finished a project and marketing

Yesterday I went to the last market for Northside Makers Market for this side of the year. Such a lovely market with very talented crafters and they are all very friendly and ready for a chat.

I took both the girls and the froglets friend, baby bat with us. Got a nice little booty of goodies!

One of the froglets friends is celebrating her 16th birthday so she selected this cute little card for her from red parka I love the parliament of owls!



this very cute little mini sock monkey had to come home with the noisy one... now named the minkie. I was very taken with her sock spiders, should have bought one!! this we purchased from chuckles



Finally I own my very own curly pops brooch, I chose the heart without thinking too much about it (I just liked it) and later I realised I had subconsciously chosen it with cherry my doberman in mind. Lovely to meet you finally Cam, I have been stalking your blog for a while now and enjoy reading it daily.



I also met the lovely Margaret of Konstant Kaos and bought this hair tie for my friend who always has her hair up with ribbons and such. Great to meet you too, the baby bat was delighted to get the info you gave her about the goth markety thingy.


Finally I finished the journal cover for the frogets friend who is also an Irish dancer. I bought this cute little pattern from allsorts some time ago and made one for the froglet but hadn't turned it into anything yet. So we chose colours that Lauren would like (pink) and decided a journal cover would be ideal.

the pattern for the journal I found on the moda bake shop site, I didn't follow it exactly but I did find it very simple to follow and alter to my own needs.


Off now to have afternoon tea with a friend, the girls are looking forward to meeting her chooks and the cat!

This is my mad Doberman. (this photo has the look of those twisted whiskers!) No honestly she really is mad, my father in law calls her the idiot as she chases flies on the back verandah and if you don't pay her any attention she will start to make growly noises and then will bark. She bangs her bowl when its dinner time (6pm) and if we are late with dinner she really chucks a razz. She is O.C.D. and eats chunks out of her blanket like a giant moth which she drags around the house to sit on where ever we are. I buy her blankets from the op shops as they end up looking like enormous Swiss cheese slices and I end up picking up bits of blanket everywhere.

Everything is nice and fresh since the rain yesterday. I hope that no one got flooded out, the footage on the news in the city was amazing with people wadding up to their knees... I hope no one had their designer shoes on!

Thank goodness its the weekend, I actually woke up feeling less than perfect with sneezes and a runny nose and I just had a Nana nap here on the couch which has slightly refreshed me. No swimming for me tonight and at this stage I doubt I will swim in the morning while the noisy one does squad training.

Lots of markets on this weekend... spoilt for choice! Farmers market nearby at the brand junction, another craft market in Thornbury and one in Brunswick. Sunday is the market down at Latrobe University so depending on the weather and my health I'm hoping to go to at least one of these.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend where ever you are spending it.

to market, to market....

I haven't posted all week as I have been busy settling back into the school routine. Both the froglet and the noisy one had a good first week and seem happy to go for a second week!

I have been watching lots of blogs in the last 9 or so months and have been wanting to go to the markets to see their goodies and of course purchase some of these wonderful items. Today I finally was able to get to the northside makers market in Northcote with the froglet. She hasn't been to a market in a long time and she really enjoyed browsing the stalls and conning me into buying her a few things (isn't that what us mums are for?!). I was delighted to meet the crafters in person and their items are even better in the flesh so to speak.
The froglet fell in love with this item that we bought from mecino



her words were "its so prettyful!" I have to agree and was content to admire the other delightful pieces of jewellery (until the next market mhaw hahahah)

We then bought her best friend a birthday present from Konstant Kaos


We had a hard time deciding which things to buy as there was such a lot of wonderful things. I was in market overload and wanted to buy everything I looked at. Go and look at northside makers and you will see all the goodies and find out when this great market is on... you wont regret it. (your bank manager might have words with you though hehehehe).