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!

Yippee.  Magnolia Square is almost upon us.  Paperklip will be there.  If you like shopping, lovely things, nice stallholders and Christmas you should try and come along to this great event.  Just one week away (can you imagine what the house looks like as I prepare?).  Hope to see you there.

Hi there lovelies.  I will be at Paddington Town Hall this Saturday.  With lots of my pretty garlands, the sweetest prints from Lilymoon, some goodies from June Craft too.  I hope you can come by and say hello.  Did I tell you that my Mum used to dance her socks off at Paddington Town Hall every Saturday night?  And she lived down the road in Underwood Street for 15 years?  She would always point the Town Hall out as we caught the bus along Oxford Street on the way to visit her lovely friend Margaret, when I was little.  I remember asking her if she was sure she knew where were going – and she always did know where we were going.  Mum is 78 and she still does know exactly where she is going.  Go Mum.

Completely working backwards here friends.  This is the garland I made for last Sunday’s Mathilda’s Market.  It was a fantastic morning and a great turn out for such a frosty yet thankfully sunny day.  I am just about to list these pretties in the shop as a OOAK (that’s ‘one of a kind’ for those like me that took a year to figure out the meaning while searching Etsy:)  I have a little news on the Vintage Shop in the next few days – oopps, did I just let that slip??

It has been a while since I went to market.  I am really looking forward to it.  Come and say hello this Sunday if you are in the area.  I also have an update on Von Treight furniture (thanks Sarah).  I have posted it in a comment under Retro Heaven.

I am making like a mad woman.  Today it’s tape bunting.  And dot cards.  I am so excited about exhibiting at Finders Keepers for the first time.  Seriously happy.  Rainbow happy.  I am sharing with this cool gal.  This other cool gal is going to be there too.  Go Craft Group.

to come along on Sunday hip people!

3 little owls.  Ready for Mathilda’s Market in Lane Cove this Sunday.  Go see them at the Three Little Owls stall.  Say hello to Dimity.

It is just over a week until Mathilda’s Market is on again at Lane Cove, Sydney.  I have been working on a few decorations for the entry – here is a sneek peek.  What do you think?   The gold circle needs to be smaller, is what I think.

So if you would like to come along and learn how to make either Project 1 – a crafty bird collage, or Project 2 – a sweet vintage inspired garland the details are here.  Note the new venue is the Australian Technology Park at Alexandria, NSW.  I will be teaching in person at the Craft bar on Thursday 15th April, 2010.  I believe you can turn up any day and create one of six different projects – how super is that?

I really enjoyed creating 2 unique projects for Notebook.  It was a challenge that made me think a little harder, create a little better. I approached it with a ‘use what you have’ attitude and found scraps and things lying in wait around my work room, waiting to become.  This is something I hope to spread the word about while teaching – buy less, use more of what you have, maybe in a different way to which you are used to.

I am smitten with my bird, and I have decided to make a series.  I loved following artist Ann Wood’s journey where she created 100 decorative horses – one a day for a period of time.  She hoped that it would kick start some new ideas, helping her out of the creative rut that can affect everyone from time to time.  Somedays she struggled, some were gems, althought the result must have been rewarding to say the least.  See her horses here.

Anyways, I don’t know if I could produce a bird a day for 100 days, but I will list one in the Etsy shop once a week.  They will be indiviually numbered and named.  I like naming things.  Who wants to be nameless?  Not me.

Bird Collage - Project 1 SACS

Project 2 - Vintage Garland - SACS

Bird Collage label