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mean have you ever seen kate moss looking like this in her undies didn t think so anyway following the colette instructions i created the croquis from a photo mr hb was appointed photographer he took a one photo then another photo and another one and another apparently if you are lardy and have a double chin no matter how many photos are snapped you will still look lardy with a double chin darn following the ill fated photography session i did some tracing and then scanned the outline from my photo then due to complete ineptitude i ended up finalising the basic croquis using three different graphics editing applications the result as you can see looks much like i used three completely different graphics editing applications finally i thought it might be amusing to try on some of the 78 garments that i have cut out and then not finished sewing this one is from the top of the pile burda skirt 7531 view a in sand coloured bengaline please don t ask what happened to my hands they ve been left behind somewhere in one of three graphics editing applications it appears one of my toes has also vanished if only it was that easy to lose the double chin by liesl 7 comments filed under drawing general silliness sewing february 11 2012 on a roll following this spot of harry potter toilet paper roll craft 5 year old bargy had a stroke of genuis a bathroom emergency requiring 100 sheets of 2 ply apparently we needed a hagrid activity from the delightful lotta magazine for children contains art craft cooking storytelling creative writing drawing gardening games play colouring ages 5 10 by liesl 15 comments filed under general silliness kids craft october 11 2011 the visitor don t mind me no please i insist i know i look quite big and close but just carry on as if i weren t here i ll uh be sitting quietly minding my own business yup yup yup hey is that a sandwich you re eating 52 centimetres this post brought to you as part of blogtoberfest october s blogging festival by liesl 14 comments filed under general silliness october 09 2011 shiny when i spied this thread at open drawer i knew resistance was useless i quote from the packaging this thread appears matt grey in ordinary diffuse light but flashes a luminous silver when viewed from the same direction as a light source it is spectacular in low light or at night i wasn t sure why i needed it or what i would use it for all i knew was must have shiny object sometime after the purchase of aforementioned thread i remembered i was about to make a coat jalie 2680 women s city coat and as you can see this baby has a shedload of top stitching although the pattern instructions don t specifically recommend that said top stitching should look spectacular in low light or at night i am sure that top stitched seams flashing a luminous silver when viewed from the same direction as a light source will be a great asset once i have finished the coat i will be able to go walking at night secure in the knowledge that i will be visible from miles away look out dear what s that in the headlights why i do believe its a princess seamed coat with wobbly top stitching this post brought to you as part of blogtoberfest october s blogging festival by liesl 13 comments filed under blogtoberfest general silliness sewing october 08 2011 here s one i prepared earlier here is a little girl s skirt that i sewed a while ago i love this cute pattern the insa skirt by farbenmix the design with layering and ruching reminds me of a princess skirt it makes an excellent twirly party skirt the pattern is available individually or as part of the book sewing clothes kids love langdon pollehn 2010 creative publishing international i ve made this skirt once before using a dreamy pink fairy print called the sprites of tillbrook regretably due to a lack of forethought about print placement i decapitated some of said sprites i m not sure about the wearer but personally i still haven t recovered for this version i stuck with less risky japanese sashiko stars in indigo and taupe there s only just so much of a mess you can make with a bunch of stars a little while ago may mean 10 months ago this post brought to you as part of blogtoberfest october s blogging festival by liesl 5 comments filed under general silliness sewing october 06 2011 if you do wot i say i just found this partly penned gem clearly argy has been putting his new found writing skills into practice as einstein so famously said a little knowledge is a dangerous thing so is a lot i can only guess how this would have ended if argy knew more words by liesl 7 comments filed under general silliness kids october 05 2011 the one in which i mentioned the thread once but i think i got away with it oooh lookee over here at all the pretty threads no on second thought if you don t live in melbourne don t look at the overlocker threads quick avert your eyes pretend you never saw them and i ll be sure not to tell you that this little shop