Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

This will be short as i have my family over (from a very cold and snowy Sweden) for the holidays. I hope you will have a wonderful Christmas/holiday time with loved ones. As I will have lots to do in the next week or so, I am not sure if I will have time to post again before the new year... so I would love to take the opportunity now and thank all of you who love my stuff. My year has been so wonderful and above expectation - I am loving it!

Thank you very much
Jen xxx

The weekend

On Saturday I traded at Allie's Attic in Paddington. It seems like not a lot of people knew that we were there and it was a real shame as there were so many wonderful stalls (including mine of course, lol). I guess you can get that with new markets and fingers x that it will pick up in the future. I did feel a little miserable I must admit but the highlight of my day was going home with these two gorgeous pillows/dolls? Aren't they sooooooooooooooo adorable? I got them from the lovely Lisa from The Read Thread and my daughter loves them as much as I do :)


One good thing though is that I had a chance to talk to so many wonderful stallholders and I hope I will see you all again soon.

Sunday was Bondi Markets day and it was amazing. This time I felt it was the real first Christmas shopping day (for me anyway) and had a few repeat customers from last Christmas which was great - I love repeat customers!

My fab new dresses :)

I road tested my new dresses today. I initially wanted to have some ready for the next Allie's Attic in Paddington on 12 December but I had some ready to come to Bondi with me today. It seemed quite a few people liked them as much as I do! (It's not wrong to love your own stuff is it?)


Here are a few snapshots of some of my newies.

Allie's Attic

As always I want to start by saying thank you to everyone that came and said hi. I had a great day but it was a little slow at times. The time went a little quicker by having great neighbours to chat to. My immediate neighbour was Sarah from rosebarnett, I would recommend to check our her blog as she has so many fabulous things. I also caught up with another equally talented Sarah from Gifts Created. Love her mushrooms!

This time I didn't take my camera when I walked around checking the other stalls so you will have to make do with photos of my stall :) If I don't see you at Bondi, hopefully I will catch up with some of you at the next Allie's Attic on Saturday 12 December.

And the winner is...

I know that you all just want to know if you've won (don't scroll down yet) but I first want to say thank you to everyone who left a comment for me. I am really going to take your suggestions on board. In fact, some of them I already have in the pipeline. Apart from the comments left here I also received a few emails (via Allie's Attic Facebook page) and they were of course also in the draw. My son picked the winners and...

Winner of the 1st prize is...

Winner of the 2nd prize is...

Winner of the 3rd prize is...

Congratulations to the winners. For those of you who didn't win please don't despair as I will have more giveaways in the future. Apart from Cori as I already have your email, would patg_au and mum/toddler/babe please email me (meleifashion@optusnet.com.au) so we can arrange the best way of getting the prizes to you.

Allie's Attic Launch Giveaway

I am thrilled to announce my very first giveaway on my own blog (had one over at Badskirt a while back). This one is in honour of the launch of Allie's Attic. They will have their first market at Hunters Hill on Saturday 14 November. I will be there and would love you to come and say hi.

I have three prizes so the odds of winning something should hopefully be a little better!

Prize one:
2 bracelets
2 rings
2 bobby pins
1 set of hair ties

Value $61

Prize two:

bracelet

hair clip

hair ties

Value $34

Prize three:

hair ties

bobby pin

ring

Value $14

Shipping is of course also included in the prize. All I would love you to do is to leave a comment telling me what you feel is missing in children's clothing at the moment.

The draw will be on Wednesday 11 November at 8pm (sydney time) so that if you come to Allie's Attic I can bring your prize with me :)

Mathilda's wrap up

Ok, I am going to start by saying thank you to everyone who came by my stall yesterday, I had an amazing morning. From the moment the doors opened to closing time it was full on and a lot of fun (the hall was boiling so that wasn't as great). Blogless Jasperboy Jen came all the way from Melbourne to say hi which was a huge surprise. Thank you so much for your help Jen during the morning, fixing my racks making sure sizes were in their right spots etc - you were great! For those of you who haven't met me you can now see what i look like as well (when i am hot and grinning). I am the blonde one.

My darling husband came along and helped me set up in the morning. Having an extra pair of hands was great and we were done at 8.30am. He took off and i had time to wander around and check out the other stall holders and their wonderful things. I ran into Mel from Skye Rocket Sews and checked out her beautiful Kokeshi dolls. Badskirt Amy was also there with her fab animals. You can see I just want to get in on every photo op!

Here's my new little set up for rings, bracelets etc. I was just so keen to use it. My husband told me it would just get trashed and I of course I knew he was right but I still wanted to give my little bedroom set a go. I was constantly there trying to fix it up but I lost in the end.

Before

After

Thank you again and hopefully I will see some of you at Allie's Attic in two weeks time.