Spoonflower

Go to my Spoonflower shop here

Happy weekend everyone!! Just a quick note to let you know I have three new fabrics in my Spoonflower shop - 'Kokeshi Dolls' plus two co-ordinating prints to go with it, a sweet little mini blossom print and a plaid. I have more fabrics on the way REALLY soon and will let you know when they are available yay!

Photo courtesy of Cottonlicious

Also - check out this gorgeous little zipper purse that the talented Ele of Cottonlicious created with my 'Happy Woodland' fabric! Isn't it cute? You can grab this little purse in Ele's Cottonlicious Etsy shop.
Hope you all have super weekends :D xo

FREE printable Valentine's Card

 

Download your FREE Valentine Card HERE

Hi lovelies! Thanks so much for all your comments so far in the Little Beehive print giveaway. If you haven't left a comment yet be sure to do so before Feb 14th to be in the running to win two mini prints of your choice :) With Valentine's Day just around the corner, the girls and I over at We Love To Illustrate have each created a FREE downloadable Valentine's Day card for you to print out and give to someone special YAY! So head on over to We Love To Illustrate to check out the lovely designs by Jennifer, Julissa, Nina, Cally, Shirley and I. We also have special guest illustrator Lucy Boden on board this month and she's created a couple of cute kitty cards for you - hooray! xo

Facebook and a GIVEAWAY!

Howdy friends! I've finally created a Facebook page for my Little Beehive brand and to celebrate I'm hosting a GIVEAWAY - yippee! You can win TWO of my new mini prints, the choice of designs is up to you! You can view all mini prints in my Etsy shop.
All you have to do to be in the running is leave a comment under this post and the winner will be picked using a random number generator on Valentine's Day, Tuesday 14th of February.
Please have a squiz at my new Facebook page and if you fancy 'liking' Little Beehive you can keep up to date on all my new products, giveaways and freebies yay!
Happy Friday to you all - have a rad weekend :)

what are you listening to?

What's your fave band? Do you listen to lots of different types of music or do you have a style that you stick with? I like all sorts of stuff. Today while I work I'm having a bit of a 90's mixtape kinda day! Lots of rad bands pumping out the jams while I work like Pavement, Weezer, Pixies, Custard, Super Furry Animals, Ween and these dudes - They Might Be Giants. Thought I'd share this rad little song with ya, it always makes me happy and I always have a bit of a sing along to this one teehee! Have a good Wednesday! xo

FREE printable lunchbox notes!

Download your FREE lunchbox notes here

Howdy all! It's back-to-school time here in Australia, so for this week's Mum's Business article I've created some FREE printable notes you can hide in your kid's lunchbox for a nice surprise at lunchtime! All you have to do is print them off, cut them out, write a little 'Love from Mum (or Dad)' if you wish, and pop them in the lunchbox. My mum would sometimes put a cute little note in our school lunches, I remember it made my day when I opened up my lunchbox to find a sweet little 'Have a great day' or 'I love you!' message. You can download them right here. Have fun! xo

January garden

We've been eating our rainbow carrots and spuds mmm!

Bean and pumpkin flowers turn into....

Beans! And (baby) pumpkins!

Waiting for blueberries to ripen. And we've had a HUGE big bumper crop of strawberries this year mmm! I've frozen enough for a huge batch of jam and I think we'll even have enough to make sorbet too.

Little green crab apples and cumquats starting to ripen.

My Summer garden is not complete without basil! Sage and silver thyme grow alongside parsley, oregano and rosemary for super fresh instant flavour in all sorts of dishes.

Helloooo! Wowsers things have been B-U-S-Y. Pedal to the metal, all systems go! Great to have such a lot of work on so early in the year but my poor old blog has been a bit neglected. How have you been? Are you well? I hope so! Summer is kicking along here and it's such a nice time of year in the vegie patch. Thought I'd share a few snaps of my garden this week :) The chickens are doing really well too yay! Oh yeah we named them all... They're all named after dragons, with Godzilla (OK so that is a monster not a dragon) - the blue chook, Falcor - the araucana and Mushu - the gold.

CHOOKIES!

