October Departures

(Yes, it is October departure's, I am just a little behind)

A custom made Bunting for a local store

My Shoe Co

They have free shipping in their online store too :)

A custom made Bunting for Sophie, this one headed off to Singapore

(child was not included)

A name Garland for Kate

A personalised Rocket Bunting for Tania

A custom made Santa Sack for Kylie

Buntings for Lisa, Justin, Kylie and Craig

Buntings for Susan, Kim and Amanda

Santa Sacks for Megan, Nicole, and Catherine

Santa Sacks for Pauline,

and for Caroline up in lovely The Top End

A big THANKYOU to everyone that

purchased a ZippyZippy creation in October!

Take care and Be Good
Jacqueline.

ZippyZippy In The Press

Firstly,

Happy New Year Everyone!

Hope you all survived The Silly Season.

I am thrilled to have my

Aqua Bunting

featured in the very lovely

Shop For Kids Summer Edition

See - there it is!

And, here it is

It was an exiting day back in November.

Standing in the newsagents looking in a magazine

with one of my ZippyZippy products looking back at me!

 2011 was a big year for ZippyZippy,

I'm planning an even bigger one for 2012

Let the fun begin

(once school has gone back of couse)

Have a great week

Jacqueline.

After The Rain

The Tomoato's

The Apple's

The Agapantha's

The Hedge

We had about 35mm of rain over the weekend,

the garden was in need of "real rain".

You could almost hear it growing in todays sunshine.

And in other news - for the locals

The 2011 Reindeer Food Shoppe

is now open!

After school on Tues, Wed and Thur.

Fri and Sat most of the day

Jacqueline.

The Haby Goddess Handmade Kris Kringle

Firstly - I am back - all ZippyZippy orders have been posted,

keep an eye on your letter box if you have ordered a Santa Sack! 

A while ago I joined up with Jodie at The Haby Goddess 

and played along in the Handmade Kris Kringle.

I sent out a Red and White Bunting

A few Bunting cards, and some Fabric Covered Magnets.

As usual, I left it till the very last minute, but my pacel left ZippyZippy HQ

and Tanya should have her parcel by now, if Australia Post has played their part.

My parcel arrived this week from Lamina at Do a Bit..Everyday

A beautiful handmade bird.

Not only did Lamina create the bird,

firstly, she tea dyed the fabric, then hand printed the design on the fabric.

How lucky am I!

Thanks Lamina, I love her (I think she is a girl) 

she will hang proudly above my sewing machine at ZippyZippy HQ.

Pop over to Lamina's blog,

there is lots of lovely hand printing going on over there,

something I would love to try one day.

And, thanks to Jodie for organising the swap :)

Jacqueline

Quick Reminder

Just a quick reminder,

That Santa Sack Orders for 2011,

Will close tomorrow, Friday 25th November.

Not much blogging going on here at the moment,

but lots of sewing, cooking and mothering

Have a great Friday

Jacqueline.

Where Do You Fit In?

It's AGM time again at a lot of Kinders and Schools,

so I thought it would be an appropriate time to share this

Where Do You Fit In

Some keep their organisation strong

While others join just to belong

Some volunteer to do their share

And some are there who barely care

On meeting days some always show

While there are some who rarely go

Some always pay their dues ahead

Some get behind for months in debt

Some do their best, some build, some make

Some never do, just sit and take

Some lag behind, just let things go

And never help their group to grow

Some drag, some pull

Some don't, some do

Consider this

which one are you?

Author not know.

I saw this on a noticeboard in a caravan park in Yeepoon QLD,

many years ago while Peter and I were travelling around the county

Feel free to share it around your community :)

Hope you've had a nice weekend

Jacqueline.

Day 31 - Natimuk Fringe Festival and Farmers Market

Last weekend was the bi-annual Natimuk Fringe Festival.

Events happen all weekend

in the lovely little town at the base of The Mount Arapilies

We went out on saturday night to see the production "Highly Strung"

Pheobe Sparkle, was a 14 metre tall puppet, suspended from the Natimuk silo's

On the silo's, images were projected behind Pheobe as she told her story.

You can just make out the silo's in this shot,

Pheobe was illuminated and looked fantastic

We had to have freshy made fairy floss of course

On sunday morning, I ventured to Natimuk again to

The Farmers Market Plus.

There was lovely Art Badges from Tina,

if you are a local, you may have seen my badge,

well, this is where you can get them :)

fitzgerald.tina.m@edumail.vic.gov.au 

softies with attitude, also from Tina

Lot's of lovely head pieces from

Tizzy Bits By Jackie from Nhill

Tee's at Adelle's site

Adelle is also a local, trading as Skudia Designs

you can find her goodies

in her Madeit Store

And here is lots of lovely bibs from

Leah at Down Lovers Lane another local.

Leah also has a Madeit Store here

and you can also find her on Facebook

Here's a couple of local boys,

selling sheep manuer, chook wheat and heat bags

their mum made for them.

They are great little businessmen,

they bought a tinnie last year from their little business funds

and this year they are saving for a motor for it.

On Sunday they sold $325 worth - thats a lot of shit to shovel and bag!

If any locals would like some of their goods,

I have their number, I can pass it on to you

And there was lots of colourful music.

It was a great market, great athmosphere and lots of goodies to look at.

Thinking about it now, there was maybe more "other goods/handmade"

than there was produce stalls.

I did not manage to get out there as a stall holder

maybe next time - was nice just to be a customer and have a wander

And, that's Blogtoberfest completed!

It was easier than I thought

31 posts in 31 days - even though a couple of posts were a bit limp :)

See you soon

Jacqueline