More Granny Chic Love

Roll on the

Granny Chic Festivals...
To check out more great blogs
with lots of new ideas and crafty makers
see these great
places...

EMMA
SFGIRLBYBAY
WOOD AND WOOL STOOL
GRANNY CHIC FLICKR GROUP

And I have just listed this cushion in my etsy shop
in a colour combo that
the fabulous CAM suggested...
Thanks cam it worked out so well...

Hopefully I will have another one made by the end of next week...
Well only if those elves lend a hand...

The Most Amazing Post Ever

The most amazing post every...

Well OK I am begin bias...
The fabulous Tif is having a "Festival of Granny Love" series
and here I am
In Part Two...

The images are courtesy of the lovely Tif herself
and as you can see one of my
"Grandma Love" cushions
has found a perfect home in American

I first found and fell in love with her
Airstream (Glady's)
then not long after fell for her fresh and witty stories
and great eye for fabulous shots...

If one could have a crush well I'm guilty as charged...
Who wouldn't want to live in the world of "Dottieangel"
Were granny love reins supreme...
Chickens are more than egg producing fowl...
And even mice extermination sounds like fun...

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If ever I find that perfect seaside cottage
were "Dottie" will be hanging out
I will be sure to pop in for a cup of tea
(remembering to bring my own freshly baked cake)
and while away the hours perfecting granny squares,
picking fresh flowers, laundering vintage linen,
and deciding what shade of blue to dye our greying hair...
***

You can see her amazing pictures
on her Flickr Photo stream HERE...
Or visit her Etsy Shop HERE...
to find the most pretty aprons one could want...

Thanks Tif you are a inspiration...

Obsessed with Burgundy and Blue

I have managed to finish two
"Grandma Love" cushions
for myself...
and I love these colours...
I think when I find things in these colours I go all weak and just
have to have it...
I try really hard not to look on etsy by colours as a result...
My bank balance would surly be in a dismal state if I did...
Lately I have been trying to make these cushions in other colours as
I am sure not everyone is so totally
obsessed with Burgundy and Blue...

So here is a question...
What's your favorite colour...
What colour combo's make you go all weak at the knees?

And on the home front
I do hope the August winds that are in full force here
are not sending you flying...

But instead at least getting the clothes dry...

Time Just Flys

Time just flys...

More scanning of some old but favorite pics...
My friend and I would have a box of "prop" clothes and bits
and on the weekends we would scout out locations for portraits
and take "heaps"of pics basically until we got it right...
It was heaps of fun and luckily the kids all had a pretty good time as well..
the ones above are of "Oldest and Dearest" age about 12
and "My Shadow" about 4...
it's hard to believe that it was about 8 years ago now
"My Shadow" is the same age as "Oldest and Dearest"
and now "Little Miss" is the same age as "My Shadow"
funny how things work...

Not much crafting at the moment as the"lurgy" has come to visit
again...
Hope all my crafty friends are feeling much better thou...
and I am enjoying all your great post...

Number 41

Before the Pub...
I lived at number 41...
I loved this house...
It had a front verandah and a back pergola...
and best of all it had a darkroom...
Yes I do miss that more than anything...
But now in the age of digital I wonder if I would still get the use out of it...
maybe not...
As I went through lots and lots of old photo's today I thought
I should at least scan some of my favorites so they are not
lost forever in my clutter...
and contemplate whether I should invest in a up market digital...
My last camera (about 7 years ago)
was a most impressive SLR...which is now every outdated...
and needs a bit of fixing...(the rewind is cactus)
and the thought of scanning images and not knowing how they will
look like is just not in me to do anymore...

I only ever use my cheap and fast point and shot Kodak...
Which while bearable isn't what
you would call professional...
Once upon a time I did many weddings and outdoor portraits
for people
Now I think I have lost the mojo...
Really
So here I am wondering if I did "upgrade" will I get it back
Truly

Hmmmmm!!!
Has anyone out there just bought a new camera...
did it bring the mojo back?

Did your quality of pics improve?
Has it changed the way you now take photo's?
Or do you find that most of the time you can drag your pics into a programme
and make them look just as good with any camera?
Love to hear your comments...

Here Chicken

We have quite a brood of speckled hens which are all called
"Sophia"
mainly cause they all look the same and I really can't tell them apart..
and we have a rooster called "Nick"...

Well Nick obviously did his part...
But we let nature down...
You see we have only one new chicken...
As it turns out we left two "old eggs" in the nest
so she would "sit" and after a short while she had quite a nest full
and was sitting quite well...
that was until one egg decided it would hatch...
In my excitement I hadn't realized that this was a chicken that had hatched
from one of the "old eggs"...hmmm...
and much to our sorrow she went straight of the nest and so
no more would hatch...
Will really remember to mark the eggs next time
and take them out...
or better still use a golf ball...I hear that works...
So we still have one new addition that we are very proud of
but the way it struts around I have a feeling I have a "Nick" in the making..

Chicken raising seems to be a lot more complicated than I first though...

In Store Now

"Grandma Love" cushion now in my
Etsy Shop
Cream, Orange and Teal...

Bench Monday and more

This is my second "flickr" Bench Monday pic...
If you want to join in a really great flickr group this is the one...
You can only upload one pic a week and it has to be on a monday...
apart from that it just has to be a shot of someone or anyone
standing on a bench (table,chair,stool)...
to go to this just click on my Flickr photo stream in my sidebar...

Now for some more "Grandma Love"
this time in cool purples and cream...

I have also finished my zig - zag cushion
that I had been waiting on getting the wool for...
now I just need to track down the right buttons...
but that one will be a keeper
as it will be just the right colours for Vintage...
Talking of Vintage
stay tuned as I pick her up on Wednesday...