Baby Love

I was commissioned to make this baby blanket this week, and finished it up this afternoon. I love how playful the design is, it was really a joy to create!

I made some business cards and labels for the dolls that I sell in shops. I printed them with cut-out rubber stamps and India Ink.

Do you see the special secret in the big snail?

Penny Dress

I made this dress the other night out of some material that I bought when I was sixteen and brought with me to Canada because I had always loved it!

It is called the Penny Dress because I was having trouble making the bodice fit properly at the bust, so I tried tying a penny (like when you make tie-dyed fabric) in the centre of the bodice and it worked amazingly!

I drafted the pattern myself and made the collar from an old napkin and some incredible lace from the 1930s that I also bought in Australia.


It snowed yesterday and the mountain is sporting a fine white blanket!

Raffle

I want to run a raffle, but I'm not sure if I have enough people reading this blog to.

The prize will be a paper puppet and a little sewn something and a love-letter from me.

Basically if you want to be in the running, comment on this post with a small story about your favourite toy from childhood, and in a week or so I will put everyone's names in a hat and draw a winner.

Then I will send the parcel to the winner.

Ready... Steady... Go!

Matching Outfit!

It was Steve's Champagne Birthday on Saturday, so I made him a shirt and me a matching dress.

With monograms.






So that he always wears his heart on his sleeve.

Billy Goats Gruff

Some watercolours I have been working on.

Penguins

We went to the Biodome and the Botanical Gardens yesterday. We started off with the penguins and puffins and then saw a beaver making a dam. The gardens were really lovely, there was an alpine rock garden, a Chinese garden, a grove of pines and a greenhouse with a big cacti and succulents section.

I Made Bread

We ate it in thick slices, hot with melting butter.

Pom Pom Hat

I made this hat for Steve so his ears wouldn't fall off during Montreal's bloody cold winter.
I just made it up as I went along.

Modeled here by Jordan, my sweet boy.

Meteor Shower

We went out to Mile End last night to watch the meteor shower. A bonfire was built and everyone gazed at the sky for a couple of hours.

I saw two shooting stars.

Expozine

Yesterday I had a table at Expozine. I made some paper puppets that talked, had swinging legs, ate bugs, snotted snot and got rained on.

We got rained on as well, on the way home.

Click on the pictures to see them REALLY BIG!

Yo-Yo Ma

Beatrice

I made this dress for my year 12 theater monologue. The buttons, if you'll look closely, weave in and out of each other. The bottom is fringed with little red pom-poms. I found the fabric in the alleyway behind my house, and now all the buttons are cracked because I put the dress in a dryer.
I apologise for the weird photo, it's the day I cut off all of my hair, so i was a bit wacky.