Today is the last day of our two week vacation :(

Laurimar Glen Farmstay is where we are at the moment. It is such a beautiful place. There are horses, pigs, deer, llamas and alpacas.

They are so friendly.

This place is great if you want to do nothing or if you want to get down and dirty with farm chores.

It is our second time here and we just love it cos there is something for the whole family. The kids get to spend their days outdoors instead of in front of the t.v. or computer, hubby gets to enjoy the outdoors and mum gets to go into town and look at all the pretty little craft shops! :)

I have bought some fabric for my vintage venture and i bought a stack of craft books from the "op" shop and in one of them they have this beautiful quilted table piece, so off i went to find a quilt store and guess what? I bought myself a stack of charm squares.

The lady of this farm has an enormous collection of things, she has turned one of the rooms into a small muesum. She asked me if i collected anything, and i don't really, except for a tin collection i seemed to have gathered a few years back.

So i decided that i am going to start a collection of something to do with my craft!

Thimbles!!

I went to a cute little shop here where the artist paints and makes fine bone china, and amongst her items was a thimble. So I just had to buy one! And so my Thimble collection begins!

I also bought "Better homes & gardens" where they have the most awesom throw, made from both knitting and crochet flowers. They use cream for the knitted part and then a green and purple for the flowers. It is supposed to represent olives and grapes.

I am going to attempt this at some point it is too gorgeous not to.

As much as i have enjoyed being at the farm, i am ready to get home and sewing again. Can't wait to get these "glorious" vintage patterns made.

Now all i have to do is get my sister to made some divine jewellery to go with my vintage collection!

Stay tuned for photos.

My title says "Inspired by Vintage" so

I better start talking about my "vintage adventures" hey!

So I now have all the vintage pattens I bought, both from www.gloriousvintage.com
and www.evadress.com

I will add photos later, but i have started to make the top as it is the most simple one apart from the pants.

I am using a beautiful green linen and on measuring the size difference we were able to work out that in those days I would have been a size 14!

I have hit a snag with the neck interfacing, will have to play around a bit more, or will end up having to unpick and start that again.

Bought a clutch bag pattern of Etsy

I have finally downloaded the pattern yesterday, 27 pages!

I started making the bag, the instructions are really easy to understand and she has put photos with each set of instructions.

It's really funny because the pattern i chose has the same material as what my sister bought me. You know the two pieces that i took a photo of, one is sort of candy striped and the other looks floral.

Anyways, I'm hoping to finish it today, i just need to go and buy some fusable fleece and various clasps.

I will post a photo once finished.

A dress in a weekend

I decided to make a simple dress out of one of the freebie fabrics i got. The pattern was very simple, three pieces to the pattern, no buttons, zips or hook & eyes! Easy right???

Da Daaa! I made it to a size 10, which is what i make everything for myself in, and the stupid thing didn't fit!

NOT HAPPY JAN!!!

So I unpicked a bit off one side seam and added a zip thinking this would help, (remember I'm a beginner!) it went on sort of easy enough, but then i couldn't get the damn thing off again.

Hmm, oh well, another outfit for my sister!

I did manage to go to Lincraft today and buy some absolutely to die for material. I am going to make the dress I made for my sister, (the blue one that I have posted a photo of) but using this material, and it's going to be for me!!!

I will have to take a photo, it's just so beautiful.

I'm still waiting for the bag pattern i bought from Etsy. I sent the seller an email today. Can't wait to get stuck into that, using the material that my sister bought me.

I have finally got my blog looking kind of decent now, thanks to Cindy from http://www.imagine-dream-create.blogspot.com/ she told me about the site called http://www.thecutestblogontheblock.com/

Gotta love fabric freebies!

I made a little bag today to go with the blue dress for my sister, I went to her house to give her some money and she had that whole outfit on, jewellery and all. It looked amazing on her. She decided to put a brooch on the flap of the bag and it just looks so awesome. She is going to take a photo on Saturday before the wedding and then i will post it on here.

Anyways, getting back to fabric freebies, at class today, the teacher had a whole bag of fabric donated and she said we can just go through it and pick out what we want. So i now have four new pieces of fabric to add to my stash!

I'm so excited

My first two patterns arrived in the mail today. They are from the 1930's. Simply gorgeous dresses.

Can't wait to go fabric shopping!

I'm still playing around with my logo. I found this logo making site you can download the free trial version. Great, so I did this, designed the logo i wanted then couldn't do anything else with it as it was only the trial version! AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!

So i put my thinking caps on, and took a photo of it then uploaded the photo! Yes, I can be a clever chickadee!

So what do you think? I'm thinking of using this when i open my Etsy Store.

This is the pattern, and the skirt i will be making is the longer one. I was thinking a nice cord material, but it doesn't state that on the pattern, so i will have to ask the experts at Spotlight.