Purses in Greens

here is a little selection of purses I just made in greens - I love the tree fabric, it's Japanese and I also love the owl fabric. Some of these are for sets with matching headbands and some of these sets are off to Perth to MillaRuby Designs who will have them on her site and also at the Mathilda Markets!

Satchel Bags and tea towels!!

Someone suggested I make up some tea towels for the shop - so I have bought 10 which I am now working on. They are looking pretty groovy - they are 'not nanna's tea towels'. I've been looking at hand printed or appliqued tea towels on the net and there are a few around but haven't seen any modern looking ones around where I live. So hopefully these will appeal for a gift idea. I just need to find somewhere to put them! Also making a few new satchel bags up. This photo is not the best as I took it at night without a flash but I had to put it on here, I love the bird design which has hand stitching and machine applique. I love the colour combination. That book I talked about before inspired this design.

Red and white

This is a cute little bag I made from denim and this bright red and white fabric. The lining is the same fabric as the flower.

My favourite find this week

I went to a different op shop this week and discovered some amazing kids books. My favourite is this 1966 book 'Understanding Numbers'. The pictures are so cute and are giving me some inspiration for some designs... Here are a few pages..

Watch this space!

Watch this space for some pics of the newest coffee shop in Tannum Sands - Lilac Lillies. It is next to the Power House gym and should be awesome. I am going there on Tuesday for Ali's birthday and will make sure I take some pics and put on here for you!

Carolyne

Recycling for card making

There are so many things you can use to make interesting greeting cards, these ones are made from 1. an old Western comic book 2. and 3. some old school atlasses. I have a big collection of old Golden books now - going to make a bag with a couple, but it's hard to cut them up as they are so cute!

More fabric!

Here's a pic of the latest fabric I got in the post today... There are two types of laminated cotton, Spring Rain polka dots, and 'Carnival' by Michael Miller, some cupcake fabric in flannelette, nice and soft! and more of the Carnival in cotton - I ran out of this as every purse I made in it sold pretty quickly. I am going to make a couple of bags from the laminated cotton, you can wipe it clean which is great for people who like just dumping their bags down or who have lots of grubby little hands all over their bags.....

September Special - discounted and FREE postage for Ruby Lime Design

During September, for all online sales from my website I am offering a flat rate of $5.95 postage. OR, if you spend over $60 you get FREE postage. This offer is for Australian customers.
Have a look at what I have on sale at

http://rubylimedesign.com.au/category_27/On-Sale.htm

Bunnies

I've been having fun making these bunnies - they are made with recycled denim, their ears are recycled fabric, an imitation suede type of fabric, nice and soft. Their heads are a beautiful natural linen and their faces are hand embroidered. The bottom is felt which is blanket stitched to the denim. They are $24.95 each and will soon be on my website and some are already in the Pod Shop.

collages again

Well I finished my bird collages and one of them sold today! The one with 2 yellow birds... I am planning to do a few more as I love the antique look they have about them. I finished my first bunny toy too, and this one's face is made of calico, but today I bought some beautiful natural linen so the rest will be in this - also got some beautiful oriental style fabrics which will look great on these bunnies! Just doing up a big batch of headbands, some will be gift packed with matching coin purses for Christmas gifts and a new batch of baby blocks are also on the way... I am hoping to be at the next Calliope markets so want to have lots of interesting things for that - including a couple of tote bags made from golden book pages - I really need to get onto those..

a productive day

Today has been very productive. I have half made 4 cute Japanese style toy rabbits, almost finished 3 collages and sewn about 15 headbands, as well as playing tennis this morning and cut out some more coin purses. Something to note: When busy, check which jar you are sticking your finger in - it's not good to stick it in a jar of Gesso when it should be the impasto gel....

I am getting excited about some new ideas I have for the Calliope markets. I want to have some new and interesting creations for that! I have a 1949 Womens' Weekly and am thinking of some things I could do with it. You'd be surprised what you can do with an old magazine like that!

