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.

Say it with flowers

After the birth of my daughter Florence there was much up and downing as far as emotions and physical well being goes. There were some fantastic people around though who offered endless help and advice. This was one gift I made to say thank-you. Like the old ad says, ' say it with flowers', so I made a felt flower broach/hair thingy. I hope she likes it.

Thank you!

Once upon a time...

"I feel so sad and unloved"

...there was a 

chair which needed some t.l.c. It was found in 

the back of a car on the way to the chair orphanage. 

That made the chair sad.

"You shall go to the ball!"

What this chair didn't know was that this it wasn't any old chair, it was in fact a story telling chair! and with ribbon, fabric and a few staples: ugly duckling to swan....

The chair was used forever more and lived happily ever after.

The End.

Long holiday update.

It's been ages! I know...but so much going on.

Firstly, the finished bunting. All went to plan and now to make some for me!

    

 Now all nicely packaged off and sent to the future owner. A little girl who's already 1 and a half!

Since all this there has been a trip to South Africa for Christmas....

 And news of a baby (yey!) and a new project: The Chair (More to come on both of them)

Bunting and autumnal organising

I found an old school Tupperware box in a charity shop and decided to use it to organise all the stuff I have, (by colour, naturally). It seems to be an over elaborate lunch box with several compartments, something that would have made lunchtime very exciting. Wagon wheel in one bit, space raiders hidden in the botttom, yum!

good job too as I'm making some bunting (hoorah!) for a baby called Mirren. It'll be her naming day soon, and this is gonna make sure she doesn't forget who she is, hee hee!

I've cut out the letters and sewn the parts...now just to sew it together and send it to the proud parents.

Something to rest on

Using some second hand material I bought I have had a little project over the past few months (it's all about getting the time!). Here's the process:

I 've now embroided it with Rest and Dream because that's what we should all take more time to do and this pillow is the perfect place to put your head to do those things.

 

Now the work's over....a cup of tea....another highly rated activity along with resting and dreaming.

A belated report on the current theatre project

I've been busy with all sorts of things this August. One of the projects was starting university, the other is working for a theatre production at Os, Hordaland. I promissed to give you some details, and here they are:

The End - a gentle reminder

It's actually a piece on death with dance, song and speeches. The dancing is hypnotic and the singing beautiful. Come if you can!

Washed in colours

It's been a long time...well I have been on holiday and here are the pictures to prove it. Take some sea,
pizza, blurry sunsets and some vespas and what do you get? Well Italy of course! But the best memory is collecting things from the beach...washed in tiles, all nicely rounded by the ocean.

But what to do with the tiles now...? Well all suggestions are welcome...

Oh and here's that lovely sunset...I miss warm weather already!

And tomorrow..an update on work which is now taking the form of theatre...a piece about death to be precise...not as grim as it sounds though...I promise.

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