Uncle Pickle

Good ol' Michael McIntyre. Bless him. He has the best Vintage Clothing stall at the Rozelle Markets every Sunday and he has kindly offered to have a small selection of my Batiks on sale and going cheap before my next shipment arrives. Of course a trip to the Rozelle Markets is never complete unless I make a purchase myself, and today I found some lovely old bamboo hangers that I'll use to display the clothes at home and in the office for when I do showings. Not bad for $10, and way more interesting than the Ikea ones I have been using. We also bought an amazing vintage letter stamp kit  - I'll be utilizing it soon  to stamp some packaging. I will pop some pictures up soon.

Swinging and grooving while sitting still....

So my Sally Browne designed business cards (cleverly disguised and doubling as the swing tags) arrived today, much to my excitement. It will be a manual and hands on affair for me over the next few days while I hole punch and thread up some 250 cards in readiness for the imminent arrival of my next  clothing shipment. I can already tell that the little punched out bits are going to be a delight to capture and sweep. A job for Sunday, I suspect! Think of me, while I wheel away the hours listening to M.Craft or Fleetwood Mac..... fade out.

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Brand petit batik

I told you that The Monkey's Cobbler were brilliant. 

Swing tags coming soon, just in time for the new shipment!

Above is the new web holding page - Sally Browne is a star. 

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Charlie dress

It's great having friends with gorgeous kids willing to model my Petit Batik. As with the Martha Top, we now have the Charlie Dress. I wasn't sure whether this style of dress would work with the batik, but as you can see here this simple 50's style button front dress looks fab on the beautiful Charlie and from now on will be defined as the Charlie. I only do this dress in one size, it's about a 6. As with most of the styles, it will go from Summer to Winter really easily - pop a pair of woolen tights on ,and boots and a long sleeved top and it will look gorgeous on a chilly day.You've gotta love a trans-seasonal dress.
PS - by the time Charlie left our house she was covered in chalk paint and cat fur,  not that you could see it -the batik has a fantastic knack for disguising kid mess.

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Easy does it

 

Here she is, my little Harper in what is possibly the easiest piece of clothing ever, aptly named the Easy Top.  Or is it a dress? Hmmm. The neck and arm areas are both elasticated, making getting dressed very, well, shall we say, easy.

There is a little bow attached to the front center, which is purely decorative. Harper is good at pulling it open. I'll be looking forward to dressing this up for winter with a long-sleeved top underneath and leggings below, as it quite spacious and flowy.