Betty Jo butterfly's

A visit to Spensley Street Fete yesterday resulted in a beautiful, exciting, bargain Betty Jo buy!!! I'm chuffed at my purchase and what a bargain at only $12.00@!!!

The craft stall had some really interesting stuff, but this was definitely the highlight.

I also picked up some bargain plants... the veggie garden is now coming along nicely, with celery, basil, corn, parsley, leeks, tomatos... and more! I must say, fetes must be the best place to buy plants. I got a tonne of stuff for only $7.50. I feel like I was a thrifty thing yesterday :)

As far as Fat Mumma's goes, we just got accepted to the inaugral Sunday Sessions at the Queen Victoria Markets, which start on the 1st November. There are going to be one every month during the summer. I will be taking some end of line designs to sell off... so it could be a place to come and find a bargain.

Have bibs and dresses ready to be sewn... this week! I promise!

Love and peace

Fat Mumma

School fetes, craft and monsters...

I've had lots of busy fun making craft stall contributions for the school fete this week. Along with a few other bits and bobs, I came up with these very cute little monster badges which I've had heaps of fun putting together. I really like thinking up the personality to go with each one! My eldest daughter likes the red gangster (third on top row), I love the mummy at the beginning of the second line and my youngest loves the belly full of love (third on third line).

What's your favourite???

They will be available to buy at the craft stall, Westgarth Primary School Fete, Sunday 18th October, 10am to 4pm!

Love

Fat Mumma xx

Saturday Sisters Market

I have a lovely day at the Sisters Market on Saturday. Had some lovely neighbours, Chucklesand we inspired by lots of lovely things. I always love the t-shirts of Little Red Duck, and was soooo tempted to spend more money on Saki pants... which I also adore!

However, I was good. I managed to get away with some sock monkeys and a sock pirate for my visiting nephew!

I was also put on to the Northside Makers, non-for-profit organisation, which looks really cool and is cheap enough to join to make it something I think I'll do this week :).

Here are my sock monkeys... partying out!

Love

Fat Mumma

Extra Fabrics

I'm trying to add extra fabric swatches to help people see our full range, so here is a little teaser... once I have all the swatches done I will upload them to the website... but for now, if you are interested in any, just send me a message! tracy@fatmummas.com.au. (fabric names are below the images).

Red and black swirly flower

Black and white fireworks
Pink on pink
Geometric flowers with mauve background

Red and white circle

Love

Fat Mumma

Farters Day...

This morning the joke of the house was that it wasn't really 'Fathers' Day', it was actually Farters Day and that meant everyone had to fart all day!!! Oh the joys of having children... the little giggles on a Sunday morning keep me sane (amazingly enough!).

Fathers Day was actually celebrated with some fantastic hand-made banner creations by the kids, which were great and they took great pride in displaying them to their dad very early this morning. I'm sure he would have preferred a lie in, but he was suitably impressed :)

It's always nice to find websites that are promoting ethical, Australian made products and here is one of them: Discount Talk. Of course it helps me to support them because they have a feature on us!!! Thanks Geoff!

It's a busy week here in Fat Mumma's land this week. I feel the pressure of Christmas starting to mount in the air. We have a couple of possible new customers: Autumn Retreat (Miller Street, West Preston) just filled up for Christmas; Pepperberry Wares (Canterbury) is about to put in an order for mini bags and Nest Nappies in Queensland has put in an order too. Exciting!

So, best get to work then!!!

Love

Fat Mumma xx

Immortality without toilet cleaning.

I have just finished the fourth Twilight book, which has had me enthralled enough to forget about social media for a few weeks!!! I know it's not the most intellectually challenging of books, and if considering the position of women in society certainly isn't full of strong female role models... but I was wondering to myself yesterday while cleaning the toilet, 'what is it that I really like about it?'. Well the answer came as I sniffled and stared blankly down the brown, encrusted u-bend.... THEY don't have to clean toilets do they???? This ideal life of laying around, staring in to each other eyes while pondering the pros and cons of immortality!!!! I'd want to live forever too if I never had to cook another meal, deal with another childs whinge or clean another bathroom!!!!

On a better note... Fat Mumma's is supporting an incredible challenge by
http://www.alice2antarctica.com/ to raise funds for indigenous health in Australia. If you get the chance to support in some way, every little bit will help!

Love, peace and immortality without toilet cleaning!

Fat Mumma's

FREEBIES - send me an email to prototype our new coin purses!

Yippee.... I have finally mastered the coin purse, which I launched at the LifeStyle Market yesterday. There weren't too many people around yesterday, but who can blame anyone for staying home in the windy, wet, Melbourne weather!

These coin purses will be for sale online very soon, for a very reasonable $12.00, but if in the meantime you'd like to try one out for free, subscribe to our mailing list, via the homepage and you may be chosen to receive one!

The newsletter is almost up and running too... so there are soon to be freebies and competitions galore!!!

Love

Fat Mumma xxx

TO MARKET to market TO MARKET we go... again!

So, I have managed to get away with staying indoors for the past three months... but as spring approaches it is time to dust off the market gear and get myself revved up!!! It's not a bad start as tomorrow I'm at Fed Square... nice coffee, hot food, possibly music, and I'll be almost infront of the NGV bookshop, so if boredom sets in I can even go for a browse!!

Should be a good day. If you get chance come and say hi!

Love

Fat Mumma xx

Great to see a dad blogging too!!

I realised today that I don't actually link to any men! So, in making an effort to stand by my aim to be non-gender specific... I have found a very amusing dad blogging site which I point you all to! Check out, reservoirdad.blogspot.com for some insights in to the world of a stay-at-home dad; which are actually not that rare these days... I'm happy to say!

In the same vein I was discussing the sad case for children friendly male toilets with another stay-at-home dad friend of mine. I realised I have never thought about some of the simple problems dads face in our supposed 'dad-friendly' society! He was telling me how it's really hard to find clean male toilets that he can take his daughter to when he is out and about. Most male toilets also don't have a baby change table, unlike most female toilets... my little mind finds this very interesting! As much as we may try to move away from our gender stereotypes, there are still these simple societal pressures that keep our mindset stuck in female, male roles!

Anyway, enough of my diarrhea about toilets... on to much nicer news...

This SUNDAY 16TH AUGUST Fat Mumma's will be the the LifeStyle Market, showcasing Victorian Small Businesses, as Federation Square, Melbourne City, between 12pm and 4pm. I have new coin purses for sale and will also be handing out lots of info about is... and hopefully some show bags (although I have yet to get myself in gear to organise this!

Sleep tight...

Love

Fat Mumma xx