Selected Karina Jean items are now avaliable from www.MADEIT.COM.AU. Hooray!
I recently joined the Madeit crowd, releasing my Boab Kisses range for sale online. I am thrilled lovely peeps across the country are falling in love with my wares and snapping them up. I hope they bring lots of joy to those that wear them.
Made it is the Australian version of ETSY. It is a terrific place to find hand made goodies and to support local artists and makers. My StacksOnTheMill range will be the next items avaliable online. So many new babys have been born into our circle of friends this month. Good friends of ours welcomed Baby boy bright and early on a Monday morning. He snuck in a few hours before he was due to be induced… So when I was deciding what I should make for baby F, I thought he should have some wise owl friends to go with his rather wise decision. I made him a soft plush mother owl with white leather eyes, blue patchwork cotton face and bobbly ears. I also made him a mini owl on a timber ring..ready for his first teeth.
Little girl S was turning 1. No longer a baby-as such, she needed a little lassie to march into toddler-hood with. So I made her Ms dolly. Ms Dolly; with her sooty eyelashes, pigtails, belly button and ruffle cloth nappy.
2010 is starting to look like an exciting year. Word is just in that I have been selected participate in Schaffas 2.
We have had many friends with new baby arrivals in the last month. I used to make baby blankets as gifts. That was before I became a mama and before we moved to hot humid queensland. So when second cousin Baby Boy O, and next-door Baby Boy S arrived I felt the need to create something more personal, fun and climate-appropriate than a blanket (please note…my blankets were run of the mill blankets, not nifty blankets-that fold-up-into-a-carrybag/cushion like Lady S made for Jonah. That blanket rocked and the idea was so superb that it has travelled all the way to israel).
Baby J is 8 months old now and finally the fibreglass belly we made of his in-utero days is finished and on the wall. Master N has done a fantastic job. For a long time we were unsure of how to finish it or mount it, but a bright lick of aqua paint, a rich timber frame and a summer string bikini has captured both Baby J’s personality and our lifestyle at the time it was made. I love it. 
