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Well, it's that time again, 2 months have passed, and we are holding our SECOND ONLY Open Studio - surely an event not to be missed!!

Bring your friends, bring your family, heck, you can even bring your dog! No really, Bella would love it.

Anyhoo, come see our fab space, our setup, us, Bella and most importantly, buy some of our amazingly-amazing, super-ace fabrics!!

Yay! Details are as follows!

10am - 1pm
Saturday 30th May
@ I & S HQ

(ie: Suite 206
10 Elizabeth St
Kensington, Vic)

There might even be cheese and/or other misc nibblies... but only if you promise to be good.

xx Teegs

back in the day...

Harking back to the Stitches & Craft Show Melbourne days of yore, here's some pics we stumbled across from when we were interviewed on stage and had some of our fabric in the 'craft parade'.


Oh gosh don't we look all serious and grown up here? Ahhh if only you knew (actually you probably do, reading this here blog).


Bee's Sumor in the craft parade

Oh sorry, I forgot I was supposed to be having a weekend. I'll get back to it...

xx

Lara.

we print too...

To prove that we indeed do more than write extremely lengthy (albeit sweet) blog posts *pointed look at Teegs*, here's some printing pics! We haven't posted any of these for ages...


Lara & Teegs printing Bee's Sumor in Deep Red


Pass me that squee....

And, most excitingly, Like Butter have been at it again, building things to make us more efficient, like these nifty handles for lifting the screen that double as a prop for screen flooding (if you have no idea what I'm talking about don't worry you're not alone).


New handlemajigs

Another 7 Awe-summm Blogs!

Big ups to the amazing Sandra of Pepperberry & Co for tagging us in this Blog Award!

I'm sure you guys are all familiar with the drill, but just in case, the dealio is that we have to list 7 things that make us awesome, then tag 7 blogs we love and on it goes!

So coz there's three of us, and I know my ladies pretty well, I'm going to put down one for each of us, coz if it was just about the business, then you would stop reading.... now.

On to it!

1) B: She carries an umbrella in her bag where ever she goes. Apparently a leftover from living in England, tho I think she is just eternally hoping for rain...
L: Lara? Enough said. I think her name means Awe-summm in Latin.
T: I have Bella. Who thinks all of us are hers, and provides us with much needed, unconditional love. And she cries heartbreakingly if we leave the room.
(also please note the hilarious acronym of our names.)

2) B: She's a thinker. I mean a deep thinker. Like a sponge. Wait, do sponges think?
L: She is the most genuinely nice person I've ever met, without being irritating at all! Y'know what I mean, tho - most people who want to seem nice are so insincere, and have no sense of humor. Not our Larz. She's so fab.
T: I'm from the country. A place called Bushfield. And my stepdad's building, by hand, a wooden ship called Raven, in our backyard. It's pretty freakin' ace.

3) B: She has amazing shoes. All the time. I'm not joking - I want her shoes.
L: Just bought a pair of skinny jeans one size too small. Intentionally. Think painted on, people. Did I mention she's hot?
T: I like to learn how to make stuff from scratch. Right now, you may not have noticed, but it's Bobbin Lace Making. And yes, I made the other two come to Lace Class with me. However I'm the only one who does all her homework - and then extra! Not that I'm a nerd or anything...

4) B: She's the tidier-upperer! If you don't have one, I recommend you pop out to the shops and pick yourselves up a Bianca, right away! But you can't have ours. She's NOT for sale.
L: She's the mess-maker, mostly tame random things like tea cups, homework, lip balm. And scissors.
T: I'm the joker. I like to laugh and make others laugh, too. (But I'm also serious about serious stuff. See next point). Bee says I'm the funny one who teases her. This is true. Also, I have a potty mouth.

5) B: Lets me tease her ;) Wait that doesn't count. Bee is Dutch. Did you know that? She's also stubborn as a mule. And would do anything for anyone. She likes to pretend she's all gruff & firm, but she's just a big softie. Nawwwww! We loves you, Beebot!
L: Is absolutely, 100%, irrevocably, unequiviocally, categorically, unconditionally, sure-as-hell addicted to lip balm.
T: I frequently disagree passionately (some might say argue) with people (morons) who consume with no thought to our environment. Particuarly those who buy 4WDs or SUVs and live in the city. I mean come ON, people!! If my brain ever explodes, it'll be due to the large amounts of anger caused by said people.

