Sept School Holiday Project....funky girly diaries

The girls made these amazing personal diaries today as their craft project for the school holidays, obviously with help from mum. Started with a simple little book from BigW and some various scraps of paper which they eagerly covered the book with...and than let them decorate the front via raiding my scrapbooking supplies, finished off with a few ribbons.....way too cute :) psst...they are that special they have made it to the 'special secret drawers'!!!

shhhh....sneak peak at Spring Raggy Quilt

I have machine quilted these beautiful funky flowers onto each square...

This is the quilt for my youngest daughter, based on gorgeous glittery flower fabric which I was able to bring out the most beautiful bright colours with. I am very close to being finished so watch this space....

The best floppy sunhat - reversible!

Ok, so I had an idea.....
I sat down one morning and drew up a pattern from a material hat that was a little too small and within an hour I had this amazing hat that as I finished it off I discovered that I had made a fully reversible hat...gotta love that fluke!
I just need to tweak a couple of things for the next one but feel I'm on a winner here - the kids love it and it has an amazing style to it - and very protective. I have made it out of 100% prewashed fabric so NO shrinking :)
So now I am in the process of colour combo's and different sizes - watch this space!

Fairy Quilt

This is the quilt I have just finished for my older daughter. One request - purple and a whole range of sparkly fairy fabric...gorgeous! Threw in a bit of lime green and voila a bright cheery quilt perfect for the winter weather.

I practised free machine quilting on the borders and incorporated my daughters name in amongst the daisy chain.

I finished the quilt off with a hand tassled border which I am so in love with!

Patient Painting

These are my first attempts at painting....I was always over shadowed by some amazingly talented family members and so I never thought I could paint....being a mother taught me the patience I needed to pull a painting off ;)

Goldilocks & The Three Bears - Kids Theatre

Winter school holiday project inspired by a fantastic book called "The Ultimate Kids Craft Book"...has so many cool amazing things to make and most of the material required is found within your home...this theatre was made out of a large shoe box. The kids just love acting out their own little play - beautiful to watch :)

Log Cabin Cot Quilt

My cute little bumble bee...

This is one of my favourites...it is actually a tapestry but used various embroidery techniques within the flowers. Just so bright and cheery :)

I cross stitched this onto a thick quilting material with an embossed diamond pattern weaved into the fabric which looks amazing as a border. I used the back of the material as the picture base as it also had a raw linen style weave which enabled me to cross-stitch evenly.

Van Gogh Iris - Cross-stitch

Waves at T....do you remember this cross stitch in it's transitioning stage??? Well I finally finished it and love it :) It hangs proudly on our bedroom wall...used a bit of artistic flavour to it and changed some colour tones...just because ;) this was a preprinted tapestry which I cross-stitched using embroidery cotton. I had to painstakingly re-poke each hole through the paint - but it was worth it!

The Begining....

These are the quilts that started it all - and started as an obsession...My first quilt took me 3 days to sew up and 6 weeks to handquilt...this was obviously BC! Absolutely loved the Debbie Mumm fabrics out at that point and the kids adore them to this day :)

Rose Pictorial Quilt

This quilt was made for my mother as an avid rose lover. Each of the 1120, 1 inch squares were painstakingly placed in their correct position. There are 7 shades of pink and 10 shades of green. I handquilted as I usually do and incorporated stippling around the rose fabric border.

Cathedral Windows

I desperatetly wanted to learn how to do cathedral windows and so I created this wall hanging. Unfortunately times change and I no longer have mediteranean influences in my home but have thought that I might remove the inserted applique and reuse the cathedral windows on something else instead of it sitting in my cupboard.

Wedding Gift for a Dear Friend

This quilt pushed many boundaries for me as I made it up from the smallest little photo in a quilting book, learnt how to work with triangles and luckily it all came together :)

Nephew's Nursery

Made this quilt up for my sister when she was pregnant with her first child. She chose the fabrics to be both boy & girl...if you look really closely you will see the red has cute little cars printed on it.


When we found out a nephew was expected I made this wall hanging to tie the quilt in with her nursery colours...

Country Friends

Appliqued this wall-hanging for a gorgeous friend as a xmas present many moons ago.

Poppy's in France - X-Stitch

Poppy's in France - x-stitched for my sister's engagement present

BC Projects - Little Boys Outfits

These little outfits were made for my 15mth old nephew. They were surprisingly simple to make and oh so cute on. Somewhere around here I might have a photo of the kids in them.....
Found it!!! - How cute are these kids :)



Very smart short sleeve shirt to complete the set :)



Very cute toddler pants with belt hooks and quick pull apart clasps in the legs for all those unpleasant duties. I believe I even found a cute little tan belt for this ensemble!



Long sleeve check shirt - believe it was of a flannel material for those warmer days. It's been many years since I made this so the brain is struggling. Note the extra button on the pocket to finish it off!

BC Projects - Little Girl Dresses

I have discovered some pre-digital photos in an album and thought I would add these projects as a reflection of where I started....most of these have been gifted so it is nice to have an image to jog the memories :)




This gorgeous velvet dress was made for a little friend. Note the little matching headband....very cute :)



This Green and white dress was made for my 2yr old neice. I made the pattern up and fell in love with the gorgeous green material with the cutest little white daisies embossed onto pale green and white check. I have finished it off with a row of small daisy lace below the bodice. I am sorry the photo is not clear enough. It still amazes me that this dress has been through 3 little girls and my 4yr old is still wearing it and loving it - and that is all that matters!

Summer Dresses

Designed and created these simple dresses for the girls perfect for swirling around and feeling pretty in :) Made these up in simple xmas material. Hubby was away one night and the girls and myself were having a sleepover in the loungeroom. The girls fell asleep before I started and awoke the next morning with the dresses hanging ready to be worn......very happy girls!

Xmas stockings with a difference....

Chook's, Fizz's xmas stockings - and we couldn't miss out dad! Had the idea to ask him to pick out a Harley Davidson iron on patch of his choice while out riding one day, when he asked why I said that I wanted to make him a xmas stocking, he actually came home with one which surprised me and insisted that it be in Harley colours....on completion of his stocking the thought came to me to ask him if he had ever had a stocking and the answer was "No"....find it really sweet that even the blokiest of blokes need to be nurtured sometimes with handmade things made with love ;) (and it also teaches the children that xmas is not just for the kids - Santa gives stuff to adults too)

~Xmas Papercrafts with the Kids ~

I made these fantastic paper snowflakes last xmas with the kids using double sided scrap paper. They looked absolutely amazing hanging from both corners of the archway into the lounge and used to spin around with the breezes. Very inexpensive xmas decoration that can be updated each year as the in-colours change.(pattern DEC08 Better Homes & Gardens)

Olde World Santa

Created BC (before children) when I had a little more time on my hands...

Mosaic Tabletop

Created nearly 2 years ago out of friends and family's old cast off tiles - inspired by Earth & water elements. If you look closely you will see the oceans, rivers, mountains and natural gemstones depicted. Just waiting on Hubby to create the legs and base for it so that we can start using it as it was designed..... This was so soothing to design and make!! Smashing tiles is great for those stressful days :)