </div>
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I thought I would also link up with <a href="http://appleapricot.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #666666;"><b>Wen's Simply Neutrals Tuesday</b></span></a> with a soft sculptured fabric Mushroom I made just recently.<br />
It's mostly neutrals of browns and creams and whites, but I've made the cup of the mushroom from a very delicate and beautiful shade of blue silk fabric. It's almost silver Wen! ;)<br />
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It lies inside a vintage wooden cigar box.<br />
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I love to alter clothes.....well anything really! But I've been following Jody's <b><a href="http://re-inventingfashion.blogspot.com.au/search/label/MakeOver%20Monday" target="_blank">MakeOver Monday</a> </b>meme for a while and when she decided to have a <a href="http://re-inventingfashion.blogspot.com.au/2016/04/makeover-monday-cardy-party-show-tell.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>Cardy Party Show & Tell</b></span></a>, I decided I'd like to take part.</div>
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To play along we had to choose two cardys that were too small and proceed to make them into one that fitted.</div>
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The black and green above were my choice. Given that none of my cardys are too small, I chose to cut more out of the sides of the green one than was needed, and make it the keeper.</div>
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The black one, a favourite that was falling apart but that I just couldn't throw away, lost it's sleeves to the cause. They became wedges in both sides of the green to make a slightly larger size. Maybe the rest of it will serve as an under-vest for winter! ;) </div>
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The finished changeling!! The buttons, some gorgeous tartan wool fabric covered ones and two loops of ribbon are only pinned in at the moment until I can find time to sew them in and decide which way to go with the loops or not go with the loops.</div>
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Overall I quite like my new cardy, but I think that really it looks more like a small jacket. :)</div>
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I'd love Jody's grey one she did for the party and would probably get more use out of it, but I'm happy with what I've done!</div>
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Pamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10811062874934673408noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2854756474324816662.post-3038854670936280672015-07-16T15:36:00.000+10:002015-07-16T15:37:55.753+10:00New things<div style="text-align: center;">
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who knew that making a more tailored bag would be enjoyable and easier than thought? Not me.</div>
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...who knew that an inside zippered pocket would be so simple to manoeuvre through? Not I, again.</div>
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But I do now thanks to a tutorial video I watched on <a href="https://www.creativebug.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>CreativeBug</b></span></a> in which <a href="http://www.nicolemdesign.com.au/" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;"><b>Nicole Mallalieu</b></span></a> showed me how! Nikki is a very talented lady from Melbourne(if memory serves me correctly) and this pattern is one of her own designs.</div>
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Even though I've been sewing for around 40yrs having made my own clothes to start with, I always picked the 'easy' way to make things and then wonder why they never turned out quite right. You'd think I'd know better by now after discovering some years back how easy it is to sew a zip into a piece of clothing 'if you just follow the instructions on the pattern' instead of bumbling through in your own thought out way!</div>
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This green check bag was the second one I made and even though I broke 4 needles along the way(used fabric that was way too thick for my experience in the thicker parts, looks and feels like a wool or wool blend) I thoroughly enjoyed the whole process. Really enjoyed! Surprised myself no end.</div>
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It all started when I was trying to work out what to make for my very goodly friend <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BearsAndOldLace" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Joolz</span></a> for her birthday. I had just joined Creativebug and had noticed Nikki's bag and thought why not make a red bag to go with Joolz's very pretty red shoes? Why not indeed.</div>
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The bag above of course, was the result. I had to change the tab shape a bit to accommodate the vintage doily that I knew she'd love. (hope you don't mind me doing that Nikki) It's lined with a tiny red and white check.</div>
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I took this photo some time ago when I saw an-almost fairy ring of toadstools in our backyard and thought I'd have some fun with it using the little ladybird and one of my wee dormice.</div>
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It turned out much better than I thought it would.</div>
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Spurred on by my enjoyment from making the first two, I decided to make another mixed media art doll and did her in a light Steampunk style. Steampunk, if it's not too dark, is one of my favourite styles!</div>
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Hope you like her as much as I do!</div>
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I found the making of the top hat much easier than I thought it would be and I've used layers of fabric again for her skirts. a vintage hanky, striped cotton and some sort of shiny satiny stuff! Forgive my ignorance in the ways of fabric!! :P</div>
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She's perched on top of a vintage wooden mill spindle, and I'm going to attach a wee metal tart tin for the base for the spindle so she stands well. </div>
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Some of you may remember this little lady from a previous post from last year. Well she never did speak to me in the end as to how she wanted to look when finished, so I undressed her and cut the chicken wire off and she is now the sassy steampunk lady above, just in case you didn't see that! ;)<br />
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Don't you love the way you can re-purpose just about any stuff you have into something that makes sense!? ;) </div>
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...and an update on my angel shrine doll.</div>
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You may remember that I had a heap of trouble finding the proper crackling medium around here where I live and the one I did use didn't work at all!!?</div>
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Well I used one lent to me by my wonderful saviour(time and again) Ro, from over at <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/LuvlyBears" target="_blank"><span style="color: #741b47;"><b>Luvly Bears</b></span></a>, and it worked beautifully, though the crackling may be a bit bigger than <a href="http://clothandclaydollmakers.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Daryle's</b></span></a> came out with the medium he uses. Oh the one I used was Jo Sonja's Crackle Medium. </div>
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But I'm very happy with the result and it actually looks to me a bit like an old antique crazed piece of china would! So I think I might leave the shine on and not use a matte medium this time.</div>
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I may have to touch up his eyes though, as they look a bit opaque or flat. One of the wooden beads I used for them had a small split in it when I started and that might be the reason.</div>
