Go. Vote.

It’s RED. It’s CUTE. It’s made by CATH.

Well surely you don’t need anymore convincing..?

Go vote for this stunning piece of stitchery over here in the Feeling Stitchy Rainbow of Stitches comp – and peruse some more damn fine embroidery work while you’re at it.

Good Luck Cath! Red RULES.

That is all.

Living Creatively Comp - Op Shop Ship Shape - I won! I won!

OH! YEAH! BABY!

I am so excited I am all funny... you know how you get when you can't believe something really awesome & you can hardly think straight & you go a bit wobbly...?! Well that's me right now... I entered Living Creatively's Competitively Creative Competition for last month (with only a few days to spare mind you!); the theme was "Op Shop Ship Shape" & you had to share your reconned opshop goodies... As you can imagine I was thrilled to be able to enter, if ever there were a competition made for me! I could nae decide which of my furniture projects to submit because I love them all so I sent in my Writing Desk, Rocker & Buffet....

...and they choose the Buffet as the Winner!!

That's $100 that will be going straight back to the Oppy, thank you very much...!

Oh I am happy dancing all over the place!

Welcome any visitors from Living Creatively! Thank you so much to the folks over there who picked little old me... I am so glad that my passion for opshopping, thrifting, reusing... whatever you want to call it... shows through & even better, you liked it! I can only hope I might have been able to inspire one or two other crafty types to look at their oppy's unloved furniture in a new light!

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to faint.

I WON!!

Yesterday I was very excited to learn that I won the competition I entered on Crafty Mamas, '..make treasure from trash'.


I have only ever won drawing competitions, and none of those since leaving school, so winning something with my sewing, still being such a novice, is awesome!!


I'll be receiving a $25 fishpond.com.au voucher which will come in handy as I'm looking to buy a pattern drafting book that is a bit out of my price range at the moment (IE: it isn't free...!).


My entry was a bathrobe I made for Le Punk out of a couple of old threadbare towels & a couple of cloth nappies. Apart from the morning when I took these photos, it's been too hot here for her to wear it!!

It was so fun to make, I didn't use a pattern or measure anything, I totally winged the whole thing from start to finish, I just had the general idea of the shape from an old book. I added the flowers over my mending when I noticed that the towels were even more dodgy than I realised & there would soon be holes in Punky's new robe!! I wish I had the knack for sewing more things straight off the cuff, it was so liberating to just cut & sew & sew & sew without having to worry "..am I doing this right?"; I figured if it didn't turn out, in the end, it was only a couple of old towels.

I have to add that Amanda did a fantastic job with her entry too - how she managed to sew with plastic bags I have no idea!!