sometimes one simply wants to disappear

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I just made these bags this morning for two of my oldest friends [we have been a trio since I was 8 and I'm now 23]. Every year our families get together for what we all call "the Soirée " but really it's just christmas dinner. Anyhow, it's on for young and old this sunday night and so these presents were created today.


The bag section of these bags [:)] is made of an old scarf I got at the thrift store and then this scarf is lined with a fake micro suede I appropriated from the supplies of an old job I used to have. I made these into a bag and then went back to the thrift store in search of belts to use as handles. I don't have any leather working tools so I wouldn't have been able to sew through a solid sheet of leather belt. But I was lucky and when I walked up to the belt section of the shop, lo, there were two old Country Road woven leather belts sitting next to each other. Almost identical, their only difference is the buckle but this is cool because then they are slightly different for each girl. I simply sewed in between the weave and hid the cotton behind by pulling it tight.

Hooray!
I think they look superb and I really hope the ladies will like them.

Song of the day: Where is My Mind by The Pixies

:) peace from the cloth moth x

i stared at the fake stars

This quote is my favourite one of the month. It's hanging on an ornament by kylie johnson just behind my computer screen to the left a bit so that it's always in my periphery. It's a good reminder and a beautiful thought and pretty much sums up my feelings about life.

The bows happened. I could only make 26 but I felt this was not a terrible effort. I had a pre-cut pack of quilting squares so I turned almost all of them into bows with buttons (we have about eighty thousand buttons in this house).


Then when I was finished I thought "what on earth am I going to do with all these?" And the answer was staring at me in the form of a blank spot where the christmas tree should have been and was not. They then became christmas tree ornaments.

I would like to have more on the tree but it looks much cuter in person than in these photographs. Even so I am still of the opinion that it is an adorable christmas tree and adorable is not awful.

I have decided to take all the titles of my posts from now on from one of my favourite books in this whole world. Every time I'm going to make a post, I'm going to delve in to this book at random and pick the most beautiful / interesting / hilarious sentence I lay eyes upon and make it the title. Today's post marks the inaugural post-title-series of sentences from Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer. I hope they tantalise and inspire in more ways than just making you want to read the book (which you probably should if you haven't already).

Inspiration of the day: Paper Cuts

Go HERE to find more clever clever works made of A4 paper sheets.

Hope you're keeping cool in this heat & listening to some good relaxing beats.
heart from CM

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I have just then ( like I mean JUST then ) become obsessed with making a thousand ( or so ) fabric bows. Who knows why but there you have it. I've done a tutorial search and will probably begin this afternoon after work! Eee :) [standby for photographic evidence]

It's christmas time and as happens every year I walk around the shops despairing, trying to find cheap but beautiful presents for my friends and family but I am never successful. The items I want to shower all over my loved ones are too expensive for my tiny waitress' pocket. So I end up spending quite an amount of man hours making the one thing for everyone, slightly changed for each person. Last year I made origami flowers into brooches (or christmas tree ornaments for the man-types):


This year I have started to make Spiced Blueberry Syrup:

It is delicious and the bottles look so cute! It was super fun making the labels as well.

I just did this up quickly in photoshop and then printed it on coloured adhesive scrapbooking paper.

I got the recipe out of a book called Simple Pleasures:

It's a super easy one and pretty impressive. The book is awesome too because not only does it give you recipes you can make as gifts for people, it gives you tutorials on how to make the packaging as well. Win!

It's very sad but I have to go to work now. While I'm there preparing food and taking orders and cleaning dishes, I will be thinking about a field of small fabric bows, full of pretty promise, overtaking the mess that inhabits my boudoir and giving me something to do that isn't searching for a design job ( which is depressing ).

Song of the day: Autumn in New York by Billie Holiday :)

<3 CM