suspense is over

Wedding Toppers
yes... did anyone guess???
if you didn't that's OK...
I'm sure it was the last thing you were thinking of...
they are to supply my sisters
wedding cake business
SUGAR RUSH
and as we know wedding are big business
and still as popular as ever...
there will be a few styles
and colour choices...
the hair style on the groom is "trendsetter"
and is in black...
the bride's hair is mid-length "classic" in black

and they both have "cream" detail...

I am part way through a few sets
but I'm still waiting for my order of titanium white to arrive...
so while i wait it gives me lots of time
to re-coat and re-coat with lots of lovely glossy vanish...

I can see myself doing a few
in more "girly" colours and styles
down the track
they are just so cute!!!

suspense

Aren't these little wooden "shapes"
gorgeous....
they are to be transformed into something that
I'm sure you would not be able to guess...
i will let you know that they
are not to be made into something that i normally would do...
the suspense!!!

op shopping

a thrifting we will go...
well i would have liked to have done a tad better
but here are the "finds"
from today...

i managed to find this fabric which is the same as what i have
in burgundy and i have a little project in mine for it
so i think it will work really well...

this slightly dated book but a bargain at $3-00
and a few ideas that are not too bad...

like these lovely stencilled stair...

and a portmans 3/4 length jacket
that is really nice on and has
and fits snugly at the waist and has
front pockets but the flash stuffed the pic
so use you great imagination...

of course buying clothes like this is truly
a conservative move...
yes it was the voice in my head again saying
"now your 40 that would look just LOVELY..."
well if i worked in a office it probably would
but i run a pub in the country for heavens sake...

i can't believe that little voice never tells me
i would look LOVELY in those knee high paisley socks
doc martin boots and "goth" slip with lace trim...
and why is it that if i find anything
like this and put it on i end up
looking like some "bag" lady
ready to pounce and frighten small children and animals...

now if you have the same dilemma
as me and many others pop over to DOTTIEANGEL
you will love her blog...
she struggles with the same ideas...

but i SO wish i could look as cool as her,
in all her vintage goodness...
plus she has a Airstream...Divine...
edit...so sorry the link to Dottieangel
is now working...silly me...

comfy

got to love a well worn
comfy pair of shoes....

i'm hoping to venture out of the house tomorrow
and pop into the werid looking craft, bric a brac shop
and see if they have some new
fabric bundles in...
here's hoping...

i think comfy shoes might
like a stroll...

swirls

i thought i needed a bit of sewing
to easy me back into reality
so a sally sleeps a-lot
helped...
or maybe it's the other way around?
maybe i have had too much reality and
some much missed sewing
is helping me escape...

whatever it is i do like the bold black and white of this one
and will be sending her over to "the little shop"
real soon...
when i was last over delivering
stock the owner said
"it's so amazing how you really "look" like the dolls you make"
well i do take that as a very big compliment...
but i hadn't taken much notice
but now thinking about it
i think i like to do the dolls the way i would love to look
the colours i like, or the hair style i can only dream of
not to mention the perfectly youthful skin...
(that would be a big bonus to have now)
but what it boils down to is
i just love making them...

yes i think it is called escapism..
got to love it!

A bit of a rush

For a bit of a SUGAR RUSH

pop over to my sisters web site
and checkout the new trends for
wedding cakes and cookie favours...
yum...

Want list

As the new season approaches
i have another fashion crisis...
What am i going to wear this season!!!
yes now I'm over 40
i can't really be wearing "that"
i say to myself...
but after a few good late night DVDs
i have decided that
black and a touch of cream
will be my new season wardrobe
yes i still would prefer
those darling outfits
from pride and prejudice
but like that will ever happen...
so after a bit of hunting i found a few items
that are within price range
and sort of not to hard to track down....This is a Sussan's top

this outfit is a bit out of my league
but i liked the colour combo
and is just for inspiration...

this top is from Katie's...
and might look nice on...

but the all-time pic are these shoes
they are from Mather's
and even thou i am truly hopeless
with shoes
(as no shoe fits my feet quite right)
and every season i have to buy one pair
of Colorado's and wear them till they fall apart
i will have to find a pair in store and at least try them on...
i owe it to them to give them a chance!!!

now all i have to do is save up...

adventuring part 2

I really tend to forget
that these beautiful, amazing places
are right at our doorstep...
so for our Monday drive...
(we can't get away on weekends)
we hop in the car and drive, drive, drive...
as we are making our way around several winding dirt tracks...
my husband informs me that "the old blokes"
say that there is a white magpie
that lives around the next bend...
and can you believe our luck
there it is sitting on the fence on the very corner...
as we slow to a stop i whip the camera out
and of course it jumps from it's perch
but still in sight and zoom then snap
we get a pic of the very bird...
it doesn't look like a old bird and we think there must be
a family of them that nest in that very area
that some come out as "white"
still we are certain this is a very rare site...

we get to our destination...
Wallerbadah rock...
the second largest monolithic rock in Australia
Ayres rock being the largest of course...
you can't drive any closer than this as there are locked gates etc...
but it was amazing to see...
and really a stones throw away from home...

so what will our next Leyland adventure be...
well we will have to wait till our next "Monday drive"

now on another exciting note...
Betty jo
just messaged me with great news...
she spotted my "auntycookie" doll
here on CUTEABLE
Amazing i can hardly believe it...
and still in shock that they picked my picture
of her for their site...
a big thankyou to cuteable...

fallen

where to start...
yes i had fallen off the blogging wagon

yes i did have good reasons
and no i really don't need everyone feeling sorry for me
so without further ado
SORRY from the bottom of my heart...

and after absolutely no sewing for nearly a month
i picked myself up
and decided to make something...

over my sewing absents i did get a e-mail from
AUNTYCOOKIE
about a new section she was going
to add to her web site
featuring stuff made from her material...
so back to the drawing board i went
and came up with a new version
of the doll i made last time...

she is very different as all of her attire comes off
even the hoody hat...
she does look rather freaky unrobed thou...

i cut out some "real" socks for her out of a odd sock
i had and her cute little shoes
and apron are in "cookie"fabric...

hopefully this new dolly will spur me onto
many a project
and there will be more sewing happening...

and less
other stuff...