I was rather fortunate and very excited when I was able to snap some picks of an infamous car here in Ballarat - The Chandelier Mobile, with pink shop in background!!
I've wanted to share this with the world since I first spotted it. This shop is close to Jon's store. What you can't see, in the same fabulous paint job on the side on the car, is the writing on the shop window advertising for cheap LPG car conversions. The chandelier on top of the car is actually wired up to light up. In the shop is every style, size chandelier you could ever want, including one which would barely fit in an average sized bathroom, its huge.
A couple of weeks ago Carly and myself took ourselves off to Stitches and Craft show in Melbourne. We had a great time. there was a lot of your more tradition crafts, but our favourite was 'The Incubator' which featured "the freshest indie craters...the best Australian contemporary craft and design.." - basically all the stuff we love from the bloggers we read and Etsy sites. One of the highlights for me was visiting the Ink & Spindle stall,
where we both purchased some little scrap/sample bundles of their fabrics. I was able to meet and chat with my fave blogger/designers Lara from Kirin Notebook. They were such a friendly, down to earth bunch. We also went to a talk by one of the girls, Bianca, on Home-based craft businesses, which as excellent. I will post some more stuff later on our purchases. Any who.. here are some (mobile phone) photos from the day, there were these little displays dotted around the place... enjoy...
The weird and wonderful green bits and pieces are crocheted..
Paper Babushka dolls...
yes its knitted...
With these pictures in mind, I decided it was time to purchase a little point-and-click camera, that could live in my handbag. Its a little 8meg Olympus and I'm loving it! It is a bit to get use to.. the delay from pressing the button to when it actually snaps is the worst, but it has other features like over and under exposure which I will use a lot.
One little, but fairly labour intensive project I did recently was a Moopy Bunny softie, from the 'More Softies' book. A good friend needed one and I hate following patterns, so this was a real labour of love. Softies look easy. But I am quite happy with the finished result and I would do another, now I know the tricks involved. I used some new fabric, some old, some recycled and the body is fabric purchased from Lara (from Ink & Spindle, mentioned above)
Catch ya on the flip side..
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