Girls photos

and I've also got some amazing ,beautiful photos of two little cousins Lylah and Amelie modelling the new girls things, and i thank my customer Lyndal and her sister for the photography

incredible photography

I had some amazing photographs taken of the boys range by the very talented Leah Robinson, if you are after some photos of your children I would check her out

 

I haven't posted for six months - so here is what happened !

 working on something NEW - which is the fun bit for me, which is big CONFETTI SPOTS in peach mint and yellow

my darling friend Hayley helped me out at the market , which was lovely and meant she could go off to the cafes and bring me back food so I ate all day. She is wearing a dress I made her so she matches the stall lol !

playing around with lots of new fabrics - bright GEOMETRICS for some new styles

one of my customers Rebecca had a fox themed birthday party and her son wore one of my how hoodies - how amazing does this look !

 working on a new style of boys pants

 shopping for formal dresses with my daughter for her year 11 formal

 super cute for girls or BOYS ! foxy hoody

 what do you call more foxes...a skulk of foxes? maybe a plague ?

 a now adding to the fox mania ... - a fox DRESS

girls dresses on instagram

 station street Fairfield graffiti

 yeah - spring !!! the magnolias are out 

 working on a new colour way for the smock dress and I'm loving it - very fresh

 red door corner store - my favourite place for breakfast locally - yum

 red hill market

 getting the shop ready for the sale night

 some fantastic modelling at red hill market, after trying on the fox dress it didn't get taken off and then they went and got the face painter to paint her face as a fox - just too cute

another beautiful sunny day for SHIRT and SKIRT market at abbotsford convent

 making up a batch of BOYS SHIRTs in the long sleeve version

 playing around with triangles

 "hello" badges on girls dresses

 "hello" speech bubbles for the babies

 working in the studio

Foxes are the new Owls

So after years of birds ! it is now the year of the FOX ! 
Foxes really are the new owl.

I ran out of the print fabric i was using to put little birds and squirrels into the applicaes with trees , so now I have replaced it with a fox and i love it. The orange colours and warm tones are really nice and cozy for winter and it works great for boys as well as girls.         

Sewing Studio SHOP

So I have been moving the rest of the things into my studio and it is pretty much set up. So different from when i first moved and felt like a dingy office space. Now it is light and bright, spacious and organised ( sort of ) and it has a beautiful new floor. Come and visit me and you can buy direct.
                  before

                   after

Picnic Bicycle

I want one, perfect design the lid even drops down to make a lisle table - love it.

Feb 2013

After months of super super busy busy , I have just collapsed in a heap ! So a much quieter month of markets and I little bit of taking it easy. But with that some space for creativity, and i worked on some dresses with bird motifs cutting the birds out of vintage embroidered dollies which i was really happy with.

WHITE NIGHT

did you get out to white night ,  the arts festival that took over the city on saturday night? It was excellent everything being open all night and everybody out enjoying it

Summer 2012 - 2013

Portsea market

lovely day in great setting, and first drive on the new peninsula link road made it even better, it only took me just over an hour to get all the way down there from northcote! After the market I went into Sorrento and had a late lunch , then I went down to the back beach ( which is one of my very favourite places ) had a swim in the rock pools, read my book and then feel asleep on the sand. Don't quite know how long I was asleep for , but when I woke up most of the other beachgoers where gone- LOL anyway after an early start to do the market I needed the nap before riving home. Great day, if they decide to do more markets at Portsea next summer I will blog and Facebook about it as I would recommend it as a great day out, market in the morning then beach afternoon.

Cowboy Shirt order
I haven't made any of these for ages , but I really should make some more. This one was for an order from someone who had bought one of the cowboy shirts before. She said she loves them as they are something different for her little man to wear, we all get so sick and tired or the limited and boring options for boys to wear!  We went for green , which was something a little different that I hadn't done before and it came out just great.

Got to love living in Northcote
I feel like I live in a little village but I am in the inner city too. i feel very lucky to live in such a nice part of melbourne. And the food - they are homemade coconut crumpets from the red door corner store - yum.

Mustard Love
another shade of yellow, but loving this too!
I am calling this the "holly hobby" dress, and all of you that grew up in the 70's like me collecting swap cards will know what I am talking about. I imagine this dress being worn by a little girl , with messy hair , out in a field collecting flowers in a basket. 

Sewing 

Pretty much what I spent the whole summer doing, this was my view.

Twirly skirts

So many little girls love to twirl and make those skirts fly. This design is very circular and full so it really flies up. It has panels of lots of print fabrics and denim, so it co-ordinated with lots of things and I think is best just with a plain top ( cheap from kmart or target even ) It has a drawstring and elastic waist , so it can be adjusted to fit and will then grow with your child as you can let out the waist and the skirt just gets shorter. I would recommend getting a size that starts as a mid calf length then over time it turns into a short skirt. Too cute

Night jar Market Torquay

Even bigger this year, again i would recommend this as a great little day out from melbourne ( and is obviously fantastic for those of you hoildaying down the coast and locals ) Beach day then dinner , music and shopping at the market in the evening. Lots of great dinner options, even healthy and delicious ones like this vegan israeli coscous salad with pomegranate and tahini dressing - yum

Chevron dresses

The big hit for summer - and they are just so happy and summer-y.

Perfect "pop on" dress. I put a gorgeous photo of customer Lylah in her yellow chevron dress up on the website, but she has the navy one too and it looks just as beautiful.

Merry Christmas people !