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I had a bit of play time with the same Ro as above, over the Easter long weekend, and we had some fun with her gorgeous dyes and I came home with this fabulous bundle of joy!</div>
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Now to start using it in some projects for my Etsy store!</div>
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Not sure if you'll be interested, but I thought I'd start a little 'thing' about what's in my creative space and take a quick shot when I think there's something interesting/mysterious/intriguing on the table in front of me that I have been or am working on at the moment!<br />
I won't necessarily be adding text to the photo, but I know I love looking at other creatives' works in progress so maybe you do too?<br />
Anyhoo this shot was a couple of days ago but I'm still working on these, though I've added another project or two into the mix that aren't in the shot! :)<br />
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Knowing I was going to be having coffee last Friday with a very good friend, Ro from <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/LuvlyBears" target="_blank"><span style="color: #741b47;"><b>Luvly Bears</b></span></a>, after not having seen her for a while, I had to quickly decide on something to make her for her birthday which had been back in February!</div>
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I then had to just as quickly make it in just over one day!! Note to self.....be ready for friends' future birthdays! ;) </div>
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So up until this morning my work tops have looked like a cyclone has been living on them! :)<br />
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So, inspired by a piece by <a href="http://robindudleyhowes.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>Robin Dudley-Howes</b></span></a>, I decided on an art doll made from a lovely vintage porcelaine doll body. I say body because she had no arms or legs!</div>
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I parted with some gorgeous pieces of vintage bling that I had been <strike>coveting</strike> <strike>hoarding </strike>holding for just the right project to use them on....her crown and breast piece.</div>
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The metal piece of door hardware fitted in well as a whimsical wing piece.</div>
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Sorry about the skinny arms Ro, but they don't look too bad do they? They sort of fit in with the whimsical-ness of the piece...sort of... </div>
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The dress I made from sari silk and a gorgeous piece of antique lace that I was given many years ago.</div>
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This one is a bit different in that it doesn't have wings and is tied to a lovely old cover from a book that was over 100 yrs old! </div>
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I've wired an old bronze key to the top of the cover.</div>
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Now this one was just the head that I was thinking was a frozen charlotte doll but I'm not sure she is actually. But I had to make a bit of a body to attach the head to so that I could then have something to hang the clothing from.</div>
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This one is done in a pearl theme rather than bling and I'm very pleased with the outcome.</div>
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Her skirts are made up of netting under a dainty vintage hanky, under a beautiful strip of vintage lace.</div>
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I'll be listing her in my Etsy store later this afternoon. </div>
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Here he is then. Of course you won't know who he is if you haven't followed along with my last few posts! He's probably as finished as he'll ever be.......though I'll more than likely add other little things as time goes by, cos I'm going to keep him for myself rather than sell him. </div>
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Only problem is that at the moment he has a very shiny face(it dries glossy) because the *%_)(@ crackle medium was a total fail! Not very happy at all! <a href="http://clothandclaydollmakers.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #741b47;"><b>Daryle</b></span></a> uses ArtDeco One-Step Crackle and from what I've read it's quite a good product. </div>
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But anyone would think we lived in the sticks instead of only 30-40 mins outside the city centre given how hard it is to buy things here sometimes! The one I found that I thought was going to do the same thing was Sullivan's brand from Lincraft but have made a huge note to self never to try them again!!!</div>
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Here he is just after the medium went on and you can see I have heaps of wet on there, as you're supposed to for large cracks. Left it overnight so thought it would be good and ready......but couldn't see any crackling at all so tried a bit of paint(up on top of his head just in case it didn't work cos it would be hidden by his 'hat').</div>
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....and of course it didn't work and in fact the paint seemed to 'melt' the medium and it went all glicky. So I stopped right there. </div>
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Stoopid Sullivan's!!!</div>
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So for now he can just sit in all his glory with a shiny face for a while until I find the proper stuff to use. But you know I'm just loving his face even with the shine and even though I know he would look so much nicer with the crackled effect. </div>
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It's lovely to have my own little bird watcher! :)</div>
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I've thoroughly enjoyed this whole process and it was so much easier than I thought it would be. Daryle's wonderful workshop showed me how to work with the paperclay and now I want to make more dolls and faces, and maybe even little birds to perch on his box body instead of the mushroom/commercial ones I have on there at the moment.</div>
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Thanks so very much Daryle! Can't wait for your <a href="http://clothandclaydollmakers.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/trailer-new-workshop-in-works.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">next workshop</span></a>!</div>
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So work is gradually progressing with my <a href="http://clothandclaydollmakers.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #b45f06;">angel shrine doll</span></a>
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I accept that I can’t be an overnight success and turn out
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Ha!! Now that’s a challenge in itself without everything
else that is done in this piece. Think sanding all the different surfaces that
needed some sanding and think endless red dust!! I didn’t even bother sanding
inside, but instead painted half of it with a wet surface of glue followed very
closely with a coat of paint. I’ve read that chalk paint covers varnished
finishes without sanding, and I’ve also read and been told that chalk paint has
glue as one of it’s ingredients. Seems to have worked adequately for my
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My little guy is really taking on his own sweet character don't you think? I'm having so much fun and very excited with the whole process. It's much easier than I thought it would be.</div>
