What Stops you?

What stops you from achieving what you want??

 

I sit here thinking, remembering and digging up the dreams I squash under everyday things. I think this is what stops me from continuing forward. The 'Daily Grind' as they call it.

 

It is easy to get lost, not in a bad way but, to maybe allow daily routine to fog the glass of vision.

It's there that's for sure, and when I think about where it is I want to be going I think '..ahhh there's that thing I've always wanted to do and achieve, and why haven't I..' etc, etc, etc.

 

One fact - things don't happen if you don't pursue them in one way or other!!

 

So, without being too cryptic- I promise to myself to continue on but with daily pause and vision towards this ultimate dream and goal of mine that I simply cannot leave this earth without DOING WELL. Not attempting, but doing it, achieving it and being a success at it.

 

One terrible man I knew gave me really the only advice he was able too and quite possibly the reason why our paths crossed, and that was.. 'No matter how small or big the job, if it's worth doing, it's worth doing properly'.

For this I thank him because it has stuck, and whilst I don't follow the everyday, in every moment, I am glad for the guidance when I need it. Reassuring me that I do know what the hell I'm doing so just do it already for it's not lack of ability!

'Vision is a quest, get on board or get lost.'
- Sophia

GrateFULL

With so much going on how do we keep in touch with those we love?
Slowing down, walking in the grass with our shoes off and embracing.

Thank you to the people in my life who allow me to explore and allow a creative space where my notion to build and explore can exist. Thank you for the love and support you give me.

Today I am Grateful. As with most days in a quiet moment.

What are you grateful for??

Thank you for reading my quips, notions, creative outbursts and words in general.

Sophia xo

MOCA

 

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THE HAPPIEST PEOPLE

DO NOT HAVE THE

 BEST OF EVERYTHING.

THEY MAKE THE BEST OF

EVERYTHING THEY HAVE.

SEWING ANYONE?

As this year wraps up it's hard to believe the amount of experiences one goes through to get to this point. I think that's why there is a beginning and an end so that you can start afresh and put things to bed or relive them in a positve way, drawing apon the experience. Either way I think negative or positve, our year's experiences bring us opportunity.

 

This post is beginning to sound vaguely like last years post too!

To save you dejavu - I'll stop!

 

 

This year has brought with it, fruits of my labour and many more things. Specifically people! Doing what you love and enjoy surrounds your with people not unlike yourself. This I am grateful for. FABRIKATION WORKSHOP has done just this!! a fledgling idea, encouraged and nurtured by 2 very good friends who have been there form it's inception. Girls I 'Thank you', and ladies who've taken part since, I continue because of you!!! We have such a great time in our workshops and it has been one of this years joys, to witness the growth, confidence and skills of these women whom I consider friends. A true honour when another person puts you in the teachers' seat and asks you for guidance - albiet, where to put your needle next - it's all relevant to me!

 

So there you have it - Sewing anyone?

 

It's not just for the skills it's for the personal make over and rewards that have ensued.

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

Moving on and Up

It has been a while since my last post, and on looking through blogs of others I find that they too have times of absence.

 

Cyberspace is a form of safe place or friend where you can express yourself and share.

Like a good ol' friend you can pick up where you left off and nothing seems to change.

 

This year has thus far, been a great and creative one - documentation of this maybe not so much as we all get caught up in the throws of life and it's ways. I am no exception here!!

Being with and sharing these moments makes memories that create meaning too - Life itself, as also in death always brings perspective and conscientiousness.

 

I wish you all and your families well and hope you are creating memorable moments together... Living and experiencing each moment as it comes.

 

 

Dedicated to my Aunt Grace Jean Hunt

- forever in my thoughts and creative adventures xoxo

Happy Long Weekend everyonne!

cRAFTY gOODNESS

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I'd like to give a shout out to Mycakies for her inspiration blos and beautiful photos! Credit where credit most certainly is due for innovation, great tues and beautiful pictures! Simply love!! Especially the tent tutorial that I shall be giving a crack asap !!!

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from PVC covered Designer Imported Cottons & Linens.

