I like Colour!

I’ve finally finished the colourful iPhone cases I was making and uploaded them to the store!

Now OBVIOUSLY I am not the most professional crafter, but I do like to make stuff, and matching colours is one of my favourite things to do. I spent one night a few weeks ago (oh my, it’s probably more like a few months ago now!!) just cutting all these stips of fabric for these bags. I worked out all the colours, matched them, connected them and worked out what combinations would work best. It’s seriously my favourite part of making these cases, and when you read what happened making the rest of them, you’ll see why.

So many things went wrong.

For some reason I cut them all the wrong size (2 inches instead of 1 1/2), then I had this major brain malfunction and thought they were meant to be 1 inch, so started triming some down to 1 inch. Thankfully I stopped and looked at it again. With the 2 inch stips, I cut them down to the right side and then when I sewed them together on my new machine I used my 1/4 inch foot. Turns out when I’d made them before on my old machine my ‘guess’ 1/4 inch was more like 1/8 inch (but not exactly- argh!). So then they were too small for the iphones! So some I completley unpicked, added more pellen, and did up again, others I just added an additional strip of fabric and they’re just a bit bigger then an iPhone (not a big deal, it’s just that before they were PERFECT fits before). The rest are all just still in the box waiting for me to get over my frustrations!

But at least these three made it INTO the store. They’re $10 (plus P&H) but believe me, the cost price of these buggers has ended up being around $20 each! Not your fault of course, so I’ve kept that at the original $10!

I’m playing Danielle’s new game, PUSH! You can join in too.

Tags: case, colour, danielle, helloowl, iphone, push, red, shop

Bloggers are like long lost friends… the story of a blog meetup.

Saturday was super busy, in fact, all last week was busy. I was doing something every night except Tuesday, and then I worked Thursday and Friday. Uni went into the back-burner while I was busy socializing! Unfortunately a similar thing is happening this week (yikes!) so I’d better get stuck into it, today (Tuesday’s) a sick day in our house, so I’ve got a few minutes to write up this post about our lovely Saturday night.

Saturday night Luke and I went to a blog meet in West End run by Dani & Danimezza. We both walked away feeling like it was a fantastic night out. I’ve really enjoyed going to these blog meet ups, I always feel like a bit of a ‘fan’ seeing all these people I read, and me being a bit of a bloggin nobody, but I like to embrace the ‘fandom’ just talk to as many people as possible (often an impossibility to talk to everyone).

I had a great chat with Zoey and Amy for most of the night. I’ve know Zoey since school and stuff, but it was nice to meet Amy in the flesh, cause I’ve been reading her blog for about a year now!

I’ve been sifting through the Goodie bag for days now, finding all these beautiful handmade bits and pieces, and assortment of gifts! It’s such a good way of keeping little memories of the night and all the people you’ve met! Also, yeah, pretty proud of my last minute goodie bag entry- a kit for February’s 12 MOC birds!

Attendees: First Row: Jane’s Friend, Amy, Zoey, Stephen,  Danielle, Zoe, Danimezza.

Second Row: Kelly, Jane, Naomi, Peter, Tracey, Talia, Gemma.

Third Row: Matt, Hayley, Melissa, Penny, Amy and Luke.

Also, important to note: ALL photo are taken by either Danimezza or Danielle!

Tags: amy, blogmeetup, brisbane, dani, danimezza, helloowl, meetup, saturday, west end, zoey

On My Keyring

I’ll interrupt the wedding series for this week’s My Place and Yours post!

My keyring

This is my keyring. I have equal number of keys and pretty things on there, which annoys my husband to no end. Particuarly when he has to use them. Complaints range from”To pink” or “To cluttered” to, “It touches my leg while I drive” or “It doesn’t fit in my pocket“. To this I say, “Poo Poo!“  because we have TWO sets of car keys, and if he could very well just cary around his own car key by itself.

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Tags: helloowl, keyring, keys, myplaceandyours, Tupperware