So . . . the Fancy Free dress and delphinium hairpins were featured in Cookie Magazine this month! How fun is that?!

Here are the pages from the magazine:


However - the photographer for the piece, Lee Clower, was kind enough to send me some closeups of the shots he took for the magazine! So here they are:


Now - you may wonder about those last two photos . . . the reason they're there is the delphinium hairpins she's wearing (along with a large green ribbon.) Here it is up close:
Now - speaking of those hairpins . . . they sold out almost instantly when this line first came out. However - they are back in stock now for any of you who unsuccessfully attempted to get some!

Important Update!!

So, I've moved the giveaway to a different page. It's still there - it's just that you have to click one more time to find it. Hopefully that's not too overpowering for anyone. Do you see that bit in the sidebar? The one that says "Current Giveaway"? There's a handy little picture there so that you can see if it's the contest you've already entered or not . . . and you can click on the picture to take you to the giveaway where you can enter. Make sense? Too obtuse? Should I run through it again? Here is goes:

Click on the picture.

The Ever-So-Fabulous Scrap Bag

Ok - I'm really excited about this.

I remember when I was a little girl, my mom would save the labels off of rick-rack and bias tape, and then send them in to the manufacturer. They would send back a grab bag FULL of odds and ends of lace and ribbon and binding and who knows what else from the factory. Then my mom would give it to me for all my little projects . . . doll clothes and pillows and soft boxes (remember soft boxes anyone?!) . . . and the long and the short of it is that there was an absolute thrill of having a whole bag that I could rummage through and do whatever I liked with.

And so, in that grand old tradition, we have loads of scrap fabric left over from the production of the Amorett Spring line . . . and now we're selling it (for dirt cheap I might add!) in 8 ounce batches! No package labels have to be sent in however - and there's not all that tedious wait of weeks and weeks before you receive your grab bag. Order it online, we send it out right away. Easy peasy.

And as you can see from the picture, 8 oz of this fabric is actually a goodish bit of fabric. I gave a wodge of it to my girls, and absolutely adored seeing what they did with it. It brought back many hilarious memories of my own early sewing projects . . . here's the little shirt that they whipped up for their Nana.

Is that cute or what?

However - this is all gorgeous fabric, and there are loads of things you could do with it besides just using it as the scrap bag. (Although, let's be honest - every well equipped household ought to have a fabulous scrap bag. So this is a nice boost up in that department.)

Here is where you can order it - or click on the link in the sidebar.

Camelot

Well, this is random.

At the moment I am sitting in a hotel that is actually called "Camelot", perched high on a cliff on the Cornish coast . . . directly next to the ruined castle which is the legendary birthplace of King Arthur!



So far so good. But I really wish that I could recreate for you the unbelievable ambiance of this place. The setting is gorgeous, the ruined castle is amazing, the legends are crazy, the cliffs are breathtaking, and I am sitting in "Camelot Castle" in the lobby . . . which is playing a Bon Jovi cd rather quietly. Sort of humming to itself really. It's basically deserted in here (the only room in the castle with internet) and at the moment old Bon Jovi is going down in a blaze of glory. A second ago he was a cowboy with a steel horse, and then he was laying down in a bed of roses. Oh! Now he's trying to avoid commitment and he's warning us about it. This place is hilarious . . . like a one-time glamorous lake cabin that underwent refurbishment in the '70s by someone who liked to hang their own paintings in every room. (Literally.) I haven't actually encountered macramé, but I haven't seen the whole place yet.

Anyway, we decided on the spur of the moment to come down here . . . at about 3:00 this afternoon. I brought the kids down here for the afternoon a couple years ago, but Ben's never been - so this is a fantastic chance for him to see the ruined castle on the cliff.



We took the path down the cliffs and over to the castle this evening, and I very randomly happened to have a homemade apple pie which we threw into the car at the last minute before we left . . . so we sat and ate pie and watched the sun set over the ocean.

And, silly as the hotel is in many respects, check out this bed:

And, speaking of bed . . . I'm off now. (Bon Jovi is having some bad medicine now, so it's time for me to leave.)

Well, the lucky duck this time is . . .

Lynnette!

And I have to say that Lynnette deserves it, because she actually went to the bother of composing a little poem about it!

So, congratulations to Lynnette . . . and email me at info@amoretti-designs.com to tell me what size Skirty you want!