Wordless Wednesday

I made these pj pants for Matilda!

And clearly they work... even if it is on the couch!

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Point + Shoot: Isaac on the Iphone

I should change this post from a thoughtful point + shoot and start calling it 'random iphone shots'!  Has anyone else found that with an iphone your actual camera hardly ever makes an appearance?

Sunday afternoon, driving home from Venus Bay in the car. 

I looooove how Curious George is safely tucked into his seatbelt.

Isaac's pen drawing of us.  Loving how he is doing his M's with the three strokes down and one across the top.

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This week I'm grateful for... sprained ankles.

Ok, so I'm not really grateful for the fact that I fell over myself at netball, landed on my face and sprained my ankle rendering me incapable of walking for the past three days, but I'm sure you'll get my drift when I say that by doing said fall I have had the perfect excuse to sit on the couch, catch up on Foxtel and crochet up a storm!

Just ordered the pattern for this gorgeous Grandma Daisy Cushion from The Royal Sisters,

and after a crazy hobbling visit to Spotlight for some wool this morning, the pattern and my crochet hook will be keeping me company on the couch today!

More grateful posts over with Maxabella loves....

My creative space...

I attempted to make my first softie this week.  I'm not sure it worked out as well as it could have and there are certainly things I will do differently next time.  I bought this lovely pattern from The Red Thread...

with this very sweet little face!

I actually wanted to make a trial Ooshka first since my sewing skills are quite questionable and so I have only used some cheap fat quarters from Lincraft.  I also didn't want to ruin that beautiful face above my sticking her onto a freaky doll so I tried to make a felt one (which the pattern gives you directions for as well).

Are you ready for her?

And her felty face.

And her scary bottom join.

So, some issues...

• Next time I wont use cheap iron-on stuff for the face.  It hasn't stuck very well and I would be reluctant to give her to a small person to play with in case her face got eaten off.  So praps I should have sewn her eyes and lips and cheeks as well as ironed them on.
• I definately would make her again as the instructions were really easy to follow but she really, really needs some nice fabric in her body and some embellishments, like a nice scarf round her neck and a flower for her hair (which the pattern suggests anyway).
• I need to know how to finish that opening off nicely.  Once I turned her in the right way and stuffed her I was a bit perplexed with how the professionals tidy up her bottom.  Tips anyone?

I'm actually going to buy the boy pattern as well since he comes with super cute little glasses and a cape!

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Winner!

Look what arrived in the post for me today....

Thanks FatMumSlim!  I won it by pledging my love for all things Ikea.  Which actually wasn't very hard at all since every room in my house has something from Ikea in it.  This book is full of 9 lovely Swedish homes that you can drop into and steal ideas from...

...which I wholeheartedly intend to do!

Wordless Wednesday... Almost!

Empty car seats at 9.15 in the morning can only mean one thing.... Mummy has some free time! New Frankie & coffee, here I come!

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My valentines message....

Every year on Valentines, I scour the papers searching for a message that I could pretend was mine.  My search of the paper this morning revealed success....

Surely I am the 'Sonia My Beautiful Wife'???  There can't be any other married Sonia's in Melbourne can there???

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