market preparations

It has been a busy week. Lately, I have been busy trying to stock pile for the upcoming market season.  I seem to have over committed myself again this year with markets leading up to Christmas... and thought I was pretty organised (as I had been making excess stock along the way) but Kraftbomb last Sunday just blew all my plans out of the water, it was so busy, and I sold so much that I have been busily trying to get stock ready for tomorrow's Devonport Craft Market, let alone all the others I have coming up!!

This week I focused on bookmarks and keyrings, and have finally managed to make some more of the little mini key rings too! These are super cute, and make me feel good as I get to use up all my beautiful little scraps of Japanese linen tape and webbing.

spring time

Yay for Springtime. Auckland certainly turned on the weather for us today, this first day of Spring. We were lucky enough to have the most glorious warm sunny day. The afternoon was spent at the beach, and we even managed to finally clean the car after school! 

I was very industrious last night and finally did a long overdue tidy up in my shop. It has finally been loaded with some new oilcloth purses, crayon rolls etc.

make your own kits

Well another weekend has come and gone all too quickly!

Last week I finally got around to finishing some more 'make your own' kits. I have made a handful of these as gifts for little girls, and on request, so thought I would finally bite the bullet and sell some too!  They went well at Kraftbomb yesterday, so I have listed some in my felt shop too.

I only have 2 Felt Butterfly Brooch kits and a handful of Felt Flower Hair Tie kits left, so will add them to my 'to do' list for the Devonport Craft Market this Sunday.

Hope you all had a lovely weekend. Spring is in the air here... it's lovely!

Kraftbomb turns 2!

Kraftbomb turns 2 tomorrow! Hope you can make it along.

11am-2pm, Sunday 29th August, 2010
Grey Lynn Community Centre
Main Hall - 510 Richmond Road, Grey Lynn, Auckland

Crunchy Lemon Muffins

It is gray and drizzly here today, perfect weather for some warm crunchy lemon muffins.

Ingredients

2 cups self raising flour
3/4 cup sugar
75 g butter
1 cup milk
1 egg
grated rind of two lemons

Topping
1/4 cup lemon juice
1/4 cup sugar

Method

Preheat oven to 200 C. Mix together flour and sugar in a large bowl.

Melt butter, then mix egg and lemon rind and beat well with a wooden spoon, to combine. Add liquids to dry ingredients and combine only until the ingredients have been lightly mixed.

Spoon into lightly greased muffin tins. Bake for around 15 minutes. When muffins are cooked, stir together the topping and drizzle over the hot muffins. Let them cool and take them out carefully, and place on a wire cake rack.

Steaming cup of coffee and warm crunchy muffins for morning tea - enjoy!

my creative space: daffodils and costumes

My creative space isn't too creative at the moment! I finally finished (well I still have to hand stitch hems and pop on some hooks & eyes, but the large part is finished) all the costumes I had to sew for Bella's school show - Joseph and the amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.  I am so glad they are done, and will be trying to remember not to put my hand up again next year!!

My day mainly involved two terrible 2 year olds, Lucy and my nephew Alex, who actually turns 3 next Tuesday, so hopefully he wont be so terrible after that :-)! We ended up taking them down to the beach after lunch to 'run them out' - they had a wonderful time, it was really mild this afternoon. Spring is in the air.

Bells came home from school today telling me she had to have a yellow hair band in her hair tomorrow as it is Daffodil Day, so together we made some little felt flower hair ties after school, one for Lucy (pink of course) and a yellow one for Bells.

For more creative spaces, head over to Kirsty's.

inspired by

After a morning of art on session at playcentre I have come home completely motivated and ready to get my teeth into something. Funny how watching kids create can spark that in you!

With coffee in hand I have been enjoying this lovely book on traditional Cook Islands quilting. The colours and design are just inspirational.