Wedding Present honeymoon Kit

My best friend got married over the weekend and i wanted to make her somehting really special. I though a honeymoon kit would be a great idea and this is what the result was......





closeup of case linning:


closeup of CD cover made from the wedding invitation

It had in it, 2 mini bottles of bubbly, scented candles, chocolates, disposible camera, photo album and a CD made by my husband and i with lots of our favourite music themed to be romantic with a few good love making songs at the end hehehe

more ornaments

I had alot of interest when i posted my ornaments on TNN and so i made up some mroe to sell to the lovley ladies over there.

Here they are




I sold about half the butterflies and all the cars ( + some to order) and the rest ( + some more cars im making up) are heading off to Beaut!!

Christmas ornament swap! All done!

As well as restocking Beaut, i have been sewing up my 7 ornaments for this handmade ornament swap

Here they are!!!

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I made them all from scrap felt leftover from my dolls! so only had to buy pipecleaners and ribbons.

Photo overload from shop.

Over the last week i have been sewing like mad to restock "Beaut" where my dolls are stocked :) I made another Pirate, with a red shirt this time, another Muscle Man, Knight, Unicorn ( reversed colours than last time) and Ballerina Monster! phew!!

Heres some photos of them in Action.

wohoo first sales!!!

Oh my god im so excited! i just got a call from the lady who owns the store my dolls are stocked in, and she sold another 4 this weekend! taking the total to 5 sold!!!

Legendary Figures off to the shop!

So after over of aweek of INTENSIVE sewing, my legendary figures were sent on their merry way this morning for the local shop where the monsters are aswell.



The Kapiti Arts Trail is on this weekend too so there are ALOT of people around!

Rapunzel-esque Damsel

She looks a little "freaky" but i still love her all the same hehe

Dragon take two

Dragon take two!!!! one sided this time

Ahoy me hearty's!

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum! Here is my badass Pirate!
He has an eye patch, a hook, a wooden leg, a cutlas and other piraty features

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My Knight in Shinning Armour

Here is my dashing Knight: complete with Jewel encrusted sword!

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And my great news is that i have sold my first monster in the shop!!! Dan the Muscle man was chosen and is now in his new home :) Have had a personal order from an online friend from the states too! So the lovely dragon and two monsters will be going on a bit of an overseas adventure!

Unicorn

Im pretty sure she is the best yet!!! Shes taken me twice as long as any of the others as i had to design the shape from scratch, figure out how to do her mane, stuff the legs as i went (too skinny to stuff after all sewn up) but i think it was ALL worth the effort.

Mermaid!

My Mermaid turned out a little more SKINNY than i wanted ( just remember that once stuffed, toys become ALOT skinnier) but gorgeous all the same!

She has a shell bra, embroidered belly button, scaley tail and long flowy hair ( golden brown with a few bluey/green highlights ;) )

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Dragon

Well now that all my "Monsters" are sitting pretty in a box in the Arty shop down the road, i have turned my attention to a 'Mythological" series.

First up a Dragon!
He is double sided and made with Felt.





a Mermaid, Witch, Pirate and Unicorn are up next!

Dan the Muscle Man and Jasmin the Madam

Here are the last two monsters for my first run!!! all sitting pretty in "Beaut" arty farty shop in Paraparaumu Beach

Dan the Muscle Man : short shorts, embriodered sixpack, tatoo and bulging biceps hehe



Jasmin the Madam : pouty lips, buxom bossoms, racy lingerie, high heals and a garter!

Leeroy The Office Boy

Leeroy The Office Boy: comes complete with cellphone permanantly attatched to hand, stuffed breifcase, crazy eyes and stressy face, tie and pocket!!



he has a plain black back.

Stan the Muscle Man coming up next! i have till Saturday to get the set made as they are beng stocked in a local shop then!! wohoo

First attempt at a tutu

Its a good friend of mine's daughters 2nd birthday this weekend (THAT was a mouthful) and i thought i would attempt to make her a tutu from Fleas gorgeous "Recipe" it was ALOT harder than i thought it would be but i think i was using the wrong kind of elastic. Needed to use quite a lot more tulle than the recipe stated though (lucky i bought 3 colours instead of 2) Here is the result (i reallyneed to sort out my lighting issues) i used a turquoise, pink and purple colour sceme with pink and purple ribbons to tie it up.

Craft 2.0!!!

I was soo excited to be going to Craft 2.0 last saturday. I got all the family up and out of the house to drive to Lower Hutt by 10 to be one of the first 50 in the door ( REALLY wanted a goody bag). When we got there though you had to queue up tight stairs to get up to the second floor to get a goody bag! we had the buggy with Ashton in it ( no way were we letting him loose in there haha) and i had Flynn in the Moby, so couldnt get up the stairs and by the time we decided that i would wiat in line while Rob stayed with Ash a whole barge load of pushy stampeeding women had pushed past us so there was NO WAY we would be one of the firt 50. So gutted!!!!

So many beautiful things!! Here were my purchases



A Geek Freaks purse and felt badge (with free mini badge) , a World Sweet World magazine (such a cool mag, i shouldve bought the back issues too) and a cool cassette felt badge (can you tell i like felt and badges? haha)

Hippy Dippy

Meet Hippy Dippy, This Pyschedelic chick has an embriodered Marajuana leaf on her left foot and peace sign on her right! (sorry the lighting is a bit poos, we have crap light in this house)

Trina The Ballerina!

Here she is, Trina The Ballerina, complete with embroidered bows in her hair and ballet slippers on her feet, and a lovely pink Tutu!!!

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Meet Spike

Here is the latest Little Monster, or "Smiley Thing" as Ashton calls them

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I used Blanket stitch to sew around the body this time instead of normal stitching and then trying to turn the felt inside out (soooo hard) . Was much easier and looks ALOT tidier. LOVE Spikes cheaky face too.

Next Project: Ballerina "Smiley Thing"

Some paintings i've done recently

I wanted to show off these two sets of canvasas i was comissioned to do recently

A train for a little boy


and close ups


And a butterfly for a little girl


and close up


I use Acrylic pant and "bits and bobs" including glitter, felt, wrapping paper etc etc