Delfryn Rocking Horses

A few months ago whilst searching the net to find a rocking horse to buy my daughter for Xmas I was lucky to find the wonderful delfryn rocking horses. Below is some detail about their handcrafted horses, taken from their website:- www.delfrynrockinghorses.com.au.

Delfryn can paint your horse as a portrait of a real horse either living or passed away (reference photos needed) and we can use either style of horse for this purpose.
Delfryn now has in it's stable the new Unicorn I have been working on. Made to exactly the same standard of quailty all our horses caome with. Our Unicorn just adds some mythical element to our growing herd of quailty heirloom pieces.
We also, when time permits, make occasional unique horses that are offered for sale as special pieces. Please keep a look out for our newly finished Unicorn.
All our horses come to you with a Certificate of Authenticity and a Numbered Brass Plaque under its tummy. The inside of each horse has a hollow compartment and the brass plaque in itself seals the horse to form a time capsule.
Each horse then contains pictures of your horse as it was made for you. If at some time your horse ever requires restoration hopefully not for many, many years a reference will be available to follow.
We only use solid brass fittings on all our stands.
All timbers used in the production of all our horses come from sustainable forests.
Our turned stand post have a unique Barley Twist design exclusive to Delfryn.

I have posted a few photos. Thanks very much to Jeanette and looking forward to working with you to create a unique horse!!!!

Jimmy & Jo dresses and clothes

For a while I was making handmade clothes under a label "Jimmy & Jo" and selling them on ebay. Whist I had quite a few very dedicated customers and much positive feedback I was unable to continue due to various reasons - primarily the cost of handsewing such clothes as opposed to the completely unrealistic expectations of people re price.

A handmade one of a kind dress is hardly comparable with a dress from Target. High expectations of consumers v I do not want to spend any money!!!!!!!!! Anyway I am over that slightly disappointing experience and hope to rekindle this in the future somehow or other.

Favourite wallpapers

Osborne & Little, Summer Palace; Nina Campbell, Birdcage Walk, Osborne & Little, Monchique; Jocelyn Warner, Ovals; and O & L Volte-Face.

Handmade soft toys & cushions

These are two soft toys which I made for my son. I love the fabric on the fish which is by Heather Ross and has little goldfish swimming in plastic bags! I bought the fabric off ebay and there are other cute fabrics in the range featuring Kombi vans and bugs etc

Inke wallpaper wildlife

I am completely in love with these wallpaper silhouettes made from vintage wallpapers, made by a dutch designer Inke Heiland. I have two in my son's bedr0om - see above - and they are incredibly easy to put up - they come in a kit form with wallpaper paste to which you simply add water and mix and a brush. I was surprised how easy they were as I always thought wallpaper was very difficult to handle. I am very pleased with the result and the children love them!

For stockists see - http://www.inke.nl/

In Australia you can buy these from Tiny People http://www.tinypeople.com.au/ and

http://www.theinfantboutique.com.au www.minifashionista.com.au

Daughter's bedroom (mark II)

This room was originally the spare room when we bought the house, and of course was painted dirty white with a salmon pink trim. With the assistance of dulux antique white USA and a grey trim I then transformed it into a proper girl's bedroom for my daughter. Although this whole process took an excruciating amount of time I undid everything recently by moving her out of that room and into mine which is located at the front of the house and suffers from exposure to traffic noise. I have now thrown away the earplugs but have to renovate her new bedroom....

Most gorgeous lightshade

I love this lightshade by taska and am thinking about it ...