Ship Shap Children's Wear - new blog and updates

And so I have decided to change the name of the blog to Ship Shap.
Just makes things easier I think. Now I will post my updates here with a link on facebook and my online stores at Madeit and Etsy.
I want to blog to let people, who are interested, know where the clothes are coming from. I mean where I make them and how I make them. It is the whole point of 'handmade', I believe, to know where your purchases come from.
So, what I am doing this week (and have been doing for the past few weeks) is finishing off items that have been languishing in my 'to-do' box. And also re-listing older stock I have at home - that needs a new home!

Happy New Year 2010

Oh my lord! Just read the last post - well I had the baby... 3 days later and I was not expecting that. So the little mite is nearly 6 months old and it's about time I blogged again.

I am already sewing for her and having her model for me, of course!

I wander around the house, or drive my car, or whatever, thinking of what I can write in this blog, then I sit down to write and... nothing, I am sure I am not alone (by the way, has anyone noticed how often people are saying "I am not Robinson Crusoe" instead of the aforementioned phrase?) and you can imagine how annoying it is when you cannot make a short note about what you want to say.

My plan this year is to go to a market a month, so in February and April I will be going to the wonderful Sisters' Market in the Brunswick Town Hall and in March and May I will be going to the Daylesford Makers Market which I have not been to before but as Daylesford is nearby and is a beautiful old town I am looking forward to going to this one in the town hall.

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Happy New Year!
What a year for 2007 with the birth of my darling little boy.
Here he is, being held by his Dad, just born. I like this funny little picture of him, looking a bit bewildered at the world he has just entered.
He looks a little different now as he is 4 months old.

Now to the business of making.
I have been making. I went to another market, this time in Foster (near Wilson's Promontory in Victoria), with my sister's help as it is now quite a production to do something like that with a little one to consider. I made some little tube tops with rosettes and shoulder ties for girls, of which I sold a few to my sister's friends before even getting there. So I will make some more and put them in the Etsy shop as they were popular. Here is a pic taken at the market, that's me in the green, with my family helping out.