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Poppy had such a lovely birthday weekend that she started it at 4:30am on Saturday - mental note, do not have a party on a different day to her birthday! Dawn did a great job at her party if anyone wants to do  fun crafty day she is definitely the lady for the job! A Charlie and Lola story and giant cardboard cupcakes kept all the kids amused.

Katrina made her a fantastic hopscotch cake that she adored.

Of course I completely forgot to take a single picture until the last guest left (thankfully Dawn was here and took some), the compensation was at least it happened to be my  favourite photos ever … even if she does look like she is getting ever so big!

Unfortunately I didn’t have enough time to make her dress, not that she cared. (I did finish it though this week and she declared she hated it and would never ever wear it.) Then the school holiday craziness started. Imagine my enjoyment when on the first day Caleb came up with chicken pox spots and we were stuck in isolation for the first week!

I am still alive ..

….. I have a crazy work deadline of Friday …… a little girl who is turning 4 on Sat …… that has been up at 5am all last week in case it was that morning ….. and the birthday party extravaganza on Sun …. hopefully I will be back next week ….. or asleep in a corner

More Winter Dresses

First up the clever Katrina of Windsor Deli who is the master of desserts and Italian cooking (sugar and carbs how could we not be friends) got coerced on Twitter yesterday into some gnocchi making classes. My cooking needs any help possible and I couldn’t think of a more fun way to do it. Let me know if anyone of you would be interested and we can keep you in the loop.

 

 

Not to sound like I am too keen on myself but I have been loving the latest lot of Poppy winter dresses. I have used the same pattern for all and replaced the ribbon tie for elastic and button and done different waist ties. The hem length on the pattern is quite short as you can see in the first photo so it was lengthened for the second two. The pink cord is decorated with a crochet flower and some little cherry action on the denim dress pocket.

The purple echino was from the patchwork on central sale with spotty Spotlight denim pants from the last creative space post.

Creative Plans

This is not an unfamiliar story I am sure, I went into Spotlight to buy plain denim and ended up with loads more. Often due to the quality and other reasons that people love to bag Spottie and my aim to only buy fabric for projects usually I can stick to my list. While these were around $20/m I am happy to pay for something different and nice weight.

Plans are for some sweet special dresses, the spotty denim for pants, heart denim for a pinnie and the blue flowers has already made it’s way into the jacket. Now all that is left to sew it all!

 I also picked up these on the $10/m table from the Patchwork on Central sale.

More creative spaces in there new home.

Needle Felting

At the insistence of Brown Owls I seem to be expanding my crafty repertoire - first crochet and then last week I was lucky enough to join in with Cintia’s felting workshop. There is nothing as relaxing as poking the crap out of something with really sharp needles – LOVE. In 2 hours we all easily managed to make a macaroon and the sweetest little mushroom (which seems to be MIA ie. stolen by small fingers).

How could I walk away without my very own bag of woolly goodness and have started on a flower for Poppy and a Pokeball for Caleb (don’t ask). I picked up lots of earthy colours in the hopes of making some little creatures soon.

If you are in Melbs there was talk that Cintia may be persuaded to do more classes - fun, portable, not overly expensive  and stabby - what more could you want in a craft? Even if you wanted to just have a crack there are lots of great you-tube tuts as well.