Brrrrr its winter

Wow its winter here in Tingha. I took this photo the other morning just outside my back door. Don't know what the temp was but it was freezing and all that ice on the ground makes me shiver just looking at it.

I was having a bit of a pity party type day the other day when I got a prezzie in the mail from a good friend of mine on the coast. This crazy owl tea cosie! Its official I have a crochet owl tea cosie collection... :)

Garden Party Dress

Garden Party dress made from gorgeous vintage emerald green and yellow rose fabric. Miss Madeline pattern by The Handmade Dress. I have used this pattern a few different ways, without elastic around waist, waist lenght and cut up the front to make a little jacket and used ribbon to gather neck and fasten , I made a long sleeve version out of an upcycled cream colored cashmir jumper with only elastic round the neck and now the photo above is slightly altered from the original, I have used two fabrics and didn't use the elastic waist band. This pattern is so easy to use, perfect for beginners and takes me less than an hour to whip one up. I really love this dress and my sweet little BB modeling. Heres some more inspiration on Flickr

my two favs APPLES and OWLS

Owls and apple fabric by timeless treasures, couldn't be more in fabric heaven! My good friend Michelle put me on to theses saying " I saw some fabric that is just 'you'" and she is so right. These two came in the mail today from the US at the 'a yarn and fabric outlet' and the best part was they where on sale, so they only cost $25AU for 2 yards. Off the top of my head I don't know how much smaller than a metre that is but I cant imagine paying under $20 a metre for just one of them! So very pleased :) Now what to make.....baby girls dress....handbag.....

Crochet Baby

Yesterday was one of those lazy days by the fire when you just have to pick up your hook and do a bit of that granny square your trying to master. Biggest daugther and littlest daugther and muma just chillin in the kitchin. Littlest daughter was just kind of wondering round the kitchen every now and then sitting on her fisher-price powertouch making the ladies voice stutter and repeat zzzzzzz 20 times in a row but she must have been secretly keeping an eye on my granny square because the minute I had my back turned there she was having a go at it. Maybe she will be a crochet prodigy...

Photoshop love!

I love photoshop! I have been at tafe this semester studying web design but enjoy the photoshop stuff heaps more. I did the two layered thing with the B/W underneith and rub it out so that the yellow bush and red rusted roof show through but keep the B/W look.

I took this pic the other day just a few km from my place, sneeked over the fench and across the paddock. I drive past it everyday and have dreamt this image for ages and today was the day it came together.

This old house belonged to the Hawkins family, three children raised here. I dont know how long it has been empty but it has no front door and seems very lonely!

I plan to use this image as part of a new etsy store banner, 'Mays Hill studio' but need a heap of time to sort it all, so one day...

17 aprons in 17 days WINNER!!!

Here is the Ashavintage 17 aprons in 17 days "why I love vintage" winner! Elissa from Delightful hands over at etsy.com.

Heres her winning entry......

"I love vintage because...there's something about the mystery of who vintage item belonged to, what stories it could tell, etc. Aprons are doubly intriguing to me, wondering what old fashioned girl it belonged to, the tears that were wiped away with it, the lovely dresses it protected from those messy spills..."

Congrates and enjoy :)

trift wednesday

Found this unreal crochet owl tea cosie in the Inverell Red Shield op-shop yesterday. I was extra excited about it because I have just learnt to crochet myself wanting to make this baby cocoon and beanie from here for my sister who is about to have her first buba and am now crochet crazy.

Its funny I tryed to teach myself to crochet just before I got pregnant with my son and his nine now!! It was something I thought I would never do and I am a really crafty person and love to dabble in all crafts but no crochet was not something I was ever going to master and apart from that I am left handed, which seems to make it harder to get the stitches but I say if you where like me give it another go and find someone really talented at teaching to show you, I went to my local craft store and Loraine showed me, it only took and hour and I was off like a rocket but I have lost my hook at the moment..grrr I think the baby took off with it!

Well here we go...

Well this is something I have been wanting to do for ages..a blog. Over the past week there has been quite a few occassions where i have thought, "thats something I could put in my blog if I had one!" So now I do. How cool, I am so excited. :) Now gotta get on and make it all prettyful the way I want. Yay! Ha myu 14 year old daugther just commented, "that what cha want a blog for? isnt it where you write something and people read it?" Der!