rock hopping

Lily and I decided to go for an impromptu walk on the beach this morning – only the tide was so high it would have been a very short walk.
So we climbed around the beautiful powdery rocks instead, with the water lapping up against them. I love the plinky plonk sounds.
I realised, as [...]

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The special pillow.

The almost-finished pillow.

Originally uploaded by monsoonsandmangoes

All finished today. The idea was that the pillow would be a holiday craft (we’re on the second day of four weeks!) but because my daughter and I are both obsessive, it’s already done.
Don’tcha love her spiders? For their eyes, my clever daughter cut [...]

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you can never have too many mothers

I really do like to see the things that these people like, and read the things people want to write. And I feel really lucky to be privy to all that. That’s the beauty of blogging. Blogs are for sharing and remembering and documenting and venting. Blogs are for showing and wondering and hoping and [...]

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Maria’s custom work finished~

All for Maria

Originally uploaded by monsoonsandmangoes

I’m so thrilled with how these turned out! It’s been forever since I’ve done any shirring and the pants – well they are just incredible! I want them for ME! :)
Need to lengthen the top to get a couple of years out of it, but then they’ll be [...]

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beautiful feedback

This might be my favourite comment ever:
“…he has received them and loves them and wears them a lot. My mother was trying to convince him to save them for special occasions so he has something nice to wear, but he said pish posh to that. He said “They’re very well made. I [...]

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Rainbow fleece skirts

I’m beyond excited about these skirts. I want to buy 9,276 metres of this stuff and turn it all into clothes. I LOVE sewing with fleece. particularly: how the fabric puffs up on either side of a stitch. Oh, and it feels DIVINE, too.
I need one of these, too!!

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New skirt

That beautiful chocolate mouse coloured fabric I bought today is already my brand new skirt.

I simply traced one of my favourite batik skirts, and sewed in an indigo/black dotty stretchy waist band, with hot pink zig-zag feature stitching all over.

(ugh – such a dodgy pic, but you get the idea! :)
It’s insanely comfortable [...]

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Love in the letter box

Today I received my beautiful earrings from sweet Cassy @ Jingerbella.
Aren’t they spunky?

AND she changed the hooks for me into the lovely big roundy ones.
And as if that wasn’t lovely enough, she also reworked the lil birdy ones that I loved so much, and included them as a gift to me. Isn’t [...]

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Winter fabric

Went into Spotlight today, even though the store drives me crazy. how hard is it to organise fabric by type? Why must I find a roll of fleece in amongst the summer cottons? So confusing and I find it really stressful.
Anyway. I did walk out with an armload of snuggly, warm [...]

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I love recycling!

My love of recycling fabric and repurposing clothing doesn’t end with what may be thrifted, or donated by my beloved friends and family. It also extends to MY OWN creations!! :)
Before:

During:

as for after: well, that all depends on what sleeves I decide to give it :)
In other exciting news, I received a beautiful [...]

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