Hello! It has been a while between posts! And it is only a few days until the jolly man in the red suit visits us again. Are you on the nice list? You must be because you read my blog! Thank you so much to everyone who has supported me and the Paperklip shop this year. Thank you to friends and colleagues who supported my school market, it was such a success in many ways. Not the least that our school now has an air-conditioned hall funded by the market’s profits – way to go.
Next year will be very exciting. My son is changing schools (he will get to ride the bus to school – most huge). My girls will move up a year and be the ‘big girls’. Mr Viking will hopefully not spend his birthday on the school BBQ! Probably the most exciting for me is that I will study again – I am going back to TAFE after 20 years (yikes) to study Graphic Design (have I not always been a closet Graphic Designer I wonder?). It will mean juggling schedules, a few changes here and there – though I am looking forward to learning a lot of amazing skills and travelling along a new creative path. Will you walk along with me?
Wishing every one a very happy festive season – take good care, slow down and have some fun.
Today is a big day. It is Mr Viking’s Birthday! Hooray! It is Christmas Shopping Night at school – the little event I have been planning for about 3 months now (and those are just passing showers we are having here) – non? It is also the start of the Black Friday long weekend – the most shopped weekend of the year because Christmas is not that far away. So I am having a little special – if you enter the code BLACK2011 at the checkout of the Paperklip Etsy shop – you will save 20% off your purchase. All weekend through to Monday night. Enjoy.
Just thought I would let you know the pink heart garland was featured as part of styling page created by Jennifer Bell of the fabulous I Do it Yourself blog for Modern Wedding DIY magazine. Looking super fine and pretty. I want that typewriter too.
On another note, we are back from the Gold Coast (crazy fun) and Byron Bay (still as good as ever) and you can find me buried under reams of tissue paper as I teach myself how to make 100 tissue paper balls. I will surface next Friday to hold our first ever Christmas Market at school.
There is a little bit of Christmas in the Shop. Right this very minute. And I know that it has been a while between posts lovely paper friends. I feel like an Octopus right now. One that could juggle. Want to know what I have been juggling? A house sale (for the family), nursing our cat after his surgery, a Tafe application or not, a mosaics course (so fun to be the youngest in the class), a big decision for my boy involving an OC class, an impending and important 8th birthday, our lovely school Christmas Market, and well – the usual kind of stuff. But it is all good. Hope you are good too. I have missed being here.
Hello again. I know- 3 times in as many days. Well, I would like to tell you about an event I am planning. Our school is having it’s first Christmas Market and it is going to be great! We are a lovely school set in bushland in Southern Sydney, with a great local community that stretches to many suburbs. We are planning a Christmas shopping market, a gourmet BBQ, some lovely carolling by our school’s singing group and a song or two or three by our school band. There will also be crafty activities going on for the kids! I am looking for stallholders. You know what I want - lovely things, and I know you’ve got them! There are roughly 40 places at a very reasonable price, so if you are interested in having a table at our market (or know someone who might….) please get in touch via email or telephone and I can send you out some information. I would love to hear from you!
Here is the Table Confetti that I created as a tutorial over at the lovely wedding blog Polkadot Bride. You can click here if you would like to see how to make this. Sorry we are in a rush, we are off to see a performance of Alice in Wonderland at a local school.
Hi! I made this cute garland for a customer’s birthday party. I am umming and ahhing as to whether it be a regular garland. What do you think? Tomorrow I will tell you about something else I made somewhere else. I am also planning an event for our school, and I may need YOU! I will let you know all about that in a day or so. Have you been making? Doing? Planning? I would love to hear all about it!
This, my lovely readers, could have been the record of my childhood. I visited so many of these places as a kid, did you visit some too? Gulgong – the $10 note town, The Canberra Tower, Old Sydney Town, Blue Mountains – I even went to camp at Broken Bay – just like this person did. But this kid was very well travelled – they went to Lindeman Island twice! I never went there. They went to Hawaii – I’ve never been there. This sleeping bag is an absolute gem and a treasure of memories. Probably my favourite vintage I think I’ve ever found. Do they still make these patches? We are soon going to Hill End and Parkes and I must encourage the kids to look for patches so we might build on this! Did you see the patch with the Speedwell Fireball bike! Maybe they had one of those – amazeballs.
What have you been up to? The past week has involved much running around to choir concerts, soccer presentations and birthday parties. I have made Happy Birthdays and hearts to go to Pasadena in the US, a purple wedding garland to go to France and a pretty girl’s name going just down the road.
I found cute things for dress-ups in Op shops for a book parade tomorrow. We will be Alice, The Cat in the Hat and Thor. I made an apron for ‘Alice’ because I could not find one – out of a cloth napkin. We stuffed a knee-high stocking for The Cat’s tail. I am dressing up as Laura Ingalls Wilder. Mostly because I found a $6 dress, but also because I completely loved that show as a child. Don’t tell anyone but I used to shed a tear as she ran over that grassy hill. I wanted to sit next to Laura in class. I have put my hand up to read The Jabberwocky to year2/3H tomorrow, dressed as Laura. Can’t wait.
PS. That cheeky little guy has found his way into the Vintage Shop.
