Facebook competition!

Yay! Today has been such a lovely day, and has been topped off by hitting my 150 likes on facebook:) So to celebrate this, I have decided to do a giveaway. Facebook rules are a little tricky so I have now changed the rules on how to enter the comp! Check out my FB page under the discussions tab, but people no longer have to enter on the blog... apparently it was causing some confusion and that isn't what this is about...

To enter you need to post a comment below the new post about the competition. You need to include your email address so I can notify the winner by email.  Entry is open until Monday 4th April 7pm WA standard time. I will then head over to random.org and select an entry number at random and post the winner by email and also advise on my FB page.  Please feel free to share the link with your friends. As long as they have liked my page and followed the competition rules, they too can be in the running!

Our giveaway is this gorgeous little mini fascinator. It can be attached to a newborn, toddler, teen or adult sized lace headband or satin wrapped plastic headband. The winner will be able to choose the headband type and size.

These are cute "Emily Rose" rolled flowers finished off with beautiful birdcage veiling overlay and 3 small beads off centre on the centre rose. I love this soft aqua blue. It is beautiful cotton fabric using Heather Bailey (Bijoux) for the outer flowers and Patty Young for Michael Miller (Dandelion) from the Flora and Fauna range for the centre flower. Beautiful!

Now go forth and enter!!!

A sense of achievement

There is always a great feeling that, yes - "I actually did that!" when you meet your deadline. Well, for me there is. I had a mad day yesterday when I found out that I needed to get some headbands ready for a fashion parade the next day. I didn't think I could do it, and yes I did stay up to a ridiculous hour this morning which wasn't my wisest move, but I am sooo pleased that I managed to get them done. Fantastic!

B Tween Tides is a new fashion boutique for tots to teens opening up in our town, and I am thrilled that they will be stocking some of my creations! So I spent last night creating and finishing Ava, Audrey, Isabella and Bella Blossom headbands in as many different colours that I could in a short time. The end result was that I managed to create 12 headbands and get them delivered by this morning! Here is a look at some of the creations.

This is a mini Stella headband. I was just wanting to do a simple version to match a similar styled shirt in store.

 A small felt Audrey

A medium organza Audrey

Another medium organza Audrey

I think this might be my favourite - a small Ava featuring a rhinestone centre

An experiment with an Isabella which I am really pleased with the end result - very shabby chic.

A large Bella Blossom flower

A cute, super curly Bella Blossom

Another variation on the Isabella theme

The end result, packaged, coded and ready for delivery. 

An Emily Rose rolled flower on stretch elastic.

It just shows you what you can achieve when you set your mind to it. I guess we have reserves we just didn't realise we had when there is a need!

Well, I am off to have some well deserved sleep. I am also looking forward to a night out with my girlfriends in the weekend which should be fantastic too so it isn't all work and no play!!!

Deadlines... and sneaky peeks!

Like my friend Amanda said, there is nothing like a deadline to get you moving! I have 2 at the moment. I am frantically preparing stock to go into a new shop opening up in our local shopping centre, and also trying to sewing and create headbands for my market stall at the West End Markets coming up on April 16th. Oh, and we are also going for a short weekend trip to Bunbury to look at houses in the middle of all of this! Luckily I have managed to get a good headstart on my sewing, and so far, I am pretty pleased with the results. I have sewn 3 pillowcase dresses, and have 8 skirts sewn awaiting elastic on the go. I would like to get another 3 dresses at least sewn and more skirts, but will have to be realistic about what I can do as I really need to do some more headbands.

Speaking of headbands, I have come up with a cute little headband that I love to be the giveaway when I hit my 150 likers mark on Facebook. I have attached a preview for any fans that have popped over for a sneaky peek!  So here goes...

 My cute little fascinator that is going to be the giveaway. This is awaiting headband size. It can go on a white lace headband sized from newborn to adult! Love it:)

My new pillowcase dress, sized 1. I am loving these fabrics from Hawthorne Threads:)

The size 2 - if only it was a 3, Isabella would be wearing this now...

