A sunny day in Lorne

Yesterday was the perfect day to take a little drive around to Lorne to visit Flying Fishes with a big fat bag full of t-shirts for the shop.

A sunny, blue sky day.

Not a soul on the beach (it was Monday after all).

Plenty of time to have a chat with Liz, and admire her latest window adventure.

A vintage push bike, a basket of lemons, pretty knickers on a line, and a striped hat I could see myself in! 

Apologies for the slightly dodgy photo - it's almost impossible to photograph Liz's window on a sunny day!

Going to Lorne is a bit of a day out for me.

I always have a bit of luck in the lovely op shop there - this time a blue jumper with a fantastic orange, olive green and red striped band across it. That's going to make a fabulous scarf!

I also couldn't resist this linen dress for me.

I'm having a bit of shopper's remorse over this, I mean, I do spend most of my life in denim, and very rarely a dress, but I will just have to keep myself from saving it 'for good'!

On the road

Crikey it's cold today!

A good day for the Winter Indoor Market public relations team (me!) to head off around the coast dropping off posters to the stores at Kennett River, Wye River, and Flying Fishes at Lorne.

Lucky the General at Wye River had the fire roaring and everything cosy.

They make the best coffee, the staff are friendly and always ready for a chat.

Last stop was Lorne, and another opportunity to admire Liz's fine touch with a window display at Flying Fishes.

I love the way she's used those vintage prints, and books, and all the colours echo everything there. Delicious!

One day closer to market day, so far everything's going to plan!

More new stuff and off to Melbourne

I've been busy!

Which has been tricky with the glorious week of weather we're having down here. I'm fighting the urge to go and tidy up the garden, rather than knuckle down to some sewing.

Here's another new t-shirt for the cooler weather, which hopefully is still around the corner!

The first batch of these shirts and the red shirts are being delivered this week to Flying Fishes and I Dream a Highway.

Of course, I'll have some of these with me too as I'm heading back to the city for my first Melbourne market of 2010, Shirt & Skirt at the Abbotsford Convent on Sunday.

I feel like I've been away for ages, and I suppose it has been a while.

It'll be good to get a catch up with some crafty Melbourne girls, I'm looking forward to hearing about everyone's Summer!

Improvising

I'll be heading round to Lorne tomorrow with a bag of goodies for Liz at Flying Fishes.

She called today to say things are crazy busy, more stock!

She asked if I had any white t-shirts, and turns out I had some left over blank stock from a Summer ago. I fished around in my fabric tub and found some of this lovely fabric in my stash.

It's an old favourite, and it looks quite good on the white shirts.

Sometimes it's good not to think too hard about something!

Is that a birdie I hear?

Picture thanks to GeorgieLove

The wonderful and super efficient Sally from GeorgieLove emailed me today to let me know the new t-shirts are now available from her shop.

This one is the partner to the flower t-shirt, and Sally did such a wonderful job with the photo, I thought I'd borrow it! Thanks Sally!

Spring flowers

We had a great day out at Shirt & Skirt yesterday. I was going to post some pretty market pictures, but went to Melbourne without my camera. Oops.

Here's a shot of one of my new designs instead. You can get one from me at the market, or from Flying Fishes, I Dream a Highway, and very soon from Georgielove.

Lorne

I had a little road trip around to Lorne yesterday to take some new stock to Flying Fishes, run by the ever elegant and friendly Liz. This shop is a little gem, packed full of very desirable and tempting goodies. Liz always has the best window display on Mountjoy Parade, take a look at these vintage ceramic flowers she has on show. Oh, and a thoughtful bowl of water for any visiting hounds!

The shop is in the Lorne Theatre building, still running as a cinema. I love that there's still an art deco building in the main street of this snazzy resort town.

These road signs pop up all along the Great Ocean Road, I'm never sure whether to laugh, or feel slightly nervous!