Happy Holidays

I have to just say that it's not even the 25th and I have already been spoiled rotten with so many generous presents sent from some of my favourite people in Australia. Thank you, thank you again!
Clockwise from top left: stack of Amy Butler fat quarters (they're going into my new quilt - yea!), all the lovely patterns, lovely felt Christmas decorations from Australia's Mozi, Blue Mountain tea from T2 (delicious), AND some beautiful notebooks and stationery from O-Check Design Graphics. Definitely check them out!

I'm off to London today for Christmas armed with list of crafty places to visit which I snaffled from an old post on Kirin notebook. Hope you all have a wonderful and safe holidays and I will hopefully have some inspiration to show you from the UK when I return!

bibs & tags.

After making a couple of baby bibs for a friend, I thought I would cut out a few extra and post them up in the shop as the combination of gingham and the Japanese prints were so cute. I'm selling them as a set of two - I think they look so nice together it would be a shame to separate them...



I've also updated the shop with some gift tag sets!

amazing.

Amazing. Beautiful. Paper typography by Yula Brodskaya. So talented...

picture books.

I spied a few new books today that I might just accidentally order. Potentially also great Christmas presents...

This one: Over & Over - A catalog of hand drawn patterns






And this one: An Awesome Book. (Probably more directed at kids but I really love the illustrations.)

the weekend.

This weekend was a bit of this and a bit of that. More pencil cases were made - going off to a nice home. (I think I'll be a little sad once I run out of this fabric!)


More gocco trials. I tried printing the houses onto a baby t-shirt but it really looks too heavy and was a little bit patchy... (I also printed it a little too high on the t-shirt. Whoops!) I think a plain cotton t-shirt would have worked better with the gocco - something not so soft. That's my theory anyway.



I also finally got around to creating a bit of an online portfolio/website for my other 'less crafty but still creative' side. It's terribly basic but I think does the job.





Lastly I saw a great film called Boy A. It was little confronting and I did get a little teary but it was worth it!

tags. various.

Some little gocco, gift tags...



The houses from my sketch book.



My little Dutch girl from the Christmas cards. (Note to self: DO NOT use sticky tape to mask out areas of my gocco screen - it ruins it!) I saw blue and white twine last week, the same style as the red and white seen here, which I really wanted to use on these tags but now I can't for the life of me remember in which shop I saw it. I feel like I've looked everywhere...



I'm going to make little packs of 8 or 10 (I can't decide) and pop them up in the shop this week!

sketches.

Some little drawings I've been working on... not sure where these will end up. They're probably more suited to kids, yes? I just saw a great create tutorial on creating ceramic transfers over at Skinny Laminx - maybe i'll give that a go... gee, I'm so decisive today!