Dreaming away...

Looking at renting a new place and stumbled across this piece of absolute gorgeousness for sale:

20 Rankins Road, KENSINGTON - For Sale by Marston & Cook Pty Ltd FLEMINGTON

If only I had a spare couple of million...

Look at the gorgeous ceilings in the lounge:

and the ornate entry with the original marble plaque intact on the wall with the list of past presidents of the dispensary:

the bathroom isn't so great and the kitchen would need a bit of reworking but oh my god what a canvas!

and the winners are...

LOOPI... for you

Jodi Renshaw and

jodesmac

Congratulations guys!! Send me your snail mail address and I'll send you yr mo's!

Thanks to everybody who left me nice words :) much appreciated...

Will be thinking about a grander scale of FAUX MO's for next year...

Onto the next project!

I finally got some wire to finish making my hot air balloon and cloud mobile which I will restart on the weekend...wish me luck!

P.S. The white and green polka dot skirt was a disaster :( ...For home usage only...I think I need to go to some Thread Den classes or something as I have really lost my skillz!

Practice makes perfect though I guess...

my first giveaway!

Ok, so going along with Pip's week of hello and happy I am going to giveaway my last 3 FAUX MO's.

I've been making FAUX MO's for Movember with all the money from selling them going to the Movember group who are all about raising money for men's health issues including supporting research into prostate cancer and depression.

I haven't made many and haven't really made a huge effort in my marketing campaign to sell too many as I've been too busy to sit down and make them! I only had the idea midway through Movember so am a little under prepared! But I have raised $114 for the cause which I think is OK...Maybe next year I will refine the design, my marketing and get making earlier so I can raise tons of money!

Anyway, for your chance to win one just leave a comment! I will draw some winners next Thursday. For each one given away I will donate money to my team, The Hirsute Gentlemen.

Here's a pic of my friend Karin sporting one...

Anybody for a Faux Mo?

Yes, I am making faux mos for movember.

This is my way of raising funds and getting my free ticket to the movember ball...

Faux mos are felt badges I'm lovingly making by hand and am selling for $8 each. This means they are all unique. They also come on their own handmade card.

I'm not taking any money for materials or time, all of it goes to the movember group who are supporting research into prostate cancer and depression. A worthy cause I believe!

If you'd like to receive one, go here: http://au.movember.com/mospace/32527, donate $8 (plus postage and a donation would be really nice :) ...) and then send me an email or PM me with your address, what colour you'd prefer, brown or black and what style you'd like, either a connoisseur style or the thinner parisian style. Or if yr feeling adventurous, just request a random one! Then I will get busy and send one through to you!

Here's a pic of my gorgeous friend Karin sporting a connoisseur in black... (thanks for the link back and the kick up the bum to write a post too!)

and a really bad product photo...

So quick sticks! Support the cause and get yours now!

Change is afoot

Seriously looking at moving out of our grey box and into something with a bit more space...space for projects and grown up type things...

Means a big change cos when you move out of a little box into a proper house, it generally means you need to get things to fill the new space...It will be strange to start accruing again...

Some photos...

Tsunami like cloud formation on the horizon...totally mad looking...

My latest op shop finds...

Dover illustration books! Awesome!

I have a board game 'thing' and have started collecting them again...need to get my box sent down from up north with my Park and Shop, Mork and Mindy, Six million dollar man and sealed version of the Golden Girl Guardian of the Gemstones game, a take off of She-Ra, whose dolls I adored when I was a wee lass...Favourites were Onyx and the leader of the baddies Moth Lady... anyway, I digress...

Heading to Tassie for a few days this week, will be nice...

Raarrr badge

Made a badge for Khannie whilst he was away at a conference this week.

First one I'd tried with the newly learnt blanket stitch...not even sure if yr supposed to use that kind of stitch on softie type things but oh well...

I put it on a card for him too...

front...

and back with rarrr guy...

don't think he's going to wear it though... :(

Big bike ride planned tomorrow....50km for around the bay in a day..not quite around the bay but I think it's a fair effort...

no brain for writings...

it's like a vacuum up there atm...

anyways, some fotos...

been trying to pretty up the dull, small, too modern apartment lately.

Got some new furniture, made some bunting out of old kids encyclopedia and books about mathematics and moved it all around, cos you know what they say about a change...

I know i should take photos with my real camera but It's far easier and quicker with the iPhone...

and i can make it do funny tricks...

yay for the good ol expedit...fits 12"s perfectly...

we have a new friend named Dennis Hopper...he is in the pic on the far right...if you look really hard you can make him out...

I have made something this evening but I can't post pics just yet...tomorrow maybe...