Sew ahoy!

This weekend just been I cloistered myself in the big room and did some sewing.

A black under skirt with lace on it. A black basic skirt with paneling inspired by Alexandra Owen. A stripy top with gold skull print.

But my proudest accomplishment was making a pair of trousers exactly like ones I’ve worn to death over the last two years. In a moment of being unlike myself, I patiently unpicked them all, drew a pattern, cut and sewed new pants. They’re so good you’d think a Chinese slave made them.

New Zealand’s Top Sausage

In my line of work there are people that love corporate communications, some that like people and change and others who love politics.

I love creative campaigns – especially ones that include everyday, hard working people who are passionate about what they do.

Each year I’ve worked at Ideas Shop we’ve promoted The Great New Zealand Sausage competition. It’s heaps of fun and making calls to the media is awesome because they’re so stoked that someone in their area has won. Who doesn’t love a tasty sausage?

This year’s Supreme Award Winner is a Mango and Chilli Chicken sausage from Peter Timbs Meats in Christchurch. It’s fantastic! The full list of all Gold, Silver and Bronze results will be online at www.sausagecompetition.co.nz before the end of the week.

 

Doily love

lacy needlebooks

Originally uploaded by Ravenhill Designs

Unless you’ve been in a hole, you’ll know I love dollies. It’s just another component – along with cardigan love and making jam that makes me a Nana.

Imagine my delight in today finding the Doily Love pool on Flickr. http://www.flickr.com/groups/1203103@N24/pool/

Bulbs

Todays job, if I can bend my legs still from yesterday’s gardening efforts is to plant out my spring bulbs.

The great thing about bulbs is that my workmates Rachel and Patricia and I looked through a catalogue, picked what we liked and then had them delivered to work. The not so great thing (if you were a fussy gardener) is that now I can’t remember what any of them – except for gladioli – looks like. So I’m going to put them in a bucket and wander around the section planting them randomly.

When we bought our house it had lots of trees and shrubs but not many flowers. I’m hoping the bulbs will help even things out.

Fair’s fair

bestival bunting

Originally uploaded by czuczy

Yesterday I headed off to another Craft 2.0 – something I’d been working towards for months and a welcome distraction from moping about the house and answering people’s “how are you?” questions.

I’ve done a few fairs now but this one was different. People came, people were grumpy looking. They looked and touched then moved on. I made quite a few sales still and times were nice but something was missing from the fairs of old. I thought maybe it was just that I was bummed out but others said the same.

There’s a certain slickness about some of the stalls now and I miss the hokey homemade feel. And what wasn’t great was people touting for their own upcoming fairs – go away people you’re cluttering up the stall. Especially not cool when people work their guts out to make Craft 2.0 awesome.

The good news is that when the December 3 Craft 2.0 rolls around (it’s an after-work fair) I won’t have to make much at all.

That and someone that reads our blog told me that the post about Tom’s offensive t-shirt (link below) has been printed out and now adorns the tearoom noticeboard at Air New Zealand. Right on!

http://tomandemma.wordpress.com/2009/04/30/princess-bride-post-911/