Pitter, Patter

With many babies being born to dear friends, I have developed a fail-safe gift idea. These little shoes, made from scraps of fabric and leather off-cuts, are good first walkers or slippers.

I've used cordoroy for the outside and a bright print for the lining.

Fashioning Now

For anyone with an interest in sustainable design and fashion, a new exhibition will be opening at the UTS gallery in late July.

Bringing together fashion design, textiles, illustration and digital media, the exhibition aims to present new models for the fashion industry to move forward for a less wasteful, more sustainable future.

Most excitingly, the key note speaker at the accompanying symposium will be Dr Kate Fletcher, author of 'Sustainable Fashion & Textiles: Design Journeys'.

Fashioning Now: Changing the Way we Make and Use Clothes

Delicious scarves

New delicious handmade scarves up on my site! All individual and one-off! Be quick!

Congratulations!

Congratulations to Freedom and Tony on the birth of baby Pia. We hear she is a whopper at 4 kgs and can't wait for a cuddle!!!

Tea towel

Well I have to admit us Gussy Up Gals are pretty hopeless at posting!!


I scored this beautiful vintage tea towel and deciding now what to do with it. It would make a beautiful clutch purse... but its also too nice to cut up! It says 'Made in Poland' but I don't know the history of it otherwise.

Eccentric... moi? Kara Smith

Thank you everyone that responded to my December Newsletter about getting a copy of Virgin Blue's 'Voyeur' magazine. I had so many offers to track down a copy for me and I did get hold of it in the end!

At first I wasn't sure about being included in the 'Eccentric Aunt' section, but seeing the beautiful layout of the magazine and the selection of gifts around my handbag - well, I'm quite pleased.

Change mat for baby : Kara

Yesterday I made this change mat for my baby due in January. I had been looking at change mats online and in stores - they were either horrible or really expensive... so I finally just made one!

I used some leftover polyester quilting fabric that I had lying around and recycled denim and kiddy print (it's hobby horses which are actually zebras).