tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10401708056589152232024-03-13T20:34:49.696+13:00eat my SWEET DUSTRosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01681569925981343705noreply@blogger.comBlogger240125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1040170805658915223.post-75941255084278520472014-01-09T20:49:00.004+13:002014-01-09T20:51:11.811+13:00Shirt dressI have made this dress from a mans check shirt and some fabric I had in my stash. There was a lot of dithering around and I cut it a bit short, for me, I now wear shorts under it. I am trying out my new ipod and not used to how it works yet so the photos are un-edited. I have teenage daughter on hand to sort out my technically moronic tendencies, but she can't be there all the time. <br />
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Anyway, I like my new dress, it has been good to make some stuff that has been waiting around in draws for some time to be re-invented. I have not got the hang of selfies yet. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0JtVt1r3zcTFD92Cxg8bl4AWyI_mACv8XlLfSPud5daCg5Nc_yGjHNvBEi3l1AfKYQm6n5gI8e5X0KLohFfCCRQiZWT_nxTAbOyC32B30bIIYWmRakGCHfjYXodQsLOShOp95qNC8_hE/s640/blogger-image--467835112.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0JtVt1r3zcTFD92Cxg8bl4AWyI_mACv8XlLfSPud5daCg5Nc_yGjHNvBEi3l1AfKYQm6n5gI8e5X0KLohFfCCRQiZWT_nxTAbOyC32B30bIIYWmRakGCHfjYXodQsLOShOp95qNC8_hE/s640/blogger-image--467835112.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
Rosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01681569925981343705noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1040170805658915223.post-69270873969535653562013-06-29T16:24:00.001+12:002013-06-29T16:24:38.201+12:00stitching new houses<div style="text-align: center;">
More stitching of the house variety. I decided to make a change of address card to hand out to the few people, nearest and dearest, etc who might wish to know where we are going. After an extensive search on pinterest and a collection of a few ideas from there, I found a plan of our new house, and decided to use that nice simple image as my picture, and I did a very simple stitching of it on an old linen doily. Not sure what to do with the rest of it, but i'm sure something will come to me. An address would probably help.</div>
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And then I was looking at <a href="http://tinyhappy.typepad.com/tiny_happy/2013/06/house-collection.html">Tiny Happys</a> blog and she had made a sweet birthday card for her son with paintings of all the houses they had lived in since he was born, and I marvelled at the collective unconciousness of it all, if we can count two people as collective, which I am happy to do.Rosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01681569925981343705noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1040170805658915223.post-18369556849061231172013-06-23T16:48:00.000+12:002013-06-23T16:48:44.500+12:00stitching<div style="text-align: center;">
My dearest beloved friend in Australia asked me to make an embroidery for her to put on the back of a coat. I had done a t-shirt for her for her 40th birthday which she had put on the back of another jacket and she decided it was time for another one. Given no design brief but for a photo of said jacket, I had a bit of trouble deciding where to go. We have known each other for many years, and from age eleven and for a few years, we dressed similar like, but life dragged us in different directions, physically and style wise, so I had to just bite the bullet and go with whatever my brain came up with. These things take on a life of their own after a while. Here are some pictures.</div>
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This was designed around a paper-cut/ doily idea, some black fabric paint and stitching and some waves. I like it but am undecided as to what she will think.</div>
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It is a picture of my house and her house on different sides of the Tasman Sea. She has recently started to learn to surf, so there is a picture of her with surf board amongst some waves, some clouds and some manuka flowers.<br />
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My new addiction to pinterest was very helpful, although the inspiration search takes up more time than the actual doing.</div>
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We have just had older childs 14th birthday, so her little sister bought some white sneakers and decorated them. And she also painted some for herself, below.</div>
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I love the little clouds.</div>
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<br />Rosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01681569925981343705noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1040170805658915223.post-78726729584800867692013-06-20T19:10:00.001+12:002013-06-20T19:10:46.103+12:00$2 shop dolla friend at work asked me to make some clothes for a little doll that she had bought at the $2 shop. She was a little ceramic doll. I made a little fur coat and a little red tunic dress, in this cute fabric with pandas on it. On another note, we have bought a house and hope to move in about 3 weeks time. I hate moving, but will be nice to have our own place, we have been renting for about six months and is getting a little cramped.<br />
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I would love a coat like this, looks nice and warm, which today would be good. It has got a mite chilly in NZ this week.</div>
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I'm not sure what she thought about the outfits, but I hope she liked them.</div>
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I would also love a dress like this, at this scale of fabric design. This came from a piece of fabric I bought at the op-shop in Hackney, London about 15 years ago. It is so pretty that i find it impossible to do anything with it, but store it away.</div>
Rosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01681569925981343705noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1040170805658915223.post-85959486158462629952013-04-04T17:10:00.000+13:002013-06-20T19:11:15.320+12:00zombie dollsI have just recieved some more fabric from Spoonflower in the post, always an exciting time for me to see how it looks in real life. There was a <a href="http://www.spoonflower.com/fabric/1449141">zombie doll</a> cut and sew pattern and a couple of <a href="http://www.spoonflower.com/fabric/1541097">side-show doll</a> cut and sew patterns. I have sewn up the zombie dolls and made them a little bag to live in when not being played with. I sewed them by hand which was quite satisfactory.<br />
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I like them with their funny little arms and their fancy outfits and scars etc.</div>
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Rosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01681569925981343705noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1040170805658915223.post-17209152017555631162013-04-03T20:18:00.000+13:002013-06-20T19:11:38.559+12:00silphe sky dollieMy husband and oldest daughter went camping and rock climbing a couple of weekends ago, and me and the little one stayed at home and looked after the dog. Her choice of activity was to make dolls, so she made one, and as I had been trying to get my doll pattern sorted out properly ( usually I am using a pattern that I haven't quite finalised and bodging it up so it fits properly) I made one using some of my spoonflower test swatches of sky and trees and such like. So she is called Silphe like a sky nymph.<br />
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She's got green hair.</div>
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and little lace up boots</div>
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and a little tree/sky mirror dress.<br />
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My daughter made a really sweet little doll called Lilly, and she made her a hospital gown to wear (?)<br />
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every doll should have one.</div>
Rosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01681569925981343705noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1040170805658915223.post-56953710978176308952013-04-02T20:37:00.003+13:002013-04-02T20:37:52.332+13:00easter campingWE have just a had a couple of nights camping with the kids and some friends. Had a great time, the kids spent all the time on their bikes off somewhere, or swimming in the river, only to be seen at meal and bed times, and we grown-ups just chilled by the camp fire. packing up in the rain was not much fun but apart from that it was pretty perfect.<br />
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<br />Rosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01681569925981343705noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1040170805658915223.post-89169439588863338382013-02-25T08:00:00.000+13:002013-02-25T08:00:03.130+13:00more cloudsfollowing on from yesterdays post about clouds sketching, I have been doodling using my original sketches as a resource. trying to design some nice fabric, or maybe a print or a painting.<br />
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there were a few different shapes and ideas in this cloud from near Ashburton in South Canterbury. WAsn't sure whether to incorporate them all or overlap/layer them or what. I need to get over the idea that there is a right way and a wrong way, and in fact there are lots of ways and I have to try some and see how it turns out. tricky stuff. the next three sketches come from this one.<br />
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I have taken to sketching clouds when we go on long journeys. I have wanted to draw clouds for a long time, but it always seems rather an indulgence to spend valuable time doing such a thing, therefore long car journeys are the perfect time. Also as we drive over different terrain and at different times of the day the clouds change, in form and colour and size. Sometimes near to home there are no clouds for quite a while and then slowly little fluffy clouds appear and then a few more and so on. sometimes is it quite sad to look backwards and see the blue sky over home and look forward to where we are going, which is less blue and more fluffy. And I have also started to notice that some of them form quite like the japanese stylised clouds, and I like this a lot. I can draw my own japanese inspired clouds in little old NZ.</div>
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They are all very quick sketches as the terrain tends to be quite hilly or mountainous and consequently one minute the cloud is there in view and the next it is behind a mountain never to be seen again or it has changed by the time I see it again. But I hope to improve with practice. Bring on the next journey I have had some struggling with using the initial sketches to make more patterny shapes. lots more work to be done there, will post some of those tomorow.</div>
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I got home from work today and my husband presented me with a bunch of flowers ( he is rather good at flowers) from the garden and a homemade valentines card. We have been together 17 years now and this is the first time I remember getting anything for Valentines, even in those heady days when we first met. So it was a lovely suprise. He got nothing from me and my daughter has told me off and says I must make him something.?? I shall have to put on my thinking cap.<br />