6) B: English is her second or third language, and so says THE MOST hilarious things! My personal fav was when she was telling K Doran how prior to meeting Lara, Bee was so inspired and impressed by her, she "had her on a 'footstool'." Love it.
L: Is a hopeless romantic. That's all I'll say about that.
T: I'm newly vegan. Ish. Comes back to the environment thing again. Everybody laugh now & get it out of your systems. Tegan the Vegan. HILarious, I know.

7) Lucky last (this was hard too, btw) but this one works for all of us, and is quite possible the coolest thing e.v.a.:
Lara is the eldest of us, born on the 1st Oct '81, then comes Bee, born on the 21st Oct '82, then finally me, born on the 10th Nov '83.
Did you work it out?
We were all born exactly one year and twenty days apart!!
Seriously - what are the chances of that?? It still spins me out. I reckon that's why we work so well together. It was in the Planets or something. (p.s. Scorpio's rule)

Phew, ok. now on to the next bit: 7 blogs we heart! This was tricky too, coz 7 isn't an easy number to stop at, but here goes:

Cheeky Beaks

Like Butter

DearFii

NikkiShell

Mixtapezine

Onegirl

Jorth

Consider yourselves tagged, ladies. And Jem.

xx Teegs

A quickie!

I mean a quick post, people!! Geez, dirty mind much..? We're scrinters, remember?? ...although... no, no, I kid, I kid!

*sigh* Larz is gonna squeal at me for that one.

Ok, so you may be able to tell from that mini rant that we (I?) lost all equilibrium whilst in Brisvegas, and have yet to regain it. Though I am hopeful.

We had such a rad time up there in our fab city apartment

Me, exhausted at the end of Travel & Set Up Day, armed with sofa, tv and cup of tea, pointedly trying to ignore Lara & her camera. But check out the view!!

Tho we mostly just worked at the show:

Larz & Bee lookin' perrrdy at our stall - I love to make them pose..


Then make them laugh, so you can see them for who they really are: awesome, fabulous, gorgeous, giant dorks. (hmmm.. payback, ladies?)

But we also got to hang with a whole bunch of awesome peeps too!! Mel (& misc family) and Julie from Thread Den, who were next door to us;


the hilarious and indomitable K Doran; the hilarious and generous Winterwood (aka Sandra); a few of our newest favs, Jus, Fi & Nikki (we heart you guys! See pic below); the fantabulous Red Seed Studio duo Ellie & Sam; the amazing, felty Holly; the gorgeous Thea (& Sami); plus some new friends, the beautiful and knitting Megan;


the crazy and bright Louise; jeweller extraordinaire Helen! Plus a heap of other Brisstylers, of course! Just going through our pics, made us realise we were less than snap happy! We've hardly got anything to show you at all, sorry about that!!

We even had a whole day to explore Brissy ourselves, tho unbeknownest to us 'southerners' (we were called that a million times over the week) it was a public holiday so practically nothing was open!! Lucky for us tho, Jus, Fi & Nikki invited us to go with them down the river on the City Cat (it's a like a bus, but it's a boat! Some have been known to call it a "ferry"):

Justine is hiding at the very back, behind Larz, you can just see the top of her lil red head (woots for us gingers!)

We disembarked at Bulimbah for lunch & books (also where I bought the girls the awesomest, tackiest pressie I could find - Twilight badges. Hells yes), then we returned up river to the City, where we said au revior to the lovely trio and headed back to our apartment for a quick rest, before heading out to a fab Viet restaurant in West End for dinner, called Dakbla. Highly recommended.


Big fat Eastern Water Dragon, just hangin' on Southbank

The next morning saw us sadly packing up our apartment and dragging our (much lighter) suitcases across a bridge and to the train station. We did make a detour into the city again, before we left for good, to purchase Lara an iPhone (she has become one of us... one of us...) as her old nokia gave up the ghost, finally, and via the ladies section of Myer so Bee could buy a new outfit (while she was deciding what to get, I stated chatting with a chick who worked at Cue, where I learnt that they make 95% of their clothing in Sydney, and it's all official and union and stuff - who knew!? Not I, obviously.)

We took a bit longer than we were meant to in the city so we bolted back to the train station, and headed out to the airport - just on that, why the hell don't we have a train to the airport here?? Someone start a petition, already! - where we ran in to Mel & husband who were on the same flight as us! Yay! Yay, because they were polite enough to *offer* us a lift to my place when Larz innocently enquired how they were getting home. We live quite nearby to each other so it ended up being no biggie. :)

So that was the end of our Brissie gig! And my quickie has turned into a longie, if that's even a word, so... I'd better stop typing now - Adios!

xx Teegs