Extensive range for boys, girls and unisex available now!

  

Intricate designs keep baby amused and interested in meal time

with fuss free clean-up. Strong Velcro to secure & adjust Bib.

Reinforced and binded in matching high quality & durable cotton taping.

Lots has been happening since omg - July!! I can't believe it's been that long! It's not like I have been sitting still but can sheepishly say that I spent a lot of 2011 worrying about things??? Go figure and isn't hindsight a beautiful bitch of a thing.

Venturing forward it seems I have acquired more skills in the realms of fancy, that being the ability to let things go....!

Some days you just cannot do anything about circumstances but accept them and then remarkably they go away (or at least make more sense and don't seem so glaringly bad). There's a lot to be said for analysing things too much..something both my Father and partner tell me frequently. Begrudgingly I tell you this because I enjoy the breaking down of things - and more recently my sis' Jessie Jean stated that I've always liked, if not seek, a challenge. This would have to be true I suspect - recapping 2011..

~ I continued sewing sporadically - loosing my mojo through distraction in the beginning of the year;

~ Some Markets here, some markets there -  too scared to dive into the Markets I really wanted to be apart of - over thinking things here at the time that is < restless!!

~ All the while courting a career in Tupperware and getting off to a screaming start. It seems that I am a natural! Who knew?!

~ Creativity took a back seat while I tackled at conquered the world of plastic, promoting myself to Manager and achieving a company car all within 6 mths...but

...missing the stitching, aching for the fabric stash...

~ Now I possess every gorgeous piece of Tupperware I could want (much to Andrew's chagrin, we need more storage; bigger home please!)

and now because I fear that I will go on and bore the pants of you, a skip, hop and jump to 2012 and I've slowed down the tupps after 14mths to make way for Miss Ava's weekly social program; Playgroup, Kinder, Ballet, Mother's Group, Swimming and Art Classes plus playdates...and now, My very own teaching workshops - FABRIKATION WORKSHOP is born! I have been meeting the most wonderfully chickaroonies! We all love to craft, never have enough time for ourselves and well have kiddie winks. The ol' fashion stitch'n'bitch is back and I'm loving it more then ever!

Week 1 - Felt Embroidered Pin Cushions

Week 1 - Pin Cushion detail

Next semester - Preschool Art Classes and FABRIKATION 'JNR' WORKSHOPS! I'm back on the wagon and oh so grateful for the perspective after some trial and errors of past - bring it on!!

Seachange Sunday

I love this pic..against adversity nature always conquers.

Room with a bloom

I found these little guys huddled by a tree

Sunning themselves...

Hello My Darling followers and readers...it's been a while1

Yes, Yes, I know I've been away...but lots has happened since i last spoke to you! i notice there are some lovely new followers who have sought me out and I thankyou ;)

So far my crafty year has been one of slow measure...excuse the pun! Whilst my cupboards are lovely and organised i miss the creative havoc in a way that helps you create things off the cuff...well me anyway! Once a crafter, always a crafter!! i miss Tuesday nights with the Melrose girls, you know who you are..so i shall be amping a revival in that department if you're game girls!! My crafty cobwebs need some spring cleaning as I have been focussing else-ware....Tupperware to be exact and omg!!! So you know how much we all love the Tupps, and how much we all yearn to have it everything, well they've just gotten better with time like that grogeous bottle of vino! So these past months have brought me to were i'm currently sitting, and that is a fancy new title of Unit Manager of one gorgeous team of gals... and more recently ...just been given a car!! wow you say, well me too!

This has all been happening since i last posted and pop, POP, POPP!! ...there expands my collection of plastic airtight goodness! That sounds almost obscene doesn't it! So now i've traded one obsession with another and i find myself at the doorway of life balance... the balance of achieving it you could say! Cos truly we do think we can do it all don't we and still wake up with a skip, hop and a jump in ours steps, don't we?? Invincible women that we are...unite!

Welcome to A New Year and A... New You!

Metaphorically speaking...

A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison, as in "a sea of troubles" or "All the world's a stage" (Shakespeare).

