My Creative Space

Not much in my creative space this week, just one finished little zipper pouch i have named "Flutter By".


I started them back here a while ago now by screenprinting on my butterfly, then i stitched in some little "Flying Lines" in black.

I also screen printed a little logo on the inside.


Very happy!, what next?? Off to the driving range.... yes! I have taken up golf! How odd! Well, i am thirty after all!

Check out lots of other creative peeps over at Kootoyoo.

My Creative Space - Happy Blogaversary to ME!!!

It's my blogaversary today! (round of applause) Thankyou, Thankyou!

I would like to thank my Husband for putting up with me sitting on the computer for endless hours each week. Most inportantly i would like to thank all the lovely bloggers who follow my blog and my erratic crafty behaviour. I get a little excited everytime i log into my email and have wonderful comments. You guys keep me going even if i don't have any mojo :-)


I been back into the Yudu Screen Printing Machine the last couple of days. Below is a row of butterflies, flying across fabric that has been cut out to make some little zipper purses. (oooo nice new ironing board cover to there :-)


I also screenprinted a logo for inside each purse.


I tried using felt to print on too, i am going to trim around it and punch a hole to make a little swing tag.


I received my 10 Dollar Drawing today. All the way from Portland Oregon. I first heard about this on Grey Grid Paper, a fellow Brown Owls' blog and thought it was too good to be true, your own person drawing for just $10 US. I requested a Willy Wagtail, but they don't have those in America! How sad for them :-( So I sent her an image to use as a reference, she has done such a beautiful job.


Hop over to 10 Dollar Drawings for your own one, you can pick anything!

After you hop there, pop pver to Kootoyoo for other creative spaces! Wishing you a happy creative day :-)

My Creative Space - Getting my Mojo Back

Not much going on here, just trying to get my Creative Mojo back. I had the pieces ready for a zipper pouch ready for a little while and they had been staring at me saying "Please Sew Me!" for a while now... in an effort to get my groove on i finally sewed it tonight, i did it a bit rushed, but it is for my neice which is coming up from Melbourne for my party in 2 weeks (2 weeks eeeckkk!!) and she will love it.



I had screen printed my Bee Girl Design on some fabric scraps but didn't leave enough room at the top so the girl is a bit chopped off, but it was just an experiment...

Also i found this old skool pattern at the op shop. $1.50. BARGAIN! Look at those cute hippos!

For more creative inspiration pop over to Kootoyoo... her weekly Creative Space is what keeps me going each week, thanks so much!!

My Creative Space - a Creative Mess!

Paints in a variety of colours, a rubber spatula for scraping up left over ink, a squegee for printing and some scraps of vinyl for taping over different areas on my screen.

I am testing some things on my Yudu, like printing onto wood, it is a Kaiser Craft wooden coaster, i covered with some plain white paint, let it dry...


and then printed on it with my Yudu... (for more info on this process click here)


Da Da! How cool is that! It's just a test but it would be awesome to have a placemat, table runner and coaster set wouldn't it!

Here is a sneaky peeky of the screen i am going to burn on the weekend. I am going to try some tea towels, and some repetitive patterns.



For more Yudu'ing click here for my past posts on my new machine.


Completely unrelated...One funky 1970's Vintage Table Cloth for my 1970's party, bought on Ebay. Nearly one month to my party!

Hop over to Kootoyoo for more great creative spaces, they are always very inspirations so you should check a few out to get your creative juices flowing..

My Creative Space - My Yudu Dining Table

I'm elbow deep in Yudu!! For more information on my new purchase see the last few posts on my blog. or pop over to the Yudu website (i should be sponsored!!) I have been trying some other colours and designs out, tonight it was the Lotus Lilly design in pink printed on light pink fabric. The design came out nice and crisp.

I am going to use some panels to create a little bag or purse. I also tried out the white ink on black fabric. It worke dout pretty well, i used two passes to get the ink nice and thick. I want to use this as a swing tag.

I also did some final stitching on my white T-Shirt i printed on the weekend. I also added some fabric over her face to add some more colour...


Pop over to Kootoyoo for some more creative spaces! Happy Creative Space Thursday... i hope you have a fruitful day :-)

My Creative Space

This week on My Creative Space is...
One finished Bodice top for my Belle Dress. Looks wonky in the photo but it is looking very lovely - all that is left is the gather the THREE skirts and attached them to the bodice and then hem them all - goodness gracious!

Photos of leaves for a commissioned wall decal - a WHOLE tree! 3 metres high! Can't wait to see it finished and installed...

I have never paid so much attention to the beautiful shapes and silhouettes of tress before...

Having a low creativeness week, so maybe next week i will have more to offer, i think i just go around and suck up everybody elses creativeness at Kootoyoo's Creative Space. You should too!

My Creative Space - Too Many Projects again!

I offered to create a little dress for a little girl called Neve, who likes to dance to 80's music with her mum and dress up like Belle, from Beauty and Beast.

