What's in store for Little Sew & Sews this week!

PERTH UPMARKET!

I am beyond excited to be at Perth Upmarket (Junior Upmarket) at UWA this Sunday, March 4th between 10am-4pm (or 9am if you are one of those super lucky VIP shoppers!)  I have been super busy creating dresses, dolls, softies and the ever popular 3 piece soft tool sets (in regular and organic fabrics!) - I hope I have enough to showcase what I do, but if not all custom orders placed on the day and paid within 24 hours of the market ending will get free local delivery/postage.   There is also a market special on the new range of Little Sew & Sews dresses as well as a few items at market prices instead of website prices!   Make sure you drop by and say hi!  

1 PUDDLE LANE

As if being at Perth Upmarket this week wasn't exciting enough, I received my gorgeous GORGEOUS 1 Puddle Lane Blossom Party dress just in time to wear on Sunday! So if you have been eyeing off Ann's work on-line and want to check out a dress in person before placing an order (and speak to a very happy customer), make sure you pop by my stall and have a squizz!  If you are desperate to order, make sure you head to Ann's 1 Puddle Lane Facebook page tomorrow night as she is releasing 10 custom spots!

BURLESQUE

On a personal side-note, I have been challenging myself by doing a 6 week Beginner's Burlesque class with Sugar Blue Burlesque.  This very uncoordinated, high heel novice managed to turn, kick, move, strut and jiggle in high heels while learning some very interesting styles of dance!  With the course now over, it is time to 'graduate' by doing a performance show on Wednesday night! Costumes being required (as I don't think my husband would appreciate me jiggling away on stage in my gym gear as much as I would prefer to wear it!) - so I 'whipped' up a cute little burlesque bustle skirt. Excuse the dodgy flash photos, but it gives you the idea! Should I get some appropriate photos of the full get-up tomorrow night I will share (maybe!).  If you are in Perth and want to try something different, I do recommend a burlesque course, it was certainly fun as well as eye-opening!

Friendly Challenges - February Pt 1

I often find myself 'stuck-in-a-rut' creative mind wise, so I challenged some good friends of mine (and myself) to create something from a new pattern, or using a new technique that they haven't done before.  Here are our results!

Tracey from My Obsession Designs tackled a
zippered coin purse - with cherrilicious results!

Angela from Perigren Creations made this
cute as a button  zippered  ear-bud case
 with swivel hook for her daughter!

Jodie from Zahley Rose put her creative mind to work
adapting her collection of Dolls & Daydreams patterns
to make a menagerie of adorable ribbon taggy softies!

I made a Seraphina from Bit of Whimsy's Wittle Whimsies range - which was also a new
technique for me having never used cotton for a dolls hair before!
This little cutie is for a friends' daughter :)

My next challenge is kitchen based - time to try out a new recipe!  If you would like to join in on the next challenge just drop me an email (littlesewandsews (at) hotmail (dot) com ) with a photo of your finished food creation and a link (if possible) to the recipe and you will be included in the next blog! Challenge finishes on 29 February, with all photos to be emailed through by the 2nd of March.

February Market Night - GIRLS ONLY!

This Wednesday night, make sure you pop by the Little Sew & Sews Facebook page for the GIRLS ONLY Market Night!  It starts at 6pm PERTH time (make sure you synchronise your clocks if you are interstate!) and as the them is girls only, it is full of pink, lace, flowers and other girly girl symbols!  The preview album is up now and here is a taste of what is on offer:

 Seeing as I will only be running Market Nights every two months this year (except for special occasions), I am going to be offering the chance for two lucky blog followers/readers to get themselves an early shopping pass! So if you would like to shop at 5.45 (PERTH TIME) and beat the rush, then all you need to do is fire an email through to me at littlesewandsews@hotmail.com with your Facebook Profile name BEFORE 8.45am (PERTH time) on Valentine's Day and I will put your name in the hat!  Early shoppers for this month will be drawn on Valentines Day at 9am (PERTH time) so make sure you get that email to me RIGHT NOW!

and so it begins .. maybe ...

Tomorrow begins the start of when I *could* be heading back into the classroom.  It is time to await the dreaded 8.20am call to start a day of relief at a school ASAP please, or the even worse 6am groggy "you want me to do what?" phone-call.  Regardless if either of those things happen, tomorrow morning Mstr Tornado 2 is going to 'school' (read daycare).   I decided he needed a groovy little bag to take with him to hold his blankie and his nummy so I whipped out this cute little denim dino messenger bag using the Zaaberry Kid's Messenger Bag Tutorial -

 the hardest part was wrestling the bag right way out after I once again decided that smallest was best with a turning gap.  Tornado hasn't decided if he likes it yet, but I surely do!  Now I think I should make a Mummy version to hold MY goodies for school too :) Just please no 6am phone call!