Cotton Candy! From Sheet to Shorts...

I have been collecting the odd cotton sheet from 2nd hand stores / Thrift stores for sometime now. If you can find one in good condition, without the worn middle then you have yourself a huge piece of fabric to play around with. I mostly look out for vintage floral ones, but this week I found this delicious cotton candy striped one. The cotton is fantastic quality and is still lovely and thick. The colours are "me" too. Although I did intend to make the boys pants/shorts from it.. I thought no, I will make something for me this time.
I found a pattern from one of my Burda magazines and got to it....

How cute is that sheet! $3 from The Sallys!

 Cotton Candy

My new sewing toy.... great time saver!

a dotty guide to cut out

Finito!

So what do you think? 

Flowers for a Friends Wedding

I'm still buzzing from my friends beautiful wedding yesterday. Chelsea (who is an amazing clothes designer and once had a very successful clothing label Chelsea Thorpe and more recently has been the designer for Never Black) made her own dress, not to mention 3 bridesmaids dresses and 3 flower girl dresses, oh and wait her sisters dress too! They were all absolutely gorgeous - of course!
On Friday arvo I spent most of the morning picking flowers out at my parents organic orchard and then spent the arvo at the wedding reception venue arranging the flowers for the big day. The reception was held in an art gallery upstairs of Gisborne's main street. It's a fantastic space actually - white walls with the odd bit of raw concrete exposed, big windows looking out to the street below and a lovely wide balcony. The "theme" for the wedding was slightly eclectic, with vintage mismatched cotton napkins and tons of vintage bottles and vases in all different shapes and sizes - rallied together from family and friends. So I had lots of fun filling these little treasures with gorgeous flowers! Here are a few shots from Friday....

And Saturday - Yes the flowers did last... even though I had nightmares on Friday night that they had all wilted!!

What a gorgeous day it was... 

An Afternoon in the Country

Quite often on a Sunday afternoon we make the 15 minute trip out to my parents organic orchard, Ara Te Kereru. It's spring - and spring in my Mums garden is beautiful. Here are a few snaps.

My Dad went fishing yesterday and caught these beautiful Tarakihi - we were lucky enough to take home a couple of fillets :)

While the boys are in bed I'm off to start planning a dress for a wedding in 3 weeks...