My Creative Space: Aunty Cookie

I got this print a while back and it sat on my wall attached with blue tac while I contemplated how to frame it. I liked the fact that the edge of the picture was ripped and that added a sense of authenticity to the original piece of artwork.

I bought a frame from the swedish super store and I looked at the print the mount and I thought, no ... it needs something extra.

So I hunted up some red fabric and mounted it onto that then into the frame. I think that it looks good on my sewing room wall. I managed to pick up another print from Aunty Cookie and I think I will do the same.

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Gift Wrap the Aunty Cookie way

I love the ritual of wrapping gifts for Christmas. This year I bought the Aunty Cookie gift wrap PDF via her etsy shop. Really, really cute!

The PDF is only A3 in size, so ideal for small gifts and I have used it as a wrap accent on large pieces. I love the statements like "of course, yes. I honestly love it."

Go and get yourself some Cookie Christmas Wrap.

My Creative Space ...

Last night I started embroidering this Aunty Cookie Alphabet print. Intended on for Tori's room, I wanted to give it a bit of colour and depth.

The birds will be given feathers and the girls perhaps bows in their hair! A good activity for in front of the telly at nights.

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One year older

Over the Easter break I celebrated my birthday, one year closer to 40 ... so for my birthday, I got to choose what I wanted to do. I had wanted to go to the Daylesford handmade market for ages, so the decision was easy! There was also a whole heap of Melbourne people at the market, so many excuses to go!

So we spent most of the day up at Daylesford, went to the Makers Market and zipped in and out of the patchwork shops and various antique bazaar's that Daylesford has to offer. Tori got to taste her very first strawberry milkshake.

On the Sunday I got lots of lovely things for my birthday. From a great collection of books ..

some fabric and some some new crochet hooks from Mum and Dad.

My hubby even got me some fabric from one of my favourite Melbourne textile designers, Shannon Lamden aka Aunty Cookie.

I have to restrain myself from going into my sewing room and playing around with fabric and blocks from Japanese Quilt Blocks by Susan Briscoe, that the lovely Beky gave me over lunch last week.

I love the way that she has broken down the construction of the blocks into a visual diagram. I am definitely a visual learner.

I am generally not one for navy .. but indigo I like! I am going to have to hunt up some nice indigo fabric for some Japanese blocking and some Sashiko embroidery samples.

Isn't this quilt just gorgeous?