moopy & me

Project #2 revealed

A little baby in the belly is obviously my number one project at the moment but following very closely behind is Umbrella Prints (lets face it, the baby practically makes itself)

How exciting! MORE FABRIC and two new dollies for you to make. Amy and I have been working super hard on this project for almost a year now and are very proud to finally reveal all the creativity. Half of the textiles in our 12 modern Australian range are Amy's and the other half are mine... can you guess?

Both Amy and I have had team leaders, Lily (aged 4) & Grace (aged almost 3) bossing us from the side lines... most creative sessions have been reduced to washing up mud pies from clothes and explaining the rules of sharing for the millionth time (while we were busy ignoring them, they were busy making for sure we took more notice!)

We have 3 producty things for you to look at to start:: Flip Doll kits, Patchwork sets & meterage of the textiles used in both (meterage coming very soon, but dolly & patch sets available almost now...as soon as we get the Etsy store up and running... next week)

I will be putting aside my love hate relationship with Etsy in order to make things easier for you guys... I have a few gripes with the way they handle orders but hopefully the glitches have been ironed out since the last time I was there.... 

Thank you for all the wishes of joy in the last post .. I suck terribly at getting back to people but believe me when I say I love to hear from you and if time permits I try to read up on what you are up to aswell.

One of the FlipDolls is based on Lily and the other is Grace by the way...

Moopy-poo number two

Yes this blurry blobby photo is a sweet little moopy who will be ready to join our family some time in September.

My goodness havn't I been hanging out to tell the world such exciting news, I am so proud of myself for not blabbing our secret any sooner (to too many people anyhow).... it was no easy task keeping my big mouth shut I can tell you!

Moopy number one is absolutely over the moon... she has been begging for a baby sister for over two years now ... she is so sure of the baby being a sister??  but has come up with a very cunning plan if she happens to be blessed with a brother..... she has simply stated that I will have another baby!! well, I know what I am praying for.

I am quite suprised at the fact I am pregnant again... I swore black and blue that I would only have one baby... I found the baby 'thing' far more trying than I had ever thought it would be (but of course endlessly joyous at the same time). But come mid 2007, I had this sudden urgency to have another baby... I became obsessed.. wall paint was chosen .. a quilt was half made (in gender neutral orange and green) ... my GP only laughed and looked surprised that I had never heard of the four year itch. Why didn't any one tell me! I had been warned that getting pregnant again (due to some minor health issues) would not be so simple... so Chris and I thought the beginning of 2008 would be a good time to start and hope that Lily wouldn't become a teenager before we got the good news... well not even a week had gone by and presto! pregnant. I am not so sure I am going to listen to the doc in future... once is a fluke but twice... I think it's safe to say there are no fertility issues to worry about.

So you can expect a darn site more craftyness going on around here in the near future... I have some sewing to do!.. bibs.. booties... a quilt to finish.. my mind is a buzz with little pint sized projects, especially now that, that nasty bout of 'all day' sickness has cleared up. That is except for a few bigger issues like ... literally picking the house up and turning it around to fit a new baby in.. (how could something so small need so much space!) finding an art teacher to help out at the studio and a consultant who needs a beautiful studio to work in while I am not using it so much..... Let me know if you are keen!