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If you've seen my previous post then you'll know that I'm doing a workshop by Daryle Cook on his new blog <a href="http://clothandclaydollmakers.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>Cloth and Clay Doll Makers</b></span></a> on how to make an Angel Shrine Doll using paperclay and other mixed media. ....and it's a very generous free workshop!!</div>
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I love the way he looks(to me anyway) that he is or is about to say something. :)</div>
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Circus themes have become recent favourites of mine. This piece took a wee while but it was fun to work it out and make it, though it's not quite finished yet.</div>
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This final piece is a a fabric sailing boat that I made using an <a href="https://www.annwoodhandmade.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Ann Wood</b></span></a> pattern.</div>
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On a final note, you may have noticed that I've managed to post quite a bit for moi just lately? I'm actually feeling much better than I was a <a href="http://clothtocreation-pam.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/expectations-offrom-self.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>few weeks back</b></span></a> and feeling that I want to 'do' stuff. But more on that later. A huge heartfelt thank you to all those sweetest of sweet readers who left me such wonderfully supportive comments. Love to you all!</div>
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To be honest when I saw the post about a workshop for an angel shrine doll on <a href="http://woodstownwhimsies.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><b>Woodstown Whimsies</b></span></a> I thought I must have been reading it all wrongly because the wording was making it sound like the workshop was going to be no charge....free.....!!!!! All to make a gorgeous paperclay doll on an altered shrine, with full instructions on video to boot!</div>
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While keeping my excitement down, I continued to read and then after visiting the new blogsite and reading comments by a couple of other readers, I realised that it was in fact FREE!!</div>
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I would normally find it hard to afford these sort of workshops/tutorials and I was so excited and amazed at the generosity that Daryle was showing.</div>
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So I just had to share it all with you and if you're interested in learning how to make one of these gorgeously whimsical pieces you know where to go now!</div>
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I came to know about Daryle Cook through his beautiful Santos Doll that I found in a Prims Magazine by <a href="http://stampington.com/" target="_blank"><b>Stampington</b></a>.</div>
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Not bad for a beginner I think. Room for improvement indeed but of course that will come with time.</div>
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It's silly how excited I am about making this project and usually when I see something I'd like to make I will bookmark it and tell myself I'll come back later when I have more time or feel more like it or I've got everything together etc etc.....then more often than not it never gets made. :(</div>
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Well this time I surprised myself by getting everything together this morning after I found that Daryle had put up the first video and started making it straight away! I love his work and look forward to making myself something half as good!</div>
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I just hope it's not too big. Still, I have time to find something else if I wish. I love the wooden clock house that he has found for his piece. Just the right size and shape. :)</div>
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Thought maybe you'd like to see the fun little dolls I made recently. </div>
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We crafty girls were going out for <a href="http://www.billy-angel.com/" target="_blank">Laura's</a> birthday last week and I thought she'd like the little rabbit one as I know she likes strange and weird little things! Hmmm...... ;D Sorry Laura Lou! x♥ </div>
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<br />Pamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10811062874934673408noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2854756474324816662.post-66595400708837668312015-02-23T16:17:00.000+10:002015-02-23T16:31:35.407+10:00Our Beautiful World - Week 85<div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="color: #38761d;">CIRCLE</span></b> is the word prompt for <a href="http://www.our--beautiful--world--365.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #351c75;">Our Beautiful World</span></a> this week chosen by Kirsty of <a href="http://handmade-little-things.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">Handmade Little Things</span></a>. </div>
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After looking through my photos I came up with...</div>
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....my hexies!</div>
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I've just started making these as something to do at night while watching tv, or even not watching it.</div>
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They make a great portable craft too for the days we go on our crafty days over to Laura's shop.</div>
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.....one of my beautiful girls framed by a circle.....well almost!</div>
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......a very pretty and delicate toadstool/mushroom that I found in our backyard a few years ago.</div>
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I didn't think I'd be able to find many photos to depict a circle but it's surprising how many I do actually have! :) </div>
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Pamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10811062874934673408noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2854756474324816662.post-64261168053102791072015-01-26T17:55:00.000+10:002015-01-26T17:55:06.157+10:00expectations of/from self<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me at about age 4. Cute as a button!</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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I'm not the person I thought I would grow into you know.<br />
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is the happy, strongly independent woman I should have been, I thought I would have been? The same
woman who should have been successful with no worries about money,
health or guilt(for numerous reasons)?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Married 1983 ~ Happy and so much hope and potential for a an exciting life ahead. Thankfully we're still together. His story is his own.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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As I sit here only a few weeks away from turning 59 I just feel tired, beaten, sad and stuck without any idea where I'm going. For some time I've been watching time get away from me, very quickly, and I find that quite scary! I ha<b>ve</b> become very apathetic and 'just don't feel like it' or 'just don't want to do it!'<br />
Perhaps it has a bit to do with this appalling heat we're having here where I
live in south east Queensland this summer. Well, at this point of time anyway. It
just seems to suck all the energy and motivation right out of me! I'm
also still having flushes from the hormone unbalance that comes with
menopause, and though I once loved the hot sunny weather when I was
younger, I'm finding it so very hard to cope with these days. Have you
noticed that you're finding everything harder the older you get, if you
feel behind the 8 ball?! Whoo! I know I have! :)<br />
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I feel there are a number of reasons for feeling/being who I am today.
