little mummy

Keira loves to call herself little mummy and is becoming very protective of little tillie. She has no trouble pulling or twirling Finn's hair to make him cry but loves her little tillie and wouldn't do that to her!



here they are wearing little outfits made by mummy over the weekend. Tillie has a little liberty dress that I finished with some vintage lace from that garage sale and keira is wearing a little skirt I made from new fabrics in the store!

sweet dress

As soon as the new fabrics arrived I knew I needed to whip up a little dress for my litle miss.....


so easy and so cute...Keira accessorised it nicely with gumboots, 7 or more hairclips and a denim jacket for playgroup yesterday!


And this morning she is loving her new nails as retro daddy treated us to our nails done while he did the groceries.....nice!


I am also loving all of your embarrassing moments....you must read through them if you need a little laugh today!

my most embarrassing giveaway

I think it's time for another giveaway but I want you to work for it. I've gone deep into my personal vault of embarrassing stories and am asking you to do the same. You need to fess up, tell me the MOST embarrassing thing that has happened to you and I'll let retro daddy pick a winner....who will choose 12 fat quarters from the fabrics in my store!



Ok so here is mine.....before children I was a city girl for 10 years, a credit analyst working in securitisation for big investment banks. Long days but I'd try to get to the gym in my lunchbreak a few days a week. I'd keep my shoes in my bag and put new clothes and towel in each day.



On this particular day, it was just after 12, super busy at the nice city gym I went to....I got dressed into my gym gear, grabbed my handtowel, started on the treadmill and flung my towel over the handrail. There were rows of treadmills and I was smack bang in the middle. The treadmill was moving and all of a sudden a flash of white went past my feet....what was that I thought. I turned around and there on the floor behind me were my undies!!!!!! Yes they had been the clean pair wrapped up in my towel! I swiftly turned off the machine, quickly picked them up and put them in my handtowel on the floor and got back to my workout before putting them back in my locker.



I was so mortified and also hysterically laughing afterwards that I couldn't tell my colleagues till the next day and even then I was crying with laughter. It truly is the most embarrassing thing that has happened to me.


Now its your turn........winner takes all so it's totally worth outing yourself!!!! Entries open until next Sunday 15th November and for the same period I've taken $2 a metre off all the new fabrics in my store...happy shopping!

fabric sneak peek

what a drama....my huge fabric order was delivered to the wrong address today (thank you to the nice man who popped down to tell us....too big to fit in his car so retro daddy had to drive out to collect it!!!!!!!!!!). Luckily I wasn't trying to sneak it into the house!



Anyway, I'll be up with the birds and natural light tomorrow morning to photograph and get it all up in my store....all 22 bolts of it! And wait till you see my giveaway...all revealed tomorrow!

group hug

I thought it was time for a photo of my little ones....they love it when we have a big group hug so I thought that would be cute! thinking and doing are two very different things (and no child was harmed during this photo)



I tried and tried ... I even tried blueberries to distract them but tillie just smooshed them into her jeans and they were too distracted for the camera.....



After 10 or so photos like these I just called it a day!!!!!!! They are so very cute but oh so very active!

a dress for mummy

It is hot hot hot here! So I decided to whip up a quick summery dress once the babies were finally down for their nap! This is just the perfect dress to pop over swimmers or wear to the beach and took no time at all.



I used over a metre of pre-shirred fabric from spotlight (last years range I'm afraid). I was hoping for a strapless look until I picked up the babies and realised I'd be putting on a show for everyone without straps.....so added some quick ties and I was done! So comfy and am wearing it now....and as promised me in it!

all good now

Phew, I've had to apologise to my lovely sewing machine. I said such mean things to it on saturday afternoon when it wasn't sewing for me. Turns out after I tried to fix it internally I put the bobbin case back in all wonky and that made things worse.



Thank goodness its working and we're friends again! And here is a sneak peek at my sewing room almost done. Its actually 2 adjoining rooms with its own little ensuite for toilet breaks. I am loving the brightness of the room but once the door is open I hear 2 little scrambling babies hurry in.....can you see that little head down there!