I was asked recently to make a costume.

A very different project to what I am doing normally and so I was quite excited.

Have you ever seen the movie `HotRod'?

Well, I hadn't seen it before and so I followed some pictures from off the internet. After completing the costume, I decided that I really did have to watch this movie.

It's about a guy who wants to be a stuntman...but he really isn't good at it at all. He constantly has lots of accidents but always tries again.

It's really quite a ridiculous movie and not normally my style, but I didnt mind it.

Anyway, here is the costume.

I enjoyed making this and it gave me a break from my `normal' sewing projects

The sewing nook

From this...

To this....

A friend was getting rid of this beautiful bookcase, so I snapped it up to try and get a little bit organised in my new sewing space.

I still have so many more stashes of material and nowhere to put them, and I haven't even started on `other craft' such as all my scrapbooking things. But this is a start. The fabrics I use the most are now visible and easy to grab.

This box was another of my bargain finds. It's just adorable and so very shabby chic!

Besides Sewing

Besides sewing, I have been in the mood for restoring things. After doing my sewing table, I was hooked. I then found a desk for my son that I shall be working on soon, and this absolutely adorable rocking chair. I found it at the tip shop for just $5!! I just love it!!! I thought about stripping the paint off it, but I think I actually like the whole shabby chic look as is, and will just put a new seat in it. Then of course, I will have to make a very shabby chic cushion for it.

I do love a good rumage at the tip shop and op shops. Have had some fabulous finds lately. Shall post more about my finds another day.

The other thing that I was busy last week with was our `Princess & Pirate' themed day at the mainly music group that I run. I quickly painted this castle the night before, which is now hanging in my daughter's bedroom.

What have I been up to?

What have I been up to?

A little while ago, I found this old solid recycled timer dining table, that I sanded back and gave a lick of white paint and left the legs raw timber for that shabby chic look. It is now my sewing table that I have set up in a sunny nook that used to be my son's bedroom. He has now moved into a big bed in his brothers room. So I finally have my own little craft room...yippeee

So...I finally decided to set up a Facebook page under the name Mimagirl Creations to sell a few of my handmade items. You must check it out. I recently had my very

first giveaway once I reached 100 likes on my page. One very lucky lady recieved these adorable Peter Rabbit cards and was quite delighted with them.

I will have more of Enid Blyton's beautiful character's on cards shortly. I also have been enjoying vintage Disney characters such as Thumper and friends.

I recently sold a tooth fairy pillow complete with fairy dust to the same lovely lady whose daughter had her first wobbly tooth. She was one very excited little girl to recieve a special pillow in which to place her tooth.

Lots more photos of things I have been creating that I shall post over the next few days or you could check out mimagirl creations on facebook!

The beginning of my simple homemade living started today with making these knitted dishcloths. I just LOVE them. What great gifts they will make too.

I found the pattern on another blog here. It's so easy and quick to do. I made it with organic cotton. My local wool shop had 30% off so I even saved there. Apparently they last for ages.

I've also been enjoying making fresh bread daily. I have every now and again in the past with different recipies, but I have finally found a favorite. It makes a fabulously light and fluffy (and very yummy with butter and golden syrup) loaf of bread. I found the recipie here. I'm afraid I can't paste a photo of it because it was eaten before I could take a snap of it! Maybe tomorrows loaf.

Well, it is the last day of 2010. So wishing you all a Happy New Year. Hope 2011 is good to you

New Year Resolutions

Ok it's nearly time for New Year Resolutions.

I cannot believe how fast this year has flown by.

It has been a year of allsorts and ups and downs.

I haven't managed to do this blog this year.

And so my New Years Resolution will be to really try and get to it more.

I am wanting to create for my family, a simple life.

To live more simply is something I yearn for and dream of.

Starting in 2011, I want to stop dreaming of it,

and start to live it more so than we are now.

I shall turn off that TV and stop reading magazines that make me WANT things.

I want to get out in the garden more, cook from scratch more, preserve my own produce. Sew and mend our clothes and the list goes on.

This year I had so much pleasure in making gifts for friends and relatives. I made cakes, buiscuts, chutneys, jams, and made a table top cubby house for my neices.

Finding creative ways of packaging, and presenting these items was half the fun.

It gave such a sense of pride and great pleasure to give something that I had made with love for those that I love.

So I want to continue this way as much as possible and teach my children to do the same.

What are your New Years Resolutions this year?

Ok,

I am so not good at this blogging thing.

Seems to take me forever to write anything.

Actually, I don't like posting anything without pictures and my computer is too slow at

uploading them. However, I am soon to get a new computer and hoping that shall

solve the problem.

So just wait a little longer and then I shall join this blogging world hopefully a little

more regularly.

In the meantime, I am busy sewing, cooking, gardening and caring for my family!