Etsy, Ideas and procrastinating

Gee I love Etsy! The customer service is excellent and even if you don't buy their products (like me today looking for wooden spools, stupid postage costs) they are happy to chat. I was able to find another listing for more spools making the postage justifiable.

How cool are these! Yep, thanks to a few pictures I am starting the Christmas craft list. I like making gifts to give as presents especially for those with everything. This is what I need the spools for. Yep, procrastination on all the other things I should be doing. I just can't find a rythme to life at the moment. I will start taking some VitD tablets tomorrow so we'll see what they do for me.

I have put together 3 softies in the last two days. A new design, a koala, and two boys. Will start on some girls tomorrow. I am waiting on eyes to arrive to finish them off. I'm also creating some more shoes. I am attending a market on the 7th of September in Wynyard and be be taking the softies there. I know I had said no to local markets but here is to sales and business exposure in a larger more touristy town.

Side note 1 (more procrastination):
I found this on Etsy today. The cost is to high at this time, but at least I know they are out there.

Side note 2 (even more procrastination):
I am thinking of painting one wall in our dinning room duck blue. All the walls in the dinning, kitchen and lounge are an aqua like colour at the moment and I want to change that to white. I think the duck egg will look bright and cheery with the white.

What are you up to this weekend? It is meant to be wet here so not much outdoor stuff for us as a family.

People, pallets, pinafores and popcorn.

It has been a crazy last three weeks with school holidays and in-laws over for a week. But we are back to school term routine and early mornings again now. Yuk! 

I have sold some items at The Brown Dog and was asked to make something new. I now want to make something for the boys...shorts maybe. What a shame, another trip to Spotlight. Although I felt sick after the last trip's total price. "Got to spend it to make it," my wonderfully supportive husband says.

*Yes, these dresses got an iron before going to the shop*

Aj was able to tidy and stack all the firewood that had arrived as logs a while back. His dad helped him put old pallets between the sections for extra stability. I claimed some for garden edging which were put in place with his mum's help. I would love to get some more thin(ner) ones for more garden edging. It really makes the garden look complete. 

Poor Mama Duck. Our dog ate the eggs she was sitting on :( She is off the nest today and looking better but she has seemed so lost these past few days. The kids were upset as they were looking forward to having ducklings around. So upset with the dog!!!

I tried Not Quite Nigella's gnocchi recipe this week. It was really yummy! Next time though I will make a thick creamy white sauce to go with it like La Porchetta do it. Please note, these are best prepared by hand as they do take some time to make up and quick to cook.

And as I write this blog my normally microwave savvy MrT has just put his popcorn in for 10min30sec instead of 1min30sec. My house now smells of burnt popcorn and I have windows open on this cool afternoon. Mmmm. "I think you better do the next one" he says!

A banicoot

So there I was, going to lock up the chooks for the night. As I walked through the door to check for eggs, a brown shape darted back and forth across the floor. Turns out it was this guy (the small furry one):

I've seen two bandicoots here in the last year, but never been able to get this close. He sat in my arm, without moving, for the ten minutes it took to carry him to the house to show Mel and my parents, then return him to the paddock where he made his way back into the darkness.

Cradle Mountain hike

At the end of June Aj took Mr T up to Cradle Mountain for an over nighter. Here is their story.

Cradle Mountain Father-Son Adventure!

Rocky Cape

This Thursday just gone I left the kids with a friend and joined Aj's year 9 Outdoor Ed class on a walk. The walk covered about 10.5km of the Rocky Cape National Park. It wasn't easy for this very unfit mumma, I found muscles I didn't know were there, well, that I had forgotten about. The day started out over cast and with drizzle but then rained and rained. We all ended up very wet even with our wet weather gear on. I am so very happy to have gone and done the walk though.

Good to be in the gaters again :) 

Silicon like fungi

A very wet me!

New softies

What a week. Busy busy busy and I am looking forward to today being an 'at home day'.

As promised, better late than never, my new seamless shoes with laces.

And the new doll design. These are much funkier in real life and are loving it down at Stanley's          The Brown Dog.

Online and in-store soon

I have been madly sewing these last few days. Dolls, shoes.....more shoes.

I made it onto the MadeIt front page! One cat brooch sold and another two on order.

I am wanting to move over to Etsy where I can list my products in a much clearer way, and I start selling...grr.

This is my Etsy page. Please take a look around. My prices are going to be going up as I have got my work into a shop in the seaside town of Stanley and my prices need to reflect the style and quality that they are. Plus, looking around I think my prices have been too low. SO GET IN NOW AND GRAB A BARGAIN while prices are the way they are.

I have been creating some new Providence Meadows dolls. My own design, funky, retro, one-of-a-kind dolls. They are for The Brown Dog in Stanley. I want my own designs in store so that people will not have seen them before. Picture up for you soon. Oh, and I'm working on some sausage dog softies...they are so cute!