{ Bon Voyage! }

We're off! Hamilton Island (and a stopover visit to my sister, brother-in-law and nieces in Brisbane) is beckoning, and I can not wait to hit the beach, eat beautiful seafood, drink mojitos and read a book all day long! I will be back to cold old Victoria in ten days (not long enough...)

Saying that, yesterday was beautifully wintery and we spent the day chopping firewood, making pumpkin soup and moving mobs of cattle on the motorbike. Very crisp air after last weeks snowfalls in Murrindindi!

{ Colour swatch time...for GIRLS! }

These are the main fabrics I am using for my upcoming range of minky baby blankets, bibs, name and letter canvas's and peg-boards. Hot pink and black! Enough of this pastel pink-baby-blue-only business for baby wear! The hot pink minky dot with the black and white damask is my favourite. Who said black isn't for baby's? This is obviously just the girls fabrics, I will be posting a swatch of the boys range soon...

{ Ah the inspiration... }

This is what I want! My own little space for my sewing/creating/painting and organising of all my fabrics, canvas, ribbon and mini-pegs that are floating around our poor little cottage. Ideally I want to totally devote the spare bedroom into a whole room for my craftiness, but alas I'm not sure whether this is possible due to us needing a spare bed for guests, and it's such a small space that a whole bed takes up most of the room. I am hoping that Matt will like the idea of getting a sofa bed when we buy a new couch? Then I could possibly get rid of the bed...


I love the little rail above the desk with fabric swatches hanging off it, I might see if I can fashion something similar above my little sewing desk, or why don't I just use one of my own peg-board designs? Hmmm...I have bought an ikea shelf that I want to put up but am unsure of what my limits are with a rented house? I'm finding it really hard to try and do all the things I want to because we don't own the house :( I'm off to google 'renters design nightmare' now...

AND - the table above was MADE by the very talented springchick (see her inspiring blog here). Oh lordy how I am drooling over this amazing workspace! It is high enough to cut fabric, something that I very quickly learnt is so important after purchasing my Ikea Norden gateleg craft table and it being too low! Springchick's table was made using Ikea kitchen benches (ingenius!) and spruced up with mdf moulding, top, a shower curtain (yep!) for the top and custom cut glass. This has CONVINCED me that I need a rail to hang fabric/wrapping paper and will possibly put my gateleg table on little legs to lift it a bit??? Oh if only I had the space for such a table *sigh*

{ Candy Anthony - devine }

Can anyone else say fabulous??? London designer Candy Anthony has got the most gorgeous 50's inspired dresses, the album section on the website was inspiration to say the least....

...so I hit ebay and bought this emerald green dress to wear to our friends Cobi and Jeremy's wedding! What do you think? The heels I bought on ebay also, the fur stole my talented mother made and the clutch is from etsy seller ao3designs, check the store out at http://ao3designs.etsy.com/

{ Pink swirls }

I have fallen head over heels in love with these prints by etsy artist TrishWA, visit her etsy shop http://www.trishwa.etsy.com/ and support beautifully created artwork by grassroots artists!

What is slowly shaping up to be my little work area/creative studio (aka the spare bedroom...) is getting a facelift, and I'm thinking of getting this print and framing it for the little room??? We'll see...stay tuned for updates about my studio overhaul and how I am constantly looking for ways to improve it, organise it (fabric, ribbons, cotton reels coming out of my ears) and make it a yummy place to work in.

{ Pretty Ava }

I love, love, LOVE this photo!

I took it of my 10 month old niece Ava when I was home for the weekend at my mum's. She just looks so angelic and pretty.

At uni I pretty much slept through all the lectures about window light...well I must have woken up at some stage because I not only love, love, love this photo but I love, love, love window light!

{ First time for everything... }

Welcome to my blog!

I have always kept a visual diary through my school and university years, documenting design ideas, colours, shapes, words even, that inspire me to create, photograph, sketch and paint.

My intention is for this blog to serve as a sort of modern day visual diary, I am constantly doodling or gathering images from the internet and magazines, I need a way to wade through it otherwise the therapy of a visual diary is wasted!

My little business Little Miss Emma Design is the driving force behind my blogging, I will be posting all new ideas, thoughts and inspiration for possible new designs that I may create for my lovely loyal customers!

I hope you enjoy...