My girl friends and I were lucky enough to be invited to Nell's studio to buy some of her lovely Summer clothing range to help make the festive season more festive. We had an amazing night. Seriously envious of her warehouse space.
Usually my wardrobe is all Nell. I just love the styling, the comfort, the fabrics. She also has inspiring home-wares.
The last photo is the gorgeous Emmanuel of Nell adding up my order. Oh I do love buying clothes. We made our purchases, giggling as all girls do fuelled by retail therapy. Shared a bottle of fine red wine and went out in Surry Hills.
Friday finds me thinking about what I am sewing for Christmas and here are some great tutorials I have been reading.
I so want to be organized for Christmas this year. I want to
make it a special one as I am hosting the family. I have been posting
all my favourite images on my pinterest board called Christmas.
Although this video on making fabric balls is from last year I really want to give it a go. I first saw it on Meet me at Mikes and was reminded of it again on Poppytalk. It is so sweet.
Pom poms are top on my list. I love this tutorial.
I am imagining that I make 10 large ones in red and hang them over my dining room table.
I do love trees and I think fabrics trees are going to make everything so festive. I could make a park for the mantle with some white cushion infill around them to make us think of snow.
I'm maybe mooore excited that you are! Thank you sooooo much for sharing these ideas with us! I would like also to make all these wonderful things !Thank you again
The Cockatoo Island Street Art exhibition captured our imaginations last weekend.
It's great to see so much freedom with colour and a spray can. Great graphics and ideas.
Children were involved in building a cardboard city.
My daughter wanted to create a petrol station for all the cars. Which developed into a corner shop.
I noticed there were no trees so I added some pink cardboard ones. I had dreams of making a park...
The T-shirt exhibition was great, interviews with all kinds of creatives asking their opinions on the humble Tee.
I was intrigued by the optimism and opinions.
Seriously envious of this girl's hand crocheed cape. I took a snap. Hope you don't mind.
The tunnel was full of cool street art. Dark in there and atmospheric.
Our mode of transport. Zip zip. As it's street art its all about wheels.
The icon of most Street or Skater art is the scull. I never thought I would put one on my blog but they brought the house with it, which in my option makes it remarkable.
Huge congratulations to Georgie the winner of the Mida Boys wear range.
A big thank you to all of those who entered. I am sorry that you all did not win but don't be to disheartened as but you can purchase all the Mida clothing here.
Big thanks to Janet for asking me to design the fabrics for this range. I hope to do more freelance designing.
Please be sure to check back here for a month of giveaways.
I am pretty excited because the Sydney Festival guide appeared in my mail box on Monday. Wow so much to see. I rearranged my life to be able to sit on the phone and the internet at 9 am to purchase tickets as they went on sale. I managed to buy all the tickets I was after and with in 20 minutes I had seats!! Yay. January is going to be amazingly entertaining. Pj Harvey, Beth Orton and Holly Throsby we are coming to see you.
So as I haves shared with you snippets of these amazing gals in my past Sunday Sounds I thought I should share some Pj Harvey with you. I have been listening to Pj for a decade now; so much music and her new album has been going round and around my iTunes all week. Her lyrics are so poetic and powerful. What a lady.
The jacarandas up here in Glebe have been wonderful. I keep forgetting to take the real camera with me and now it has been raining for a day and the blossoms are falling with the rain! Hopefully there will be some left - terrace houses and jacarandas are
a match made in heaven (except for the root problem).
These are some designs I did for Mida, a boys wear label. Janet's design philosophy is to create
clothes for boys that are, well, boyish and fun; sized from 1- 6. I think they
look quite different from anything else out there. I bought last season's range my sister's boy and she loved them.
The current range is inspired by her son Thomas's and his love for trains (yep real name and I think
quite fortuitous). Thomas has lots and lots of trains that he can happily play with for hours. His love
of trains has helped bond with his dad who also loves creating tracks
and choo-choo games with him.
Using the inspiration of Thomas's love for trains Janet asked me to
design these fabrics for Mida inspired by trains and my Snails and Ladder print while using strong Mida colours blue and red. I am really pleased with the result.
We chose the bottom left as the most successful design with a twilight feel. The second on the bottom was chosen for the jeans as the colours look great against denim.
We are lucky enough to offer you a give-away. For a chance to get all 4 pieces for free—being a set of pj's, 1 pair of jeans, 1 pair of pants as well as a pair of Midnight Express shorts valued at $120.00—all you need do is leave your name and email address below. Please make sure you confirm your email address by clicking on the link you'll receive in an email.
Wow how generous it that. The winner will be chosen on the 12th of November.
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Ohh I have a 5 year old boy who would love this!!! thanks for the chance in your wonderful giveaway :)
Kylie C commented on 04-Nov-2011 07:26 PM
My son is obsessed with trains too. I am currently in hospital after having emergency surgery and he drew a train track and brought some trains in so i could play with them while recovering.
Yep, trains! trains trains trains.... gotta love them.. Your designs are yet again gorgeous. My son is obsessed with Thomas, but I draw the line at dressing him in corporate motif garbage. Thank you for making it easy to keep both myself and my son happy.
Cool! I have definitely entered - my son is train obsessed! Guess you won't be releasing these fabrics publicly though! Fingers crossed!
redberry commented on 06-Nov-2011 07:02 PM
Great train fabric, cool clothes for boys.
Anne Tse commented on 07-Nov-2011 10:06 AM
I wish Mida would consider making these shorts in larger sizes say up to size 12, so my son can grow in with the brand. Another wonderful design from Saffron! Yay! I love that dark blue colour one! Wish it comes in bed sheets too ...
Wishing my wonderful husband the happiest bestest Birthday ever.
He is special to me. He traveled half way around the world to build a life with me and our daughter. He is my calmness. My support.
So we spoiled him with breakfast in bed. A walk on the beach.
I have organized a pod of dolphins to swim by and a whale to spout, such is the time of year.. Sunshine too. A day of such fun. Celebration. Magic. The Jacarandas are blossoming and the world outside our home is purple.
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I bought him the biggest mango I could find, which is his favourite fruit, and other treats like Swiss chocolates.
Also a
scooter to commute on. Yes he now has to go to an office in the city, at
least it is on the harbour.
On his new scooter he keeps up with the bikes and comes home
grinning like a boy. Yep we gave the scooter to him a bit early, he also
gains an extra 30 minutes with us so we are grinning too.
Riding the scooter turned into a family affair.
Happy birthday Patrick. This is the 14th time I have wished you so. He thinks I have wished him Happy Birthday more than anyone else he knows. How nice is that?
You always was (and of course still is) a GREAT girl, you are both lucky to have each other, hope Patrick has more magic finalising his birthday and that you all keep well until I see you next. ") Aroha from the long white cloud country
Kirstin Bokor commented on 05-Nov-2011 11:01 AM
I love Patrick - you are all so gorgeous. happy birthday wishes I send in abundance to that glorious man. xoxoxo
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