And lastly, the size 3 featuring the beautiful Sandi Henderson fabric, Pop Daisy I think it is called. She creates the most bold and fantastic designs.

And lastly, my cute Juliette La Fleur. This photo doesn't quite do it justice as this is a gorgeous shabby chic flower, but would make a great brooch or headband.

Right, I am off to make some Audrey headbands now. Have a great night!

Getting there!

I have had a very productive few days - and in between managing to nearly kill my overlocker (oops!) I have nearly finished 7 skirts and 3 dresses. They are now awaiting the final touches (which means I am waiting for Isabella to go to bed so I can do this!!!). I have also had a very exciting meeting today and am thrilled that I am going to be stocking my headbands and clips in the new toddler to teen clothing shop that is opening up in our local shopping centre! This will expose my product to a new audience, and who knows, this may mean that I don't need to open a madeit shop for a while.  So, once these skirts and dresses are completed I am back on the headband and clip wagon. I have some lovely new ideas and am very very excited.

I will post some sneaky peeks of the new outfits real soon:)

Blah, blah!

What a week - well I say that every week, but this week has been quite memorable, but not for the right reasons. My husband is away at the moment, I have been crook and little pre schooler have a canny sense for knowing when you don't feel right and playing up. Luckily my parents did an intervention and had my pre schooler come stay and I am feeling so much better. So last night after catching up on well earned sleep I decided to finish off the 4 skirts I had on the go. Good idea, but when I was overlocking I didn't notice a pin had slipped in unnoticed and managed to muck up the overlocker. I had to try and rethread and that didn't go so well. My lovely step son calmly tried to assist by attempting to follow the diagram, hold the torch so I could see into the nooks and crannies but to no avail. Breathe!  So I decided to work on the skirts that don't require the overlocker and finished off the bulk of that on 2 skirts. I am going to contact the lady I bought the overlocker from and hopefully she can help otherwise I will be urgently sending it away for repair. But there are loads of other things I can be getting on with but I was getting into the swing. I had 2 dresses ready for sewing, so hopefully I can get it sorted in the next few days.

Oh well, off to collect my daughter and take her to dance class. Fingers crossed we all play nice for the rest of the week!

Ciao x

What a week!

Poor little Emily has had bronchiitis, a nasty hacking cough and is dosed up on all sorts of medications that I would normally avoid, but the poor thing hasn't been able to shake the cough.  Luckily apart from the odd drawing on herself incident, Isabella hasn't been too bad. Although she did manage to chew on a book tonight and give herself a blue mouth - something she hadn't done since she was a baby!

I have managed to do a bit of creative this week, put some items up for sale that are new on my FB page and get my application ready for the West End Markets that are coming up in April.  Myself and my friend who makes reversible bucket hats are going to be sharing a stall (everything going to plan) and we are super excited about this.  All I need to do now is crack on with the sewing next week, have a few samples of all my headbands, and I should be fine!


Oh, and on Sunday last week, in between a thunder storm, my husband went on his charter flight around the Port Hedland area and had a ball.  I have got a few shots to share of the fantastic area we live in, as well as some of my new bits and pieces.

So next week is going to be a little crazy around here as my husband will be away for business, but luckily I have a bit of help from our eldest so that should ease the pain a little !

So here are a few shots of Port Hedland as we don't usually see it... green and wet:)

A beautiful shot of Pretty Pool in Port Hedland. We have had so much rain lately that there is more water than normal around here!

A great shot of the harbour at sunset.

So this looks green to you? Well normally this is just red dirt! We have had so much rain this wet season that everything is green and lush and we aren't used to it so we take photos of what everyone else takes for granted!!!

One of my new creations that I have been working on that I am loving. Can you tell that I love this colour?

Yes, I do love this colour! All this needs is a rhinestone button in the centre and needs to be attached to either a headband or clip. I have someone in mind for this one so it stays as is at the moment!

Have a great weekend!