Sophia's New Bed

This is my latest 'art' project. As the girls will be sharing a smallish room, David built a 'toddler bed' (using Sophia's cot mattress) for Sophia and I painted it. She loves gardens, so this is now her 'Garden Bed'.

We've had a dreadful time trying to get her to sleep lately, and although tonight was only the second night in the bed, things are improving.

I'll take another pic when I'm happy with the bedding. I have dreams of a lovely pale doona and gentle floral cover, but time seems to be against me these days. We'll see.

Would love to be able to make more furniture like this. David laminated two thick pieces of MDF together for the head and footboards of this bed and it's so heavy it'll survive anything. All we need is for it to survive Soph, and then her sister, until they are both in full sized beds. About 5 years or so. Should be fine.

I so want to make this

I found this in the June issue of Sew Hip, from the UK (I bought the first issue but wasn't won over by the photos - and was on my 'no more magazines' budget kick for a while - but I've fallen off the wagon of late) and I can't wait to make this wrap. Hadn't heard of a 'jellyroll' of fabric before, but after a little research in the early morning after a feed and in front of more Michael Jackson TV, have found out it's a 'wheel' of thin fabric strips from a single collection. Absolutely love this idea though, but have a few things to do before I attempt it - but I will do it! It'd be great as a breastfeeding coverup too I think.

The only art I've managed lately

And this took about 4 days and only went out to the elite few invitees 36 hours before the event...

Indulgent photos of my favourite 2 year old

Sophia turned 2 on Monday and we had a little party with a 'garden' cake. Gardens are her thing, and right now we're in the middle of making her a garden bed too (that hopefully she'll spend some time sleeping in - which has been a battle lately). Anyway, it was a lovely party, and she was totally exhausted afterwards. So much that we didn't give her our present (the kitchen set) til the next day, and it's been a huge hit too.
Now that the party's over, I can turn to my next urgent project - paintings for the Downlands Art Show.

Mum and bub doing well

Beth Eleanor May Bartlett arrived Thursday 11 June 2009 at 4:21pm.

Weighing 3365g (7lbs 6oz) and 51cm long.

(Dad, James, Josh and Sophia doing well too!)

Even more teatowels!

I just received these back from printing (that very morning) on Tuesday – and will package them and add them to the site this weekend.

So if cocktails are your thing (and honestly, if I wasn’t so pregnant they’d be my thing right now) you’ve even got a choice of black or red!

I’m loving the red actually, can see it in my kitchen…

 

More new teatowels

And another photoshoot for the website!

My black and white versions of my first two teatowel designs have arrived and are packed up ready to sell, and the cocktails design will be here on Tuesday.

I can't tell you how close the new site is now, and I'm spending hours now inputting new products. Unfortunately some glitch means that I have to re-input about 180 Golden paint products so that the shipping options appear - but the rest of the site seems to be working, so stay tuned for the launch!

And only 11 days to go til the new baby too. I'm thinking that wearing a teatowel on my front may be the best look I can achieve at the moment. This tummy is HUGE! Looking forward to meeting this new little girl. She's got a lot to live up to with her lovely big sister.

Is this nesting?

Well the washing's on the line, the beds are made with fresh sheets, I'm defrosting mince for dinner and I'm working through my to do list... it must be nesting.
While I'm also planning to give birth in oh, 17 days, I've been packaging up my new black and white batches of teatowels, ready to add to my new site, and I had this completely new idea for an organisation system for the sheets in my linen press, so I've done some screenprinting and will be sewing up samples for that tonight.
Sleeping is getting very uncomfortable, but so many other things are falling into place.
I'm looking forward to announcing the new site is live, just before I head off to the hospital!
Two births at once really. Perfect.
A few pics to share:
The gorgeous Sophia in Nanny's reading glasses. She is more delightful every day.

New packaging labels and secret notes to customers in this batch of teatowels.

The beginning of a new organisational system - it can only improve from here on! Stay tuned!

Teatowels on the brain

I'm still excited that my first batch of teatowels are finally printed (and the second batch should arrive tomorrow) that when I came across this wonderful idea for upholstering in vintage teatowels it really tickled my fancy. I love it when creative people have an idea and figure out how to follow it through!