Morning everyone... the sun is shining, the grass is green, and I have a new sewing room. But wait! Let's announce the winner before we get ahead of ourselves.....
The winner is Mandy! Congratulations..... Mandy said:
"Always love, love, love, fabric from Urban Chiks. It's always fresh but somehow vintage. Thank you for the chance to win some."
No problemo Mandy, drop me an email and I will get your Sweetie in the mail for you.
And now to the sewing room. Hubby and I have been trying to renovate our house since we bought it ten years ago. It's a nice house, but the man who owned it before us was a bit of a home handy man. He has left us some wonderful legacies, like the brown and green hexagonal tiles in the ensuite, the mission brown tiles in the living room and the shower that drains in the wrong direction (ie, AWAY from the drain!). All these things and more we have lived with for ten years, including the last two years when we had the plans, but no action!
Anyway, all that is behind us and the renos are starting in two weeks!! We have to move out to have the house prettied up and we have rented a place up the road. It's a funny old rental house with all the paint chipped off the walls and a funky old kitchen, but yesterday I started moving my sewing room up there and I have found gold.
My sewing room currently looks like this:
So you can imagine my need to get out. If I put on any weight I will never be able to squeeze between the desk and the shelving to get to the sewing machine. It has so much stuff in it that it's just not funny. I was worried that there would not be enough space in the rental to get everything in there that needs to be there. But yesterday I discovered that I have a large, airy, bright classroom (I currently have two spaces in a Friday morning if anyone's interested!), a full wall of design wall and another room to be my studio!! In my huge and breathless excitement I didn't take a picture, but I promise to snap some when I take another load up to the house later today.
Hooray, Hooray, happiness is neatly stacked fabric.
I also thought I'd share this with you.... my son Charlie went to his first boy/girl party on Saturday night, his little friend Jillie turned 12 and they had a dinner party to celebrate. He bought her the Killers album (dainty, Charlie, well done), and I thought I'd make her a little something as it's not every day a girl turns 12.
How cute is that? I recently subscribed to Mixtape, which is a fantastic little indie craft magazine coming out of Melbourne. With my subscription I was given some iron on transfers from Sublime Stitching by Jenny Hart which are very, very cute. As there are no little girls in my immediate sphere I was going to be reduced to embroidering girls heads onto all my pyjama tops until I encountered Jillie's birthday. An hour in front of the TV later (OK, it didn't take me an hour to sew it - it was Saturday afternoon and Cocoon was on!) and I was all set.
Think of me moving boxes and stacking fabric, and don't forget to let me know asap if you want a spot in my Friday class in my NEW CLASSROOM! :)
Sarah x
