Elephants On Parade

It's amazing what you could get for 25p back in the day. One thing was this set of patterns complete with a rather 70s looking elephant.

I bought this in a charity shop about a year ago for about 50 pence (inflation!) and finally got around to creating my own little 70s elephant ( who has now been named David).

It was a gift for a little baby girl and comes complete with retro fabric ears, plaited tail, granny doily back deco and mellowy yellowy button eyes.

Well it took me a while to complete this one ( a few months seen as i had wee Florence in the meanwhile) and every time I began on the sewing machine to get him finished it got me thinking about these other psychedelic elephants:


Now that I'm elephanted out I think that the next project should be the sausage dog which could double up as a rather chic draft excluder!

Enjoy what's left of Monday!

Retro Finds

I found this rather funky and kettle on recent ramblings around the town. Funky? yes! But useful? No! In fact I have absolutely no use for this what so ever. I was thinking of finding some sort of super tool to cut out the bottom and make a lamp shade. Any ideas?

Well if it doesn't make it as a lamp I've used it for inspiration for some flower power stamp making to create some funky (and sweet) fabric.

Which will soon become a little make-up bag complete with retro red zip.

I'll let you know how it ends up. Bye for now and enjoy your Thursday!

Pink Moon

So then there was the moon party held by our lovely house owners, complete with music by Robert (guitar) and my better half Heine (accordion) and a moon (cheese) cake made by me!

Weekend Activities

Well the weekend has been and gone but there was much preparation for the last one because we were invited to a MOON party! We were nominated to make some hats...

Which all started like this....

This for me is a terrible task to get sad it's both creative and pointless, meaning I'll spend too much time making funky hats from paper cups. So naturally the first hat ( being a moon themed party) was an alien:

This was then followed by the constellation of Virgo ( my sign! Yey!) and Laika in full flight:

Here's the whole group including the moon itself! The production of at least 3 hours work which I could have used on something like paperwork or yoga.