Happy Mother's Day - make a weekend of it ladies!!

Greetings all,
Well it's Mother's Day this Sunday in Australia, wishing you all a lovely day!!  We had a blast at the Mother's Day stall at school, made a small fortune for the P&C (um, 5 times the profit they used to make before i took over, if i can blow my own trumpet for a moment, toot toot). 

After 6 hours of selling gifts to excited primary schoolers, i went in for a 4 hour shift at Shop Handmade where i was met with this beautiful huge vase of flowers, organised by my husband for my Mother's Day, ahhhhh, love you far away soldier!!

 How awesome are our customers & a record sales day too - even when i left after 8p.m. there were STILL 20 people in store, sipping champagne, munching hot snacks from Sour Cherry & such a buzz in the air.  Well done Julie & Rachel, love you ladies, Happy Mother's Day to you both!!

Here is my space in the Shop, a wardrobe, top, shelves, racks the lot, plus the cot filled with patchwork quilts & coming soon, more cushions!!  The Art Viva knitting needles are a hit too.

Gorgeous lovely dolls from Tiny Concept, wow, to think these 3 Babushkas had any hope of being sold to customers beyond the Shop Girls was just ridiculous.  Silly me thought they'd be ace for my 3 girls but my son is a bit of a fan, bless him, does he have ANY other choice being raised in this house??!!

After a big night out it was an early morning off to Goulburn NSW, famous for it's Big Merino & big it is, aka Rambo!!  Check it out, a reinforced concrete shrine to the sheep (in particular fleece & wool) industry.  You can't climb up & look out through the eyes anymore, bugger.

How impressive is the 1888 wool press in the Merino museum, for a numbers freak like me, love that date!!  I started my business in 1999.  Anyway, i had to keep telling my son it was a Merino as in sheep bred for fleece & meat, NOT a casino.  FYI i was raised Methodist & we don't gamble!!  I also studied permuations at Uni, you can't beat the casino, so to avoid disappointment, i don't even buy scratch'n'win cards, just in case you thought, hmmmm, bet that Posie leaves her children in the casino car park . . .

There are quite a few sewing shops in Goulburn, i found these Singer tins, fabulous aren't they??  Well let's just say, after they kindly let my son use the bathroom at the 2nd shop - i had to buy something & due to the unpleasant smell he left, we shall never return!!
I treated my boy to a ram at the Big Merino tourist shop.  I asked him what he might like to name his sheep (so hoping he'd chose something Australian like 'Dag' or 'Jumbuck') & after much thought he annouced to the Shop . . . "I'm going to call him 'Naguwakyta' which means 'thirsty' in Japanese."  What??  I am sure they will remember that freaky son of mine in Goulburn for a long time!!Now for my all time favourite sheep joke (you need to know in advance that 'dags' are the bits of poo which stick to the fleece around a sheep's bottom & in Australia a 'dag' is a friendly/ joking name to call someone when they are being a bit of a moron, silly or well, a bit of a dag) . . .
Question: have you ever been to a party up a sheep's bottom??  No??

Answer: well you must have been one of the dags hanging around outside!!If you don't think that is funny, not sure i can still be friends with you!!

Finally, on a classier note, some lovely things for Mother's Day - yes, i have goodies coming from the children but these bolts of Thea & Sami screen prints arrived & make me happy.  They will be for sale at Handmade Market + used in the Handmade Living book (applications close Monday 10th May - approvals announced by 14th May, little extension for you crafty folks) & look at the gorgeous tea towel Thea sent with my order, ahhh, thanks Thea!!  See how it matches my other self purchased gifts - the Red Stitch talking pears & Yardage Design apron from Shop Handmade.  With all the colour in my life, i do love a good monotone & natural linen.

Have lovely weekends, everyone, love Posie