30 March 2010

Some books I want


Decided that I keep forgetting what books I want so I've started taking photos of the covers so that I can remember to buy them some day when I have money.

I would like to learn more creative disciplines, amongst them jewelery. Been looking at courses but hard to find a suitable one in Christchurch! Anyhow, I leave you with these wonders.

Oh.. and also wanted to share this photo of me in a winery. Just North of Chch there are a few in the Pegasus Bay (which I think is a super cool name for a Bay). So we went exploring and ended up here. Wine (Riesling) was deliciously sweet to contrast with the strong blue cheese. A great treat!!

Bag and some other bits and pieces

(see my fabric combinations)

I have finally invested in a few cheap remnants (some as little as $2!!) to get back into making bags. I have plans to make a few but this is the first one I finished. I have got the fabric already cut for another 6. And I've finally bought eyelets and cool buttons to give them a better finished look. It is so exciting!!

This bag matches the grass and landscape of NZ, all in green tones
(hard to capture with the camera)


I decided that I should add some embroidery to some of the bags, this is my first embroidery piece, hopefully it will come out alright!!

Reorganising Bev's sewing boxes I found these gorgeous vintage needle sets which she got when she was a kid. I thought they were the coolest thing, esp the cowboys one (despite it being very boy-ish), with the 3D effect!!

This is just to make you jealous, I named it the "Chocolate Bomb", sooo yummy! with marzipan, which is something I don't usually like but it worked well here. Bev got it for me, no wonder I gained weight!! (Had my health check done and I'm 3 kg overweight, oops!)


5 March 2010

Cat friends & a few nice shots of NZ

This is Aboo, she comes to say hello everyday and brighten up my mornings. She is very friendly and playful, especially with the many white butterflies that come to visit Bev's garden (which is full of gorgeous flowers)



This is Lauren's cat but I didn't catch her name. She is so elegant, a British Blue (I thought it was a Russian cat?!), she is shy but once she gets confident, she lets you pat her and she has thick and soft fur. She looked so gorgeous on that sofa that I took numerous shots of her.



I wish I could transport the smell of this rose through the net! Is just sooooo amazing! sweet and intense but not in an overwhealming way, just beautiful! Bev usually has flowers in the house that she picks from her garden. They are all just stunning and is always nice to have fresh flowers around.

Felt mobile

Hello back! I've been absent for a while since I'm currently in New Zealand trying to settle here and I haven't got all my tools and material.

However, I couldn't stand it anymore!! I needed to do something creative and with the excuse of having to buy a gift for a newborn that I haven't met yet (well, she is already 5 months), I decided to make a mobile (I think that's how you spell mobile? ). Of course, things never come out as you planned and lack of time simplified my original idea.

Lauren & Ngaio

Ngaio is a cute wee baby, daughter of our good friend Lauren. And apparently she is already playing with the bells. The long stick can sit comfortably in the cot so it doesn't need to be attached. The bells and buttons are super-duper sawn in so that Ngaio doesn't choke with them.


You can see the original materials I was going to use in this picture. In the end I didn't use the fabric because felt is just faster to work with. I can save that for another time. I was lucky I found this great bag of buttons that I will be able to use in so many projects!!

(click to enlarge)

I hope you like the final result, the photos don't make justice to the vivid colours of the felt... seems like the camera, when having red (the big N) measures weirdly.
(detail view)

It's been a fun project :-) I'm already thinking on what next!