meow

its a lot of fun to cut up jumpers that people have decided they dont like or need anymore. its also a lot of fun to be searching for the elusive soft,furry, perfectly coloured jumpers with my sister while our girls rummage for toys(junk).

while waiting for tea to cook i sew their bits together.

with eucalyptus dyed fabric with clover prints i make little clothes.

and now there are three more cats in the house. because if you cant beat them, join them. or something like that.

happy spring

well lets just pretend it looks and feels like spring outside. the birds are definitely chirping their heads off-not that i would call a crow a bird. each morning when the crows are squaking and banging on my windows at 6am i tell myself if i had a gun i would shoot them . of course i couldnt. but seriously....do they have to?



the other day i borrowed a trailer to go pick up a couch for my room. when it was time to drop the trailer off it was pouring rain, my mum was inside sick, and it was almost pick up kids time. so in a crazy im a superwoman moment i tried with all of my might to lift the trailer up off the tow ball and something went keeek in my lower back. oh no. ive done my back. we then got a wheel thing and sensibly got wet in the rain and wound the trailer up off my car. and then off i went with my broken back. silly me.



a week or so later and i think its getting better and im half getting used to moving in the right way so i dont hurt. my lesson this week is im not superwoman. and i need to look after myself. i think it was just yesterday i said i felt like i was 50 and farmer boy said oh well theres not much difference between 40 and 50. and then i howled im not even 40 yet! im still in my 30s (just) !

he was annoying me. so off i went to my sewing room.



and i should have know better than to go and sew after not sewing for a long time, in a grumpy mood. i got fabric jammed in my overlocker while trying to make Amelie a dress. i then pulled some of it apart and cant fit it back together. and i think i bent something. i have to laugh.

i almost finished the dress which possible looks like an adult dress? maybe not with some polka dot additions to the outfit :-)



meanwhile Veda has been rehearsing for what seems like forever for the school production of Alice in Wonderland. its on this thursday and friday night. i cant wait to see it. i could watch Veda sing and dance forever .



and finally my sister Melinda and her sweetness Hana are coming this weekend from Japan. for a month. happy happy us. im hoping spring will give us some sunny days together.



now off i go to drink some coffee and hem Ammies dress and ignore some mess. hope you are having a happy day.

X manda

february begins with...

a flickering butterfly

i have new drawers that weigh more than a freight train. but are so very beautiful. they, and my other new furniture gifts to me from me, and from my boy, will live in my studio. i think maybe thats what i need to focus on. getting our house made bigger. the builders are all on holidays im assuming....and its a bit tricky.... only because its been so hot around here and i just want to go float in some salty water in the ocean at fremantle. weve delayed our holidays because it just didnt seem to be coming together,,... im so bad at planning holidays (or anything) i wish my boy would do it. but he wont. probably because he finds it hard to move being the rock that he is (metapyhsically speaking, or something like that).
anyway... the beach.

maybe we could go to fremantle once all the school hoilday people go home? perth is so far though....it has always been the problem with perth..even when we lived there. its a big shame,....because its a beautiful place. a clean warm beach is all i need.

i went and brought more new fabric yesterday. i cant help it. i really want to be sewing myself some new beautiful fine clothes. the kids brought themselves little purse making kits with money that uncle anthony and aunty anne gave them. so cute. and excellent because we got to use our new unused glue gun. see- i did need one. veda shared my joy about having a glue gun. thats my girl.

this is my new chair my boy gave me for christmas. now that i think of it, its funny. because im always so flippy floaty...ready to run off into the neverland at any minute, no wonder he gave me a chair. sit down! or maybe he finally understands my tiredness. here honey ..sit down..relax. im awful. .. . .... i think he really just wanted to buy me a nice chair in excitement about me having my own new space to create in.

so its the 4th of january already. my heart is skipping little beats every now and then in a little panic that the days are flying past me faster than i like. that im not living in sync with time. i cant keep up with it. why do i care anyway. the kids are just happy that it is a new day to play in. on. around. amelie just told me shes tired..at 7.45 am. im thinking she should start eating more food. she's turning fussier god help me.

ok...time for a coffee i feel.
kids are awake on the couch in the kitchen, coco kitten is running around the house psycho because thats what she does.
friday. hmmmmmm i wonder what this friday holds for me and us?
i wish for new clothes today.

l o v e

this afternoon i made this strange creature. its a distant relative to another soft heart i made for little hana. this one is for a child that will hopefully have a strange sense of humour to match. im sending it off tomorrow to Pip for the Softies for Mirabel christmas craft appeal.

in other exciting news..we have puddles in our driveway. what has my life come to?

little dress big top

i dont like sewing patterns but i wish i could sew clothes that have a shape that works, in the right size. - without using a pattern. theres a big amount of chance in the clothes i make. but for some reason..i like it that way.
a new little spring dress. or top. depends who wears it. i think it will be for my friends little girl ..charlotte, who is about to be one year old. i know a few one year olds. what an exciting age to be.
the dress is probably more an 18 month old size... but its one of those grow with you piece of clothing. hopefully charlottes mama likes it enough to see it on her babe for an extended period of time . .. . .. . . .

in other news.. i have boxes. and how therapeutic it is to pack the house into them. that is...after i get the kids out of them.
and i dont know if i like the dress actually. that trim at the bottom, while i really like it..i just cant seem to use it in a way that i like. it doesnt really belong anywhere. so i just put it there anyway.

three years old.

i caught a glimpse of that green polka dotted fabric in the mountain in my bedroom and this dress came to mind with a few of the other fabrics ive been collecting recently. sometimes it takes just one more fabric to bring them all together. so this afternoon i sewed ... like a mad woman... and i refused to do anything else that anyone else tried to get me to do. imagine when i have my own studio..room ..space...call it whatever ..it doesnt matter ... i think the problem may be that im not going to want to leave it very often
so anyway... a cute dress for a 3 year old. a cute 3 year old that has found another dimension to the power she has within. oh. my god. can she speak with determination! and yell. and she will not be bribed either. there was no way in the world she was going to put this dress on. she likes to play this game with me. she knows i realllly want her to put the damm dress on - i need to finish the straps...not to mention get a chance to say oh soooo cute amelie. pfft.

there it hangs on the door. hasnt been tried on. or finished. brat. i say it with love. but she is a 3 year old brat :-)

muzz tried to get me some thai food tonight..he got three quarters of the way there and i rang to order and the answering machine answers to tell me that they just felt like being closed today and tomorrow. ha? are you SERIOUS!

we had chinese instead. no comparison....why do people even bother eating chinese .

so now...im going to do some indian decorating of my hands. my hands are so dry and the henna is mixed and ready and smelling so divine. i think i might try to get muzz to henna my right hand. i want both hands covered. in beautiful mehndi.

and tomorrow amelie will wear her new dress . i hope.

fabric treasure

i whipped this up tonight for a soon to be one year old. a precious, cute i cant wait to squeeze one year old.
sorry but i had to show you the print melinda. how cute is it? chocolate, orange, and the blue polka dot straps. delicious.