joy

just a quickie before i go and make my roast vegi salad for the festivities tonight. today nina and i spent most of our day making jewellery instead of cleaning the house after a week away and xmas.

nina found a bag of buttons i had been given for xmas and she came up with this FABULOUS necklace. all i had to do was tie the knot!!!

we've had a great day.

Poppy Is.....NEW SHOP

Jenny has opened a gorgous new store @ Marina Quay Village Markets at Hope Island QLD. Poppy Is stocks all kinds of hand-made crafty loviness from all over Oz. How beautiful does the shop look? I'm in love with the dresser! Opening Day went really well for her and she passed on a funny story about a sweet lil boy taking a fancy to my Cobber Softies, he took them all off the chair and then popped them on his lap to mind whilst mum did some shopping. VERY CUTE!!! Oooh....and I also got a web mention!

flower power

i have had this bolt of printed 80's calico sitting in my cupboard for ages! Mum once covered a siting chair with it, for some reason she bought heaps, maybe she was going to cover a lounge suite. Anyway she gave it to me knowing i would chop it up and do something with it one day. Well the day came and i have made 2 whopping big shopper totes! i think i can make 100 more or maybe some zip purses & clutches. If you know me, you know that i have an obsession with big bags, so this one will suit just perfectly for all my xmas market shopping or a day at the beach. The other i have listed on madeit. If you have an idea of wha telse i can make let me know.

it's a vegi feast

this week we have eaten masses of beans, baby zuccini & baby carrots all home grown from our vegi garden. The first week of spring nina & i planted our vegi garden & we have watched it grow, loved it & cared for all those lil seeds for what seems to be ages. Finally we can enjoy the fruits of our seed planting labour. Our carrots are very small, they are super sweet & best eaten straight from the garden. As for zuccini, well.... nina and i dont like it much but paul does & its been fun to watch it grow.

The beans have been awsum - our favorite recipe for beans is: blanch them quickly then cook them with roughly chopped tomatoes, onion, basil S+P. YUM!!!

Soon our mixed seed salad leaves will be ready, which i cant wait for as our baby spinach got devoured & has now gone to seed. There is also a cucumber plant -we think? Our tomatoes are still growing tall with no flowers, although we do get cherry tomatoes (bean recipe) and tonnes of parsley, basil, thyme, chives, corriander & oregano.

I am hoping we can use lots of our home grown goodness on xmas day but we need to do some snail stomping if we want our xmas lunch to be plentiful.

recycled timber toys - yes please!

very cool indeed!

Handmade from recycled timbers, this is next on my MadeIt shopping list.

Made by Marcus Kay he uses old timber that was destined for the wood fire pile.

shop by colour

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esty's shop by colour! WOW i love it, what a great fun way to shop. And then if you dont like the pic that comes up- you just throw it away. SOoooo very cool!

As a jewellery merchandiser (1 day a week) i get to work with all sorts of amazing coloured crystals , but the most fun i have is setting up the cabinets so that the jewellery colours flow through to the next one. Today i re-displayed the turquoise, gaspeite (bright green), malachite (dak green) emeralds & herkimer diamonds.

so....

TODAY I JUST LOVE COLOUR LOTS!

WINNER!

CONGRATULATIONS m.e

cathie from MelbourneEpicure

you are the lucky winner of my vintage bunting give-away!!!

Nina & are not the earliest of risers, as you can see from her sleepy face, pyjamas and my fuzzy photos. After a good cuppa coffee, toast & rice bubbles we put all your names into nina's little fabric bird basket and pulled out the winner. Nina asked who won and i said "m.e" her reply was "that's not fair i want to win!"

Cathie we will post your bunting to you this afternoon

(please email your address to jadeholi@hotmail.com)

& we would love to see some photos of where you hang it.

CONGRATULATIONS

XX jade & nina