I love a lady called Elsie...............

Well, let me explain. Elsie is a gorgeous, full figured woman. She is simply stunning to look at and makes my heart flutter. And she has a wonderful personality to boot - she lifts my mood every time I lay eyes on her. My dear friends, Elsie is an armchair, lovingly restored by the gorgeous girls over at Armchair, Pip and Kirsty, using The Organic Mamas' Mod Green Pod Bloom fabric (my personal fave).

And the best part is, she's for sale.

But you better be quick.

Rush over to Armchair's brick and mortar shop at:

401-405 Pacific Highway,

Crows Nest here in Sydney

or online.

Blog Lovin'

My friends know I am an addict - an addict of design blogs, crafty blogs, textile blogs and maybe just a couple of those other blogs where you find out who is married to who, who is seeing who - you know what I mean - I know I shouldn't admit it by I will.......
But I digress. My love of design blogs knows no bounds and then yesterday I stumbled on a laugh-out-loud blog that combines my love of laughter with design......I am not sure how I found it, you know how it is but unhappy hipsters parodies great design photos from Dwell magazine. I can't explain it, you have to have a look, and a laugh.
By the way, there is nothing to do with sustainability or the environment in this post..................I need to get back on track.......

There. He felt it again. The whole house had unmistakeably slid toward the retaining wall, as if inching toward edificial suicide.
(Photo: Jason Schmidt, Dwell, February 2010)

photo and text from unhappy hipsters

Our new food mantra too.....

image from auburn&ivory

I love butterflies

It's great to see The Mamas Mod Green Pod fabrics featured on any blog but even more exciting when its on two of my favourites! Ohdeedoh (the first favourite) is featuring a nursery tour of Kenzie's nursery from her mama's Kenzie Poo blog (the other first favourite - am I making sense.....mmm.....probably not). And to round off the confusion, Mod Green Pod's Butterfly Jubliee print in Raspberry/Honey is featured as a quilt in Kenzie's nursery. Its always nice to see the fabrics in an 'every day' situation rather than just a swatch and see how gorgeous it looks. And it really confirms my suspicion that Rachelle has exquisite taste and an absolutely beautiful home - and she's a really cool mama too!

image from kenzie poo via ohdeedoh

Where have all the caterpillars gone?

I am standing at my sink chopping vegetables for dinner - and it comes to me................where have all the caterpillars gone? We generally buy organic fruit and vegetables (and meat and chicken too) except when the organic grocer is closed and I have to go to the supermarket. So today at lunchtime I was cutting up some strawberries and there was a little green caterpillar making its home on the side of one of the fruits. Wow, I thought, hello little fella. I picked him off and put him into the compost bin and continued on without a thought. Fast forward to the next meal time and I am washing the dirt off the potatoes and it dawns on me. I don't see those little green caterpillars on the conventionally grown fruit and vegies I buy at the supermarket. I wonder why ???? (these are ironic question marks by the way). Buy organic, save the caterpillar.

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone and wishing you all the best of everything for the year ahead. The Mamas stores will be open for orders over the Christmas break and shipping recommences 4th January!

I love birthday parties

I really do - especially when they are fairy parties. A certain someone in our household is having a birthday soon and has requested a fairy party - just like her big sister. And I always like a nice invitation - but the number of guests always seems to be more than 1 packet of invitations and I inevitably end up buying 2 packets - ITS SUCH A WASTE ! - especially now I have embarked on my personal war on packaging.
Solution ??? Printable PDF's from Etsy (and probably a whole lot of other places too) and only print as many as required - yipeee! My latest comes from Paper & Cake printable partyware , so I will raid my stash of recycled paper and off I go.......................

image from here