Oooh la la!

Feast your eyes on a hint of the fabulous new dresses in store soon. Collection of pretty Lola and Molly dresses in stunning fabrics…..lets start thinking Spring!

As you can see the “morning/all day” sickness is wearing off YAY, and some progress is being made!

Kobie

Something new for the messy eaters amongst us

We are so pleased to be offering another version of bib to our collection. The DELUXE MICRO-FIBRE BIB. This fabulous bib is made using gorgeous designer cotton prints and is backed in the  most divine micro-fibre towelling that feels as amazing as it is practical.

Micro-fibre is super soft and super absorbent…just when you thought it couldn’t get any more absorbent than our cotton towelling backed bibs! It also feels so luxurious and soft.

What also makes this deluxe bib even more great is it’s super size! It measures approx 27cm across and 33cm long. It also has an adjustable neck with 2 strong snap closures so you can get the perfect fit as your little one grows.

Make sure you are signed up to our newsletter so you can be the first to be updated once it is on sale!

Catch Up

The poor old blog keeps getting neglected of late with life always seeming to get in the way, so here is a brief catch up on some treasuries from Etsy where our rattles were featured and some other bits & bobs.

We also had a lovely email from Jen who gave one our rattling rabbits as a gift to Cintia of My Poppet on the birth of her new baby.  You can see all the other fabulous handmade gifts that Cintia received on her blog My Poppet.   It is lovely for one of our items to be included with such great other items.

Update from Kobie

Well it has been some time since I have poked my head onto the blog. There has been a pretty good reason though……….I am17 weeks pregnant! It is only now that I am starting to feel slightly human again. I dont even know where the last 17 weeks have gone. Somewhere between the toilet and the lounge mostly! I suffer from horrible “afternoon sickness” and haven’t really felt very well up until the last 2 weeks or so. Even now I go through stages, dinner time and the evenings the worst, and just making sure I don’t let myself get too hungry or tired, but at last there is light at the end of the toilet bowl as I begin to have more good hours than bad.

Apart from the sickness I am terribly exited and overjoyed to be pregnant again. I definately don’t seem to be one of the glowing pregnant women but I love how you can instantly bond with the tiny prawn like bump in your belly that it makes all the sickness so worth it.

I have certainly struggled over the last few months to do a lot of sewing of late however this week has seen a few projects get finished ready for next months newsletter. We are also pleased to stocking another shipment of gorgeous Mountain Aven lounge sets also available next month………….

  

…not to mention a gorgeous new handmade label………lots of girly items, you will love it…..but we will keep you in suspense for a bit longer.

Blog This: Challenge 8

Bought something fabulous lately? Wanna share? Wanna brag? Blog some pictures, write a sonnet about it, tell the story about how you got it in the house without your husband noticing. What made you buy it? Have you been secretly coveting it for a while? Or are you an impulse shopper. And of course, now you have it, was it worth it??

Having a tiny shopping addiction, I had to think long and hard about this.  Do I mention the cool bed my son has got, something nifty I brought for the garden, a delightful handcrafted item I recently purchased, what should I dedicate this blog post to?

I decided to do it for something I use nearly every day and would be lost with out – Envirosax.

  

Love em,  love em, love em.  Be gone horrible daggy coles green bags, and hello funky shopping bag.   Envirosax roll up nice and small so I can easily keep one in my handbag and one in my nappy bag and all those colours and patterns are addictive. 

In fact I can colour match my outfit with my envirosax now! 

I was excited when I heard Target where doing away with their plastic bags – why?  Another reason to use my envirosax of course, ahhh the joy and excitement of whipping one out at the check out whilst other shoppers are grumbling over having to pay for a plastic bag!

Kookie Kids Giveaway

Want a chance to win one of our rattles?

There is a giveaway on Kookie Kids, so make sure you enter for your chance to win:

http://kookiekids1.blogspot.com/2009/06/whos-behind-product-and-giveaway_28.html

Etsy Treasury

Thank you to everyone for including an Ollie Rose item in your treasury. 

