I'm loving these cute blankets. The brown and yellow one sold at the March markets. The little golden book fabric is adorable. I don't know why, but yellow is a hard colour to sell. This blanket was snapped up in no time though. I love yellow and can't help buying many different shades of the sunny good stuff. I mainly like the mustardy 70's yellows as opposed to the pastel yellows. What about you?
Here are the latest characters for my finger puppet range. I love the dog jumping through the hoop and the ring master is quite debonair with his curly moustache. The latest finger puppet theatre signs are made with blackboard fabric. It was so easy to sew with and super easy to write on. I got the fabric from here. Excellent customer service and prompt delivery.
I've been busy with power tools lately. After justifying a circular saw purchase because I was now making stands for my puppet theatres, the jigsaw has been equally getting a workout. I love the jigsaw, but I have to be super vigilant with my clumsy fingers. So far, so good! After purchasing my circular saw I was talking to a lady who told me the most horrific story of a guy cutting the gyrock from a ceiling with the circular saw and he dropped it, wedging it in his leg. Ooh-err, guts and blood galore. She still made it onto her flight to Italy that day though-nice one! I don't think I'll be attempting anything quite as nutbag.
Voila, here are the new finger puppet theatres. I had so much fun making them. I used the drawing fluid and blocking fluid technique when making the screen. I may have to do a tutorial on this. The drawing fluid is so easy to apply and is less mucking around than the photo emulsion. The puppet theatres have that handmade and hand drawn look I was after. The puppet theatres retail for $60.
Miss 8's cousin Mael, taking in the scenery on the Golden pass railway from Zweisimmen to Gstaad.
Picture postcard pretty Switzerland. Couldn't quite work out what language to speak whilst there. Tried a bit of French and they spoke back in German. Then tried a bit of German and they spoke back in a combo of Swiss-German and English. Probably the most confusing country I've ever visited, but incredibly picturesque. I kept having to look around and remind myself, Oh my god, I'm in Switzerland!!! We stayed in a lovely little village called Zweisimmen and skiied Zweisimmen, Gstaad and Saanenmoser.
Miss 8 and her cousins at their house in Brittany.
Christmas markets in Rennes, Brittany. Whole lot of cheese and bread.
Combourg Castle.
Brittany was so beautiful. It doesn't often snow there so we were really lucky to experience a snowy Brittany. In the middle of the town we stayed at, Combourg, they had a castle. The countess of the castle divides her time between Paris and her castle in Combourg. Ahhh to be a countess of the castle. The castle was super creepy though and is apparently haunted with ghosts.
We had so many adventures in France, including getting lost 150km south of where we were supposed to go. We arrived on the TGV in a little town called Redon at 11.30pm and it was snowing. The TGV had split and we were not on the half that went to our intended destination. 
So I'm in love with Paris, but am happy to be back on the beach. Ah, the best of both worlds. Will update with all fun tales soon, off to the beach with my peeps.
