A special order quilt

Eeeeek my busy life again has come between myself and the blog AGAIN(which I hate).
I need to share something absolutely beautiful with you today.


I have a couple of images of a special order quilt I did for a lovely customer, Dimity. Her daughter Sienna was born premature & is still in NCIU, but the good news she is getting stronger.

This was her very special message to me .

Thank you soooo very much for the AMAZING quilt you made for our tiny princess in ICN / NICU.. It's just absolutely adorable!! Our 22month old daughter Mia, thought it was so pretty,, she wanted to keep it:) so it's definately a hit!
Sienna had heart surgery yesterday and is on a special theatre cot bed under special lights, and with loads of support / tubes attached.. So I haven't been able to place it with her.. But as soon as she is well enough to be transferred back into the humidy crib, I will take a picture of it for you.
Kindest regards and loads of loving thanks
Dimity x

I love what I do & makes every hour I spend worth it.

Here are some images of the quilt sent by Dimity, and how it is being used currently in NCIU.
My heart fills with warmth look at them.

A great way to end my week.
bring on the weekend. I hope its fabulous for you.

New Designs

After weeks of work its time to start loading some new products to my stores. I love this part, taking photos and the editing. I make no claim at being a great photographer or editor, AT ALL. What I have learnt is like so much of my artwork back ground is, "trial, error and determation". 

Thats it, oh and did I mention a few tanty's inbetween especially when I cant get it right haha!

So here we go...

Rainbows Unicorn personalised cushion

Blue Sausage Dog and owl personalised cushion

Elephant and Hot Air balloon - girls

Elephant and Hot Air balloon - boys

Choo Choo Train personalised Cushion

I still have quite a lot of work to post which is coming through slowly.

You can buy any of the designs in my etsy and madeit stores.

Creating tiny artwork for new necklaces coming soon!

I am still working away on my newest collection for Quirky and Quaint, which is due out March 1st.
I am having a new product made which will be converted into glass magnets & also necklaces for both BOYS and girls. I am really looking forward to have these complete. I have someone making them for me, and she does a brilliant job & I feel lucky to be putting our resources together.

I had to create a collage of designs 2.5cm in size for her so she could print them off, cut up and stick them perfectly to glass. They will be then created in to magnets so they can be inter changed into pendants. I will be sure to be clearer when I actually have images.

I have decided on square for the boys that will sit on gun metal grey pendants and chain.
For the girls I want round pendants and bright silver.

It was hard to select what I will use for boys as they are challenging at the best of times. I cant make them too cute, or use anything licensed. I dont feel like having the pants sued off me! All of the images are mine & have been rehashed to accomodate a tiny 2.5cm square.

Here are the designs I will be using for the boys.

Here are the round girls designs, I have to admite they are so much easier to design for. I think the colours will be great on bright silver hard wear.

 To be honest I am loving them so much I will most likely sell them via my Tiges and Weince shop!
I am having a sample made over the weekend so stay tuned for a few photos.

My first 3 day event

I have really taken a back step from markets over the last 12 months, and have decided to only do one a month which is my usual at Felmington market. However via one of my consultants that sell in my Quirky business, told me about this fab event that is held all over Australia called CRAFT ALIVE. 

I have done a lot of markets and have never heard of this before. I made an enquiry and was blown away by how exciting it sounded. It has been going for over 20 years, and is more predominantly known to the regional country towns in Australia. Regional towns around Australia have known all about this, and I am thrilled to be taking part in it. 

It is a 3 day event, and I will be honest to say I am quite nervous. Ninety percent of my business is personalised, so I know I will definitely have to take several look books for customers. I also have to consider the space. I have a large booth, but I do not own a truck so my car will only take so much. Fortunately the event is only an hour away from home, but I don't think I will have the energy to come home and make anything if I sell out of it.

Time to make a plan!! 

I will be sitting down over the weekend and working this out starting with these questions to myself. 

There is so much to think about and it's only around the corner. The date of the Craft Alive event is from the 15-17th Feb, you can click here for location details. I am also lucky enough to have a friend beside me the whole time, Aileen from Lime Daisy Design will be my neighbour. This is not coincidentally and completely planned. It will be great to share this experience together, and have a back up support. I am really hoping it's successfully for both of us.

Stay tuned to hear more about my planning progress.

Back to school and stationary love

While eating dinner tonight I sat in front of the news with anticipation waiting for the footage of all the little kiddies out their starting their first day of primary school. Every year it takes me back to when I was at school, especially primary school. I loved school, I was a good student, and also known as quiet a chatterbox. Every year at report time it was the same issue, "Kylie is a great student, she just needs to stop talking and listen more, and she could become an even better student". Blah blah blah I used to think. My son doesn't start primary school until next year, but I just know, I could put my mortgage on it, that he will be the same as me. I love my son more than words, but man oh man the kid can talk.

My most favourite part of school for me was when mum would take me to K-Mart or Target to buy all of my new stationary for the new school year. There was something that absolutely rocked my world about a fancy new eraser, pens, pencils, textas, a pencil case. Even more exciting was buying my clear contact ready to cover my binders and note books. It was very important to cut the images I loved from my magazines,  Dolly and Smash Hits, to cover them. I also remember how upset I would get if I left a bubble in the contact while doing it, it was so frustrating and almost heartbreaking. I wanted it contacted smoothly, it just had to be perfect.

Today is a whole knew world of stationary, and I often think to myself where was Smiggle or KikkiK then? Oh my goodness I would have been in my 10th heaven. So I put my 10 year old hat on tonight, and decided to have a look around to see what I believe, I would select for myself today. 

So what do you think? How much fun are they? All of my images came from Stationary Board on Pinterest of course. Everything on their makes my heart sing with excitement. Lets be honest I think I would still be happy to have this superb collection right now in my current work space. 

If you had a little one start school today I hope it was a fabulous experience for them.

Australia Day 2013

Happy Australia day everyone.
A nice light hearted post today on what I love about living in this great land.
I have travelled quite a bit and from what I have seen and experienced elsewhere, makes me appreciated the place I call home.

Have a great day however you may be celebrating.

Some new designs to show

It is only a week before my kids head back to kinder & occasional care. Can you believe we are at the end of January already? My goodness 2013 how you have so quickly approached the second month of the year already?

Amongst my school holiday activity chaos, I am still drawing away here in every spare minute I have. I am nearly finished, and feel like I am reeeeeeeeally stretching myself, i have kind of hit the wall. At the beginning of every season I start with numerous ideas, more than I need and generally I lose interest in some half way through, & create even more new ones mid through. I am really looking forward to getting some of the new designs into lovely decor products.

I have a couple more new designs that I would like to share.

These 4 new designs are a result of a sudden bursts of inspiration teamed up with existing drawings I already had filed away. It was time to drag them out and update them. To  be honest I would be really surprised if you recognised them, if you do let me know.