Ok, back to the sewing room before the young ones get home...

Custom Collage

Here is a pair of collages I did for a custom order...

Collages

I had a crazy day today.....my desk looked like this

because I was making these...the bird collages aren't finished yet - but nearly there..

New cards with local scenes

I've just been taking photos down at Tannum Sands Beach and Wild Cattle Creek and have sources some excellent 100% post consumer recycled cardstock. So some new cards will be in the Pod Shop this week with these photos on them... aren't we Tannum and Boyne people lucky to have such a beautiful beach!

Glass tile pendants and a set of cats!

I just made another set of cats as the first one was only in the shop for 5 mins (Hmmm, wonder who bought that?) These ones are lucky to be wearing scarves from the Amy Butler Daisy Chain line of fabric. I also made a few new glass tile pendants and here are some of them...

A few new things.....

Inspired by a regular visitor to my shop I have been making a few 'cat' things..... and an owl and a bird thing too on some old book pages, and of course more Chiyogami butterflies. Also some new glass tile pendants ... it's been a productive week - a break from the sewing machine and doing something different.

P.S. Don't buy a scrapbooking frame in raw timber planning to paint it then realise the glass doesn't come out, spend ages removing it and painting it, putting the beading back in the wrong way, using clamps to glue it in and wrecking your paint job on the frame, resanding and painting edges of frame and then paint it again... OK?

Night and Day doll

This one is called Mollie - she'll be in my online shop soon..

New Clutch purses

I tried out my usual zippered clutch purse in some 'evening' style fabrics for something different. These are embroidered black velvet on one side and these purses have wadding to give them a more luxurious feel. One is a pink and black retro circles design and the other is pure silk from South Sulawesi, Indonesia. I bought a big piece of it in 1993 when I went to visit my foster child. There was an amazing shop called Aneka Sutra, or somethng like that, and it had floor to ceiling shelves of silk fabric, amazing, wish I could go there again, but it's not the sort of place you just pop over to easily! These purses are in the Pod Collective Shop at Boyne Island

Win prizes!

For local customers - please check out the Pod Collective Blog - www.podcollective.blogspot.com to see how you can win some great prizes donated by all Pod Collective members

For everyone - all online orders from www.rubylimedesign.com.au from 16th August to 16th September go into the draw to win a $50 voucher of Ruby Lime Design products of your choice (including postage).

Headbands

I've just made up a heap of fabric headbands - they fit kids and adults. I've just done a batch of pinks and black and white and next is greens/blues. There are two widths - 5cm and 10cm. With 5 tubs of fabric to choose from it's lots of fun choosing which pieces to use! These are only $7.95 for the 5cm width and $9.95 for the 10cm width.

Pod Collective Market Shop at Boyne Island

Last weekend we rearranged our shop - it was very exciting as it now looks even better! We just need to let more people know we are there! So many people are coming in and saying "how long have you been here, we didn't know you were here" so we are planning to get some flyers printed and deliver them (ourselves of course, what better way to exercise??) so everyone in the Boyne and Tannum areas knows about our shop. We think we really brighten up the Boyne Plaza and the smell of the soy candles drifts right through the centre, people say they can smell them as soon as they walk in the doors. We have a constantly changing display of our products with new things coming all the time. We now have some shadowboxes with paper cuts, cool badges, evening bags and fascinators - come to us for your Melbourne cup accessories! We also have some new handmade patchwork baby blankets with fleece on one side, clothing and lots of beautiful sun catchers. There is new jewellery - rings and hand made glass tile pendants and I have just made a new range of purses which are a small coin purse size with a wrist strap, the right size for carrying your change when you go walking or a great size to keep in a school bag. So if you are local, please come and see our shop! You don't need to drive into Gladstone to buy gifts, come and get something locally handmade. We are open Friday from 9-5 and Sat from 9-2.30.

Online shop

My online shop is only days away, I can't wait! Just madly loading things on there, and getting it all right before I go live!!