Emotional upheaval from menopause, above mentioned hot climate, being
stuck in noisy suburbia amongst others a wee bit too personal to mention.<br />
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A couple of weeks ago I had a moment where I thought to myself "I DO NOT want to live the rest of my life feeling this bad!"<br />
So I decided to change some things in my life ~ my way of eating, make a vision board, stop beating myself up for things that aren't done(work in progress!!), try to do a bit more exercise(working on that too!), reading and doing more about good health and feeling happier. Hoping to add more good things, inspiration, to this list. Let go of some things, some ideas and ideals. Try new things, find another path.<br />
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If only this heat and/or the hot flushing would let up I might get there faster! :) <br />
I've tried changes before but they never stayed, always I let something
get in the way. But I feel my resolve this time is stronger and I feel
better about it all this time. Why am I publishing this for the whole
world to read? I don't know really.....maybe something about putting it
down on paper/in writing, so to speak, that might help move it along?
and as I've seen other bloggers put it, I'll hopefully feel more
committed to succeeding so I don't look or feel like a complete doofus!? lol<br />
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Meanwhile I am really enjoying all the tasty green
smoothies for breakfast in my quest to add much more green plant life to
my diet. In times of less stress and less heat I play around with some very
yummy recipes that I find on the foodie blogs I've started following. Gluten free, vegan, even raw dishes, no processed foods!<br />
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I found a lovely little mixed media and fabric collage tutorial on one of my most fav blogs <a href="http://appleapricot.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #741b47;"><b>Apple and Apricot</b></span></a>. The owner of this blog is Wendy and she is one of the most generous and kindhearted people I've met online! </div>
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Anyhoo I decided to give it a try. Most of you probably know that I already dabble in these sort of collages but Wendy had built hers up onto a smallish stretched canvas board which she had painted very nicely around the outside border.</div>
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I usually make mine on thick fabric backings so I thought I'd like to try it coz I
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Bit of a challenge was this one, but I enjoyed the process. There was a lot of graphics printing out and much glueing being done on and around the large wooden block that I started out with! :)</div>
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.......so with summer almost here, I've started back on smoothies for breakfast and I love these little bundles of juicy antioxidants mixed in! </div>
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This morning's delight came out like this because as well as the blueberries, kale, seeds, oils, and banana etc I added in beetroot!</div>
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I have a few vegetables growing at the moment but they have a little way to go.</div>
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Had to put up chicken wire to keep out our furry babies, birds and possums...though I don't suppose it would stop the possums if they really wanted to get into the garden! :)</div>
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...only tiny yet, but they'll be sooo tasty I'm sure!</div>
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I just wanted a simple, comfy and cool dress to wear while working in my
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I take a simple pattern for a comfy and cool dress cut on the bias, that had been bought many years ago.</div>
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<span style="color: #0000ee;"><span style="color: #444444;">...<span style="color: black;">cleverly think I could cut it on the straight</span></span> </span>using some stretch knit fabric that I've had here for years, and hey why wouldn't that work?! Which it did in the end, really.<br />
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I lay out the lovely moss green stretch and then promptly cut out two fronts!!!! Grrr...<br />
so...determined that I'll finish this dress (a change for me!) I take back pattern piece and lay it on one folded over front and merrily cut around it.<br />
.....discover that apart from the fabric being a wee bit narrower than the front but hey, this won't matter coz I have a narrow back, I'd laid it down the wrong way and had cut it out with the armholes for the neck edge and neck edge for the armholes!!! Which of course is NOT going to work, at all!!!<br />
Now I stop and contemplate how long I've actually been sewing and making clothes for myself, esp using paper patterns!!! Longer than I want to think about. sigh....</div>
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....so my answer to this is to grab an old but very lovely stretch lace
top that hasn't fitted around me for quite some time, but that I hadn't
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Then I cut it apart and use it to create a new shoulder and neck section. Phew!</div>
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After sewing up side seams and a quick try on just to make sure it fitted ok, I remembered that I had cut this pattern out all those years ago when I was a much smaller 8!!! Do you see where I'm going with this? I'm now a size 10-12, and quite often 12 esp around the bust and waist these days! Double grrr....sigh.....grooaaannn</div>
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...so the sleeves which are/were peaked down on the inside seam, are duly cut to size and shape to fit nicely enough into side seam to allow a bit more maneuverability for the expanded waistline! You know what I mean <a href="http://re-inventingfashion.blogspot.com.au/2013/11/reinvention-story-tea-towel-tunic.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Jody</b></span></a>!! :) </div>
