The fairy has been...

Alannah had a visit from the tooth fairy a few weeks ago. She was so excited to lose her first tooth! She looks so comical with a little gap!

Self portrait by Alannah

Now her new tooth is starting to grow in and it looks like she may have the misfortune to take after her mummy and have teeth entirely too large for her mouth. How unfortunate to inherit such an afflication! Sorry honey.

Imogen's Classic Quotes no. 2

[Don't forget to imagine this with a little lisp]

Imogen [mixing plastic bead necklaces in little jug]:  Look at these jellies! They normous, precious jellies!

Imogen's Classic Quotes No.1

Imogen [in a most imploring voice with a cute little lisp]: Mum, when you finished spatching Finn's moosh out the jug, can i lick the spatch-lia? Yeah? Mum? Yeah?

Me: Are you sure? It's carrot moosh.

Imogen [with same imploring tone]: I really like carrot moosh!

Imogen [licking spatula with extreme cautiousness]: It's a bit tasty and funny, specially when it's not mooshed up.

[huh? looks pretty mooshed up to me]

Finn + Food = Fun!

"Mmmmm yummy choccy icecream. Slurp!"

Yeah right... "Blurgh! rice cereal - how disgusting!" is more like.

For the last week this is what we've been doing. Heaps of fun for all! Finn thinks it is essential to accompany every meal with a relentless high pitched squeal, while letting delicious smoosh - which mama has spent endless hours preparing - dribble down his chin. We usually manage a couple of tiny spoonfuls before everyone has had enough of the ordeal!

Dribble, dribble, dribble

Practising dribbling on my new mama-made-it bib

Hi Honey... I'm Home

So it's been a while.

Over 3 weeks! I've actually been doing stuff instead of playing on the computer! hee hee.

Ooooo and look at my new header! My darling sis designed it for me. What a lovely present!

The girls are picking passionfruit! What? Passionfruit at the end of winter? I hear you say.
Yes well, our vine is slightly demented and thinks summer is such a boring, predictable time to fruit; why not stand out of the passion vine crowd and do it my own way!

He's churnin' 'em out man!

Ed's been making naan all day for a fundraiser curry night we are going to tonight. He's a one-man production line - no helpers allowed! [Unless it's wipe the benches :P ]




Even his choice of flowery teatowel basket liner!
I must be rubbing off!

Mushies anyone?

It was Ed's niece's birthday the other day. She turned 11, so I thought maybe a "makeup" case would make a cute gift.

Alannah chose the fabrics and directed the design and mummy sewed.

We also made some simple button hair slides and put in some lip balms and little lippy samples.

Even lined it!

I love how it turned out - though there's something awry with the zip. May have to do some homework on that one.

Knitty knitty (cheaty cheaty)

A bit of loom knitting... very quick and easy [heaps faster than real knitting] and actually something I finished! Never happens with knitting for me. There are lots of started-but-not-yet-finished-and-quite-unlikely-to-ever-be knitting projects around these parts. Something to do with crampy posture.


The bag in the background is one I sewed from a kit I received as a present from Mandy, my sis, which I finally sewed up a few months ago. [it may have been in my sewing box for say... a couple of years?] I love the jack and the beanstalk fabric.


Look! Arm warmies! And they are same size [well nearly - you can't tell when they're being worn]

Making Pressies

I've been sewing lately, making birthday gifts for friends.

I really love giving something I've made myself. It's so rewarding to be creative and be happy with the finished product.

Plus it means I don't have to drag the kidlets around town for hours searching for the perfect gift and come home with a headache, crabby kids, and a present that's not quite what I was looking for.

So making your own gifts = winners all round!

[just don't mention the upside down house, fabric everywhere, dishes not done, dinner not cooked, children not bathed ;) ]

This one's a reversible cover art journal. With a really sweet mini red polka dot for the inside flaps. And I even sewed in a little red taggy thing on the side. How professional!

And this is how I wrapped it. A few layers of tissue paper. Scrunched then flattened out again. Lay book on top to the side. Fold paper in half. Sew all around with the sewing machine. Easy. Oh and I first sewed a piece of kinda transparent, holey handmade paper to be a little pocket thing for the card I stamped.

This is a tool / knitting needle / pencil roll with some cute flower binding. It's so easy to make with a bias tape maker. Just cut a strip of fabric and feed it through the tape maker as you iron. Perfect!

I cut out a few leafy shapes and ironed them on with double sided fusible webbing, then stitched round them.

Some simple tote bags. My favourite fabric has to be the little red riding hood, how cute!

Ta-Dah

{deep breath...}

Here it is! "The Blog"

How exciting! How scary! What if someone actually reads what I write... what if no-one does... what if talk without thinking [like I do in real life]... what if people leave comments... AARGH!

That's exactly why I've been procrastinating [like I do best], reading other people's blogs, telling my friends to start a blog, taking photos to put on my blog,... but not actually doing it!

So here goes.....