Forebear Friday

OK, so Mum very politely pointed out that I do actually have a maternal side of the family as well (I've only put Dads side of the family on here so far...oops), so here's a photo of my Mum, Julia, and her brother, Piers, on their boat in the West Indies, were they grew up. The boat was called the Mona Lisa.

My Creative Space...

My creative space this week is a bit more interesting than last weeks. Hopefully I'll be putting together some more zippered pouches...everything's ready so what can possibly stop me??

My pile of hexagons has been steadily growing so I might turn some of them into tiny pin cushions. I wasn't going to make these for my (not yet open) shop, but I've had a little bit of interest for them so I think I will. How do you figure out how much to sell something like this for? I mean, they take hardly any fabric so it's mostly labour cost I guess...they take about 3 or 4 hours each to make. Any suggestions?

Check out what lots of other crafty people are doing today at Kootoyoo (thanks Kirsty!)

Handbag clean out

I haven't cleaned out my handbag for months so this morning I tipped it up onto the table and was amazed with all the crap in it! No wonder I can never find anything.

Besides my wallet, glasses, bag of essentials (sunscreen, tissues, bandaids etc) was:
3 hats
3 pairs of kids undies
My sewing bag (lots of hexagons in there)

1 pair of kids shorts
1 library book
1 pair kids dirty socks
1 kids headband
3 reusable shopping bags
2 notebooks

3 kids toys
Natalie Merchant CD (thanks Mum)
4 pens/pencils/crayons
1 Sesame Snap
2 Muesli Bars
and various receipts, rubbish, used tissues etc...gross

It feels much lighter now.

A few things...

I have to show you what Ella had for breakfast on her birthday the other week. Porridge with 'birthday sprinkles'. A great example of how to easily turn healthy food into not so healthy!

I haven't been doing a whole heap of sewing lately because I've been trying to get my Made It shop and my Etsy shop ready for launch. Getting there, it gets a bit tedious doing all the policies and profile. Yesterday was my sister-in-law's birthday so made these luggage tags and a passport holder for her. She goes overseas at least once a year so they should come in handy.

Today I sat down and thought about packaging for the stuff I'm going to sell. I made these swingy tags to attach. I have heaps of scrap booking paper so am putting it to good use and printing on the back of it then cutting it out and rounding off the corners...easy! I'll attach them with yarn out of my stash. Now I just need to get some sort of business card to put in with the order and I think I'm set.

And one last photo of what my sisters house is called...for all the Dr Who fans out there.

Forebear Friday

This one's in honour of ANZAC day.

I haven't done much research on Bert, but he served in the defence force (not sure which one) and died in 1915 during WWI. He is a Great Uncle or Cousin or something I think. There was a little note written about him from another relative in a letter sent to my Great Grandmother, it says "Isn't it sad poor old Bert got killed. It was for a grand cause and some of us have to go under and I hope with a smile when it does come." The man who wrote this came back alive.

Lest we forget