She is going to Disney on Ice in less that 2 weeks and i started cutting out the pieces - current count is 18!! GEZZZZ!!! And i haven't even cut out the Taffetta yet, they didn't have any at Lincraft, and they call themselves a fabric shop.. wtf?
This is the flouncy collar and lining of the bodice. I am using pattern B4320 by Butterick this is were i am at... lining, overskirt, and little gathered thingy for over the shoulders....The overskirt below will be gathered up in sections with the canary yellow taffeta showing through the bottom.

I want it to look like this in the end, but not plasticky.
I also have some vintage pattern goodness, care of ebay - Simplicity 5562 from 1973. The paper used for the pattern pieces is better quality than the type used today and the printing on it nice and big - must be before they became cheapskates and started using thinner tissue paper.. Some pouches made with Ink and Spindle Fabric. A finished Mod Podged box with a little pouch for a friend in Melbourne. Annd lastly, some hand screenprinted panels, this is step one in a 2 colour design.

Tomorrow will be the flowers. I used the vinyl cutter at work to cut my design out of removable vinyl and stuck it on the back on my screen. The result is a very precisely cut stencil that creates nice clean esges. You can only use it until you rinse your screen though so i got 3 prints out, only one PERFECT one though.. so if after i put the flowers on the perfect one is still perfect - i might se if i can sell it. It would be perfect for the flap of a messenger bag or stretched over a frame...

Hop over to Kootoyoo, the lovely lady that hosts My Creative Space each week for some more Creative Goodness.

Also.. yes i am posting this at 4:50am in the morning.. i cant sleep!
Also also... Transformers 2 kicks arse!! Go see it!!

My Creative Space - I GIVE UP!!

This week, as usual i have a range of projects happening.



After two more attempts at making a purse with a PVC Plastic overlay, i have HAD ENOUGH! It annoys me coz i can't get it looking nice when it is all turned out. So after 3 needles breaking from hitting a zip ( i always get scared they are going to flick up and impale me in the eye) and constant resewing, i have admitted defeat and moved on.

A little Stamp Maths....

A bit of Japaneesey goodness, that are going to be turned out into more pendants, i have sold all but two left in my shop, originally i made around 30, mainly through friends, but they are still sales i say!


And lastly, an introduction to my Lucky Kitty, i bought her in Singapore last year. She helps keep the good luck on my sewing table, maybe that is why i haven't been impaled in the eye with a broken sewing needle yet?


Have a happy day everyone and go to Kootoyoo for more My Creative Spaces.

(God i can't wait to get a proper camera)

EXTRA EXTRA - i forgot to add in a pickie of my Finished Worlds Coolest Skirt, my post is here..

My Creative Space - Finished Projects (Shock Horror!)

In the interest of sanity, this week i worked hard at finishing one project.

Here are my completed placemats and table runner for my friend Sarnie's 30th Birthday. Hand screenprinted by Moi (Me for the none french people out there), then i stitched in some detail on the leaves and the detail around the long stem... They are Emerald Green on the other side so if she wants she can have the table runner showing the print and just green placemats - i hope she likes them!
I also did a little bit of mucking around with my stamps, i carved this little beauty!

At the Scrapbooking expo i also bought a little dragon fly stamp.

Might make some cards out of them. Next week i will have some progress to show you on the worlds coolest skirt!

What have your been up to??.... join Kootoyoo's Creative Space too!

My Creative Space - Worlds Coolest Skirt

Good Morning!! (If i say that all cheery maybe it will wake me up :-)

In my Creative Space this week....

Embroidered "Adventures of Bee Girl" Panels


One Finished Mod Podged Box Top.

and most excitingly, some fabric to make the Coolest Skirt in The World. (geee, thats not too much expectation!)

The panel is from the lovely and very talented Red Seed Studio, and i have bought some black twill, it is going to be soooooo cool, so pop back next week and you might see it in progress!

Off to go and check out everyone else and their creative spaces at Kootoyoo. Why don't you join in?

My Creative Space

I'm a bit late today as i spent every spare minute entering Giveaways over at Sew Mamma Sew!
My giveaway is in the next post down - check it out :-)

Anyways, this is my creative space today.

As usual - alot of projects on!

One Finished Purse! Pretty happy with it. I think the dragon fly looks lovely.

On the other side i stitched 2 Dragon flys. What do you think?


Some squares i have measured and trimmed to start a quilt.


Beautiful fabric for a present for a friend, it's going to be some placemats and a table runner.

Some modge podge and pretty paper for covering a little box.

Finished Coasters for a swap.

Some salvaged banner vinyl from work that i am going to make into envelopes, will show in my next post!


I have been amazed by all the comments for my giveaway! It has been fun going around and entering everyones, but i am fully typed out after writing about 60 comments today's for different giveaways - so today is short and sweet - for me anyway.

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