2016 - THE BEGINNING

It's been quite a while since my last post, and Christmas has been and gone, and business has reopened and got off to an amazing start. I'm not going to back track on our Christmas festivities, but just want to say what a lovely Christmas it was, with a good mix of family, friends, dinners and parties. No New Years resolutions to live by and no dry January to adhere to. Really looking forward to 2016 and all it has to bring. 

The first upcycled fabric dresses of this year have been very popular. Starting with Star Wars 

Snoopy 

Mabel's back on the modelling, with her fees now gone up to £1 a dress!

Upcycled dinosaur fabric pinafores

Minions 

Although this is definitely not my favourite time of the year, (cold ,wet and grey) I have managed to capture some varying weather.

Extreme waves on the beach which turned the skate park into a swimming pool.

On a walk to school across the bridge, this lucky double rainbow was on one side of us and a silouhete view of the river as the sun tries to come out from behind the clouds on the other.

IS THIS SUMMER?

I forgot to mention in my last blog post about Bella's news. On June 10th after three weeks of nail biting and worrying (by Bella) we finally found out that she had secured a place as a JA, a Junior Associate position to train with the Royal Ballet in Dartington, every Saturday for a year. Really proud and relieved, but maybe not quite ready for the "intense, competitive ballet Mums" of Dartington. 

Girls were also really happy when the Blues won the school sports day, Mabel was made up that she won the egg and spoon race.

Our little town hosted its annual Folk Festival,there was a lot of this cropping up all over town, and ale drinking hairy men in corduroys.

I was luck to come across another piece of Star Wars fabric and made another six dresses, five of which sold straight away. 

and two new Spiderman fabric dress 

21st June was Fathers Day, so we went out for Sunday lunch with the grandparents. I love these 'together' photos if only they came naturally.

Great to get recognition at Junior Style showcasing independent British Children's Brands
http://juniorstyle.net/fashion-guide/blog/designed-in-britain


Mabel is currently dinosaur mad, she has a huge collection she is constantly adding to. Can you find girls clothing with dinosaurs on?.......probably not too many, so we made our own.  Mabel's dress has long sleeves, and I had enough material to make a little range of short sleeve dresses and pinafores which I sold almost immediately.  Good to know you are not alone with your love of dinosaurs Mabel. 

And just a couple of vintage Winnie The Pooh. 

All work no play? of course not, we had a bit of a 'Summer Gathering.' I had perfected my vodka jellies and new Gin & Tonic ice lollies, the weather and the company was great, which was reflected in the last guest leaving at 6am!

It took me a good few days to recover, but what a lovely place to recuperate. I think Summer could finally be here!

THE MERRY MONTH OF MAY/MABEL

Started this month with some great new dresses made with upcycled Star Wars fabric, they sold out almost immediately, however unlike the Marvel fabric it is a lot more difficult to get hold of

As ever My Sister Mabel makes another little unique range of dresses for girls, keeping in mind that they don't always want pink and butterflies, and so here are our  Subbuteo fabric dresses.

And new to the range are these customised kids sweatshirts all unique with a different fabric panel on the front. I'll also be making them in adult sizes very soon.

and a new upcycled "Route 66" fabric sleeveless dresses modelled beautifully by Mabel.

It was that time again already, for a much loved family tradition of cockle picking,(only to be picked in the months without an 'r' in them) With Mabel over her fear of crabs (thank goodness,) we had a good few hours out on the Salty, with bucket, rake and a football. We spent a good few hours raking until rain beat us and we returned to the car, wet, full of fresh air, with blistered hands and of course a few cockles.

The weather has generally been cold and wet but it has not stopped the production of some new shorts.

Another milestone May 5th, that has become known as 'Mabel Day'. This is the day, three years ago that we nearly lost our little Mabel when she suffered a sudden stroke.  We thank our lucky stars that she is with us today and our family is complete. This year we celebrated at The Bronx a great little new restaurant in Teignmouth. 

Two days after that we were NOT celebrating the election result!!