Chicks have hatched..

I just had to share what's been happening at our place.. so forgive my sidetracking from usual craft themed writing....

I've shown off our chooks before... it's been a while now since we've had them.. We've lost one of the 'dinosaurs' aloong the way, which was really sad, so we were down to 3 (2 bantims and 1 'dinosaur' - I think the real name is English something or other...)

Since all of our hens were feeling clucky, we decided to get them some eggs....

and today...


our family welcomed 3 super cute yellow chickies!!

Here's mum "Fluffy" with one of the babies...

And here's another one whose mum is 'Midnight 2'.. ('Midnight' turned out to be a rooster and we traded him in for 'Midnight 2')..

Aren't they cute??

Rattle balls to the market..

I've said before that I'm working on a few new project ideas.... Took me a little longer than anticipated to get the pattern right, but with some help of the hubby, I finally got there...!

All balls are made from new, lined, pre washed fabric - we use soft minky as well as cotton fabrics.. some balls have a jingle column, some a loud rattle insert... some have tags, some don't - for a bit of variety... :) They're about 15cm in diameter (cotton ones are a little smaller)..

All are filled with the eco friendly corn fiber (which you can purchase here ), are double stitched and made with care...

If you'd like to order one, just send us a message via the blog, facebook , or 'contact us' link in either of our shops...

Lego Cake

We recently celebrated our son's 3rd Birthday.. So it was time to make a cake!
A nice carrot cake inside from a recipe that can be found here .. and colourful cream cheese icing outside!

I baked twice the portion of the cake, which was just the right amount of cake for the lego man cake. We printed off an A4 sized lego man picture we found on google which I used as a rough guide for the shapes..

The cake was made in parts: head and torso, legs, two separate arms, head 'bobble' and hands... the hands were made from smaller rectangular pieces leaning into each other to make a rounded shape... I used some toothpicks to hold the smaller pieces (like hands, head 'bobble', arms) in place.

I added food colouring to the cheese icing and used licorice for the facial details.

Here's the before picture:

and here's the after:

 

  

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I thought it was a pretty good first effort!

Owls to be stuffed

I managed to get some free time today to sew a few more owls... Now they are just waiting to be 'stuffed' :)

New Badge Batch

Here's some of the badges made in the latest batch - to go up to the St Kilda market this Sunday..

As always, if you see one you like, just email me via the 'contact us' link in the online shop ..

Owls flying in..

Here's a few owls that I've managed to finish this week...

A couple large owls - these are approx 21cm tall...

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and Mama Owl - which is about 31 cm tall...

The owls are made from new, pre-washed, lined fabric, have hand embroidered details and are double stitched. The Large owls jingle and squeak.. the Mama - which can be used as a decorative cushion or a toy, has a big squeaker in her belly..

Dinosaurs are walking

I've been saying for a while that I'm working on a few new projects..
The first one - which took me WAY longer to make that I thought, is the Dino taggie rattle squeaker...

It started off with a really rough pattern which after some adjustments turned into these cute Dinos... :)

Here's some close ups....

The Dinos area made from soft, lined fabric and are double stitched with extra stitching across the tags and filled with corn fiber...  They have one of our rattle inserts in them as well as a squeaker! If you'd like to order one, please contact us via the 'contact us' link in either of our shops..

St Kilda Market

Hoping for good weather as we head into summer, we booked in to St Kilda market for every Sunday from October to end of December..  But as all things Melbourne, the weather hasn't been that kind to us last week!! It was a bit gloomy and the wind was blowing pretty much the entire day! So we're hoping for some better days to come!

I took some pictures of our stall - and as you can see our bunting was having a great time flying around...

Here's a small selection of our toys... We've introduced some new toys to our range - rattle/jingle balls as well as the cute taggie dinosaurs...

If you're in the area, don't forget to pop by and say hi to us..