The one below is currently up, so pop on over and leave a comment HERE – Thanks to JaEmArt

Here are a few others that popped up ove r the last couple of weeks

 

Blog This Challenge 7 – Fifteen Facts

Tell us fifteen facinating, far fetched, frightening, funny or frivilous facts about yourself. Those bits of trivia that are floating around in your life.

Can you eat 10 burgers in one sitting? Do you sleep with your eyes open? Can you tie a cherry stalk into a knot? Speak 5 different languages?

All those things that you’ve bored your friends and family with for years – We want to know.

I missed the last two previous Blog This challenges.  Even though I wanted to join in, I blinked and the time was gone.  I am a little scared of this one, do I want to admit some of the trivia in connection with myself, because admittedly most of the weird, funny, strange things that have happened to me happened in my young carefree days.

Fact #1  I cannot stand creamy foods, urggh they make me gag, if I even get a little bit on my skin it makes me gag and my skin crawl.

Fact #2 I wander my garden every single day.  Yup every day I walk the path to the chooks and stop and admire every plant on my way down and check it’s growth.  Sometimes just sit down the back staring at my plants.

Fact #3  Giving birth left me on a zimmerframe.  After the birth of my first son I had a condition called Diastais Symphasis Pubis which is basically a separation of my pelvis.  It meant I couldn’t walk unaided for some time.    DH at the same time tore his Achilles tendon and we left hospital together, one in a wheelchair the other on a frame.

Fact #4   I love dress ups.  I have quite an extensive Op Shop collection of various outfits.  Every 2 months we have theme dinner parties with friends where everyone must dress up in an outfit from the theme country.

Fact #5   I am a scavenger.  I inherited this from my grandfather, I love recycling things.  I can be found out the recycling yard at the rubbish dump tutting at all the good things thrown out and have been known to grab something from the curbside throw out (my most recent a gorgeous wooden dolls cot)

Fact #6 I owned an orange and white Datsun 180B it was my first car and only had an AM radio.  It was super cool.  My Uncle gave it to me for completing Year 12 and my Grandpop fixed it up for me.  She lasted many years!

Fact #7  My first job was as as a fast food chick at Red Rooster.  I worked there for over 4 years and can cut a chicken in quarters under pressure.

Fact #8  My favourite band as a teenager was Indecent Obsession!  Sad I know, but what is even sadder is I still have the posters that adorned my wall.

Fact #9  Dolly Parton is my favourite all time singer, and if I could sing like anyone it would be like her.  I have a closet country and western obsession and once went out with a cowboy who wore bad shirts and rode bulls in the rodeo.

Fact #10  I have a salt & pepper collection which was my grandma’s and sits in a big cabinet in my lounge room.  It has hundreds of novelty salt & pepper shakers my Grandma collected over many years and as children she would pay us $1 to dust them all.

Fact #11  I can fit 54 bits of popcorn in my mouth and eat 12 tacos in one sitting.  Interesting facts I discovered about myself whilst being a broke backpacker with nothing to do.

Fact #12  I have lived on soup for every meal for one month, another backpacker moment, it was not through choice however.

Fact #13    I have bungee jumped and also completed a free fall sky dive on my own.

Fact#14    I have always wanted to get married in Las Vegas in a chapel with James Brown singing the entire service and Elvis making an appearance somewhere.

Fact #15   I am not a shoe person.  If someone creates some thongs suitable for winter I would be a very happy woman.  I probably own 4 pairs of shoes.  I stress when I have to go out somewhere that means I can’t wear comfy thongs and usually have to borrow shoes from my sister.

Introducing ………

Meet the lastest giraffe rattle to join the gang, Boston.  Boston is made from fabulous red and blue argyle fabric and is a lovely funky new boys rattle.  They will be uploaded soon, so keep your eyes open.