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Hi All!

I hope you've all had a great weekend, especially if you're a mum for Mother's Day on Sunday! I got spoilt with this amazing breakfast from my daughter!

My Mother's Day Breakfast

The last few weeks has seen me quite hunched over my Esmoo while crazily sewing dresses for my new MadeIt.com shop. You can check it out here and also the Facebook page.

My new shop!

This week I aim to do a bit of home sewing like more work on my band shirt blanket, a new cushion and maybe a new ironing board cover so it doesn't continue to drive me insane as it comes off every time I iron (which is a lot!). See how I go!

Have a great week!

Road Tripping With My Two Favourite Allies

Road trips are fun. Especially when they are with your favourite people and you're going to explore a new place. Yummy snacks and awesome tunes are also vital and luckily we had both in spades. My iPod decided to be a little obsessed with only playing Pearl Jam, Faith No More and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club songs even though it was on shuffle all songs, but really it was heaven to our ears!

We left Perth and headed south to Esperance, stopping along the way in various little towns and of course to check out Wave Rock. Definitely a cool geological site but I must admit it was a lot smaller than I imagined after studying it years ago at uni.

Driving to the sunrise

Wave Rock

We had quite rainy weather in Esperance but I managed to scour the two op shops there for a few stitchy bargains then it was on to check out the most amazing beaches I've seen in a long time! A lovely drive took us to Pink Lake (not so pink in the rain) and the Esperance Stonehenge - seriously some people have either too much money or time!

A few nights later it was time to head back and we thought going via Albany would be a nice change of scenery. Lush green rolling hills greeted us all along the way and we encountered no less than 12 amazing rainbows! I lost count after that, it was just too cool and they were so vivid! Stopping off in Albany for the sole purpose of checking out their op shops was a nice break and well worth the 3 hour detour! 

Esperance after the rain

The scenery between Esperance and Albany 

A bit of my op shop finds on the way

Now to get back into the swing of things this week, school starts back up and I have a couple of dress orders to do so all stations go. I hope you all have had a great week also!

A Busy Week and Some Overdue Changes

Well I am buggered! It's been a very busy week for us all and I'm very glad to see the start of school holidays! Firstly we went south to Rockingham to swim with dolphins which was so much fun and such a relaxing experience. Those things are huge and to see them up close swimming all around us was amazing.

Looking super stylish in our attractive wetsuits!

Watching these cool animals surf alongside the boat

My little snorkelling noodle!

As well as getting all close with dolphins, this week was Indi's school class assembly which they have been preparing for many weeks. The theme was When I Grow Up and it was absolutely the cutest thing seeing them all up on stage in their little costumes. Indi was an astronaut so I made this costume for her to be ready to take on the cosmos!

In other news this week, Mikal and I had our 11th year together in love and I was lucky enough to get an awesome bunch of my most favourite flowers. It was also the day of our 20 week scan of our baby and I guess we could both breath a little easier after seeing the little beetle move all around.

From the sunshine in my life!

I've also been very busy sewing up my first ladies dress which is called 'The Skip to my Lou Dress' named after my awesome friend Lou who ordered the very first one. This one is made in a beautiful vintage navy floral fabric and will be ready for sale in my shop very soon. Here is a little sneak peek:

A Skip to my Lou in vintage fabric

To top off the week, I got a lovely surprise in the mail from two sweet friends which is always the best thing! There is nothing better than receiving lovely handwritten mail and opening it over a cup of tea! Especially when it includes a cool mag from Townsville, complete with little handwritten notes :) and some postcards that explain things so well! Thanks Amber!

And just because it's that time of year where I feel like changing/tidying up/getting organised I've decided to update this little blog of mine just a tad. I hope you like the update! Have a great week, I plan to do a lot of sleeping in (no walking to school for 2 weeks! Yay!) and doing lots of fun sewing and crafty goodness with my moon. 

Mad Men Challenge 2013 - My Little Sally Draper

So here is my Mad Men Challenge outfit for this year. My little Sally Draper. I loved her cute 60's flowery shift dress and I thought Indi would look sweet in a similar one with some vintage fabric I remembered I had.

I had aimed to also make a Peggy replica for myself but due to a lot of craziness occurring in my sewing world of late, I just didn't get time. Maybe next year? 

Bring on the next season! I CAN NOT WAIT!! Sorry for the capitals, I'm very excited!!!

Thanks to Julia Bobbin for setting this up again!

My First Blogiversary!

WOW! One whole year since I started this little blog for my sewing sanity and amusement. This last year has gone so fast and so slow at the same time. It's been great fun. It has definitely helped me become more focused on my sewing, ideas and meeting deadlines. I've received comments from so many lovely people, which was a shock as I thought nobody even saw this little obscure blog! And the amount of awesome blogs I have found has kept me very busy/distracted for hours and hours!

Here are a few of my most favourite projects to date, some blogged and some not:

Indi's Moonbag and Star pillow I made for an overseas trip

Spotty Greeny

The Fab Four

Tea dress for an English party

Dress of a Thousand Bows

My wedding dress and Indi's flowergirl dress

Polka dot dress worn by my lovely friend Amber

My Alice outfit for my Hens party. Here with my Mad best friend Hatter!

January dress, a bit of sunshine in the rainy season

So much has happened in the last year. We moved diagonally across the country from Townsville, QLD to Perth, WA. I've plodded along slowly on my correspondence course for Fashion Design and Dressmaking. I started a short Patternmaking course which has taught me so much already. I was lucky enough to get an overlocker for Christmas and I've been constantly working out how she exactly works and putting her to good use. And I've decided to get serious and start making clothes to sell soon, starting with kids clothes using vintage fabric and then hopefully moving onto womens wear. Staying disciplined is the hardest thing I have to learn, and something I constantly have to work on!

I hope the next year is amazing, and who knows where it will take me. As long as I keep motivated to sew projects I love and have fun blogging about them, I'm sure it will be great. 

Thanks to everyone who has read and/or commented here. It always makes my day to read lovely thoughts from you wonderful creative people!