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You sew and you make and you sew and you make and you wear and you sometimes wear and you sometimes don't wear. And you don't take any photos. None! And then other times you take a photo of something you made before it gets worn. Rarely! My boy is wearing this now, but I'll have to update my tshirt template (a cut up tshirt) for him because he's kinda getting too big for this already! Especially the sleeves! His baby arm rolls are still there, little cutie! The fabrics are all knits from the stash, I did start a dress from the mustard fabric, but it's kinda dorky and I might just make it a top ... haven't decided yet. This is the leftover bits for a nice warm jumper! His face when he realised the pocket was amazing... my friend popped his toy car in there, and he was like "WHAT I CAN CARRY A CAR"! I love how much they're learning about the world at this age... soaking it all up! xoxo

  Missed you! Oh my Darling Blog, I've been thinking of you! It's been busy for us here in the Darling World... In the past week alone I: Made Hot Kissed Buns Produced a national radio comedy show for Good Friday, with 1500 audience members and countless radio listeners - a success! Saw over 15 comedians at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Made Rice-Almond Milk  twice  Made Peanut Butter for a cutie bestie Worked my normal 2 day a week job Re-arranged the lounge room Built TWO IKEA sets of drawers for the boy's room Built an IKEA table & chairs for little boy to draw Built an IKEA chair for the lounge room Changed the lightbulb in the lounge room Took the boy to play with his friends on a rainy day play centre Made gold leggings to DIE for (or DIY for - LOL) Made a gold mini skirt for my friend to wear at the radio event Got drunk at a party (!) Had a hangover (first time in over 2 and a half years) Made date & macadamia nut bliss balls  for a dinn...

Don't we all get crushes on each other in the sewing and blogland? With so many babe-a-ramas around, it's really hard not to get a big crush on peeps. My current crush is Mokosha  who has been around a bit, but I kept forgetting to add her blog to my reader, so thank fuckity for bloglovin' as it has reminded me and now I'm just looking at her photos all the time! So my layout today is in ode to her, lots of photos and then the text down here! I'm too chatty to follow her text layout though! It's a Colette Laurel dress pattern, vintage fabric - something polyester something cotton, as there's a tiny stretch and it frays like heaven's betsy's - that was op shopped sometime ago, and it's almost unremarkable... what do you think? But it was a REALLY long time coming... I started it in April last year, and you can see it with my white Laurel  on Diana the Dressform... and never really got to stitching the sides, and finishing. So while I'm not pos...

Last month we went to Thailand, for a lovely wedding, and since we've been back, it's peak business time at my work and Husbie's work this year! BUSY CITY! Such a great juggle (I just wrote struggle but meant juggle) of family & working life... Positina Turner strikes again.  Here are some photos of the location I thought I'd share with you. *sigh*

Our holiday began in Singapore, so Husbie Darling could meet a work colleague but it was also a great excuse for us Sewing Besties to hang too! If you're new to my blog, Sewing BFF Adey blogs at The Sew Convert , and we met via The Sew Weekly blog as original contributors in 2011. Later that year, on my way to a bike riding tour of Cambodia, I stopped in to Singapore and met Adey for the first time ... which was amazing & fun! Now I had the Darling Family with me, we had a gorgeous family catch up in the new Gardens By The Bay , with a delicious afternoon tea first and then a big wander around the garden's 2 domes! Have a look at how gorgeous & amazing this place is! (And how sweet Baby Darling & Adey are too:)  The waterfall is at least 7 storeys high, and the whole place is a surreal temperature with amazing plantlife and such interesting garden designs! We loved it! You'll see I'm wearing the green dress I made from the fabric Adey gifted me... which is a...

We had a wonderful start to the year, visiting Thailand and celebrating our good friend's wedding with loads of other great friends. Such positive energy, great focus on love and friendship and it felt like a great kickstart to 2014. Things are going so well, and it's great to be outside of your everyday life to see how well things are. There's so much to be thankful for really. Today (being Australia Day), I'd love to send a big thank you out to every single gorgeous person. We don't have a Thanksgiving type day here. But today's 'Australia Day' has so many meanings for Australians. It's sad day, it's a happy day, it's a celebration and it's memorial. But overall, it's a day for looking forward for all Australians. I'm thankful to be Australian, I'm thankful for all my friends & family, I'm thankful our country has a long history of Indigenous people and their stories, I'm thankful we are able to live such beautif...

YAY, we're back from holidays in Singapore and Thailand and I've just been reading through all your lovely notes from my 31/31 pieces from my personal sewing marathon in December. LOVED that you loved my little things (the exciting ones and the boring ones alike! Boring is still good, right!?) and thought you'd like to see the Romper I made for the wedding ! I outlined the sewing construction details ( By Hand London 's Anna top, vintage 1970s pattern for the shorts) in the blog post but here's me in it with my darling friend Jo (and cousin of the bride) who is from the amazingly gorgeous Melbourne band Big Scary ! Aren't we vintage pastel fabric queens: We loved being away and just adored Thailand, such a beautiful spot for a wedding! I'll post some scenic shots soon, there was just really gorgeous landscapes with the water, huge cliff faces and bush land, jungle spaces! Anyways, I loved wearing my romper, it was really comfy and good for crouching down wi...