Mary's Market -This weekend

Freemans Bay Community Hall, 52 Hepburn Street. 9am-1pm

Devonport Craft Market - Sunday 14th February

Don't forget that you can find us this Sunday 14th at The Devonport Craft Market.

Where: Devonport Community House, 32 Clarence Street, Devonport

When: 10 - 3pm

Skirts Made To Order

For those of you who don't know I also make easy to fit woman skirts. I usually have a small number in stock but can make to measure too. The skirt is A-line and slightly flary. It fits a variety of shapes and you can choose to wear them either on your hips or lower depending on your preference -and can accommodate slight changes in weight that way too!

If you are interested in having a skirt made please email me. Finished skirts cost $70. If you are wanting one made from your own fabric I charge $5o.

I have just made some new skirts from the above fabrics. They will be available at the Devonport Craft Market this Sunday or at Mary's Market at the end of the month. If you want to come over and try one on please contact me. I'm located in Three Kings, Auckland.

My budding artist!

I reckon my 4 1/2 year old daughter is turning into a budding artist. Over the past few weeks she has been producing a self portrait every second day. But my favourite is her drawing of her bunny ballerina.

International Interest!

WOW. For a few days I thought I had a commission from Red Frog Events to design a rain forest clothing tree.

“We are extremely interested in the coat rack and would love to get the adult size tree!

While we LOVE the two tree designs you already have, can we order one that looks kind of like a rainforest tree and has a few small frogs on it? To better help you I have attached a few photos of what the frog looks like as well as what kind of tree it hangs out on. Then finally can we get the tree bright red?

I know we have a lot of demands, but we want it to reflect our office 100%! If this is a problem let me know or if you have an idea on what could work we would love to hear it.”

And then Stephanie (from Red Frog Events) realized that I was in New Zealand and not in the US. So, unfortunately, design costs and P&P was going to push the price just out of their budget. A pity as I was already having ideas of how it was going to look.

Looking forward to my next commission!

Busy Busy Busy

Sometimes I wonder where us mums find the time to blog, create, raise kids, do household stuff, and socialise. I'm finding that all I've been doing these past weeks is juggle all these things and feel like I've got nowhere. Luckily creating means making things, and over the past two weeks I've made 10 skirts, six jewellery trees and one kids clothing tree. Painting and sanding the trees seem to be the most time consuming and in this heat it has been quite exhausting.

Garden Shed to Studio

Over the past couple of months we have been slowly renovating our rat infested shed into an artist's studio. We are about half way there and it already looks great. My handy man Murray, daughter Ella, dad and moi have done most of it. I especially love the photo of the dust caught on Murray's face - and the hosing of him down afterwards (no photos for the public I'm afraid).