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So you know how I chatted about mortality and such, well did it bite? Did you, or have you gone down the road of betterment to the golden oracle that be your good self in your most perfect and imagined light? Yep?! Me too. Imagery is powerful :) lol. We all want better then before and improvement on the present.. at least in part or maybe I think you might be stretching the truth! Porky pies anyone??

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Organisation was the name of my game and starting out well and truly on the right foot I have. Now as time speeds up and the world gets back to it's hectic pace.. you must be careful not to get swept away in it!

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New Years aside, guess what I'm doing? Training to be a Tupperware Manager?!!! Well who would have thought, I know many who didn't including myself and with that being the element of snobbery that you chase to think you're better then a situation, well you won't hear any complaints here! Opportunity has fallen in my lap, (though I distinctly remember asking for it, some..thing, 'it' last year to get my sanity back and pop my murky bubble of .."how did I get here?" phase, though not even asking myself that question really and paying attention to it?!

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So yeah, I'm officially on my way to being Tupperized. Wow! One thing, I have and have done, did, take, and that is control of my life...here's the real news...I believe it?!! And I now not only know but feel I deserve it! Says she, music pumping windows down happy as a cricket, driving back from Sales Meet from my Kin and like minded they be, bellowing out of the car window - just so i would hear it properly and beleive it.

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Yes there are women out there who are in many ways the same but different.. share the same experiences but make it different... have no time but discover time is a trick of the imagination - makes life different! You know when people have told you to scratch the surface to see a truth, THE possible the truth.. I don't know if I truly understood the full meaning, as a paradox until now. We can think so single minded, and do. So one dimensional and exist that way. Believing that this is your lot and that is what life is about, at least your own anyway because we choose to be defined by what we do.. Do this, do that. am this way because of that. won't find more because I don't or can't live outside of the pigeon hole that we build ourselves into.

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Our minds being the limitations to any one or all facets of life. Your life, my life.. our friendship etc, and so and so forth. The dimensions and parameters with which you believe are what's holding you back. Your construction of your reality that is responsible for your daily experiences, replays your dirty habits, routines and regurgitates the challenges you see before you. Survival from the mundane. This is your manifestation, therefore yours to control, not leave out of control by allowing it to bounce wildly, get lost or ignored while you blame the world around you. Ego - ouch, a figment of your imagination like border patrol to keep you in check and stay the same so life is predictable controlled internally locking real life out, somewhat pain free and in a mindless manner keeping your fears in check...how terribly boring, mundane and human. For you are a human ..being.
Hugs

Communi-can

CHRISTMAS HUNT

I can't believe Christmas is just around the next corner. Our lives it would seem, from late October, if not August have been full speed!! And although the end of the year is coming with screaming ferocity, I can't help but start thinking about what I have achieved this year, weighing up what I have done, what was planned and what actually got done! I know I'm not the only one. This time of self depriction and reflection is inevitable.. and I for one think it's a phenomenon of the human condition.



Singaso



And different for each of Us.

What drives you to think about change? Life, lack of things, sense of necessity?? What is it for you?



Vithouse



Me? Well I can always think of things that I havn't done.

My mind constantly spews forth (for want of a better word) ridiculous amounts of designs/innovations/products/arts and crafts.. adjoined then, by the depths of my soul piping a soothing soft voice I havn't heard for a while, more needs and wants from the places I neglect like more drawing/reading/crafting/outdoors!/exercise/meditation and self nurturing activities to best make something further of my life as it is. So how much time do we have really? My thoughts wander to the families in Greymouth, NZ and how they didn't know what was to come next?! And the reality is well, we've all thought it, attempted it, maybe live it, and that is to take each day as it comes and treat it and the people you know in it, like it's your last...because we don't know.

So I think that is my answer to the question I posed earlier. What drives you

 to think about change?

