Monday, August 23, 2010

Dress Forms


handmade from calico which I dyed with parrisian and vanilla to give it an aged look I have used Cheese cloth/muslin at the bottom with a pin badge!

Well I think we all love dress forms I have a passion for them, and I have been working on this dress form for a while, its a little different but I love the way it has turned out so much. they will be on the website this week for sale! 



they stand 35cm 14" they stand on a vintage cotton bobbin and I have added one of my vintage style pin badges.  I have stamped the name paris on the top with fabric paint. I have just finished two and I have a couple more that I am working on.


 I have added a photo of the baked cheesecake I made a Chocolate cherry cheesecake! it was beautiful and didn't last long at all.

Have a beautiful Monday Lisa

Friday, August 20, 2010

40 Today




Today is my birthday and I have had a beautiful day with my family and lots of presents! I also got to spend the day with my wonderful husband He took the day off work just for me! We went out for breakfast after dropping the kids off at school. I rained all day but I still have a beautiful day, and I am baking in the oven as I type a baked chocolate cherry cheesecake! I am looking forward to that.   We are also going out for dinner tomorrow night with all my family.  I am still waiting on one present that is coming all the way from USA I will show pictures when it gets hear.

Have a beautiful friday Lisa

Friday, July 30, 2010

Christmas in July

Home made Pumpkin Pie

We just celebrated Christmas in July, it's always great to cook a beautiful dinning and set the table and sit with the family so on the 25th July we had our Christmas in July dinner.  So I will share some photos with you.  the beautiful table set our roast we had turkey and lamb this year and pumpkin pie for dessert made by my wonderful husband! He is a wonderful cook




table with all the food just waiting for us to sit down. Also a large pitcher of Ice Tea

have a beautiful day Lisa

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Well it's time to party again - Where Bloggers Create


It's time for the second Where Bloggers Create Party hosted by Karen of My Desert Cottage blog. I can't wait to check out all the other wonderful artists.



I hope you enjoy my little studio it's small and I share the space with my family well I think I do take over sometimes! You know what it can get like with crafting and all!  A lot of my photos this year are close up's of where I create the above photo is a little dress I am working on it's not finished yet, but looks good sitting on the photo frame on my desk. 


This is my desk that I work at everyday, I create raggedy annie cloth dolls and patterns. It's a beautiful french farmhouse style dinning table that I use, it's really hard to get a good photo of it in the studio.


Here are some of my Raggedy's just waiting to find new homes


Here is a collection of my favourite things!



This beautiful old cabinet stores all my dolls books patterns and a small amount of fabric I have lots and lots of fabric to much to show!

These are canvases that I have just finished working on.  I really love the way they turned out.
the blocks you see in the above photo have been handmade by me! they are something new that I have been working on to put in my photo's with my raggedys Annie dolls

I was hoping to have my curtins hung! to show some better photos I am still waiting for them hopefully latter today and if they are done I will add some more photos
Well the curtins have been hung and I love them






these two little girls are Raggedy Old Annies Dolls!



this is a better look at my desk.  I was really hoping to have more of the back room completed! I just have not had the time, I am always to busy working in the studio with my dolls bears and patterns and I alway make a mess while doing this.

I hope you enjoyed looking around my little studio.

Have a beautiful day Lisa

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Website Update


Well it's been a while since I updated Inn Country Website as I have been so busy with Olive Grove Prims Website, I have a lot of sewing sitting on my desk just waiting to be finished,  I have been busy working on some custom order for clients.  I am hoping in the next couple of weeks to update the website with lots of new items.  So check back soon!

Have a beautiful Evening Lisa

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Cooking and Creating




Good Morning,

This week I have found a new recipe for chocolate chip cookies I wanted to share the recipe with you I really love these.

100 grams chocolate chips
100 grams butter (sofened)
75 grams light brown sugar
1 egg
100 grams Flour
50 grams Almond meal

mixed butter and sugar together by hand add egg flour and almond meal and mix together them add chocolate chip pop straight onto a baking tray that have been covered with non stick baking
paper and cook for 10 minutes on 180 deg

The kids really love this one and they said they would not like them with the almond meal!!

Well this past week I have been busy creating and being a mum it seems like I have run around after all my kids all week.  In my spare time I have been making some vintage style pin badges, I am so happy with the end result I will be listing some on my Inn Country website you can also find them here I will leave you with some photos of them.

Have a beautiful day Lisa

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

picking the morning Fruit & collecting the eggs


Well today is a very cold day yesterday was the start of winter here in Australia, So to warm up this morning I thought I would do some cooking, but first I need to feed the chickens and collect the eggs, while collecting the eggs I noticed my mandarins where ready for picking this is the first crop as the tree is only a couple of years old, they are very large not to many on the tree this year I have picked about 20 and there is about another 10 that I will pick in a couple of days.

I also picked some more oranges so after coming inside I put the basket on the bench and noticed how lovely they looking sitting in the basket and how wonderful it is to grow and pick our own fruit.  So I am going to pop off now and do some more baking for the week.

Have a beautiful Tuesday Lisa


these are the blueberry muffins I made the other day.