Coming Events!

Our Moss Street Market Season is finished, but there are lots of other opportunities to shop from us in person. Come see us at one of our many Holiday and Christmas Shows!

The Owl Designer Show
(formally The Knitted Owl)
26, 27 November 2010
at the Fernwood Community Centre

Hemmamade
One night only, 27 November 2010
at Hemma Yogo Studio

Rebel Rebel Noel Bazaar
30 Nov, 1 + 2 December 2010
at the Victoria Event Centre

The One Of A Kind Show & Sale
9, 10, 11, 12 December 2010, Vancouver BC
at the Vancouver Conference Centre

Making Movies

I love my Mac, and this wonderful movie that was a fun afternoon project. Enjoy!

Handmade Birthday

We got our Facebook page going, and I'm back on the tweet wagon (kinda), and we've got a great promotion happening with Blissmo this week. It's all happening online, baby ... except for the stuff that's not! Two of my all-time favourite crafters are also my right and left hand booth neighbours at the Moss Street Market. And neither of them are online! So I have to tell you about them here, and you have to come see them (and me!) at the Market.



Gord Reslig, potter, is on my left and Charlotte Campbell, fashion designer and screen printer, is on my left.



My birthday this year was blessed with handmade gifts crafted by Gord and Charlotte. The birthday banner that I made for our family celebrations was strung to indicate the birthday zone and my spot at the breakfast table was marked with a beautiful hand drawn (and stamped and dabbed) card made by Ruby, and a bowl full of steaming, organic porridge. Yum.





She drew me a brown bear. Sweetness! See you at the Market!

Joining the world of social networking ... finally!

After some great convo with Matt and Theresa (and ongoing virtual inspiration by Seth and Tad), we've finally done it! Dress Me Up has got it's very own Facebook page!



Here's the link to our page on Facebook. As soon as we have 25 Likes under our belt, we'll go for the all important Facebook username status. So, come on - Like us!

My mom had those curtains

One of the best conversations I have had with a customer about one of my vintage /organic cotton blankets happened earlier this summer at the Oak Bay night market. Granted, my customer had just come from the Pennyfarthing after a night out with one of her girlfriends and she was a bit tipsy. But she was so much fun, and got me laughing about vintage fabrics and the stories they tell.

This blue Summer Blanket is what inspired her story-telling that night (IT'S THE EXACT SAME FABRIC AS THE CURTAINS AT MY PARENT'S COTTAGE), her reminiscing, and dreaming of her brother's soon to be born babe. The cottage and the curtains are long gone, but a new baby is a-coming, with a new story to tell.

For Ground, Stroller, Carrier, Superhero Powers + Fort Making

Yesterday, when she was three, Ruby helped me with an Ostrich Picnic Blanket photoshoot. I think she rolled and frolicked about on eight new blankets. I'm going to have them, and more, at the Moss Street Market today. Come see!

And now, she is 4.

Happy Birthday, Ruby Nora!