There's one lady who I've known for a little over ten years of my life. She's kind to my children and raised me a lovelier husband than I could have imagined. She's 'Grandma' to my kidlets, 'Mum' to my husband and Christine to me. I've never made her anything, except for a nasty Christmas wall hanging which I gave her when Craig and I were engaged and when my taste in fabric lacked a bit of style (to put it lightly). For Mother's Day this year I wanted to make her something special and this is what I ended up with.
It's an oversized tote bag, perfect for a mid- week grocery top up or for lugging around several heavy books.
On the inside it looks like this. I always find that bags with several similar looking pockets on the inside can sometimes be a bit like having no pockets at all. For me, I end up searching frantically through every single pocket and it is always the last one that I look in where I find my keys. I wanted to make the pockets easy to identify to help Chris remember where she puts things. There is a zipper pocket on the and an open pocket for a mobile phone, pen and bits of paper.
The mobile phone pocket has a small pleat in either side of it so that it doesn't pull on the lining too much.
There's also a handy D-ring for attaching car keys to.
I like the brightness of the orange in the lining. It keeps the inside of the bag fresh and light and stops it becoming a bottomless pit for bobby pins, receipts and spare change.
Happy Mother's Day to you all for yesterday.
Kate
| This is a rare moment people. I am not one of those people who pretends to love cooking, so my recipe posts will be few and far between. |
| This is my recipe for my favourite muffins to cook. The kids devour them very very quickly. I've tried to make them as healthy as possible, however they may contain ingredients that not everyone has in their kitchen. I've put the ingredients you are more likely to have in brackets next to them. You should be fine to substitute them. |
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This is not an overly sweet muffin. If your kids will only eat heavily sugary muffins, they may not love these. I on the other hand, am quite partial to them.
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| Ingredients |
| 2 -3 ripe bananas mashed (I prefer 3) |
| 1/3 cup rapadura sugar (use 1/2 cup of raw sugar as an alternative) |
| 1/2 cup dark choc chips (use sultanas or other dreid fruit instead if you want to cut out the chocolate) |
| 1 and 3/4 cups of wholemeal self raising flour (or whatever self raising flour you have) |
| 3/4 cup milk |
| 100 g coconut oil (use 100g melted butter instead) |
| 1 egg lightly beaten |
| 2 teaspoon cinnamon (I think I put in alot more than this. I give the jar a decent shake into the bowl) |
| 1 tablespoon chia seeds (leave them out if you don't have any...and consider buying some next time you're at coles) |
| Method |
| Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celcius |
| Grease muffin tin |
| Combine flour and cinnamon. |
| Stir in sugar, choc chips and chia seeds. |
| In a different bowl, combine oil, egg, banana and milk. Add to flour mix. Stir until just combined. |
| Spoon into pan and cook for around 20 mins. |
| Hide from children unless you want them all gone very quickly. |
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| My next preview is coming up on May 3rd, next Friday night. I have been busy sewing in my spare time during the holidays (of course you get so much of it during the holidays - sarcasm for those that don't know me). I will have all my made to measure girls wear available to look at, all the alternate fabrics that youc an get the items made up in, and lots of other bits and pieces, including some stuff to givethose hard to buy for women in your life on mother's day. So if you are in Sydney, please send me a message and I'll pass on my address to you. I'd love to see you there. There is absolutely no pressure to buy anything, but please come along if you are curious about what I have been up to. |
| Anyway, here's my next addition of made to measure girls wear. I had a tough time getting pictures with some of these girls - not because of the girls, but because of my children. The girls had to put up with alot from my two, includng being threatened with water bombs from my boys and a crying baby on my hip. Not to mention my very long lawn because I can't find a decent lawn mower man (I gave up on Scott doing it a long time ago). They always seem to leave and then I get a new guy and he leaves etc etc etc. So please excuse the dodgy background and focus on the clothing and the girls beautiful faces. I also have another couple of items I need to photograph on a size 10/11 girl, look out if you have one, I will most likely be calling you during the week. So there are another couple of items for older girls that need to be added, and I am hoping to have time to sew up a few more things that are in my head for younger girls. I'll see how the weekend goes. |
| First up, the lovely Erin in this cute chevron bow dress. Also available in pink, or other non chevron fabrics, in sizes 1-12. Size 1 - 6 $38, size 7-12 $41. |
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| Next up, this little bubble dress. Also available with a pink or a blue skirt instead of the yellow, sizes 0-6 $31, sizes 7-10 $35. Mya you are adorable. |
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| This blue dress below is made from a modal/cashmere blend. The fabric is just divine, will provide more warmth than expected from the cashmere and is a bargain price I think for this quality of fabric. Available in sizes 0-12, $35 for sizes 0-6, $39 for 7-12. Also available in yellow and pink, with a different lace trim that coordinates appropriately with those fabrics. |
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| This pink dress is made from a lovely soft wool with stunning lace insert details. Also available in blue and yellow. Sizes 0-6 $35, 7-12 $39. |
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| And here they are together. I love these sisters. Such beautiful girls! |
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| Next up these adorable harem style pants, worn of course by my favourite model! This is what she did when I asked her to strike a pose. Cracked me up. These are available in a range of fabrics, in sizes 0-6 $28 for the pants, $13 for the top. |
