What the world needs right now (in my opinion) is a little Happy. Especially Japan. So, I am giving away a lovely Yellow Happy Birthday garland. All I would like to know is – which colour makes you happy, and why? Just leave a comment below, and make sure to tell your friends. I will pick a winner from the hat next Monday. I cannot wait to hear about your colour.
Lately, it is just me and this guy hanging around the house. Here he is waiting for his keyboard lessons. This room gets lots of wonderful natural light (perfect for taking photos) and looks out into the branches of our liquid amber. I take all of my product photos in here. Mostly at 2pm in the afternoon. Bad Cat likes to sit and he tends to twitch alot when he spots a feathered friend. I like the way he comes and finds me in the day, and just hangs out there beside me. I’ve got some new garlands coming later today, stay tuned.
Like in your bag of mushrooms. This one went into last night’s Coq au vin. It was my best yet. Sign quietly added by Miss Viking.
A little behind on the giveaway – it is a coming, I have just suddenly got carried away making paper rabbits.
Last week I answered a call from Jenny from the fabulous on-line kid’s magazine lmnop. Jenny asked if I could make a sign for Itty Bitty City, a paper based family project held at the National Arts School in Forbes St, Darlinghurst to celebrate the opening of Art Month. I was thrilled to make the sign, and it looks to all accounts like everyone had a great time creating an Itty Bitty City from paper and bits and pieces. Wow. Did you see that silver dragon? Or maybe it’s a rocket? I LOVE seeing kids letting loose with their creativity. Congratulations Jenny and Ian on a fabulous day!
This is post no. 150 for me. I think that calls for a giveaway tomorrow.
I have been thinking about this idea for a while now, and I spent all morning working on square sizes, length vs. weight issues, working with punches. The colours and patterns all seem to come easily to me, it’s the maths that sometimes messes me up. I am really happy with the result though. I have based the shape on the humble cafe curtain, present through out the 1970s and 1980s in many Australian (and international) kitchens. My Mum loved them. We had some amazing patterns going on. She was always so happy to hang up a new set. So, these I dedicate to my Mum! You can get a garland here if you like.
Hello friends. Here is a little makeover I did on a small and very dirty shelf found in the Op Shop for $2. The acrylic paint was left over from the Claudine Hellmuth online course that I took last year and the papers – well you know I had a few scraps lying around! Now the girls have somewhere to put those special tiny things (Little Miss Viking is a true collector like myself – currently collecting bottle tops??).
Today I am taking photos for the vintage shop – yay. What are you doing today? Is it as quiet at yours as it is at mine? Wait, I just heard a chainsaw start up! That is more like it.
What did I do to distract myself from worrying if Little Miss Viking was ‘coping’ on her first day of school? I cleaned and polished this lovely little bookshelf that I rescued from my local Op Shop. I asked the fellow how old he thought it might be and he said ‘the 40’s’, though I discovered a nice hand scrawled date of 19.5.1953 on the back along with a sticker saying it ‘proudly conformed to Australian Furniture Maker’s Standards’ of the time. What do you think? It’s nice huh? And the girls love it.
To the right is the bed I almost had heart failure over bidding on on Ebay a couple of weeks ago. Does anyone else find Ebay stressful? I am a last minute bidder - is this your tactic too? Pick-up was in my very own suburb, so it was a win-win really! The girls’ doona covers are from Ikea, discontinued model now I think. And I don’t know if you can see them, I have popped the girls’ collection of Barbapapa books up along with my favourite Dr Suess book – ‘Summer’, written by Alice Low and illustrated by Roy McKie – so colourful is this book, and summery!
Little Miss Viking is settling in nicely at school and I am ok. I should have lots of new vintage goodness up next week, and I am planning a little makeover for the Paperklip shop. Have a super weekend.
Hi everyone! It is really nice to be back. I know it has been a while. I took a really long break and it all had to do with the above event. See, today my baby started school. There she is, second from the right, surrounded by big brother and big sister and our lovely neighbour Jade on the end. I chose this photo because I would probably be a mess crying into the keyboard if she stood alone. She is not alone, so I should not be worried. We go to a lovely school (five doors away) and I think she has more buddies and friends than I can count. So she will be ok, won’t she?
So, the break was spent at the van doing lots of outdoor things (I promise more photos soon Kate) and we had a visit from my in-laws. We also had a couple of instances that were not great – like our giant liquid amber losing half it’s height and blocking the road whilst we were at le van. My wonderful neighbours all patrolled the street as power lines came down and SES workers moved in! My father in-law also suffered a minor stroke whilst on holiday in New Zealand last week, he is making a wonderful recovery and they will be back here with us this weekend. Which is great.
I am really looking forward to this year with Paperklip and Tivoli Vintage. I have more time to devote to designing, making and finding lovely things. I might not be at the markets so much. But I will be around and about. I hope you will hold my hand as I venture into this new era.
A little washi tape festive bunting to end the series – ’cause I am the garland girl! Thank you for following along and thank you for all of your lovely comments and support for me and Paperklip and Tivoli Vintage this year. You are much appreciated here. Merry Happy Christmas!
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