Pink Whimsy

sunday

Here is a list of the craft projects that I want to acheive this week, they are small and simple and that means finishable in one afternoon... hopefully!!!

1)New quilted oven mits (2 or 3),  2)Finish the hens night badges, 3)Make a couple of cushion covers,  4)Design a danglely thing to hang over my bed, 5)Organize my fabric cupboard (not strictly craft but craft related none the less)

There you go... now lets see how I go with getting them all done!!!!

horse play

Well first here is the re-fashioning project that I did today.... This is the silhouette of a horse that chose and  I decieded to use the brown horse silhouette fabric ....

      

And here is the finished project....

I have just sewn around the edges and I am going to let it fray with washing.... It looks great on as well so I am quite happy with my placement.  I have another re-fashion challenge in the works so I will let you know more about that when I get all the necessary bits and bobs.

On a very exciting note, my gorgeous defacto James has deceided that it is OK for me take over his workshop for my printing studio!!!!  I was mentioning that I wish I had somewhere to print that the kids can't get into and it doesn't matter if the paint gets on the floor.  I said that he was lucky to have his workshop and I wish I had one for me and he said "Have it"!!!  In truth he never uses it and it is just a super duper mess.  He used to use it as a place to sneak cigarettes but now he has quit for real he never goes in there.  So in the coming weeks I plan to refurb it into a girly but functional printing/painting studio.  I CAN NOT WAIT.

hello out there

This is the very first of my weblog entries.  It is an experiment in new years resolutions coming to fruition.  I have been looking at wonderful craft blogs for some time now and I have become excited by the idea of starting my own, firstly as a way of publicly documenting my creative process, never really being one to keep a paper visual journal successfully, my hope is that this blog can replace it and make it fun (or at least amusing) in virtual computer land.  Also, on a parallel my hope is that this blog will become a way for loved ones far away to see just what my young family is up to...so maybe its time to tell the world who I am exactly... hmm tough question..... well I live in Brisbane Queensland Australia with my partner James and our sons William who is a ferocious four years of age and Jack who is a terrible two and within the week (hopefully) our little girl Claire will be born!!(her due date is actually today).... I am in the middle of completing a Bachelor of Creative Industries at QUT majoring in art, design and fashion, I am totally unsure of where this will take me but I am enjoying learning too much to care just yet.... and in this year of fifty five million new years resolutions, 2007 holds in store hopefully the starting of a craft business and the starting of a diploma of business through tafe and a self imposed and forced interest in gardening, I am a vegetarian but not a lover of dirt under my fingernails or bugs or other garden/nature stuff. Well that is about all for my first post ..... I will have some photos and some productive work to show next time promise.