Op-Shop Show_Off; January 28th, 2014

 

From my before-Christmas-$3-box-of-tricks. A small silver platter. Husband thinks it is silver plate though isn't hallmarked. In service, serving up Her Royal Claudness'es breakfast.

4/52/14 Portraits Of My Children

Fin-Scrumptious and serious.

Claud-Laughter on legs.


Week 4 of the Portrait project at Practising Simplicity.

Darn It! Op-Shop Show-Off; January 21st, 2014

Haberdashery. Great vintage word, great vintage stuff. Notions, lisle. Also lovely words. Ahh.

3/52/14 Portrait Project

Fin. Oh-ohh. You can't walk but you can climb?!!! Nothing. Safe.

Claud-Love the faraway look you get in your eyes when your thinking up something funny. (In this instance the knock-knees dance).

Week three with these two little loves in the Portrait Project at Practising Simplicity.

The Tea Towel Dress

I made Claud the Martha Stewart Tea Towel dress for her birthday, in stolen minutes here and there. Except it's the Max Bennett Tea Towel Dress because the Martha Steward dress pattern is in fact infant sized, despite the model standing and looking distinctly toddler-like in the photo. So I improvised. Quietly pleased I finally made Claud an item of clothing. Quietly pleased all the materials, fabric ribbon, buttons, linen tea towel and elastic were all op-shopped.

Show and Telling with Leonie an Co.

Clip-Clop: Op-Shop Show-Off; Tuesday Jan 14th, 2014

Claud was gifted this hobby horse recently by it's original owner who was given it as a child by her grandparents who bought it out from a London department store quite a few years ago. Claud imaginatively name it 'pony' and loves it to bits (literally, she chewed the ear, adding to it's, is-it's-eye-missing-or-is-it-winking, long-loved patina.

Portrait Project 2/52/14

Fin-Likes to play crawl-chase and busts in to peals of laughter when his family get down on all fours and say "chase me Fin, chase me".

Claud-Likes to skip everywhere, and breaks out in impromptu dance routines of her own devising when particularly happy.



Week 2/52 of the weekly Portrait Project at Practising Simplicity

*My favourite from last week was Leonie's lovelies