New Shop on Felt NZ

www.felt.co.nz/shop/chilligirl

One of my paint/stitch pieces on this great new West Coast website Artland

http://artland.kiwi.nz/index.php/painting/item/127-in-limbo-painting-by-tash-smith.html

 





Friends and Flowers

 

 A friend gave me some beautiful sweet peas out of her amazing garden yesterday, so thought they were worthy of a pic.
Have been very slack lately on the blogging front, 
hope to keep it up regularly now!

A friend of mine is getting married on Friday at the lake down the road, and so we all have been crocheting up a storm in an effort to create some unique and wonderful bouquets.  I have had the job of sorting them out and fixing them up with some 'stems', which i made from straws with bamboo skewers inside for some stability.  Today we will wrap this lot up with some beautiful fabric for her bouquet, and the other two smaller ones i will crochet around all the stems and tidy up.

New shop items

 A few Chilligirl shop items now available ...  Okarito Market Day again in a few weeks so busy sewing up some Chilligirl handmade goodies.
Also doing a homemade icecream stall so will be a busy day!

Post-Holiday Blues

Hi there! We are now back from our big holiday with the kids to Thailand, was beautiful, hot, relaxing etc everything you need on holiday on a tropical island/s, a little full-on at times with the kids and LOTS of people which we are definately not used to living here on the coast!
Finding it hard to get back into the swing of life, and in desperate need of somewhere to sew up some more goodies for my shop - think i am going to have to use the kids new wooden table they got for their birthdays.  Because we have also shifted (just before we left on holiday), I traded my small house with the big bench for a slightly bigger house with no bench.  Hmmmm. 
I have been crocheting up a storm however, hats for the whole family, a cowl scarf for me, and now knitting some gloves for me too (before summer comes!)
Will attach a few photos from holiday of some inspiring paintings/colours...  Ka Kite Ano, see you again soon!  Tash

 Silk cocoons from the Phuket Butterfly and Insect Garden
They had a great display all about how they make silk, including traditional Thailand techniques and looms etc. 

 

Butterfly cocoons all lined up ready to hatch! And some older ones...

 

 

Hand painted pillar at The Big Buddha shrine,

Koh Samui, Thailand

'In Limbo'

'In Limbo', Acrylic and Stitch on Cotton, made for The Left Bank Gallery Canvas Fundraising Project next month. 

Well, this month we have shifted house, organized and booked our honeymoon/OA (Overseas Adventure) bought a shipping container (to fit all our stuff in that doesn't fit in our bigger but-lacking-in-storage new house) battled with the phone company to get the phone on, and celebrated our wee boy's 1st birthday.. and I've just finished my work for The Left Bank Gallery's Canvas Fundraising Project next month!!  and all without having any internet at home...  which is a major problem and my excuse for not blogging.. or doing any work for my shop... (if you were wondering where i went?)
It's been busy....
We are off to Thailand for our 2 1/2 year awaited honeymoon-with-the-kids
which is pretty exciting!  Hope to be able to post photos on here but will see how much fun we are having..
Kia Kaha (keep strong)
Tash