Mortality -

Consumerism, Commercialism and Advertising tells us we can't have enough. That you don't have what you need to be beautiful or socially enviable or successful so, to consume more. To buy more to live well and feel like you're living.. but really it's a trick. A Hoax with a capital 'H'. We waste time doing all these things and being remote controlled when finding out what really matters to you, goes by the wayside and submerged in the discarded wrappings of your newest exciting purchase only leave you deflated. The feeling never stays, and unless you wake up to what is 'Real' to you, what makes you 'Sing'.. then you don't have longevity you have slumps and voids and most certainly find something to replace that elevating feeling through purchase or consuming or just plan old ignorance and miss exaclty what you're looking for because you can't focus.

So now some homework. Look at what is directly in front of you, focus on it, where did it come from and what did you buy it for/when was the last time you focussed on it's details/smiled or gave a compliment or uplifting sentiment, thanks or praise to those with you? And around you. What are you grateful for? And soon you will notice the facades and veils fall away from your eyes to discover the life you've been living and then it's time for that change, you have found your focus, your song and true needs to live the true life you've been purchasing for... it's been in front of you all along xoxo

Vithouse

Newhouseofart

 May Happy Holidays lead you into your New Year gently and reassuringly into the life that is waiting!!

NEW HORIZONS

So we've entered the new world of 'Syndication' by linking our Facebook page with live streaming of this blog! Well I never and have been praying for this day to come!

More live feed, more time, more photos and less procrastination because the little chug that could just couldn't because there was just not enough time...turn the corner and here we are! Exceeellent!

And so here we are, with many many avenues to link; 1  one, 2 cameras and a usb full of delicious content..stay tuned as our world turns to a little bit wonderful in my books :) I hope this brings you  as much joy as much as it does me.

SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY

This day rolls around like a noose on ones neck, to start the week fresh and look at what's next. Towards horizons anew..

My Sundays always mark the end of my family weekend, something I cherish more then most things and wish not to end... people are relaxed and days travel long, but Sunday bloody Sunday is the reminder of work to come and flatness to be had and things to be conquered all over again...

Let's hope tomorrow is sunny and Monday is a new start to the miserable dank weather of today to kick start my butt into a reverent Tuesday, Wednesday Thurs.... Springtime and on!

SPRING IS COMING

Okay Ladies and Gents, we are gearing up for the warmer weather now, can you feel it? It's wonderful catching the sun these days and I hope you are all taking advantage of it! The Hatchery is in the throws of making new designs and choosing fabrics for it's Spring/Summer collection, so stay tuned while I prod the bear and wake us up from hybernation!

Catch-Up Weekend.....

So this weekend is hopefully a bit about catching up with me, you and things in general. I shall be attending the Parkdale Community Market, Parkdale Primary School, on April 17th, Saturday. Then June 13th, The Childrens Markets in Mordialloc again - where hopefully our New Autumn/Winter range shall be ready! Yay. I'm waiting for a call from Jenny at Amitie for her delivery of Kokka prints... new patterns and fabrics, feverishly exciting!

I received my package from Jodie at The Haby Goddess and purchased this fabric, that fabric, this pattern and this creative little thing - can't wait to whip up a stamp or two!

Enjoy your weekend xxx

What a weekend..

This weekend was action packed! It alway amazes me how enduring women can be no matter what goes on in their lives. This post is dedicated to my sister who has had a weekend just like this. Her selflessness, endurance, amazing coping mechanisms and dedication to her family have been unwavering - you are my inspiration Angela and someone I continue to admire. Love You xxx

Off to Market we go...

So it's been a while.. I have had withdrawals from not posting. Trying to focus on this weekends market!! The Mordialloc Festival By The Bay...over 80 market stalls on the Sunday from 10am till 4pm. A big day as 20,000 to 30,000 people attend each year.. geepers!


So here are some things I've been working on since I spoke to you last. Let me know what you think, I love feedback!

SAFFRON CRAIG GIVEAWAY...

Not my giveaway... but we scratch each others backs around here! Come check out Handmade Kids for your chance to win a gorgeous Saffron Craig Fabric, you won't be disappointed if you win. Goodluck..
(I've entered 3 times, so let's hope the odds are with me hehe)!

Awww..

This is my fav pic with Ava's fluffly bed hair all a-glow in the morning sun as she trots down the drive.