happy friday!

the prep for puces pop is in high gear and I will have new work to show you next week - this weekend will be spent with family, with a birthday party for my nephew and doing my best to clear up orders in the shop.  starting next week I will have the etsy shop closed early in the week and I will have a notice on the main web shop.  I will be leaving friday  for montreal and not returning till late monday so I won't be able to process orders, I hope you understand.

more furniture goodness from j - this is an adult size chair with beautiful joinery and details - I like that he's added bridle leather to the underside of the felt and he assembles it all with hand carved details and no nail joints.  I wish I could keep this chair, maybe he'll make me one  :-)

I will see you monday - have a great weekend and give someone a big hug xx - too much bad stuff in the world to get down on things. life is great!

much love xxa

it's been a long time since I stopped working early and rented a movie, I still think it was relaxing even though I was doing hand sewing at the same time.

I finally had a chance to take photos of the triangle pouches.  the pouches are super useful and I like to fill my bag with each of the different sizes. 

I am excited to have a great inventory of goods for my trip to montreal next week, the last image is a bunch of new small day bags waiting for straps.  I am always unprepared and I feel that this year has to change (I know it only took 10 years) it's hard to organize yourself when your production is mainly circled around the online shops.  the craft shows for me is always a rush and panic and I am starting to trust myself and things are falling into place nicely.

beautiful flowers from margie

and the kids showing off their new tattoo/face painting at the circus event at harbourfront centre on the weekend, we spent a lot of time in the lego room.

hello friends,
we took an extra day off since it was a long weekend, we had our days filled with work and activities - on saturday margie joined us for the opening of Art in the Courtyard House hosted by studio junction (the folks designing our extension) basically their house was filled with design and art and it can viewed this coming weekend during doors open.

here's a few highlights, more on our weekend tomorrow.
we saw the most fantastic fireworks yesterday, we are still recovering from the long journey home afterwards.

enjoy the start to your week

xxa

thank you so much for all your support at yesterday's sale 

it was pretty overwhelming all the support we get - it's a real pleasure to see familiar names that have been with us for so long, and of course all the new friends too.

I think that I pretty much got all of the manifest printed so that it should be arriving at your doorstep soon.

earlier in the week I instagrammed this bag and it got such a great response and I have made steps to making this bag as part of the collection.  I have to resolve a few dimension things and wait for all the hardware, I finally got ones that I am happy with and proud of.  I'm not sure if I will have this particular print available but I thought the shoot for it went so well and that I should share the photos anyways.

I'm going to sign off early this week, I have lots to catch up on.  I hope to see you back here monday.

have a great weekend friends!! xxa

a few things on sale today online starting at 6pm EST - come and check it out

tea towels, drop cloth pouches and alphabet seconds.  it goes quickly so come by early

j was asked to make two of his small kids chairs a bit taller (for 4 year olds) yeah pretty lucky kids  - he did a seat pad so that it wouldn't cover up all the details.  this chair was steam bent and the legs were turned - no hardware just dowels and glue - he's a pretty awesome craftsman.

hi everyone,

I hope you had a great mother's day yesterday - the morning started off with yummy food prepared by j and the kids, I'm a light sleeper and I kept hearing j hushing the kids saying mommy needs to sleep more (yeah he's pretty amazing).  I had all kinds of things planned for the day that involved being outside but it was the craziest day with rain and hail and big winds so we drove around instead making a few stops and one of them was picking up a bike for piper.  she found one that had a baby seat in the back and when we were assembling it, we noticed that it came with a mini helmut and piper spent hours circling the shop with hedgey in the back.  

making more drop cloth pouches - it will be posted in a few days, trying out a curve bottom.

thanks to everyone who bought the new pouches over the weekend.

enjoy the start to your week - I hope it will warm up again.

xxa

this week was all about catching up and next week is going to be dedicated to making inventory for the craft show in montreal (at the end of the month) - I am going up with j and the kids will be hanging back with their grandparents and we are going to treat the weekend as a mini vacation, there was an awesome sale on via rail tickets for 50% off, so we got awesome prices on the train tickets. I find the drive long and I rather sleep on the train ride.  

we finally finished making the pouches, so they are now posted in the web shop (there's still a few more prints I will be adding). I love the oblong size - a perfect size to organize my bag and have handy in the studio.

enjoy this spring weather and enjoy spending it with your mum (an early happy mother's day greeting to you all), I am hoping the little ones and I can loaf on sunday and start the day with some yummy brunch.

have a great weekend!

xxa

this week so far has been a bit of a whirlwind, getting caught up and thinking about the summer shows and working on new products.  one of the things on my mind is food.  when I was 14 I decided I couldn't eat meat and didn't eat meat until I was three months pregnant with lliam.  we were on a trip in barcelona and one day I started to cry and told j that I have this overwhelming urge to eat meat.  so since that day I ate meat, but recently I don't know what it is, but I am slowly pulling back and not as interested in eating meat - the other thing that is strange about my eating habits is that I can literally eat the same things everyday, j thinks it's odd.  not sure what's going on but I'm okay with the changes.

I will have new pouches listed in the online shop tomorrow.

and the giveaway is a bit delayed till next week, I wanted to make something to go with what I originally wanted to giveaway, so it will be good.

I could never tire of nature being my number one muse

beautiful plants from my mexico trip last year

p.s. we will be at puces pop at the end of the month

with the new fabrics that we have been doing - patching and quilting is on the brain, I thought I would do some tissue holders.  these ones were done awhile back but I like how fun it is to experiment with colours and pattern placement - I also like how each of these were one of a kind.  I will let you know when we have some made. 

p.s. great to see a shot of our store in the new designlines.