About

Hi and welcome to my blog! 


Me, well, I'm a mum to three wonderful children, a wife and a Christian.  I'm from Belfast, N.Ireland and have now been living in Australia for nearly twenty years where I moved with my husband (also from Belfast) shortly after we married.  My parents made the same move after marrying, but decided not to stay, moving back to Ireland not long after I was born.  So I was actually born in South Australia.  The kids at school used to ask me to speak Australian when I told them this!  I hadn't a clue what they meant, having barely any memory of my time here.


I have always enjoyed being creative, whether it be dancing, drawing or sewing.  I've attended to Art College (Belfast), worked in the Civil Service in London, been to Secretarial College (Belfast) - (so handy to be able to type!), waitressed, trained as a Dance Teacher (Melbourne) and done a few other jobs and travelling in between. 


Now that my children are all attending school (6,9 and 11), I have found a little more time to be creative and so recently started up Little Eve.  This came about after making an apron for my daughter, as a Christmas gift, and deciding it might be fun to design some more.  It's a really great outlet for my love of beautiful fabrics and so much fun to see a finished product.


I love fabrics that are 'old-fashioned', but bright, cheery and colourful too.  Probably a reaction against a childhood in the 70's full of dull browns and muted oranges and beige!   


I was never exposed to a sewing machine at home and my first memory of sewing is sitting at an old, old sewing machine at primary school and turning the handle to make it work!  My grandmother was a great sewer though.  She earned her living as a Seamstress in the 30s/40s and crocheted up to her last days, so maybe I've been fortunate enough to have inherited a smidgen of her talent.  (Her father worked at Harland & Wolf Shipyards in Belfast as an Iron Moulder during the construction of the Titanic; what an amazing era).

That's some of me.  Bye!

Cathy xx