:: Etsy calling ::

'so hot right now' potholder for birthday-Vee, a photo by cat&vee on Flickr.

Let me tear my eyes away from watching 'The Biggest Loser' for a minute, to let you know - plans are afoot for Vee and I to get our Etsy shop up and running very soon.

We're getting together later this week to climb further up the learning curve and open the doors for catandvee on Etsy, yah!!

The potholder up there was for Vee's birthday - you've seen it before - but it's a big hint that potholders will be the first item on sale, so get excited for some homes for hot pots in your house.

We have other goodies in mind too ... oho yes, too much excitement in catandvee land.

Happy Tuesday to you .... now back to my evening trashy-viewing xoxo cat

:: pugs, cookies + a doll quilt ::

Still more rain in BrisVegas, what is WITH IT!!

Some more sewing - first up, another potholder - this time, for a friend of our friend Sher:

Yep, another Spoonflower pug peering out, full of longing.  And some orange Moda Half Moon scissors, red Tufted Tweets chairs, forever-loving Ruby Star viewmaster slides and total-favourite blue Aunty Cookies.  The binding is - I think - 'domestic bliss'.

The back is Suze Ultmann owls in a really vibrant lime: 

So love the cookies:

And I finished the little doll quilt for small Vee's birthday, based on Aneela Hoey's 'dream doll quilt' from this gorgeous book:

Fussy cut 2 1/2 inch squares, and a little quilt made of Bliss, Sherbet Pips and forever-loving Holiday Happy Santas.  Aneela's 'dream doll quilt' in the book had two tiny quilts - one for a little doll and one for a buddy, but I just made one for them to share, then added three pictures for the wall instead of clouds:

The back is the light blue scooter fabric from Sherbet Pips: 

Sorry about the bad light in the doll quilt pics - Brisbane has been cloudy and rainy all day.  There are more pics in our Flickr stream. 

Hope your weekend was happy and dry.       xoxo cat

'Sensibility....a new iPad App!'

o.k....sensibility tells me that if it's POURING with rain on Sunday morning, that surely everyone in the house will want a sleep in. 


But..... someone forgot to inform our 3 year old of that.


"Sensibility?" he says excitedly (at 6 am, pouring, still dark) ...."have you downloaded a new game on the iPad?" !!


So...with time to spare this morning had an early cup of tea and have made a chair bag for my niece Lotte who is in Grade one this year.

(Mental!) Note to self.....as our 3 year old seems to know more about the iPad then anyone else in the house perhaps i SHOULD create a 'Sensibility App' that tells my kids it is (way) too early to get up and to please GO back to bed.  


After all, the iPad must know better than mum or dad!


Hope you've had a happy weekend and here's to a fun week ahead. xoxo vee