my creative space

no words to speak of today – having fun at home with Aimee!

Check out the cool pictures Aimee’s been drawing for me today…

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Today I had my second AVON training meeting, so most of the morning was spent learning how to sell and promote AVON in my local territory etc.  FUN! :)

The rest of today I plan on spending curled up in front of the telly, knitting cotton dishcloths as I have a couple of people who’ve ordered some in specific colours!  It’s funny, but once you’ve tried using one, people tend not to go back to the old chux. and become sold on using them!!!

At first, they’re all like “that’s too pretty to use on dishes!”, but after they’ve used one, they’re asking for more! :)

And, in case you wanted some evidence of just how cold it is today…

My cat Henri snuggled into the folded washing!

Check out what he looks like when he realises he’s been caught…

So today is a snuggle, stay-at-home kind of a day.  If I had been able to, it would have been a “pyjama day”, but I didn’t think my AVON sales leader would really have wanted to see me in my old pj’s – much.

What do you do on a snuggle day?  Get out your knitting, like me, or…?

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It’s TOO WET outside to do much of anything…

so I’ve been snuggled up inside making some movie/propaganda cards…

These will be available online later on today and at Saturday’s Craft Market in the Pukekohe Town Hall on Saturday!  I’ll be there from 9 till 1. :)  Pop on by if you’re in the area!!

POSTSCRIPT;
I’ve just added some of these cards to the online shop – CLASSIC FILM CARDS & PROPAGANDA CARDS are available there now!  At only $3NZ each they’re a steal!  We post worldwide. :)

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I know I’m a day late but here is my creative space for today! :)

Prettying up my old tea towels with textile ink…

hurrah!

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So, I’ve had my nice Janome sewing machine for about 18months now.  It looks lovely on my sewing desk, it can do amazing things – so I’m told!  It can do great automatic buttonholes, I read once, but you see up until today I’d never tried them…  I had a somewhat unsubstantiated fear of them.  Maybe my sewing teacher in Form 1 & 2 may have mentioned how difficult they were to do, I don’t know, I just thought they were something I’d never do…

Until today!  Today, I decided enough was enough!  My favourite skirt was forever giving me embarrassing moments and all because I was too afraid to sew a decent buttonhole.

My favourite skirt is a wrap-around skirt that was fastened together with a little sew-on dome and a kilt pin – both of which were unreliable fasteners at the best of times.

Yes, a few too many embarrasing moments with this skirt!

Of course, deciding to learn how to sew a button-hole and actually doing that proved quite difficult, as I can’t find my sewing machine manual – it’s somewhere in the countless unsorted craftroom boxes.  I couldn’t even find out a how-to on the internet, although I did find out which foot to use on the machine!  And so, began a little comedy of errors, which I am sure would have never happened if I could find that darn book!  Still, yeah, comedy of errors.  I eventually figured out how the foot worked and where the buttonhole lever was – the machine told me that the stitch couldn’t be completed without it!

And then, all of a sudden I got it!  Understood how it all worked!  And managed to create 2 very acceptable buttonholes for my most favourite skirt in the world!  She laughs manically! Yep – it has sent me mad!

And so now I know – I will be creating more things with buttonholes – It’s simple really…

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Just doing a bit of organising in the Craft Room.  It’s quite exciting to be starting over after the flood.  I’m having to re-think storage etc. :)

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Replenishing my stock of Tea Wallets & Loyalty Card Wallets

Preparing for Crafternoon Tea Market

Check out the cool display I now have for my brooches and rings – AWESOME!  It even turns… :D

So, today, my creative space is once again at the dining table – sewing!  I’m actually loving it up here, even if I do have to “tidy-up” before we can eat dinner.  The light is awesome in this room!

So, what about you, what’s your creative space looking like today?

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This week, my creative space is, in fact, my knee!

I’m doing a little bit of button making for the feeling stitchy button swap.  I hope Karina likes the buttons I’ve made her.  I received her parcel yesterday, and it’s so super awesome!  It deserves it’s own post, and so keep an eye out over the next day or two for some super good stitching awesomeness!!! :)

Hope your Thursday has been absolutely fabulous!

D.

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This is a corner of my lounge currently overtaken by craft clutter - boy, I can’t wait to be able to move downstairs in a week or so! Today, I’m going to get some rubbish bags and sort through what’s useful and what’s basically CRAP!

So, toss it tuesday is moving on over into Thursday, even if only for this week!  Sometimes I wonder why I’m keeping all this stuff, and then a moment of inspiration comes and I know… ;)

I also, have two of my daughters home from school today.  Briahna is really sick with a urinary tract infection :( and I think she also has a virus of some sort.  Last night was full of trying to get her temperature down – she was one very hot girl.  Hope I think is suffering from the same viral infection, but is less sick than Briahna.

Briahna is hoping for a very quick recovery, because her birthday party is on Saturday!  She say’s postponement is NOT an option… LOL!

Trust your Thursday is going well!

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Today, I’m carrying on the knitting design work that I began yesterday.

New Dishcloths on the way...

I’m working on these new designs both in the dining room (near the computer) and in the lounge whilst catching up with episodes of the mentalist. :D

If you don’t want to read rafts of negativity – move on at this point…  I don’t want to bring you down.

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