Kombi Shirt Design a Success!

I am really excited because I just discovered that the Kombi Ute shirt design is on the 'Featured' page of RedBubble! Woohoo.

Peas for Breakfast

My sister and I were discussing phrases we used to get from our parents when growing up.

This t-shirt design was inspired by all the nights we were told if we didn't eat our dinner we would be eating it cold, for breakfast!!




Click on the RedBubble images on the right to see more of my shirt designs. I'm slowly getting better at drawing in PSP, but would like to get my hands on a computer program made specifically for drawing etc.

Butterfly Dress

Dave's friend has been coming around a lot during the holidays and I thought she'd make the perfect model for some girls clothes!

I had a round tablecloth with these gorgeous butterflies all over it, which I was going to make a circular skirt out of but then remembered I never wear skirts! So I made a dress for little miss, using that and some of the white t-shirt material I had scored previously from the op shop.

There are two layers of skirt section which I found challenging to put together and probably did sew it in the wrong order but it all turned out in the end!

It actually looks better in real life than in the photos - for once! A size too big perhaps, but at least she can grow into it.

Star Shirt

My first attempt at making a standard t-shirt - as you can probably tell!!

I made this shirt to go with my nephew's pants.

I discovered a way to make the hemmed edges look better using a different stitch, but the neck area I am still to figure out properly!

Dressing Gown to Pants Reconstruction

I picked up this dressing gown years ago from an op shop because I just loved the fabric, I thought it would make a good pair of pants! It's towelling with green, blue and white striping.

I finally got around to making the pants for my 2yr old nephew today! I might attempt a pair of shorts for Dave later out of the sleeves.

Flower Photography

My neighbour has been trying to grow lillies in his little pond for a while now and finally he had success! It was a gorgeous shade of pink (although it was supposed to be blue!) so I had to get a photo for him.

I also got this great frangapani photo from his garden:

Wiggle Pants for Noah

A couple of weeks ago I went along to Spotlights 20% off sale and Noah spotted this Wiggles fabric already in the clearance section. With the 20% off aswell it came to about $3.80 /mtr! Great spotting Noah!

Anyway, I finally made the time to make his pants. I'm happy with how they turned out.

(they look a bit lobsided because of the angle I took the photo on, sorry!)

I took my time and even though I still haven't braved the overlocker,
I used straight and zig zag stitches on the seams.

Action shot

(it's hot here, so Noah wanted them off again straight away as you can see!)

Pencil holder & Notebook

I've been trying to do crafts with Dave using recycled items. I wanted to make something out of a can and could only think of the good old pencil holder!

Dave decided to give it to his grandma for her birthday so we made a matching notebook too.


Both items were padded with wadding, then covered in a pretty floral fabric from one of our op shop trips. Silver ribbon, beads and again, a gorgeous spotlight button, came in handy for decoration.

Maternity Shirt

I finally made time to finish off this maternity shirt. It's a copy of a light blue shirt that I loved but it got stained. So I pulled it apart and used it as a pattern for this fabric I picked up at my local Op Shop for only $3.

Here is the front view:

And the back view:

I'm loving these huge buttons spotlight has in store at the moment!

Action shot.