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A nice little lot of recycling, re-purposing, up-cycling, altered couture and of course fudging like you wouldn't believe!! ;D </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Apart from the usual life difficulties, I struggle with publishing posts on this blog of mine. I do! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I figure one really does need to have something mildly interesting to report on as well as good photos in regards to the reasons/subject that one started a blog in the first place! Mine being my crafty creativity, as most of you would know.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">and in my own opinion I don't often feel that my 'stuff' is very interesting or newsworthy (I know a couple of you will be thinking otherwise!). and I certainly didn't/don't want this blog to be just a string of my completed creations. Blog readers deserve more than a catalogue, dontcha think!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">....and there, the truth is out....well some of it anyway. and one of the reasons my posts can be few and far between!!! <span style="font-size: large;">☺</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">...then with a huge amount of help from the dh (thank you darling) that back wall was pushed back and I gained a couple of square metres more space. But it was a little bit darkish back there because it's been 'stolen' from the garage from a part of which had no wired in lighting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So, with 22metres of LED fairy lights for just $17 the box, and a heap of assorted sheer white curtain samples passed onto me a few years ago, I've created a wonderful little fairyland of sorts! Just wish the photo showed how really lovely it looks. I know it's not hugely and brightly lit up, but it's made a world of difference and I can see what I'm looking for without using a piddly torch to see by. These little lights don't use much in electricity either.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">and as a gorgeous surprise, she made me this, when she didn't need to give me anything at all! She's taken the logo from my Nest in The Attic and made me a beautiful pendant.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So if you're after something like this to wear for your own business or market stall, she's taking orders for these pendants.....and she would probably not turn down orders for other jewellery pieces, but ask her first I'd guess!!</span> <span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-size: large;">☺</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The first was the very clever Samara from <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Maddabling?directed_target_id=0" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Maddabling</b></span></a> on her regular weekly <a href="http://maddabling.blogspot.com.au/2013/10/friday-friends-dusty-divas-nest-in-attic.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><b>Friday Friends - DUSTy Divas</b></span></a> post! The whole post was about MOI!!! She had a story about me and quite a few pics of my creations including the little guy below.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Thank you so much once again Samara!</span> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;">♥</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">.....and the second fellow Etsian <a href="http://www.etsy.com/au/shop/Sassaby" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>Amy-Sassaby</b></span></a> asked if she could feature my funny little Halloween pumpkin pinkeep in her <a href="http://blog.sassaby.com.au/halloween-handmade-party-guide" target="_blank"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Halloween Party Guide</b></span></a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The very talented Amy designs and sells digital DIY graphics and/or labels for parties, including invitations, loot bags, banners and decorations. and believe me they are fabulous!! </span></div>
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That's a funny saying isn't it. It's not like our teeth have skin on them, though they certainly stick out of it!! lol!! Wonder where it came from?......might Mr Google it one day and find out! :))</div>
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Back to the subject in hand and that's the last two Etsy shops on my list to promote for the month of May, and as it's now after 8.30pm on the 31st then I have indeed just made it by the proverbial! :)</div>
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The first one is <span style="color: #990000;"><b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/rocksnpots" target="_blank">Rocks 'n Pots</a></b></span>! Great name hey?! </div>
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Jan handpaints gorgeous pet animals on rocks that are beautifully smooth and shaped just right, as well as themed scenes on terracotta pots and the ones in stock at the moment are Mexican themed.</div>
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Sarah loves to use beautiful papers incorporated into quite a few diverse items from fridge magnets mounted behind glass pebbles and on clothespins, to mirrors and jewellery!! Wow!</div>
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Yep it's me (and I seem to remember starting off my last post with much the same words!:)), how I look at the mo after a dubiously lucid moment during a bit of a funk! I decided I needed to cut it all off, and as you can tell that's what happened. No more beloved long bits in the front, but that's ok coz it's really easy to look after and it WILL grow back......eventually! :)</div>
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A very late Christmas pressie finally finished for my loverly sister Sandy over at <a href="http://snapshotsofbeauty.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>Snapshots of Beauty</b></span></a>.....long story, but, I do hope you like her sis.</div>
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You know, I'm a very lucky and very grateful gal, and I try to remember and appreciate it as often as I can. Below are pics of my studio space before and after the work that my husband and I recently did on it. See previous post if you have the time.</div>
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So the poor old car is now living outside and he and I both have much more room in each of our allocated work areas! How exciting is that?! Also means much more room for the girrls on our Wednesday crafty get togethers!</div>
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I'm very lucky to have a dh that is a bit clever with a hammer & an electric drill etc and given that he's not a carpenter/builder, managed to take down walls and re-erect them to give me my lovely new space! Thank you so very muchly darling husband of mine. You're a treasure! Of course I helped quite a bit too dontcha know, so I figure I'm a wee bit of a treasure too!! lol.</div>
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Even though a lot of my time has been taken up with the changes to the studio, I managed to change one of these cross over tops into a simple cardy by cutting off the rib bit, (thus opening up the front) and then added some lovely vintage lace (thanks to the bestie <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BearsAndOldLace?fref=ts" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>Joolz</b></span></a>!) to the hem of it. Shame I didn't have any more of the lace though coz I could have added it to the sleeves as they're 3/4 length. Still to decide whether or not to put some sort of button, loop, catch or closure on the front. Any thoughts lovely readers?</div>