also has a wall yes a whole wall of zippers of every description and beautiful interfacing for just 6 a metre yep i m awfully glad you didn t see all that anh accessories supply 407 victoria street richmond victoria open monday saturday 9 00am 5 30pm this post brought to you as part of blogtoberfest october s blogging festival by liesl 7 comments filed under blogtoberfest general silliness sewing october 04 2011 a bolt of fabric earlier this year when i made this bed cover as a gift i learned a number of important things about fabric and bolts for example i learned that you can t waltz into your local purveyor of fine fabrics and request 11 metres of their best no siree apparently your standard bolt in a patchwork store is liable to hold far less and you will need to buy shorter pieces of different prints and do something called sewing to join them into a bed cover just between you and i i ve heard that some people do this kind of thing just for fun sheesh it takes all kinds huh prints by tanya whelan for free spirit delilah collection but more importantly i learned that a bolt is actually something your 4 year old is liable to do whilst you are puzzling in the aforementioned fabric store over which prints go together and in what combination and quantity yes this sort of bolt compels you to run up and down the aisles with eyes wide and bellowing your child s name like a fishwife the sort where other customers are liable to look and think sheesh it takes all kinds huh this post brought to you as part of blogtoberfest october s blogging festival by liesl 6 comments filed under blogtoberfest general silliness kids sewing october 03 2011 from the more is more school of thought a book of temporary tattoos a stealthy 4 year old four matching limbs tatts a lot of body art this post brought to you as part of blogtoberfest october s blogging festival by liesl 6 comments filed under blogtoberfest general silliness kids october 02 2011 simplicity 2506 mouse ears recently it was dress as your favourite book character day at school for the uninitiated this occassion is also known as send your mother to the edge of madness with some completely outlandish costume request so when argy announced he wanted to go as the gruffalo with his terrible tusks and terrible claws and terrible teeth in his terrible jaws i had to do some quick thinking er yes wow that s a great choice i said all the while trying to fathom how to construct terrible tusks and teeth but then a brainwave how about the mouse i suggested hopefully isn t the mouse the hero of the story argy looked a little uncertain but agreed i swung into action before he could change his mind and started rifling through my pattern collection mouse mouse mouse surely there must be something here sure enough i found a pristine simplicity 2506 view d included a sort of hood with mouse ears excellent but my moment of triumph dissipated when i saw the words costumes for toddlers yes there was no denying it the pattern envelope clearly showed a bunch of smiling babies modelling the costumes bother i looked back and forth between the pattern and 6 year old argy s well above average crown circumference this was going to call for a little ingenuity i traced off the hood pattern pieces and then after taking a few flat pattern measurements decided to employ an alteration technique called the lna large noggin adjustment the lna which is sometimes also referred in the trade as the big head spread involved slashing and adding extra real estate to all the pattern pieces making up the hood with the addition of a couple of darts the fit was good and i was able to make up a snug mousy hood in brown fleece and beige tricot i was quite pleased with the result that is except for a lingering doubt when i changed the size of the hood should i have graded up the mouse ears i soon knew the answer on the morning of dress as your favourite book character argy proudly wore his costume to school hey look its a koala yelled someone with my costume making pride just a little dented i tried to see the bight side at least that s next year s costume sorted argy can go as blinky bill this post brought to you as part of blogtoberfest october s blogging festival by liesl 16 comments filed under blogtoberfest sewing october 01 2011 blôgˈtoʊbərˈfest noun this poor craft blog its suffered months of neglect no words no pictures some 722 blog posts have been sitting about gathering dust the only visitors have been ones with unusual names like viagra toilet paper learn spanish and protein powder granted they do always stop and take the time to leave such thoughtful shopping recommendations anyway its time to pull up my socks and get writing again although i am at a loss to explain how socks will help unless they are toe socks because they like totally help with typing to get back into the habit i m joining in with the an annual blogging event blogtoberfest so i ll see you again soon i ll be the one in the stripey socks by liesl 17 