Dino Pillow and Silhouette

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Originally uploaded by Sew Sydney

Here are the final versions of the pillow and silhouette. I really love how the silhouette turned out. I can’t wait to get out of the hot, hot, sweltering hot rental and into our house to hang it.

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Silhouettes

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Originally uploaded by Sew Sydney

Another one off the list. Last year around April I took profile photos of the kids for this project. I finally got around to cutting them out! The rate I am tracking on project meeting fruition seems to average out about 1.5 years per idea.
I really like how Rhys’ silhouette turned [...]

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shells

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Originally uploaded by Sew Sydney

For the past two summers I have been collecting shells from our local beach that have holes in them.  I had a few ideas swirling around in my head on what I wanted to do with them and here is one of them.  I used fishing wire and strung them in [...]

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Tomatoes Gone Wild

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Originally uploaded by Sew Sydney

A few month ago we planted our veggie patch. Thanks to the great Aussie sunshine and some rain this summer our tomatoes have gone wild! They are taller than Rhys!

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Dinosaur Stamping

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Originally uploaded by Sew Sydney

We had some left over stamps from Rhys’ painting party and some stencil paint from our submarine shirts. We decided to take a break from the beach and potter around the house this morning. Cookies have been baked, house has been trashed and this is the fabric we printed that we [...]

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Sand Angel

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Originally uploaded by Sew Sydney

New into 2009 I finally accomplished something I have had in my head for awhile….a new banner on the blog! Hope you like it as much as I do. It really captures Sydney in the summer for me.
We are spending this hot summer at a lot of water filled locations trying [...]

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