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The second shop is such a gloriously colourful place to visit and it's called <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/wimcee" target="_blank"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><b>Wimcee</b></span></a>. Apart from all that fantastic colour, the byline is enough to make you stop and smile really.....wimcee's whims and chickadees. :))</div>
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Stephanie's shop announcement says "My clothing range for children, wimcee's chickadees, is buzzing with boho chic and woodland woo-hoo." ....and she's not wrong! I'm sure any kid would love to be seen out and about in Stephanie's creations! She also has other great and different things to look through and smile at including bunting, tote bags and journal covers. </div>
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Yep, it's me! Honest it is..... hello and hope you're all doing as well as can be expected! :)</div>
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I've been keeping fairly busy of late and still trying to find that fine balance between home, life and creating. Sometimes I think I've got it by Jove, but then all of a sudden NUP I don't! Anyone else find this with themselves too? Quite frustrating dontcha know?!</div>
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Anyhow I thought I'd pop up a few pics of things that I've been working on over the last couple of months. </div>
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I still love to work on little birds and nests of course and along with one of my other loves, repurposing and recycling (especially kitchenalia), have created these little sweeties. </div>
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The top one is made with a silver baby spoon with one of those curled around handles. You know, the ones that are given many times as Christening gifts?</div>
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....and the second has been made with what I think is a vintage silver fish server. You can just see the holes under the nest if you look closely. I haven't quite finished this one....it needs a ribbon or something!</div>
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Both utensils are op shop finds of course.</div>
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Both nests have been made using waste from my sewing projects! It's amazing what can be used when you sit and think about it you know! :) </div>
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....both from denim shorts (op shop) and my lace stash. I'm thinking they would be great as market aprons. These were fun and easy. I had a third using a denim skirt but tried to be too clever with the pocket (I've tried to incorporate both the back and the front of the skirt to make a clever pocket!) and it's taking a lot longer to nut it out. But it will get done!!</div>
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Now remember that huge yellow topped table I had? Well I found these fabbo retro kitchen tables at one of the local op shops(of course!), and decided they would make a great replacement. Yes I know the other table was a very good one but oh how I disliked that very glarey yellow, not that I don't like yellow, but one can only take so much expanse of yellow in one room!</div>
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But these still give me plenty of room to lay out fabric and chenille to cut out and I also get better options when it comes to placing them and trying to fit them around those awful cement posts that are used under highset houses.</div>
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Anyhoo, the dh and I have decided the car can now live outside and both he and I get more room in each of our work areas. Yay!! So we're going to move the wall you see in the background, back a few feet and I'll be able to sit the tables in a better formation, we'll finally have a designated laundry area and he gets a less cramped workshop for cutting out those lovely wooden blocks that seem to be so popular. Win, win and win situation wouldn't you say?</div>
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I must like to make tiny critters a lot, coz apart from the tiny nests, I now have a family of these gorgeous little dormice that I designed! I think I might be making up a pattern and templates for sale soon too. More about that later....</div>
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and, I also have tiny ordinary mice and elephants on the go too, all waiting to be finished. It's a veritable zoo here in downtown Clontarf! :)</div>
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Last month I signed up to take part in a promotion for fellow Etsy Shops.It's being hosted by the lovely Denise over at her blog <a href="http://www.denthe.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><b>denthe</b></span></a>.</div>
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Apart from the post on my blog, I can also promote on my <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Nest-in-The-Attic/224784557644612?ref=tn_tnmn" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>facebook page</b></span></a> or <a href="http://pinterest.com/nestintheattic/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>my Pinterest page</b></span></a>.</div>
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My first shop is <span style="color: #741b47;"><b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/DebiMDesigns" target="_blank">DebiMDesigns</a></b></span>. Deb works in mainly polymer clay and if you're looking for some very cute little whimsical dragon creatures, then this is the shop to go to!</div>
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Deb also has a facebook page under <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/DebiMDesigns" target="_blank">DebiMDesigns</a></b></span>.</div>
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I'll be back next week with another Etsy shop for you to go check out and some pics of something new I'm working on at the mo.</div>
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Now look at me go!.... Once I get started I seem to be able to babble on quite well don't I!? lol. It's getting me started that's the problem. Hmmmmm. </div>
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Hope you all had a lovely day on Thursday. Bit late I know but then I'm rarely on time with this blog of mine!! :))</div>
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The girls and I had our usual creative crafty day but I thought it would be nice to make them all a little surprise in the way of these mixed media hearts. I was very pleased with how they came out. Also made some tasty butterfly chocolate cupcakes with some rose water flavoured cream and a strawberry to top each. Thanks so much for a lovely morning Joolz, Ro, Laura, Lisa and Myrene. </div>