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| This smock top is available in sizes 3-10. It can be made with several different sleeve types and I can vary the length to suit your order. $28. This is Mya's big sister. Isn't she beautiful!! |
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| I still have some fabric left of this spotty black and white skater style dress. I got Mya to whack it on for me. |
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| These pom pom dresses are my personal favourite. They are also available in two different colours - pink and grey, red and grey. 0-6 $33, 7-12 $38. I have yet to get the bigger one on a girl, and I keep forgetting to grab a photo of Zoe in the little one. |
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| This lovely dress modelled by Alice is made from a thick cotton knit, finished with ribbing and ric rac. Alice commented on how warm it was when she put it on. My fabric for this is quite limited, so get in fast if you like it. Available in sizes 3-10, sizes 3-6 $35, 7-10 $39. Alice and Austin met last year at school. She has been a wonderful friend to him, I am sure she doesn't know how much she helped him get through some difficult times at school last year, and I aboslutely adore her. She is such a beautiful girl - inside and out. |
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| Below are a couple of bubble skirts, as modelled by Erin. They are available in sizes 1-8 and are $30. I can make them up in other fabrics. Please note I did not make the shirts, I found them amongst the clearance racks at target. |
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| I love the above photo of Erin. Isn't she breathtaking. I've never had hair envy of an almost 6 year old before.... |
| The last one is my favourite. This skirt is sooo cute. Available in sizes 2-6 (I could push it down to a size 1 if you think your daughter could pull off the fullish skirt) $31, 7-12 $36. Heart shirt - 2-6 $13, 7-12 $17. Also available in different fabrics. |
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| And a shot of the lace trimmed underskirt |
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| I'll also have lots of other bits a pieces including hair accessories (more than this) |
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| Also, some mother's day gifts including these tote bags |
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| Some aprons from both mums and girls. I know little boys like to cook too and I am hoping to get a few boy aprons made up. |
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| And lots of other gifts and bits and pieces. |
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| And now the most exciting part....giveaways. I will have one lucky door prize. Everyone who comes will get an entry in this. I'll post a picture later in the week of this prize. In addition, I will also have another giveaway. Anyone who brings a friend who otherwise would not have known about Horris and Deedle, will receive an entry into the second giveaway. Bring two friends, you get two entries etc. Anyone who has placed a custom order with me already will automatically get an entry into the draw. And the prize? You will have three fabric choices to choose from and I will make you up your very own honey blouse from Make it Perfect Patterns. Here's an awkward picture of me (most pictures of me are awkward. The camera does not love me, nor I it) in my honey blouse so you know what I am talking about. |
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| And the pattern picture from the Make it Perfect website |
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So please come along and tell your friends. Friday May 3rd, my place in Kellyville from 7.30-9.30. If you don't know where I live please leave me a comment and I will send you my address. I hope to see many of you there,
Marnie.
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| Hi all |
| Just a quick note to apologise for how difficult it has been to find where you can buy our products and for what price over the past little while. We will not have an active store running off our site until later in the year, so for now I have finally got my act together and set up a made it store. Over the next couple of days if you click on the our shop section there will be a link there that will take you directly to our made it store. Kate will get around to listing her stuff eventually. She is currently being kept busy by the joys of moving a family of 6 into a small until for the next who knows how long while they build another house. |
| I also wanted to apologise for the Australia post charges. The prices have gone up quite dramatically over the past year, I assure you I will not be making anything off postage. If you are a local who knows me, you are more than welcome to contact me to arrange a time when we can exchange good to avoid postage charges. |
| Over the next month I'll also add a tab with information on when my preview nights at my home will be (I plan to do around 4/year at this stage), and also which markets we will be attending. Our sister who lives up in Cairns has generously offered to add our goods to hers whenever she does a stall at various local markets in Cairns, and I am hoping to attend a few local markets/school fetes later in the year in Sydney. Poor Kate can't really forecast too much ahead at the moment she has alot going to with the family at the moment and I think will have a really busy year, but if she attends any more markets in Perth she will add her dates. |
| Over the next few days I will be blogging about my upcoming preview on Friday May the 3rd. I am sewing up a storm for it now, and it will have more than just girls clothing - I am gearing it also for mothers day gifts and other little bits and pieces. Some great giveaways as well. |
| Anyway, thanks for sticking with us and please continue to visit our little corner while we get our act together. If we seem disorganised at times, here is a little reminder as to why!! You can always message or email us for clarification and we will respond right away. |
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| Hope you've been enjoying the school holidays. I have enjoyed the break from the normal routine, but am ready for them to be over now! |
| Marnie |
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