Category: the Shop

  • To market, to market

    Activity levels have been upped a bit in the past week to ‘as high as possible’ due to the upcoming ‘my first ever craft market’ at Coatesville on the 2nd of December – and again on the 16th for a twilight market. There’s also a bit of a do up at The Cream of Matakana…

  • These

    …are now in the shop. More pairs coming in a few weeks.

  • Little Orchard prize draw winners

    The prize draw has been drawn and the winners are: The $30 gift voucher goes to Leta. A mixed set of 2007 cards each go to Marlene, Amy and Lianne. There was mention of a special bonus prize – it being the most voted item. The most voted item was the Lavender floral water –…

  • Baby steps

    I am not sure whether or not I have mentioned here that my burning ambition for many years was (and still is) to be a shoe designer. Just now I want to be lots of other things too. Whenever I bump into someone I’ve not seen for years they first thing they will without fail…

  • Kawaii print fabrics from Sweden

    I’ve been quietly collecting some rather lovely pieces of linen from Sweden over the past few months. So this long weekend I sat down and made a few of them into zip purses of many shapes, sizes and colours. I am so in love with these fabrics – and so when Bernadette blogged about this…

  • Baby clothes dans la Shoppe

    Ach well – it’s the end of another week – and time for some more productivity photos. My Bernette sewing machine is on the blink again – so I am now permanently back to my trusty old 1970s Janome which I do so love (now I know how to use it properly). I have made…

  • Wall bags

    When I was at the Steiner school many many years ago one of the first things we made in handwork class was a wall bag. I have no idea what happened to mine. It was made from beige cotton drill and I had embroidered onto it a green caterpillar – made up of ten circles.…

  • I like purple and green

    One of my favourite colour combinations is purple and green. So I am happy indeed about all the cinnerarias in the garden. Regardless of whether I can spell them or not. I made some more 70s purple flower bags this week for shop orders. Big, lined calico shoppers. Yummy! And look… they match my divine…

  • Just in case…

    My friends asked me to make them an emailable gif which I spent all morning making. So on the off chance that any of you might like to send it to your friends I thought I’d put it up here too (just right click to download – it’s bigger than it looks).

  • And now for another giveaway

    Yep – you asked for it – so here it is; another giveaway. I’m giving away four sets of six mixed cards and one $30 voucher (which will actually buy you quite a bit!) from the shop. All you need to do this time is to head on over to Little Orchard and register. No…

  • The shop

    Well it’s now live. I’ve tested it. But there is bound to be something… if you find any little bugs or glitches please let me know! Otherwise, please enjoy… www.littleorchard.co.nz It’s the start of a new era I suppose isn’t it now. To celebrate the new I cut myself a fringe today. How I miss…

  • Little Orchard news

    Well, I was aiming to have the shop launched today. And I could if I felt like staying up till 2am. But I don’t do that anymore. And, I am always of the mind that to miss a deadline by only a day isn’t too bad really. There was a Harvard study that said things…