Coffee Sack Cushion Covers

 
I mentioned last post about some of the people we met at the Bondi market, one of which was the maker (along with his wife) of these beautiful coffee sack cushion covers.  I loved them, and was so happy I got to take one home with me! 

I had thought I would just take a quick photo of it on the couch, but I got carried away (haha!  what's new??) ...and I liked how it sat with the hamam towels (these ones are the Istanbul and Alacati designs) - so many lovely textures!  I think I want to just have piles of linen around the house  ;)     You can find the Coffee Sack Cushions online here at Coffee Sack Design.   The blanket (at the bottom of the pile) is one I bought just before we left Turkey from Zara Home.

Bondi Markets

I am very happy to report we had a fantastic day on Sunday at the Bondi Beach Market!  These are a few shots I quickly took with my phone on the day.  Wish I got around to take some more of the other stalls and people...next time...

My very tired and hardworking husband above - thank you sweetie!
And today I am exhausted...it's amazing how tiring it is!  But, it was wonderful to talk to so many wonderful and interesting people...makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside  :))

We had a lovely little spot under a big tree and we were lucky the weather held out for us.  Thank you to everyone who came down!

We'll be at Bondi on Sunday!

Ooh I'm so excited!  We just found out on Monday that we have a place at this Sunday's Bondi Market for Hamamist!  It should be fun....as long as the weather holds out!

This is one photo from the stand we had at the Magnolia Square market in November.  I had hoped to take a whole lot of fancy pictures :)  But ended up not having any time for it at all!  Having the stand at Magnolia Square was great - we learnt a lot, were rushed off our feet and totally exhausted afterwards...but we'd do it again  :) 

I flew down to Melbourne for it while Senol stayed in Sydney with Yashar.  Luckily my sister Emily and my Mum helped out sooo much...there is no way I could have done it without them!  We had the chance to meet some wonderful people too...so inspiring to see such creative and entrepreneurial people building their businesses, and a crowd of people that really appreciated their work!

Fingers crossed for the Bondi Market!

PS  My sister is starting to get her online store for Emily&Leo happening (I think it is looking great!) and is having a pre-Christmas sale with 20% - check it out!

Recent Work: Tirtil Kids Bookshop - Istanbul

I am continuing to work with Tirtil Kids Book Shop in Istanbul and am loving it!  The work often needs to be done quickly and I try to make it eye catching and fun...  These are a few I have done recently - above is a detail from a birthday related one, ...and you can see some of the past illustrations here.

One of the exciting things that the book shop is doing at the moment is having different comedians and actors in to do readings each month..so fun I think!  This is the most recent one - the reading is on this Thursday:

And this was the one for last month:

Christmas Making Inspiration

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I've just started to get in to Pinterest ...and I'm liking it a lot!  It's basically a website that lets you collect pictures (and links to the sources) of your favourite things from around the web and organise and share them.  These are some things I 'pinned' from around the web today - all for some Christmas making inspiration.

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Have a great weekend!

Recent work: Invitations

These are a couple of photos I quickly snapped before sending these invitations I created off on their journey to France.  They were for a very sweet little girl's Baptism and used one of my Angel illustrations as a basis.    These were so fun to work on  :)

A snowy Istanbul scene for the 'Action Pack - Celebration Issue''

Thank you for the lovely birthday wishes for Yashar!  This is one of the many other things that has been keeping Yashar and I busy lately!

A little while back I was contacted by the the amazing Kathreen, founder of whipup.net and author of Whip Up Mini Quilts and Little Bits Quilting Bee She asked me to contribute to the December/January edition of 'Action Pack' (an e magazine with loads of activities to do with kids) and of course I jumped at the chance!

 Yashar and I made this wintery Istanbul scene - complete with Galata Tower, Aya Sofya, the Maiden's Tower and the Bospherous Bridge.  Yashar loooved making it... and so did I!!  Above is a layout from the Action Pack with our activity (and Yashar busy at work!) on the left, and below is the super cute cover of the e mag.

If you would like to buy the Action Pack, with the printable Istanbul monuments and all the instructions on how we made it, you can do so here.  The Action Pack is fantastic - so many activities to do with kids - I think it is around 80 pages this time!   You can read more about the pack here.   It is going to be keeping Yashar and I happy and busy for many many hours this Summer! 

Oooh!  I almost forgot!  You can use this 10% discount code 'WPContributor' to get 10% discount off everything at the whipup.net or action-pack.com store!! - especially for friends and blog readers.  Yay!

Hope you all had a great weekend!  I'll be back with loads more posts very soon  :)  So happy to be back blogging again!