I have started a brand-new blog for all my crafty adventures! I would love to see you there!
I will still be posting here about my personal life, when it so takes my fancy!
I WON SOMETHING!!! ME!!! I ACTUALLY WON!!!
I WON ONE OF THESE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just wanted to share a few pics of this wall organiser I made for the teachers at Vera Lacaze Kindergarten & Preschool. All 3 of my kids went there, for a total of 5 years of attendance. This was my little way of saying thank you! (Please excuse the shocking photos, I took them very late at night after I had finished making it.)
For this top portion I made up a design using digital scrapbooking elements, printed it onto high-res paper and glued it onto a Kaisercraft wooden hanging album piece.
Here is the front of the top hanger portion as I designed it on the computer:
This is the back of the top hanger portion: a little note of thanks and the years of attendance of each of my three boys.
I love designing things with digital scrapbooking elements! I should make pretties more often and stick them onto wood, it always looks so good. I'll have to come up with some ideas of ways to incorporate this into practical items!
I've been away for quite a while. I needed a break. My blog was becoming a burden as I was trying too hard to make it perfect, have every awesome feature and, most of all, I felt like I was writing for others instead of myself. I can't let my blog become a burden, I want it to be fun and happiness and sunshine and lollypops! I'm going to write when I feel like it, share just what I want to and try really hard NOT to be perfect!
On another note, I've been doing a lot of sewing lately, and I've been really pleased with some of the things I've made. I really want to share what I've been doing and the progress I'm making. It will be interesting to look back in a few years to see my learning to sew journey!
As soon as I take photos of the things I've made I'll be uploading them. That always seems to be the part I miss - the photo of the finished product!
I hope everyone enjoyed my latest 7 Days Series - "7 Days of Silence". Heh. I guess I haven't had the most outstanding week of my life, these darn blue colours keep following me around wanting to swallow me. Bleugh. Today I felt somewhat improved however, and hope those little ne'er-do-well blues will leave me alone for a while.
Today I went with my two sisters to the Stitches and Craft Show at the Toowoomba Showgrounds. There was a lot of eye candy and cuteness to be had, not least of all among some of the smaller members of my extended family!
After my younger sister (Theresa) and I arrived at the show, we met up with my older sister (Maria). Here is her little daughter, Claire, in the most heartbreakingly cute outfit. I cursed my husband then and there for the olympic swimming capabilities of his Y-chromosome carrying sperm!
After meeting up we proceeded to peruse. My favourite stall was the Patchwork Angel stall, with heavenly stitchery and patchwork such as this.
I saw the pattern for the most scrumptious quilt I think I have ever seen, which I posted about in February.
I thought this was a cute little stitchery. Simple and sweet.
Cute, cute, cute! Theresa couldn't take her eyes off this little quilt pattern, and ended up buying it.
After a lot of oohing and ahhing over the patterns and materials, we strolled around the corner, and looked with great curiosity upon this quilting machine. Well, we thought it was a quilting machine. It is actually a quilting frame, which you can use with your own machine! The picture isn't very clear, but it's essentially a frame to hold your fabric, another frame to hold your sewing machine, and a hand throttle mechanism which squeezes the pedal. It has a guiding device at the front which you can fit into the grooves of a template so that you can quilt with perfection. Theresa and I were absolutely instantly in love. We found out it would set us back a cool $2800 (ish), and we both set to dreaming about an occasion which may materialise in which we would have this kind of cash to play with. Fantastic invention.
Next was more perusing. Maria has done some sewing, but not a whole lot. However, once she saw this wall-hanging she decided she loved it too much not to make it. She handed the pattern to the stall attendant and said, "Can you please get me everything on this list?" My knees just about buckled, until I realised this wasn't happening to me, and I was merely a bystander in this dream-like scenario. I won't divulge the final cost of course, but suffice it to say the penny was very pretty indeed.
Maria told me her 9 y.o. son is learning to knit, so he will be able to knit the little pieces the sheep are working on. Isn't that really cool?
While I enjoyed the show, I didn't have two bucks to rub together so I didn't look very hard. The temptation was too painful! I was extremely lucky, however, to have two über cute distractions in the forms of my nephew, Mr. Lincy, and my niece, Miss Claire Bear!
Thanks to my newly jailbroken iPhone I was able to take a couple of videos today (with the Cycorder app) so that I could share the cuteness!
This is Theresa with Claire, who was being very funny and eating Theresa, but who mostly stopped this as soon as I started recording. I was holding Lincoln while I was recording, who is also stunned into shyness by having the camera pointed at him. (This behaviour must be an unwritten code of babies and kids.)
After the show we had lunch at the shopping centre, where Claire was being a gigglepot, and Lincoln was having the best time making as much noise as possible! Lincoln reminded me of a definition I read of boys once:
boys (noun): Noise with dirt on it.
I just love being an aunty with older kids. I have two nephews and one niece. My older nephew was born 10 days after my own first child, so during that time I was too focused on my own baby to really enjoy my nephew. Which is all well and good. But now that I've had three boys of my own, and my youngest is nearly five (eek!), and I've discovered that it's so much fun to be able to enjoy my baby niece and baby nephew without worrying about a baby of my own. This must be almost what grandparent-hood is like - no wonder grandparents rave about it!
I'll be back very soon with my next 7 Days Series. Until then, enjoy the cuteness in your life!
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