Mr. Cat you are so beautiful and so not mine. I hate you.

The other day Shane sent me a link to a girl called Mariet’s site – Kittens with Mittens. I went and had a look and nearly fell off my chair I was so happy. Mariet with her little Mariet hands makes the most beautiful handmade brooches and patches under her label called Poncho. If you don’t believe me have a look below and try not bleed awesome tears out your eyes whilst doing so.

I wanted to know from Mariet where her love of sewing and embroidery comes from, she says her gran knits like a demon and her mom is a constant source of inspiration and thinks everything she makes is so cool – Mrs. Mariet’s Mom, I concur. Mariet makes these pieces for a living and the rest of the time hangs out with her cats (geez friend your life rules). She draws all  her characters and scenes before she starts embroidering, but says that they never quite turn out like the drawing, they just kind of develop as she goes along.

So through my crafting questioning skills, I now know that Mariet lives in Cape Town in an art deco building, she doesn’t have a dog, a cat yes, but not a dog, which means her flat should be easy to get into. She keeps her finished pieces in vintage tins – No locks! Awesome! And she goes to bed at different times in the evening but only after she’s had some cookies. SO…. I think if I’m smart enough, I can follow her home, woo her cat with some stomach pats and a handful of fishpaste, leave an inviting and hopefully inconspicuous plate of cookies on her kitchen table and then wait for her to fall asleep before I make off with some tins full of material gold. In and out before the clock strikes 12 slash the police get there. I think this plan is genius and Mariet can you just pretend that you didn’t read any it? Thanks.

So Mariet has spent a whole day hand making the beautiful kitty cat below and it’s going to be given to one of you lucky guys. Just leave us both a comment on our sites and wish yourself some serious luck x xxx For those of you who want one right now, like me, you can order them straight from her.