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and remember that little dormouse I showed a pic of in my previous post that wasn't quite finished? Well this is the end result, and isn't he the sweetest li'l guy? Even if I do say so myself! :)<br />
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Took a stretch top and cut off the length that I wanted for the bodice. (A nice piece of stretch lace that can be used in another altered piece some time in the future.)</div>
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Then turned it around so that the ties at the back will now be the front neckline and sewed it to a lovely piece of sunflower fabric. </div>
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I forgot to take a shot of the next step......when I tried the dress on, the skirt was a bit snug so I cut up the length of the skirt on both sides and added an inverted V shaped insert in a complimentary colour and that did the trick. You can see them in the pic below. </div>
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Ciao for now. Happy weekend to you all! <span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #990000;"> ♥♥♥</span></b></span></div>
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What have I been up to since November....quite a bit really but these are just a few pics of some of those bits. </div>
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I've taken a liking to making wee little critters lately. Awwww. Sweet aren't they?</div>
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The bunny is made from a sweet pattern designed by a good friend of mine Ro from <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/LuvlyBearsandthings" target="_blank"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>Luvly Bears</b></span></a>. He sits around 5" to the top of his head and I used shaggy chenille and stained it with Parisian Essence......as you do! :)</div>
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Little ellie is a design by <span style="color: #b45f06;"><b><a href="http://gingermelondolls.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank">Gingermelon</a></b></span> and is handsewn! Me, hand sewing!!! Wonders will never cease! :)</div>
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and the chickadee is a <a href="http://www.cheswickcompany.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>The Cheswick Company</b></span></a> design. They were all a lot of fun to make and I'm sure I'll be making more. </div>
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But this little one is my own design and after three tries I got the pattern right. He/she is my version of a dormouse, but it's not quite finished yet. I need to add a tail, whiskers, nose and little paws and feets!</div>
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I've fallen in love with these little creatures and want to make them in different poses. Did you know that they hibernate for up to 6months of the year, and they usually only have one litter a year and most of the images I found of them asleep they were on their backs, little paws and feets curled inward and their bushy tails right up over their belly, face and top of head!</div>
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So, so sweet I tells ya!</div>
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I got the dh to put some shelves up just inside the studio door for some of my lovelies. They're actually the drawers from a vintage silky oak low-boy that we got from my mother. Clever huh?</div>
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A definite bargain at $20 from the local Life Line. Solid silky oak, we think, and in the style of one of those old travelling trunks? Never seen one like it before and just not sure where to put it, or what to use it for or even if to keep.</div>
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Couldn't resist these when I saw them on Etsy! I wanted some lovely soap dishes and haven't found anything that I liked........you know what it's like. :D</div>
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Call me crazy but I'm so loving the chipped, stained and vintage-ness of them. So much history and character! </div>
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The back one came intact and I'm using it, but the front one which is a really pale and really lovely blue didn't come with it's original base(which I knew about) so I'm on the lookout for a bottom to match.</div>
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I also decided it was time for a new look....you may have noticed. :)</div>
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It's a work in progress so I hope it looks pleasing to the eye.</div>
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<a href="http://re-inventingfashion.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>JaM over at Jody's place</b></span></a></div>
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I've finally made up a small wooden puzzle set for Christmas to put up in my stores as an example for the wooden blanks I sell on <a href="http://www.craftumi.com.au/storecatalog.asp?userid=130" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>Craftumi</b></span></a> and <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/NestInTheAttic" target="_blank"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><b>Etsy</b></span></a>, but I will also sell this set. It was a bit fiddly as I've never made one before, but I'm pleased with the end result, and might do a short tutorial on them one day.<br />
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I've been busy, as I think I mentioned last time trying to make up for all the sold stock of my vintage chenille cloths, shower mitts and potholders. <a href="http://bearsandoldlace.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #741b47;"><b>Joolz</b></span></a> and I have two more Christmas markets next month for <a href="http://www.brisstyle.com.au/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>BrisStyle</b></span></a> and I'd be silly not to have a heap of these things for those, given how well they sold last year!</div>
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I've made up a few bundles for gifts in Christmas colours along with the usual colours. These will be listed on my <a href="http://www.madeit.com.au/storecatalog.asp?userid=18584" target="_blank"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Madeit</b></span></a> and Etsy stores.</div>
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I haven't forgotten the little birdies either, though not much work has been done on that front. This was an easy and simple little piece that I've made up on a vintage reel of cotton, but in my true recycling style the tiny nest has been made from a bunch of left over thread that is cut from projects that I've sewn up! It looks so much better and cuter in real life! :)<b> </b></div>