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I can't even imagine where he got the idea or the technical know-how and materials to make this card. The girls said he had a bit of trouble finding ten things that he loved about me and some family brain-storming was required, ha ha. I am only allowed to peel off a heart a day, I shall have to be patient.Rosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01681569925981343705noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1040170805658915223.post-71175478538802443132013-02-10T23:18:00.000+13:002013-02-10T09:19:38.524+13:00castle hill<div style="text-align: center;">
While we were away from home over the holidays, my daughter wanted to visit Castle Hill, which is on the road between Christchurch and Greymouth, near to Arthurs Pass. There is a very good pie shop on the way there in a small town named Sheffield. The reason for this excursion was that she is a very keen rock climber and Castle Rock is a great bouldering area. Also this is the part of the world where some of the Hobbit was filmed and a Narnia battle scene. Actually it was also very beautiful, and we will have to get back there when we have more time and make better use of it. I wanted to draw and paint all those rocks.</div>
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It was a bit rainy for rock climbing, and so we ate our sandwiches, daughter had a little climb, the dog had a toilet break and we had a great pie on the way back.</div>
Rosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01681569925981343705noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1040170805658915223.post-85766963859856665512013-02-09T22:56:00.001+13:002013-02-09T22:57:38.992+13:00river swimOver the holidays we have tried out some rivers to swim in. A local swimming hole a half hour drive away has rocks to jump off and ropes to swing on. We haven't tried this one out for a while and it was such a beautiful spot we wondered why that was. The dog wasn't keen, she didn't like the water and the river rocks were very hot.<br />
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Well it has been a long time, we have had school holidays and house moving, which I new was something I hated, but having not done it for six years had forgotten quite how horrid it is. We had the silly idea that if we got the removal men to move all the furniture then we could move all the other stuff ourselves with the car, and that as we had had a really good clear out for selling the house then we were really pretty much there! Wrong. It took us three days to get it all empty and have a good clean up and then another week to sort out our stuff in the new house. Where does all this rubbish come from, and surely we don't need it all and can we not just chuck it all in a big skip?</div>
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I was tempted to remove my head with this one, and my legs. top H&M, shorts FrankeE. This was chosen by my younger child.</div>
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These beautiful prints are by Clare Makwana. There are more on her web-site <a href="http://missprint.co.nz/index.php/unframed-prints">Miss Print</a>. lino prints, wood-cuts and a bit of stitchery as well. lovely stuff.</div>
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<br />Rosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01681569925981343705noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1040170805658915223.post-40555887491209675972012-12-26T14:29:00.000+13:002012-12-27T00:28:42.323+13:00christmasWe made it through christmas, infact we had the nicest christmas ever. The weather was amazing, we got lovely presents and we had a swim at the beach and a swim at the nearest school pool and ate yummy food and it was all very chilled out and happy. It was so hot that husband and oldest child and sweet dog slept out on the deck, until it started to rain at 5am.<br />
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<i>above</i>, my ten year old secretly made me this rather lovely sun dress, all by herself with no help from anyone and it was decided by all that it was much nicer than anything else I have in my wardrobe.</div>
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some of my fabric from <a href="http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/eat_my_sweet_dust">Spoonflower</a> was this hearts and clouds large scale print. This was the trial piece and I changed the colour of the hearts to be less orange and removed a couple of bits that didn't quite work and balanced out the design slightly. I had ordered a yard of fabric and so I had to make something small. I wanted to make it on the bias so that it would hang nicely and also I liked how the design worked that way. I used a bit of old cotton denim that I had in my stash, for the top of the top and some vintage lace, which you can't really see. So I made this top, modeled by my daughter, who is more camera friendly than me.</div>
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<br />Rosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01681569925981343705noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1040170805658915223.post-3684844945416825222012-12-11T13:42:00.000+13:002012-12-26T10:36:59.570+13:00house for sale<div style="text-align: center;">
I have been very neglectful of this blog, and in my defense, we have been getting our house ready to go on the market. It is now as ready as it will ever be and is looking rather lovely I think and we are wondering why we want to move, especially as it is now coming into summer and the weather is putting on a great show. Here are some photos.</div>
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<i>(edit). house is sold after one week on the market, we will be homeless in 5 weeks time. on to adventures new.</i></div>
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<br />Rosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01681569925981343705noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1040170805658915223.post-89498563035322784942012-11-27T09:00:00.000+13:002012-11-27T09:00:00.782+13:00heart shaped leaf<div style="text-align: center;">
ON the way home from school today my daughter found a perfectly heart-shaped leaf.</div>
