Love Fabric? Live in Melbourne?

Well get on over here on the weekend:

Alice Euphemia vintage fabric sale!
Start: Saturday, May 24, 2008 at 11:00am
End Time: Sunday, May 25, 2008 at 12:00am

Alice Euphemia Gerturde Street:
114 Gertrude St
Fitzroy, Australia
Phone: 94174300
Email: gertrude@aliceeuphemia.com

All original pieces, hundreds of examples including vintage classics - linens - luxurious velvets - cottons and much more! Lengths ranging from 1 to 5 metres.

If you don't know Alice, it's a gorgeous shop stocking lots of local Melbourne designers and artists.The Gertrude st shop opened recently and their other shop is next to Genki in the Nicholson Building in the city - as if you don't know that building or Genki. Anyway Alice is beautiful and now they're selling off vintage fabric...how silly would you be to miss it?

Report back and make me jealous if you go.

Watashi no puresento

My Presents! Cause it's good to spoil yourself and sew a present for you for once instead of the Monkey Union




And to splurge a mere 25 bucks on yourself for one of these babies


Maybe your family can be as happy as this one if you too have your very own Gocco?

What a lark! A family that Gocco's together stays together - or at the very least smiles cheesily together.

It's all justfiable because it's perfectly OK to sew yourself a Mother's Day Present and buying yourself a cheap second hand Gocco will make you think happy thoughts even when you're walking like a broken old lady with a carrot up her arse (hello google weirdos) thanks to your sore back.

PS The Monkey Union isn't exclusively Monkeys, incase you were wondering? The membership is quite diverse, but it belongs to Mr S+L and Miss Priss up there is living on my side of the bedroom. Just incase you needed to know?

I'm finished

Yep that's right, me finished something! All from start to finish, all me.


Granted I cut some corners, like not binding it:


But I hand stitched it and I'm satisfied with that.


I had my usual AADC issues and also my usual moments of 'this handcrafted gift is a piece o' shit, I better just put it back in the old to do pile where I can forget about it for a few years'. But lucky I've got a personal cheer squad who reminds me that it's 'not as bad as I think and just bloody well get on with it OK'.

And then I wrapped it and off we went to the partay where I placed it amongst the birthday booty

and when it was opened there were squeaks of delight (from Mum and other party guests - bday boy was busy getting happy with the envelopes). It was declared that I should have another kid cause I've got too much time on my hands if I can manage to make something like that. Har, I didn't tell them about all my corner cutting nor that I was up till after 1am that morning finishing off the hand stitching. But whatever I felt smug.

Happy Mother's Day

Mother's Day breakkie.

Woo hoo, my first Mother's Day and wasn't it sweet. The best part of it was that somehow the Smurf miraculously managed to sleep in. Longest sleep in ever! I graciously thanked Daddy Sadieandlance for organising it but we all know it's truly a random happening. Although strangely my little 6 week old nephew also slept his longest stretch that night too. Perhaps it was the chicken schnitzel dinner Dad cooked us all for early Mum's Day celebrations on Saturday night?

Anyway I needed that sleep in as I was up awfully late finishing hand stitching one of those quilts I've been working on (More on that later this week). It was for another nephew's first b'day which we also celebrated on Mother's Day.

Bet your breakkie wasn't as yum as mine - or maybe it was but I bet you it wasn't made with blue (!) eggs from the farmer's market? Just the shells were blue. All the same on the inside. Apparently just a silvery hen that produces a blue shell - just a touch of blue, nothing radical.

Hope you all had a lovely day with your own Mum's.

PS Malabrigo is destined for a hat for me - I think. Either that or some new fetchings. Can't decide. Feel free to make other suggestions!

Mmmmmmm

Malabrigo!


And it's all mine.

Le Sigh

The Good Sighs:

- Chocolate Slice love! Wow, you internets kids sure do love you some choccie slice! The comments and the cross posting and the people making slice. Makes me weep sugar tears.

- Finding my camera cable. The reason I hadn't blogged for so long.

- Making softies for my Smurf


- Making myself a Mothers Day present


- Making progress


- Making presents for a blog meet up.


- Listening to Le Tigre. You know when you haven't listened to a band you love for ages - even though you've loved them for almost a decade and they are on your all time high rotation list? And then your ipod kindly reaquaints you with them and oh the joy. Kathleen I never stopped lovin ya baby!

- Fabric selling Nuns! This bag x2 for 25 bucks.

No joking. Vintage florals, jersey, canvas, cord, cottons, ginghams, stripes, spots you name it I got it. 50 cents a scrap (largest scraps ever), 1 buck a metre. Thankyerverymuch. More about it over here. A small selection of my favs here:

- Beautiful, inspiring women. xoxo


Bad sighs

- Gastro

- Missing blog meet ups due to gastro

- People who cross my pram path at the shopping centre and make no effort to get out of the way.
- Crafty friends not getting paid when they should. Boo.
- Evidence of pests in the weatherboards of perfectly bloody good gorgeous "with potential" house fit for the Sadieandlance family. Double Boo.
- Golden Girls on the telly in the background.
- Blogger farking with my template settings and stuff.

Fishing

Some fishermans rib for the Smurf from Great Grandma Sadie.

It was a semi DIY gift as I had to sew the buttons on as it was a bit hard for Grandma to see them but I don't mind. Grandma supervised me closely and gave me some gentle suggestion that the buttons should all face the same way - and they do

...well they do if I twist them all in the same direction! And did you know that there is a boy way to front flaps on cardy's? No, I had no idea either! This one is obviously a boy one as the Smurf is afterall a boy - so left over right for boys and vice versa for the girls.

Here's the Smurf spending some fun time with Great Grandma Sadie

Thanks Grandma we love it and can't wait till it gets a bit chilly so the Smurf can wear it.