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My stock of old/vintage table linens etc was getting scarily low so on recent trips to the local op shops with a good friend of mine, Ro from <a href="http://www.facebook.com/LuvlyBears" target="_blank"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><b>Luvly Bears</b></span></a>, I was ecstatic to find this fabulous collection just waiting for me! </div>
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This lot in the top pic are all, hopefully, destined for parts in my dishcloths, potholders and aprons.</div>
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These two large tablecloths are in such great condition and have Australian native flowers and birds over them and they will go up in my <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/NestInTheAttic" target="_blank"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><b>Etsy</b></span></a> store when I get my Collectibles category up and running. </div>
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But this one I found the hardest to let go of let alone cut! It's condition is amazing and I'm in love with the yellow roses and over-all colour! So.....I've decided it will become clothing for moi!! :) Just have to decide what pattern/style. I'm thinking a dress that will be comfy for summer. What do you all think? </div>
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As I was telling a bloggie friend in an email, a couple of days ago I was having a moment, which I've been having for a little while now actually(!) :)), and some 'things' happened this day which added to my patheticness. Well I got quite cranky for allowing myself to go down this path, (waaaay too many details and uninteresting stuff to go into) and after I got a response from said bloggie friend to a comment I had left on her blog which made me give myself a verbal slap coz I'd felt that I'd brought the tone of the post down(but she would probably say rubbish! Or I hope she would!!), I decided I needed to make the afternoon all about me! :)</div>
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......I treated myself to a couple of patterns from one of my fav blogs. The very same listed above for the JaM meme....<a href="http://re-inventingfashion.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Jody Pearl. REinventing Fashion by DEconstructing it</b></span></a>. She makes the most amazing altered clothing<b>,</b> and designs clothing patterns which she sells.</div>
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Now this was a beautiful bracelet that my really good friend Joolz gave me some time back that she bought overseas. She said at the time that it might drive me batty with all the ringing of the bells that are part of it, and she was right actually. But it occurred to me that it would make a much better necklace coz one tends not to jangle as much with the neck as the wrist! I added the long chain from an old necklace and there ya go! A gorgeous necklace that will go with a heap of different outfits.</div>
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and you know, I felt much better by the end of the night and still do a few days later. I've now decided that I need to take more time for myself and more often. Not just things like 'going out with the girls' stuff, but doing all those little things for myself that just never get done. To make life for 'me' more comfy and easier.</div>
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I realised that I hadn't been doing that enough!</div>
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So.... I've been busy with the <a href="http://mind-wideopen.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><b>Mind Wide Open challenge</b></span></a> again for October, and this is my entry, made using an old child's board book that I've obviously altered. I really enjoyed this one, but it's quite different from most of the other pieces entered which were largely along the theme of Halloween. They are all fabulous and look like such fun pieces. But being an Australian who doesn't celebrate the holiday(though I love to make items for it to sell) I kept mine to the theme of happy family! :)</div>
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Our little craft group has grown a bit over the last months and seems to have become a more regular thing on Thursdays, so I thought it prudent to make more room around the table and moved a few things around in the studio. It now sits 7, though we aren't that many at the mo.</div>
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There a few that know me who think I'm quite organised and tidy when it come to my studio, so I took a pic to prove that I can be just as untidy and disorganised as the next crafter! The mess on the table and chair and the floor (which is just out of shot) is just for one project(see the first pic above!)! :)</div>
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I've been trying to build up my stock of chenille cloths seeing as how I sold out of them! I'm doing the <a href="http://www.brisstyle.com.au/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>BrisStyle Eco Market</b></span></a> next month and really need to get a move on to have enough stock that falls into the criteria of recycled, repurposed, eco friendly or sustainable. </div>
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Just lately I've been really enjoying the perfume of Honeysuckle in my studio each day. I have a lovely bush that has been in full flower for weeks, and every time I walk in or out of the studio door I'm rewarded with their beautiful scent! LOVE it! I took a pic of the bush just to show you all, but have forgotten to upload it. Another time perhaps. </div>
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Quite pleased with the finished look of this apron that has been made with vintage linens and laces. </div>
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I this made for a bag challenge on <a href="http://www.clothdollartistry.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>Cloth Doll Artistry</b></span></a>, and I set myself a challenge within that challenge. Without borrowing a pattern(so to speak) I wanted to design a messenger
style bag using only two pieces of fabric: without a separately added
flap as is usually the case. I also wanted to use only
recycled/re-purposed upholstery samples and curtain lining that would
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The photo does not do any justice to this little guy! I've used a pattern from The Cheswick Company and some black furry fabric that <a href="http://bearsandoldlace.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Joolz</b></span></a> gave me. It came from an old black coat that she got from the op shop and it's perfect for little black crows!!! lol. </div>
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This is just some of what I've been up to while awol! But I'm afraid I can't fit it all in here! and besides I don't want to bore you away from the blog do I? ;D</div>
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