Happy Mail ( from Frankenstein!)

Maybe it's just me - but how exciting is it when you hear the postie? 

I get very excited. Probably a little too much. ( I'm lucky to disguise my excitement with being excited for my 2yr old!) 

Where we live we have bush land across the road, so the postie drives down the street first, and winds his way back to our place. So the excitement builds from that first moment we ( I ) hear him! 

Today was one of those Happy Mail days. No bills today! (Yay) but my fabric delivery from Frankenstein's Fabric! (website here)

And isn't it beautiful!!! I LOVE it! I bought this piece last week in one of their Facebook Sales. And the best bit.... This piece is for ME! 

Not exactly sure what I'm going to make yet- but that's ok. I don't think I could bring myself to cut into it yet! 

Any suggestions of what I should make? 

Scrappy Houses!

 

I'm on a mission!

 

A mission to use up all my scrap fabric!

I'm not sure about you - but I have HEAPS - and I don't want it to go to waste.

This little project is one that I finished a few months back but I wanted to share it with you all.

Please forgive the 'roughness' and 'crinkles'. Lets just pretend the 'roughness' was on purpose, and the wrinkles......well I was too lazy to get the iron out!

 

But have no fear, after the project was finished, I ironed the whole lot!

So here's the progress shots!

 

The bit that I really loved most about this project was adding all the little embellishments. I used buttons, little hand stitches, and ribbons which I think just helped to finish it off!

Ta daa!!!! It's now hanging proudly in my dining room. What do you think? Since I took this picture I have added a little owl button to the tree, and I have some mushroom buttons waiting to be added too! I think it is going to be a work in progress!

Ticking Off the To-Do List

 

Ta Daaa!!! My daughters room is finished!!!! I can tick it off the to-do list! I've had the curtain fabric for over 2 yrs now (I bought it 6 months before she was born) and finally I have finished making the curtains! I'm pretty please with them so I thought I'd share a pic with you!

 

Overtaking the dining room...

 

Busy, Busy

Hello my friends! Boy have I missed you! It's been nearly a week since I've blogged. I actually don't know where all my time has gone....oh wait......cooking, cleaning, school pick-ups, school drop-offs, parent/teacher meetings ("conveniently" in the middle of the day, so I have to make extra trips to the school and back!), washing, ironing, more washing.....ok, you get my point. Well it hasn't been all work and no play, I've added some new little friends to my House Of Nicnax Etsy store,

 

Received an awesome little package of new fabric this morning,

and I have been super busy designing a new owl!

Yes a new owl product is in production!
All thanks to one of my beautiful friends! She wanted me to make her an owl pillow. So I have designed and created one for her that is the "pillow" version of the "doorstop".
So my bloggging friends I shall reveal to you first, the new Owl Pillow By House of Nicnax.

Drum roll please........

What do you think??

I know its a bit rough, but I've become a little bit addicted, and made a few now. And the pillow has now evolved to just a pillow case. This way I thought if there was any interest I could sell them through Etsy.

So let me know your thoughts friends! I value your opinions! Do you think she will like them??

Today's little project

Todays Project - updating the wall art in my bedroom!

Its something that has been driving me crazy for ages now. The old pictures up in my room have been there for nearly 10 years now, from when we first built our house - as you can imagine I'm a bit sick of them now!!

So down they came, and on to making some new ones!

I just covered some canvas's with some material that I picked up cheap a while ago. I actually really liked this fabric and was waiting for the perfect project to come up to use it - and this was it!

I couldn't find my staple gun - so Hot Glue it had to be.

 

So there is just one slight problem now - they don't match the blue wall! So although I can cross off "replace bedroom pictures" off my "to do" list, now I have to add - paint bedroom wall!! 

Fab Fabric Hangers!

So my latest project is these super cute fabric hangers.

I must admit, not completely my idea, as I've seen similar on etsy. But I thought it is a great way to do something with the fabric that I absolutly love and don't want to use! - which by the way, I have a huge stack that I don't touch for that very reason!

So these fab fabric hangers will be added to my next market stall - as I have enough to keep some for me, and some to share!! ( or available online at www.facebook.com/houseofnicnax )