Frazzy Dazzles

There was a guy who came to live with a for a while…a while back. He was handsome and debonair and really rather expensive given that he was a goldfish.

His name was Squish.

Squish The Fish.

He was lovely and he was loved.

Unfortunately this little guy with all the right moves and such a fabulous personality doesn’t live here anymore.

However, he did inspire in me the thought that maybe I could paint a goldfish.

A pearl scale.

A squish.

Like most things I paint and draw the time that they are started and the time that they are finished many not share the same calender year.

This little flat squish went for an age without a painted tail.

Today I remedied that.

It was the perfect day to sit and paint. Both the children were beside themselves with tiredness. There was no chance of going out in public with them today!

Scott had the property to go and attend to and well, let’s face it…why would you pack the dishwasher AGAIN when you could have a little paint?

So now we have a painting of our little Squish The Fish.

Maybe it might only be a ‘trial run’. I’m sure I can paint a better goldfish than this.

For now though it’s kind of nice to have some ‘Squishiness’ back in the house.

ps sorry about the quality of the pictures there was thunder rolling in the distance so I had to go for a bit of a snap and grab approach with them.

Here’s a little story about a little old ted.

He’s quite a spiffy wee panda don’t you think?

Well…I love the man who used to love this bear.

(I’m sure that not so deep down he still does…just a bit)

As a boy this little guy was my husband’s toy.

At first glace he looks a like he’s showing his age. He certainly must have looked better at some stage you might say.

On closer inspection this little chap has most certainly seen better days.

His filling is in definite danger of parting company with him.

He has some…..interesting patching on….well most of him to be honest.

Stitches that I am sure were made with love and a gentle, tender hand.

Only now that there isn’t as much fuzz to the fur they’re not being hidden quite so well.

And those ears!

I LOVE THEM!

I know that they will never sit flat or even again and to tell you the truth I really don’t want them to.

I like their quirkiness.

The question is…what stitches to replace?

What will take away from his character and his history and what is necessary to conserve him so our children can say, ‘This was my Dad’s first ted.’?

I’ll have a little look into it and see what I can do.

click here to download pdf file

I’ve loaded a little colouring in to the blog a few years ago. Every year my stat tracker tells me that it’s a popular little picture with visitors to my blog. It’s here if you’d like to see it.

This year it’s festive fowl.

If you click on the link above the picture you will be able to download the pdf file for them and colour away to your hearts content.

Share it with your kids, your friends and your family. The only thing I ask is that you don’t use it for your own personal financial gain.

Enjoy!

Hey, remember me?

I know I know….I go away. I don’t call. I don’t write….but I promise I’m still here and this is the proof.

If you have a little look at the cover of the new Australian Homespun Magazine you’ll see that there’s one of my little crowns sitting on the table!

If you look a little closer you’ll see that it’s quite cute!

(shameless self plugging from me…who knew the girl could do it?!)

And then if you look inside you’ll see the cutest little children modelling them for all to see. Inspiring you to get stitchin!

I’m giddy as a school girl and don’t plan to come down from this high for a little while yet.

Sooooo…..to celebrate I’m going to give something away.

Something that I haven’t made or had in the shop for a little while.

My little dolls made from woollen blanketing with little felt pigtails and a pair of red felty mary janes on their toes (but they don’t really have toes!).

Each doll is individually hand made from my own design. There will never be two the same.

These little woollen girls were rustled up for some photographs and I thought that before they go to the shop I would offer you the chance of entering a giveaway with one of them as the prize. You can pick which doll from this little trio you’d like to be yours if your name is drawn.

I wish everyone fabulous luck. It’s such a thrill to win a giveaway. I know because I was lucky enough to have one a business card giveaway from the lovely Sarah at Castle Designs last week. She was sending some love out into the world to celebrate the birth of her daughter.

She came up with these fabulous cards for Frazzy Dazzles in the blink of an eye.

So part of the giveaway can be a pay it forward for her kindness and a continued celebration of the birth of her beautiful daughter Lovisa as well.

Here’s how we’re going to play

Leave a comment on this post for one entry

Like Frazzy Dazzles on Facebook for two extra entries (or if you already have I’ll add those two in for you!).

Share a link to this post on Facebook or on your own site for two extra entries

(make sure you let me know where you’ve shared so I can pop over and have a look at what you do!)

If someone leaves a comment and mentions you as referring them you can have one extra little entry.

Does that sound fair?

Our children will draw the winner out of a hat at 7pm Friday 21st October 2011 Aussie time.

Good luck!

EDIT - My handsome barrel boy Harry has drawn a name out of the hat. Congratulations Elissa. The pick of this little woolen trio is yours.

Some things in life take no time at all. Like…washing your husbands mobile phone with a load of darks. Happens in a wink! Or…opening the car door too far and scraping the paint off the bottom. In a heart beat!

Finishing off things that really don’t have a deadline….well that can go on forever. Except when you have another deadline that you REALLY do need to meet and then you can get yourself off task doing things that in the grand scheme of things could be done anytime between now and say Christmas and it really wouldn’t matter.

So with a magazine deadline looming and those old ‘fear of failure’ demons raising their ugly heads again what do I do?

I stop the magazine project and finish the fairy house collaboration I started with Freya waaaay back.

It’s now a cushion and no one is allowed to touch it because I just like to look at it….while I sit and FREAK OUT about this pattern writing.

I wish I was brave!

Oh….and speaking of brave I have taken a little step in that direction and set up a

frazzy dazzles facebook page.

I’ll see how it goes!