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it's kinda cool I think</div>
Rosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01681569925981343705noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1040170805658915223.post-65338462751365595982012-11-26T21:55:00.000+13:002012-11-26T21:55:14.792+13:00lazy Sunday afternoonWe had beautiful sunny weather over the weekend, and on Sunday afternoon, the children wanted to go to the river for a swim. It was very lovely, the water was cold so I didn't go in, but I did have a little paddle with the dog, who also doesn't swim. I think the river stones hurt her feet, and in fact she needs some little doggy swim shoes. Does anyone know if such things exist?<br />
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our scraggy scavenging desert dog rummages around the rocks while my daughter finds a sweet dog to play with</div>
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I bought a tan suit at the salvation army shop a couple of weeks ago. It was quite nice, the main selling point was in fact that it was a Hobbs tan suit and it was $15NZ and it was the perfect size apart from the skirt being a bit long. In the great train of things happening at the house, my daughter did a styling and modelling shoot for me with her friend, using all my stuff.<br />
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<br />Rosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01681569925981343705noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1040170805658915223.post-48073888408601168102012-11-20T16:10:00.002+13:002012-12-17T21:19:42.683+13:00I made a new blue dressI made a dress out of some of my <a href="http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/eat_my_sweet_dust">Spoonflower</a> material. A friend had craft night at her house which got me motivated to get a start, I took along my <a href="http://eatmysweetdust.blogspot.co.nz/2011/10/project-funway.html">duct-tape dummie</a>, an old sheet (for pattern making) pins a pen and some scissors. I got a little carried away, having an audience, and was a little gung-ho with the pattern making and scissors and new fabric, but it all turned out ok in the end. I made some covered buttons to go on the back of the dress which I liked and had a go at shirring, which I also liked and must do again some time. Today my older child had the afternoon off school, so I badgered her and her friend into doing some styling and modelling for me.<br />
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There was great pouting and preening going on and fun was had by all.<br />
I also had my photo taken for the style section of the local paper, whilst wearing this dress, which made me happy, especially as my husband had joked to me that this very thing would happen before I left the house.<br />
They also did a styling of a nice suit I had bought at the op-shop, but that is another post. </div>
Rosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01681569925981343705noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1040170805658915223.post-83806198183012188152012-11-19T21:53:00.000+13:002012-11-19T21:53:46.112+13:00purple dress<div style="text-align: center;">
My ten year old made a dress over the weekend, with a little technical knowledge thrown in from my side. But the design and sewing were all hers. She is great on the sewing machine, and when I did sew a bit up for her, she made me unpick it so that she could do it herself. Ha ha that will teach me to interfere!</div>
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We had a photo session in the garden amid the drift-wood arbor (as I like to call it). </div>
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She found a big fat red ribbon in my ribbons stash, and decided it was just the perfect thing to finish it off.</div>
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I found roses growing over the fence from next door, lots and lots of them, and they smell lovely. I grabbed the ones that were freshest and also found pink geraniums and some gorgeous blue daisies. And while I was cooking fish-fingers I did a couple of sketches.</div>
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These were done with a thick, running out, Sharpie, but I am quite pleased with them. </div>
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There are roses every-where in the neighbourhood at the mo, I would quite like to take my secateurs on daily walks with me to whisk a few roses into my pocket, but then I might get spotted.</div>
<br />Rosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01681569925981343705noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1040170805658915223.post-5625253733171383892012-11-10T19:43:00.001+13:002012-11-10T19:43:37.180+13:00cardboard table football<div style="text-align: center;">
My ten year olds home-work assignment this week has been to make an arcade game out of cardboard boxes. I didn't really get it, I mean "how does that work?"</div>
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Her team of three decided to make table football, so off I went to the back of Briscoes to the cardboard recycling bins to find large boxes. I was wearing a skirt which was not appropriate for climbing up and hanging over 5 foot high metal recycling bins, but I sacrificed my dignity in the name of education and hopefully nobody got a glimpse of my thighs, or worse, as I made my quick dive over the edge to grab cardboard.</div>
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<i>here's the wee goalie</i>. Bamboo from the garden. It's rather beautiful really, and she got to use her hot-glue-gun which she got for her birthday last week (we never had one before so it is quite exciting).<br />
They will paint it at school this week, and I did my best not to interfere, which I find hard, but am capable of.Rosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01681569925981343705noreply@blogger.com0