Kelly Doust introduces readers to her wonderful world of reviving and customising vintage pieces, while bringing a modern and unique twist to wearing vintage clothes – Dita Von Teese
Congratulations, Cloth winners
Zigzag quilt by Siobhan Rogers for Cloth Fabric
Oh you’ve made me smile. Reading through all your entries for the Cloth competition has been the best start to the day. It was selfish really, asking you to share what winter meant to you – in the middle of nursing a sickly two year old and my customary impatience for spring, I needed a reminder of why winter’s to be savoured. I will stop longing for longer days, and appreciate the fleeting pleasures of hibernation. I will.
Believe me when I say I’ve been agonising – I so wanted to award a pack to each of you. But in the end, I had to limit it to my favourite responses from readers who sent me their address.
The lucky winners are: Prue, Manon, Sarah Cortis, Alison Wright and Stitchy Britt. I’ll be popping your packs in the post first thing Monday, and so hope you’ll send through pics of what you made with them for a chance to win the $100 Cloth voucher. I’ll show you mine if you show me yours.
Happy winter crafting, lovelies. I’ll be thinking of you.
xx
Rose quilt by Siobhan Rogers for Cloth Fabric
Our home in The (Sydney) Magazine
Our kitchen, and the cover of The Crafty Minx
A few months ago the lovely Andrea Millar, homes writer for The (Sydney) Magazine visited, along with inspiring lifestyle photographer Prue Ruscoe. I’ve often admired Prue’s pictures in Inside Out and various other magazines and books, so was thrilled to have her in our home to take these shots, which appeared in the magazine last Thursday. If you follow the blog you will have seen all this before, but Prue has done a far better job than me at capturing our home in its best light.
For the full article, click here.
My crafts cupboard & me
The living room, with handmade cushion and throw
A peek inside Olive's room - artwork and monkey from the book
Our bedroom, and the 'Just Married' duvet cover from The Crafty Minx
Craft feature in this month’s AWW
Heart, bow and speckled hen egg cosies
This is the latest craft feature I worked on with Australian Women’s Weekly, out now in the March 2010 issue. Grab a copy for the instructions on some fun Easter craft, and a little taste of what’s to come in The Crafty Kid: projects for and with children (out this June).
The gorgeous snaps are by my friend and ACP photographer, Dean Wilmot. Love your work, Dean.
Five-year-old Enzo and me
Easter Bunny and Chicken Little finger puppets
Bowled over by ceramics
Mud Australia
I’ve become quite obsessed with handcrafted ceramics of late, acquiring a small collection to dot about the house with feathers, bits of driftwood, sea glass, pebbles, shells and other found objects. These are fine art objects anyone can collect.
I’ve also started using ceramics every day in the kitchen, purchased from Mud Australia at one of their legendary sales in the Marrickville studio. You can be assured of its pedigree – Mud’s stocked at MoMA, as well as Pentimento in Sydney’s Newtown.
More from Mud
And here’s another beautiful bowl by Brisbane’s Kylie Johnson – aka Paper Boat Press. Well worth a look also.
Paper Boat Press ceramic bowl