been busy sewing and making a mess in my living room. We had a little photo shoot in the backyard - a cold grey evening. Not the best time to shoot summer stuff - but it was better than nothing. That seems to be the most challenging bit for me right now: photos! It was an eventful shoot, though: between my littlest sweetness smacking her head on some wood on the trampoline and the neighbors party-hollers and puking, we had no lack of entertainment. Luckily both occurred near the end of the shoot, so we got a few photos out of the evening...

Here is my darling pre-smack...
a hooded vest...
some new glovettes...
and a wonderful spring scarf: this really doesn't capture the color! It is electric!!
Cheers for now...busy organizing my room again to facilitate more sewing...

I've been busy...

...and instead of boring with words I'll just post a bunch of pics to make up for the months and months of nothingness! I have nothing against nothingness, but here it goes anyways.

These are some things I'll be offering up in my new etsy store which should get up and running tomorrow (if I'm not mangled by another headache and job applications).
I'll post a link here, of course. But in the meantime, you can sneak-a-peek...

an electric cowl...

warming fingerless mitts, a la nature...

and a...mmm...I don't know what to call it.

Thanks to my beautiful models who braved the coldish day to put hat after hat and cowl after cowl on...check out my etsy store soon to see more. I'm warming up for spring and revisiting my sewing machine. I'll post some pics soonish of what's to come then. For now I'm still unwilling to say goodbye to Winter!

colourful princess hat

here is another one i made...ooo...last winter, i think? hubs of dread-like lengths wrapped and stitched on the sides. it feels really great to wear...princess like. more to come soooooon...

a hat for ann

made this funkadelic number on monday for the mismatch queen in victoria. hope she likes it. she is always a vision of bright colourfulness, a smile maker for sure.
aurora strikes a pose above. the tubes make me think they are for letting out excess steam in your head. someone also suggested they could hold flowers. that would be awesome. hopefully i will get a photo or two of ann enjoying it.