Crafty Christmas Club.... Hooray!

The lovely lady over at Tilly and the Buttons has come up with the great idea of a Crafty Christmas Club. 

You can read her post about it and join up here. 

Its such a great idea, Christmas is only 8 weeks away! EEP!

Tilly's definition of Crafty Christmas Club:

"Crafty Christmas Club is a group blog for people who are making their own Christmas prezzies this year. A hub to discuss your crafty plans with likeminded people, gain inspiration from other craftsters, share tips and tutorials, and - perhaps most importantly - show off your finished goodies without spoiling the surprise to family and friends who might be reading your own blog!"

So it looks like its time to get crafty and start making some handmade gifts.

I am personally thinking of making some aprons, purses, buscuits and some other trinkets!

There's already great things happening at the blog and my 'to do' list is growing everytime I look at it... 

So go check it out and join up! the more the merrier :-)

Hope your having a good week, new projects to be posted soon!

ox

Wherefore art thou?

I hear you all asking...

well,
It is spring carnival season here at the moment and there is horse racing fever in the air!
We went to our local race day and it was so sunny and perfect!

I have been super busy sewing up 2 dresses for the day, one for me, and one for another lovely lady I know. It was a time crunch to say the least and came down to the wire...

I was literally sewing buttons on the dresses on the morning of the event... phew!
But it was worth it!!!

terrible posture.... haha

On the left is the lovely lady who asked me to sew her up something in white with a giant collar.

She looks so pretty in white!

On the right is another lady friend of mine and in the middle, myself.

As you can see our two dresses have the same self drafted skirt. But for the white number I used great 60's pattern that has been in my stash since the dawn of time. I have never used the pattern before but it was lucky enough to be in her size, the only change made was that the pattern is a halterneck, but she wanted the back to be enclosed so I drafted up a back piece and had to work out how to make the collar attach to it.... slight nightmare with facings and what not... but we got there in the end!

And she liked it and thats all that matters :-) 

Its hard to make out, but there are matching pink silk buttons and undercollar.

And she even found matching shoes!

For my own dress, I drafted a simple bodice with wide straps, partly inspired by Louis Vuitton's recent  50's collection. I got the stretchy cottonish (yes, technical) fabric from Tessuti Fabrics in Melbourne (AKA Heaven)

It was so simple and quite quick, I made a tulle petticoat to give the skirt some body and put on some black silk self covered buttons to match the skirt band. 

It was so fun to wear!

My hair even stayed curly ALL DAY after being in pin curls all night, amazing.

It was a fun day full of horse racing, champagne and sore feet.... very sore feet...

Can't wait til next year....

Thank you Mumsy for playing paparazzi for us :-)

Hope your all having a great week and sewing up something pretty.

I have some new fabric and hope to be starting something new as soon as possible, also, we are attending a vintage bike rally next week. Can't wait!!!

til then..

ta ta

Beautiful Blogger Award

Ohh la la... My first award!!!

I was lucky enough to receive a Beautiful Blogger award from the lovely Rachel from Boo Dogg and Me

I love her blog, she is so stylish and classy and can sew her pants off...... or on...??

I especially loved her trio of birthday dresses, you should go have a looksy here!

I was also nominated for this award a while back by the awesome chick over at Kyla Con Stylas Bitchery Stitchery Blog. She makes some cute bags that I am wanting to copy really badly!

Sorry about the late reply! :-)

So the deal is that I need to tell my lovely readers 10 things about myself and pass the awards on to 3 other lovely bloggers... sounds easy enough eh?

Hmm, where to start?

....

1. At this very moment, I am watching 'The Owl & The Pussycat' from 1970 starring Barbara Streisand and it is actually quite funny!

2. I once had a job at an ice cream shop. After working there for a few months, my right arm was so strong and muscly from scooping. I did get free ice cream for breakfast lunch and dinner though. Every flavour you could think of... toblerone, white chocolate, ferrero roche, tim tam... champage....

drool

3. I was terrible in sewing class in high school. We made a pair of pyjamas and when i took them home, they fell off the clothesline and our dog chewed them up. They were terrible anyways... But after high school I suddenly got the knack for it.

4. Once upon a time, I met the Fonz. We were at Melbourne Zoo on a school trip and whilst looking at the monkeys the man in front of us turned around and guess who it was.... Fonzy!!! crazy

5. I am almost finished my Youth Work certificate, Only 2 months to go...

6. Number six is my lucky number. My birthday is on the 6th of August which is also my mum's birthday. Sorry about that mum, I owe you a birthday. 6 has always been lucky for me.

7. I want a 1964 Ford Mustang. My dream car. In candy apple red. So that is the first thing I'm buying when I win tattslotto, or become famous. So I guess I need to start buying tattslotto tickets... and becoming famous.

8. I love red things.

9. I wish there were more than 3 seasons of Deadwood. Best. Show. Ever.

10. Lastly. I just got a new job. 

Okay that took longer than expected!

Time to spread the love...

The three people I'd like to pass the award to are:

Miss Dandy : A lovely lass with classy style.

Andi B. Goode: A Fellow Aussie Lady.

&

Fawn & Flower: Who always makes me laugh

Thats all folks. More to come soon.

Have a great weekend!!! I'm off to the sewing room...

And the winners are....

Hello happy sewers.

Its time to announce the lovely & lucky winners of the '80 followers Giveaway'

Thank you all for stopping by and checking out the giveaway, It was great to see all of your current projects and read some new blogs. So a big THANKS to you all.

Sorry I don't have a prize for all of you...

 But thats the way the cookie crumbles, or in this case thats the way the random number generator crumbles... crumbles??? rolls?? Help me out here... 

Anyway, I know you'll all skip this bit and scroll down to the winners so I may as well get on with it!

Winner of Prize #1: The Patterns

Modern Suzie

Winner of Prize #2: The Fabric

Debi

Winner of Prize #3: The bag

Gabriella

If the winners could all drop me a line with your address/info (Please write to: renay.w@hotmail.com) , I will ship these off in the next few days.

Unfortunately if I don't hear from you within 3 days of this post, I will have to redraw your prize.

THANKS AGAIN EVERYONE :-)

So it seems I have reached 100 followers.... even better.

that means there will be another giveaway soon so stay tuned lovely followers...

Have a lovely week and look out for my upcoming posts including a wrap up of Self Stitched September, A finished project & an award I won, Yippee!

Have fun and get back to your sewing machines!