you sew...boys

I like this...a lot

sewing, working & a date...

it has been a while since my last post but that doesn't mean I haven't been busy. The busy-ness was mostly work though...a full week last week. I offered to work full-time as we had an information day for our 2nd semester courses on Thursday and the acceptance letters had to be sent out on Friday. So it wasn't just my normal Mon - Weds week and I have to say that it was a hard week...I'm just not really used to the full-time working week any more and I really love working part-time.

In between working and sleeping I've been sewing...


for the Melbourne Design Market


more cutting and sewing happening this week

Today I'm going on 'a date' with my lovely boyfriend :) I really wanted to go on a mini-trip but with today's petrol prices it's basically impossible so we'll be visiting the Immigration Museum in the city today. I'm very excited because I really love the history of immigrants (being one myself) and they also have an exhibition of Kimono's on.

For those who missed the last post...the sale is still on in my shop
The sale ends on Monday 30th of June 8pm Melbourne time.

End of year SALE...

I'm having an end of year sale...so if you've been spying at something in my shop...now's the time to grab yourself a bargain! The sale ends on Monday 30th of June 8pm Melbourne time.

- 15% off all mixed packs (2mix, 3mix & 4mix)
- 20% off the second length (buy 50cm, get 20% off the second 50cm bought of the same fabric only. I.e. if you buy 50cm of white floating at $16.50, your second 50cm of white floating will cost $13.20)

- free postage in Australia for orders over US$50.00
- half price postage worldwide for orders over US$50.00

all you have to do...buy your products from my online shop and wait for me to send you a revised invoice.

pretty simple right?

just to let you know...this is the biggest sale I've ever had...and I won't be repeating it soon...after all the financial year only ends once a year ;)

today...

I'll be...


- enjoying my new earrings bought from this etsy shop


- revisiting projects that have been on hold for a while. I have new inspiration now.




- working on 'work in progresses'

- designing and sewing for this
- enjoying my freshly baked scones
- looking forward to the samples of the designers for Sprout design range
- roaming around the 'hood and hopefully take some pics (the weather is a bit dull though)

etsy treasury part 2...

Today I received a message from Amy @ Moyou...that my swirl in grass was featured in her treasury...double yay!

etsy treasury...

pillow talk optional sent me a message tonight to let me know that my Rubine Red Swirl is featured in her etsy treasury...yay...thanks so much!

Melbourne Museum of Printing...

Today I went on a crafty girl field trip...to the Melbourne Museum of Printing.

It is sooooo worth the visit, just amazing...you have to see (and try) it for yourself.

Melbourne Museum of Printing
36 Moreland Street
Footscray
Admission $6 - Concession $4


all photos can be found in my flickr,

Bamakko...again...

We're heading to yet another exhibition at Bamakko tonight. The exhibition tonight involves the photographic works of Rachael Dean, Jem Selig Freeman, Benjamin Handle, Clinton Hayden, Phill Hinch, Olga Khrunova, Marcel Lee, and Chris Phillips.

Bamakko is at 358 Victoria street, North Melbourne. Hope to see you there.


Allison by Marcel Lee

new stockists...

Hollabee will soon be available at:

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please drop in for some fantastic handmade products...

blog love...

from a merry mishap...she posted an article about me and my fabric. Thanks so much!

doings...

on the long weekend...


for my textile design class...


for a wholesale order...

right now...


accompanied by a nasty cold...

baking and doodles...

some baking...



Zucchini and walnut cake (I made it just cuz the recipe sounded odd)

245 g walnuts
500 g zucchini (courgettes)
250 ml canola oil
330 g raw sugar
3 eggs
310 g self raising flour
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg

Preheat the oven to 170 C (325 F/Gas 3). Grease a 22 x 12 cm loaf tin and line the base and two long sides with a sheet of baking paper.

Roughly chop 185 g of the walnuts. Grate the zucchini, then put the zucchini in a large bowl with the oil, sugar, eggs and chopped walnuts and mix well. Stir in the flour, cinnamon and nutmeg.

Spoon the mixture into the tin and arrange the remaining walnuts on top. Bake for 1 hour 10 minutes, or until a skewer comes out clean when inserted into the centre of the cake.
Leave the tin for 20 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool.

Yummo! I had to bake mine for about 1 hour 20 minutes...so just keep checking with the skewer.

some doodling...


bird hide © Hollabee 2008

flickr game...

1. Roma_Notte_Bianca_2, 2. Ice cream day dream, 3. Prins Willem Alexander en Prinses Maxima, 4. Green in the living room, 5. Martin Henderson 7, 6. koko black hot chocolate, 7. Masai Mara Sunrise, 8. Berry Brioche Pudding, 9. I Love New York, 10. Dutch 17th century polder windmill, 11. so impatient..., 12. Hollabee

Yep, I'm having a go at the game too. Here's how you can do it.

How to do it:
a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into big hug labs mosaic maker and make a lovely mosaic to put on your blog or flickr! Simple pimple!

The questions:
1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. One Word to describe you.
12. Your flickr name.

I've seen it on so many people's blogs now that I don't actually remember who started it?

back to school...

On Sunday I'll go to the second, and last, session of my textile design course and our teacher gave us homework. Here's what I've been working on...I'm still trying to get it perfectly lined up as the scan lines are not as accurate as the actual drawing, but I'm getting there.


bottles sketch


bottles pattern repeat

woot...

Ben Maxwell from Bamakko was featured in today's Mx. Great work Ben, congratz!

If you haven't already visited Bamakko, I highly recommend it.
The shop is on 358 Victoria Street, North Melbourne.

There is another exhibition coming up at Bamakko, starting on the 14th of June. It will feature the work of many talented photographers.

highs & lows...

I'm feeling a bit like the way Lara felt a while ago...a bit down. I'm still not a 100% sure why but I think it's a mix of 'missing Holland after such a wonderful time', 'settling back in', 'getting used to cold cold Melbourne', 'Marcel being away most weekends', 'work frustrations', and for me this leads to creative frustration.

I don't want to make this blog the place where I dump my daily frustrations, but I feel the need to explain the reasons for my short and mostly visual blog updates from the last few weeks.

In my head I have a 100 things that I want to complete but I only have two hands and limited time. Number one will be to finish my quilt, which still only consists of cut pieces.

On another note, I really need to get back into blogging...and with that I mean commenting. I feel I have lost touch with a lot of you after coming back from my holiday (not that 100's of blog posts are easy to get through). So from now on I'm going to try really hard.

I do have one exciting thing to tell you...Yesterday I started my first lesson (of the two) in Textile Design. It was very interesting as they took me back to basics, back to before computers existed and everything was hand drawn on graph paper...trying to figure out how to make a repeat pattern. It was fun, although I looove the computer. Ctrl + Z just works better for me than a rubber ;)

Guess that's it then...I feel better already...thanks for 'listening'.


a Mattt bag...the present I gave my mum for mothers day. My auntie requested one too with this fabric and it just arrived in Holland, she's super happy with it.

to make it easier...

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