Baby fest!

The Yaletown baby & toddler fair today was a good success... Cole stopped by for a visit (thanks Grammie + Gramps!) and had a field day reaching for all the bunnies. It is so hard not to give him nearly every toy i make. ;-)

For a real round-up of the event please check out my shiny new blog, hudsonny. Lots of new blog smell, whatever that is! I felt the need to start this new blog because so many of my posts here have been crafty lately and thought it might be time to separate the family stuff from the crafty stuff... Don't get me wrong, you can still expect far too much rambling on crafty matters here, but I feel good about a new space to put the bulk of it! ;-)

Babies + bunnies

Just a heads-up (although I loathe that expression) about the babyfest/craft sale tomorrow: the Yaletown baby + toddler fair

Saturday, April 4
10 am - 4 pm
Roundhouse Community Centre
Davie @ Pacific, Vancouver
$6 entrance

I'll be bringing my favourites for baby - bibs, bibbler drooling kerchiefs and toddler scarves - as well as felt + vintage button barrettes and weirdo smiling felt pins, beanbags, a fresh group of gnomes and a tonne of bunnies.

I made a lot of bunnies - considering the event is for babies and a week before Easter it seemed like a good idea. One of my favourite things is finding unique fabric combinations for these little dudes. They're so squashy and cheerful!

If you're in the neighbourhood and happen to stop in definitely pop by and say 'hello!'.

Fantastically flung at the spring fling

I had a terrific blast at the Etsy Spring Fling on Saturday! It was lovely - such a great vibe, really good traffic and I was so happy to see folks smiling at my creations. It was quite awesome to see people actually wearing my pins and carrying away my little treasures. Strange too - in the best, best way.

Everyone loved the gnomes to a crazy degree and also very popular - my felt toast pins. I made them late and didn't even get a chance to photograph them.

One little girl just stole my heart. She took her time choosing a pink bunny, came back with her Mama and wanted to know the bunny's name (Keiko)and was generally just so adorable. I had to get up the guts to ask to take her photo when we saw her walking around the hall hugging the bunny. Oh, so sweet!

I'm a bit shy in these situations and it was so nice to have company, support and help from Kim who got there early and stayed all day. And someone to get us some extra change and to watch the booth while I wandered and ogled everyone else's great stuff. (And someone to suggest and encourage taking that photo!)

I meant to get photos of my favourites and the other tables to do a proper write-up, but of course I got busy and forgot! Check out posts by Smeeta (love her stuff!) and Akane Designs for some great photos! I wanted so much to buy about five times as much stuff as I brought - where to start... An apple cozy from Roxypop (and a catnip gyoza if I had a cat - they were adorable and so well presented), this clutch from Davie & Chiyo, a terrarium from Thyrza, jewelery from everyone and the most lovely skirts from BonBon across the way. I managed to restrain myself - for a short while only, I'm sure... After all, my mat leave monies (thank you for the pittance, government) run out anytime now!