Market in your diary - the next Made n Thornbury market's on soon!

Feeling a little alienated by winter?

Need something to put some spring in your step?

Alien le Winter

Well, a little birdie told me...

Hoots the baby owl

 ...the next Made n Thornbury craft market is just around the corner! Hurrah!

It's on Sunday, September 9 from 10am-2pm at 99 Leinster Grove, Thornbury.

I'll have a little stall there filled with all kinds of critters (like the ones in this post), plus funky accessories and  some ultra cool new stuff I can't tell you about yet - you'll have to come along and see!

Mr Stripes

So come say hi, support local artists and show off your crafty stripes. 

See you there!

Let's have a hootenanny!

Mother Owl sometimes thinks her baby, Spots...

...looks a bit belligerent. But hoo is she to object when he's such a hoot?

Let's have a hootenanny!

Well owl be damned

I'm having a hoot making owls from all kinds of fabric. Daisy - the brown owl - is made from vintage velvet that my friend Fiona's gran (an ex-dressmaker) had stashed away.

This one - Goldie -  looks a little pinned, but I assure you all pins were removed prior to this photo shoot. She's made from an op-shopped gold lurex top (I'm not telling if I wore it to an '80s disco before chopping it up!)

Bag these owls!

 My clever and dedicated-to-good-causes sister Leeyong is organising a Trivia for Tigers night (you can read about it on her rather spiffy blog), with all funds raised going to stop the trafficking of tiger parts.

You can read about this horrific practise here. Have tissues handy when you do.

I am terrible at trivia but I'm going anyway, because it's a cause worth supporting, and I'm donating this bag and these owls as prizes (they look much better in real life - I took these pics in a hurry!)

I reckon I'll have a hoot on the night - it'll be bags of fun.

And I hope Leeyong never has to run an event like this again.
If she does, it'll mean tiger farms still exist.