Modernly yours.

Pixy Owl -1 is all dressed up for a dinner out with Mr Owl and Owlet Jr.

dilemma:

Should  I shove all of the diaper change stuff into my handbag? 

or should i shove all of my things into the baby bag? (and just forget about my handbag)

It's the very thing that makes a Mom feel dressed down.

The change bag, as it is , comes in all shapes and sizes

Apparently "there's a bag for any kind of mom" out there:

Cushioned carry bags,

Sporty bag with many compartments

Sling shoulder bag for a more hip look

Black change bags that can almost fake a handbag ...almost!

The Pink ones. Oh boy! There are so many of them.

In a nutshell:

Change bags can make a Mom stick out - not in the best way sometimes.

They clash with "Mom's fashion" : heels and hair-dos in particular! 

"I suppose I might as well carry a bag that sticks out by choice" said Pixy-Owl 1

Ah! There's an idea!!

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We whipped out our needles 

Dug out the most un-baby like print

And made a clutch bag slash change mat with a single compartment. 

For test run, we unwrapped the clutch and gently placed Owlet Jr on it.
With the biggest grin, he got very ...very comfortable on the soft fabric.
It was a treat to change him.

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Happy Mommy. Fresh Baby. 

Style restored.   

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Things you see in the clutch :

3 Large size Diapers

Wipes

Change Cloth & Burp Cloth

2 sets of Onesies

Nappy Cream & Toy

Water bottle

Dogs and Fish

It's been rather quiet up on the owl tree.

There was a lot to think about. And do.

And the good news is, it's now done. 

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We changed our jobs and moved trees 

All in just under two weeks.

Some of the Moms who man the needles also fell ill

The little owlet was pretty sick too

All in all, we survived the weeks. Phew.

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Happy to announce that our tea table chats are in full swing

One of the hamper baskets arrived with many pretty things in it...the joy!

the urge to make something out of scraps is getting stronger 

subsequently the scraps are getting squarer ...

We don't always know how something is going to turn out when it's done

We NEVER seem to know if these unusual prints will work at all

Like these ones for instance,

absolutely mental? we thought so.

But then you see, this is how we owls see the world around us : unusually lopsided.

Rather square and odd....an oddly-square.

(We even have to turn our heads to look sideways!)  

So we thought we'll make a quilt with these odd squares

and the only way you'll see all of it is when you fold it around. 

Like so! 

We then liked it so much that we asked Pesky Vixen, our lovely seamstress 

to make an identical twin.

This time, we chose a speeding bunch of pixie-fish to go at the back.

Dogs and Fish. 

It's all about co-existence for us.

Hoot Hoot

Frills & Flies

Now and then we do a bit of sewing mostly because we enjoy it. 

It's a spontaneous thing : and we often make up stuff as we go!

Thus it could go both ways : a delight or a disaster.

Delight is when we made something better than what we vaguely had in mind

(we usually do a happy-dance when this happens)

Disaster is when the gamble did not pay off

(we usually hide the evidence)

But most of the time, we are just happy that we went ahead and stitched. 

The very-little-girl nightie we made on Friday is no exception.

Sitting quiety in a corner pretending we didn't hear the phones ring 

We started off by making a nightie with some white lace and a button  

but instead, we took a full u-turn and ended up with this: 

a little girl's nightie with a small back opening 

and hand embroidered garden flies on the frill.

Do the dance or hide the dress?

a note of Thanks

Thank you all who stopped by our Facebook page to browse a bit - Thank you for telling us you like our cozy prints - Thank you for the orders that came in.

 We feel blessed and overwhelmed

We hope your weekend was peaceful and pleasant

To the little girl who will be sleeping under these very soon  we wish

~much love and fairy soft dreams~

HapPinEss for Mommy and Baby!

Pixy Owl 1 has a complaint. 
Her mischievous little baby never sleeps on his pillow!

We were discussing why this could be. She had arranged his cot with the softest pillows that had the prettiest embroidery! Anyone would have loved to sleep on those pillows. 
But the little one always pushed his pillow away... 

So we decided to investigate the matter.
It looks to us that machine embroidery might just be the cause of the problem!
As pretty as they are, there seems to be a roughness in the machine embroidered fabric that the little one simply does not like!

We immediately consulted Grandma, she knows all about baby linen: 
And of course she had the perfect solution! 
She recommended HAND EMBROIDERY! 
She said; "That way Mommy and Baby both are happy"

And truthfully don't you think Hand Embroidery looks so much prettier too?

                                   Perfection. Achieved
                  All you need is a little extra patience and a double dose of affection!

Baby Love

How delightful it was to wake up and find this hamper at our doorstep left by our sewing lady on the way to drop her kids off at school. 

Maala has been holding on to these rather unusual prints for a while now; turns out her ancient machine broke and she had to get it repaired. 

So our spring & winter prints were waiting patiently for nearly a week at Maala's spic and span shelter she shares with her 3 young children. 

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Durable Baby Blankets in Durable Hampers.

Made with Love.

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all we need is a pillow owlet.

We felt a little crafty on Tuesday so out popped our scrap material box with all the little leftover bits and pieces from the fabric hamper baskets we made last week.

This is what we could re use:

tiny pieces of pretty floral cheese cloth

a sober looking grey & white linen

dark looking grey lace we no longer needed

and some left over felt bits.

For a long while , we really didn't do much except sit in rather uncomfortable chairs around the kitchen table drinking tea and catching up. Then it dawned on us : what we needed at that moment were some owlet-pillows to support our sore backs!

So we took out our needle box and stitched our first owlet-pillow. It was a bit chilly outside on that day so we swaddled our little owlet and kept her safe until she finds a good home...or chair.

it is quite a thing to make anything 

out of scraps unneeded

to watch it become something

we all then heeded  

~*~