giving a room a new feel

We re-arranged the lounge furniture this afternoon, I love changing around furniture it gives the room a whole new feel! Isla ia wearing her flower girl dress (which still fits from a year ago!) It's my favourite dress ever, love the vintage lace cap on the sleeve. 

Two of my most loved pictures, the bird is a op-shop find and the lady is a post card from france (by the artist Mucha.)

The striped blue and white chair is my first ever attempt to reupholster, it was my $18 score from the red cross but desperately needed a lift! So I took it home, ripped off the old material and took to it with new fabric, scissors and my staple gun!

My latest venture, taking wedding photo's

Wow what a busy few months! Sorry for the lack of blogging, I was doing lots of sewing before Christmas for all the markets (which went really well, fantastic to see locals supporting locally made!) Then of course Christmas day, our seven year wedding anniversary, Neal birthday, mine and Isla's birthdays and at least ten other kids and family's party over the last two months! 

Photography is a hobby, I haven't done any training, I've been teaching myself (through watching 'you tube', it's an amazing way to learn manual settings!) During January I took photo's for my first wedding! I have to say I was a little nervous before hand but very excited at the same time! It's a lot of responsibility doing wedding photo's, no do overs! It was such a beautiful wedding, lovely to share the day and create lasting memory's for a friend!

Just a quick question, do you pay to blog??? Last time I tryed to post it said I had no memory space left and I would get charged, so I've gone through and deleted some posts to make room. Is this normal?

Baby expo

I haven't blogged for ages! Every spare minute for the last six weeks I've been sewing for the baby expo. I ended up with just under fifty pieces of clothing and twenty five accessories. I did sizes 3 months - 3 years, girls clothing and a few unisex bloomers.
I'm planning to branch out and do some boys clothing too, every second person asked if I had anything for boys! The expo went really well, I'll get some photo's up soon of our stall, until then here are a few pieces I made...

the way to use a bug box

Olive got given this cute wooden bug box for her birthday, I explained to the girls that we find bugs, place them in the box, look at them then set them free. They have a much better way of doing things.... pick as many flowers as possible put them in the bug box and apparently "it's a nest for all the bee's and they will fly in and make it there home" says Isla. Very cute, such great little imaginations!

cheap chalk fun

It's the holidays, so no kindergarten or play centre for two weeks, so far we've been busy catching up with friends and spending lots of time outside. My friend gave the girls a whole tub of chalk on Monday, they're loving it, hours of fun!

simple summer t's

It's just about summer so I sorted out the girls clothing this weekend, moved all the warmer clothes to the bottom draws and found all there summer t's, shorts and dresses.  I realised Olives has a whole draw full of t-shirts and Isla only has three! I guess that's a pro of being the younger sister, Olive gets all Isla's cute hand me downs! So I went op-shopping and got a few cute tops, then I came home and made these two. I love the floral on the sleeves, much more pretty than plain grey. For the pink top I used the material from  a nature baby wrap, I brought for $2 from a garage sale. Now to make a few more and she should be sorted for Summer!

picture perfect

I found this framed cubby-hole shelf at a church sale today ($5), I have a slight obsession with cubby-holes so I was extremely happy to find this little gem! I didn't like the dark stain of the wood so I gave it a quick spray with white paint and with the placement of some cute op-shop ornaments (all between 20cents - $1) I think it looks gorgeous! And how do you like the beautiful bird mobile my friend Amy made for Olive, isn't she amazing!

my baby turned two

Yesterday was Olive's second birthday, I can't believe she was born two whole years ago, they have flown by so, so fast! Here are a few pretty pic's from the day...

the early bird catches the worm

Olive has been waking at around 5:30am for the last couple of weeks, not surprising considering how light it is that time of the morning. I can't wait for day light savings to kick in! This morning we made the most of our early start and went to the flea market, Neal and Isla were still fast asleep, lucky!

These are my bargain's.... x7 avocado's $4.50, x3 broccoli $4.50, cauliflower $1, apples $2, x2 bags of mandarins $4, tulips $4, x2 leeks $2, walnuts $3, plant $2, x8 items of clothing for Isla $8...... 

grand total = $35.oo 

I love the flea market!!!