comments filed under blogtoberfest july 01 2011 nanna there s been a bit of a craft and writing hiatus in these here parts whoops something tells me its time to reorganise my priorities can you help let s close our eyes and repeat together a tidy house is a sign of a wasted life a tidy house is a sign of a wasted life eyes open again good last week as the ironing accumulated floor gathered dust and children went hungry i managed to complete a small project this is my entry for the hottie cover challenge exhibition which is a charitable initiative being run by retail gallery open drawer all money raised will be going to the margaret pratt foundation now to clarify a hottie cover is something you put a hot water bottle into and not a handsome bloke from the front of a magazine the latter was guessed by a hopeful family member yes i m looking at you argy and bargy s auntie my hot water bottle cover has been submitted as part of a large group entry organised by the lovely cam from curlypops i jokingly told cam i was going to do something a bit nanna sadly the only nanna ish thing i could think to make was er an actual nanna anyway here is nanna sitting in a chair with a knee rug and her own hottie the front of the cover is osnaburg and the back is made up mystery blue and pink florals that caught my eye in spotlight nanna is a combination of dimensional applique beading and free motion machine stitching it was the first time i had tried drawing with a machine this will come as no surprise to those of you who had already noticed that nanna has an unusually square nose and weirdly shaped feet goodness gracious lucky i wasn t trying to stitch that handsome bloke from the front of the magazine cover can you imagine what i might have done to a six pack if you would like to see some absolutely beautiful examples of hottie covers with not a square nose in sight do try and pop into open drawer between now and 24 july if you are out of town you can take a virtual tour of a selection of covers right here hottie cover exhibition 1 24 july 2011 open draw 1156 toorak road camberwell exhibition opening 6 8pm friday 1 july all hotties are for sale with proceeds to the margaret pratt foundation by liesl 18 comments filed under sewing may 08 2011 a birthday cake epilogue or happy mothers day i d like to be the ideal mother but i m too busy raising my kids source unknown its mother s day the perfect day to write a little epilogue to the story of the octonaut s birthday cake i received such lovely generous comments to last week s birthday cake post that i thought i ought to set the record a little straighter here friends is the reality the cake was made with a commercial packet mix the cake fell apart when i turned it out of the tin who the heck gets a packet mix wrong i swore a lot made a polite exasperated sound i made another packet mix cake the bottom fell off the cake what kind of clown gets two packet mixes wrong i ran out of packet mixes more swearing i had to glue the cake back together with fondant icing a shedload of icing there was a disproportionate and unfavourable cake to icing ratio the octonauts decorations were really tricky to construct i am afflicted with sausage fingers i spilt purple food dye down a cupboard i glared at anyone who approached the kitchen i spent more time on the cake than i did holding the party i swore a lot i don t think anyone actually liked eating the cake even the small children that s saying something small children will eat anything inanimate labelled cake not long after the party finished i found bargy breaking all the octonaut decorations into small pieces look mum i made a jigsaw they were only icing but i cried anyway this has been a real blog post from a real mum all the rest that you see here at hoppo bumpo is nice camera angles and the use of a thesaurus a very happy mothers day to all the mums out there remember smoke and mirrors are your friends liesl xx by liesl 47 comments filed under cake decorating general silliness kids april 30 2011 octo what argy recently turned 6 and as is our custom placed a request for a special birthday cake i held my breath the octonauts he declared whew the octonauts a crew of storybook and now animated animals who roam the ocean and have adventures are pretty cute they would be fun to do but then argy added the qualifier the octopod please mum if you are unfamiliar with the octonauts may i present the four armed glass domed under water vehicle they call the octopod source the octonauts dear reader is this a shape that really says cake to you er non after negotiations about the design where its rumoured i resorted to half truths about not having the right food colouring to make the octopod we decided upon some of the octonaut characters and an underwater scene so we fashioned captain barnacles kwasi cat and peso penguin top photo along with seaweed and coral and wee fish stars and a 6 and came up with this instead its not quite the octopod but argy was very happy wi...