Heads up...

for a full house (yes, I know, it's "eyes down"), but sometimes you need to keep your head up so people can't see things they shouldn't...


And I say this because my lovely friend Romy just sent me an email about her hair - sorry reply not longer looked in a shop mirror today. roots! arrghhh. big time. no time to get to hairdressers, teach tomorrow (head down, talking), fight with management thursday (head down, negotiating), uni event friday evening in ballina - unknown people, probably all tall and looking down on my head.

so, ooops, look, dripping hair colour on desk...

Funny.  

I think we should all stop colouring our hair in Movember, you know, when the men grow their moustaches.  We could raise a lot of money for Beyond Blue, I reckon, with people paying us to do the dyeing deed.  Why is it that your hair always goes grey in the wrong places?   I want to be like Mary Kostakidis, who has the most gorgeous silver streak in her hair, and instead I look like Pepe La Pu's feral girlfriend Penelope.  Ah well...

We had a fabulous long weekend in the Hunter Valley, beautiful weather, great wines, some neat sewing stuff, plenty of quality dog time... and the cheekiest kangaroos I have ever seen!

And this is Bruce; he's the boss and he's about 6' 10" and very very scary - my friend Kaz says he sometimes turns up outside their shed at dusk - imagine if you ran into him putting out the garbage (and look at him facing me off - very glad I was 100 metres away!)...

Then we did a bit of sewing - the original of these came from Country Road, and it was a simple enough exercise to measure up that one & make another one in lovely apple & spot linen from here:

And then we made another, longer one for the bigger wallet...

in the gorgeous Eiffel tower material, also from here, and then I made this gorgeous (imho) pouch for Clara - who is la francaise herself...

and I had a bit of a glitch with the label - I wanted to put it in the bottom left hand corner, it just seems to be the most aesthetically pleasing there, but I still haven't come up with a foolproof way of calculating where it needs to go to allow for the boxing of the corners - and so I had to take it off & hand-stitch it on afterwards - but it doesn't look too bad, does it?

And then I persuaded Kaz to resurrect her blog, which was a brilliant move, again imho, because she has some beautiful photos & should be sharing them with the world - Post more piccies, Kaz!