finding a little patch of sunshine and getting my 'craft' on.
oops. should i have said my children and my husband!!!
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Breakfast.
breakfast.
normally cruchola mixed with all bran/yoghurt/milk
but always a strong, milky, sugary tea first
Friday, December 30, 2011
Happy New Year (almost)
I trust everyone had a lovely Christmas. I have been lying low around blogland - working, mucking round with the small people in the swimming pool (thanks finally to Melbourne's weather!)and trying to enjoy my husband's flexible work arrangements for the week. We have absolutely no plans for NYE tonight and I'm totally fine with that. I am refusing to make any resolutions of any sort since I cannot ever stick to any of them either and I am certain they would just end up being more of the same I always make... primarily, lose 10kgs, exercise more, eat better, drink less, blah, blah, blah!
I would like to try and blog more regularly though so I am starting off tomorrow with fat mum slim's photo a day challenge for January.
I would like to try and blog more regularly though so I am starting off tomorrow with fat mum slim's photo a day challenge for January.
Friday, December 23, 2011
Merry Christmas
Working in retail at Christmas time is such a treat. I did the midnight shift last night, finished at 9 tonight and will work till 5 on Christmas eve! Lucky I am all prepped and prepared and just get to giggle (and get paid for it!) at all those poor souls who are doing the last minute rush.
I just wanted to pop in quickly to say Merry Christmas to you all. I hope Santa brings you exactly what you want because you totally deserve it!
Eat, drink and be Merry!
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Quilting 101
There are no fancy sewing feet around these parts! There are no fancy instructions! There is loads of guessing and guesstimating! There is a vague knowledge that quilts exist and have a front and back and middle. And that's about where I am up to.
I bought a pack of pretty squares and sewed them all together. Who needs a quarter inch foot when you can just use the edge of whatever foot you have on your maching as a guide!? I went to Spotlight and had a nice lady tell me I needed cotton batting to pop in the middle and have just used some housy Ikea fabric for the back. I just pinned all three layers together and now I am about to stitch down the lines where all the squares meet - I believe this is called 'stitching in the ditch'! I am sooooo quilt savvy!
And look, here's an appallingly bad iphone photo of where I am up to!
I shall report back on whether this was successful sans walking foot on my machine!
A wee birdy also told me I might not even have to use bias binding on the edges of the quilt! Apparently if I trim it down nice and neatly round all four sides, I should be able to just fold the housy fabric over (like a skirt hem) and sew it down and use that as the binding!
Real quilters must be having a conniption about now!
Sunday, December 18, 2011
We survived our Santa Photo!
I totally want to get that printed on a t-shrit to wear proudly for the rest of the festive season, because 'survive' we did!
It took numerous bribes of chocolate, money to waste in the Timezone located nearby and in the end, me pretending to 'steal' Santa's bell for Matilda to even look in the direction of the camera! I honestly wish there were secret camera's set up behind Santa's chair catching the perfomance us mum's put on to get our children on Santa's knee and smiling. They are Oscar worthy!
And looky what I found yesterday in Sportsgirl of all places and on sale...
A Beci Orpin embroider your own cushion! Love it! She must have done a collaboration with Sportsgirl or something. They had some other cute things in there too that I could have gone troppo on but I find that store to bright and cheery and youthful for my liking these days. All those bouncy, smiley, half naked sales assistants can be very intimidating!
Hope you are having a happy Sunday!
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