Blue Wyandotte bantam

Gold Pencilled Wyandotte bantam

Lavender Araucana, she will lay pale blue eggs

Oh yeah! Something I've been wanting for a LOOONNNNGG time - chickens! We built a nice big chicken coop AGES ago and I've been so busy I just haven't had time to fill it with chooks, until now - yippee!! Say hello to our three lovely ladies... we have two little bantams of the Wyandotte breed; a pretty blue and a gorgeous gold pencilled. And a funny-lookin chicken of the Lavender Araucana variety who will lay eggs that are the most beautiful pale blue colour. Yep - blue chook eggs yay! These girls won't start laying for another couple of months, but in the meantime I'm really enjoying getting to know them teehee! I think this may get addictive, I'm already planning an extension to the chook run so we can get more :)

pimpin my diary

Happy New Year lovelies! Did you have a nice Christmas and New Year's Eve? I hope you all had a rockin time. I had a rad time! Christmas was extra special, being Elora's first, and New Year's Eve was a nice laid-back evening with some good friends and a fabulous bottle of Tasmanian champagne - yummy!
Anyway - just a quick link to my latest Mum's Business article - 'Pimp Your 2012 Diary'. Thought I would share this super easy project with you all, so if you fancy making your diary look a bit funk-ay this year, why not give it a go?! Find instructions here. Hope you're all doing great - Happy 2012!

happy holidays!

Happy Holidays to you all! Thanks to each and every one of you for making 2011 such a fun year in bloggy land!! I wish you all a VERY Merry Christmas and a FAB New Year! Let's hope 2012 bring us all much happiness and plenty of fun times. Cheers everybody! :D xoxo

baby bibs coming soon

Ello! I'm really excited because my fabric arrived from Spoonflower... fabric for making baby bibs! These little bibs are ready to be cut out and sewn together with some terry towelling to make cute and absorbent bibs for messy little bubbas :) I'll be launching these early in the New Year - yippee! Hope you all had lovely weekends and are relaxed and ready for Christmas xo

animal mini prints now available

now available in my Etsy shop

Friday YAY! Just a quickie to let you know I have listed my animal mini prints in my Etsy shop :) $10 each or the whole set for $35. Will also list the Russian Dolls, Owl Pair and Fox Pair prints as soon as I have a chance to photograph them. Have a top Friday! xo

FREE printable colour-in Christmas cards

download here

Howdy everyone! Whoopie - FREE printable Christmas cards yay! I've created two colour-in cards you can download right here. So if you have little ones (or not-so-little-ones!), get downloading, get out those crayons and colouring pencils and have some fun! Happy Christmas lovely people :) xoxo

what a fab day!

I had a wee table and chairs set up with free colour-in activities for the kiddies - it was a hit!

Elora came to the market in between naps, dressed her in her Wonder Woman onesie hehe!

 Market day was UNREAL! The rain held off until late in the arvo, long after we had packed up and gone home - hurrah! It was warm and sunny (although quite gusty, there were moments I thought the marquee might blow away!) and lots of lovely, lovely people came out to enjoy the market. I met some fab people and had some very gorgeous customers - thanks guys! I think my fave customers had to be a wee brother and sister team who got very excited about choosing little owl softies for themselves and didn't want me to put them into paper bags because they just wanted to cuddle them hehehe! SO CUTE! Big, fat thanks to my awesome sis who helped out the whole day and Marty and my folks-in-law who supplied tables, transport and helping hands for set-up and pack-down. Will most definitely be doing that market again throughout 2012 hurrah! Happy Sunday folks! xox
P.S... I have FIVE owl softies left, they'll be up in my Etsy store tonight if anyone would like to provide homes for them! :)

kinda nearly almost ready

Nearly organised for the market tomorrow yay! SO many little things to do - packaging and price tags and figuring out how to display stuff! But it's all fun and it's a good learning process :)
There's rain and even thunderstorms forecast for tomorrow from late morning so I'm REALLY hoping those big old rainclouds hold off until later in the day, fingers crossed! Come on down and say hello if you are in the area, I'd love to see you!!
I'll have SPECIAL market prices on all my products - Christmas cards $3, greeting cards $4, colouring-in kits $12, invite packs $10 and lots more!
Okie dokie, I'm gonna go cut out some price display sign thingies now.... hope you have a great Friday and a lovely weekend!