Some of the best photos are the ones we take because we can click a look, an expression, an action, a moment that will be savoured over time because at the time it really meant something to us.
Sorrento Back Beach | Rockpool
This year for the first time we took our children to Sorrento. This is Ethan jumping off the big rock into the Sorrento Rockpool for the first time. The kids watched from the sidelines until they plucked up enough courage to do it for themselves.
I reckon these bags are the bestest Christmas present. Custom Printed, Custom Designed, Personalised with Your Children’s Artwork, Durable, Functional and Beautiful Mementos. Our grandma uses hers for knitting! Put it in the gift file for 2010. These bags were sent only last week, all sixteen of them to Glebe in NSW. News in is that everyone else has seen the final product at the kindergarten and they all want one.
Sally Jo changed the design to add a black and white pattern print to the sides of her bag and kept the children’s drawings on the front and back. Sally Jo downloaded the pattern from Fotolia. Lauren wasn’t so sure that it would work but I knew where Sally Jo was going, doesn’t make it look so much like a kiddy bag. The contrast works really well. It’s a hit!
Here’s the end result.
Hilder Booler Kindergarten bags
Childrens’ Kinder Drawings, Printed Shopping Bag, Fete this weekend … will reveal more next week.
Have just purchased this new Siruba Sewing Machine. It’s a hardy beast, looks and feels and weighs like it going to last forever. Have purchased it because I want to make the bags we usually outsource albeit to brother in law who has ditched sailmaking to study architecture and hasn’t the time and because I want to be able to expand upon this idea and others and visit Sew Tessuti to start making my own clothes.
I’ve got no idea really and felt sick after I purchased it, all those dead end thoughts like “have I wasted my money …, will I use it …, do I know how to use it …? but now that it has arrived and it’s taking up nearly a whole room in my house well I can’t really avoid it. Have got plenty of disused Athenaeum banners that I can put to good use, I reckon at least 100 recycled banner bags, and Lauren’s been working with a Qld mum on children’s shopping bag artwork for an upcoming fete. We are going to print one bag, keeping costs down on the initial bag, but hopefully the orders will compensate for the effort that has gone in to creating the artwork. The last time we did this parents and grandparents purchased 120 bags. It’s personalised, functional and a memory keepsake of your child’s time at creche, kinder or school. While I hone my sewing skills Loz is going to hone the ordering process and then we’ll set out by foot to gauge interest … first stop Williamstown because we think we’ve got a bit of collective sway in our own locale … “order or else!”.
