Loving Friday

It has been a few weeks since my last Loving Friday so I have a whole week of loving squeezed into one.

Tuesday night was Brown Owls and Kirsty and Pip did a great job, including getting lots of crafting packs for those affected by the Bushfires. It was also great to catch up with owly friends from last year and some new ones too. Looking forward to the year ahead.
(Notice the dog eyes up the top)

Wednesday I got this beautiful package from Sophie - almost too beautiful to open. One brooch is a gift so has to remain Sammy Squirrel Secret and I think "I heart fabric" pretty much sums me up in a sentence. It is so super cute, as is all the stuff she does and really reasonably priced, - you must go see. She also did a great job raising funds for the Red Cross too.

Yesterday I received my, umm I mean Caleb and Poppy's beautiful animals that I won on Amber's blog. Aren't they just divine, an elephant, cheetah and rhino. They even smell good - you don't get that with plastic toys let me tell you. You have to go visit Amber too, she has not only a super clever man and the worlds cutest chickens and great kids activities and lives in a beautiful part of the world, but she also has a life philosophy I strive for.

I think I had better even out the Ying - Yang of life so here is my un-lovin' list.

I am NOT loving germs, Caleb has been down with a really bad fever the last few days and REFUSES medicine, makes it so hard. He seems to have a bit more colour today so hopefully he is on the way up.

I am NOT loving the heat and wind forecast for today and hope that the fires don't end as bad as they fear.

My Creative Space

It is still all about the gathering foot this week, here are the finished pants in action on Poppy. I am super happy with these little numbers and going to make a matching applique top.

Since I am a gathering machine this is a dress with frill bottom that I am working on too. Only 2.5 weeks until Mathilda's Market so I am a flurry of activity (read panic).

More creative spaces at Kirsty's place.

Eye Spy ... Love

Apparently we have transformed into "LL (ladies love) Caleb J" (sorry to the vast majority whom the LL Cool J reference left you confused). Last week was Caleb's first full 5 days and he seems to be fitting in really well. The week-ends are pretty quiet though as tries to wind down after holding everything together during the week. He has a couple of little dudes that he runs around with - and a new lady every day. He has got one girl that runs to get his drink bottle if he needs it. Another sweet girl is getting his hat! I don't know where they are getting these ideas, but it is certainly not from around here. OK so it is not really love but so innocent and sweet all the same. There aren't words to express how proud I am of him and how well he is adapting to his new "big boy job". He does have lovely manners apparently, maybe that is it or it could be that he has the longest eye lashes in the history of man.

Anyway here is some LL Cool J for those that want a bit of old skool hip-hop (and who doesn't really). I am hoping Iris + Lily will be able to choose for next week.

My Creative Space

I discovered that my overlocker has a gathering foot, and I got a little bit excited. Needless to say ruffle legged girl pants, mid way through construction, are making there way into my winter collection.

More creative spaces as this Creative lady's house, go visit.

Cupcake-poooza

The fabulous Potty Mouth Mama has tagged me to do a photo meme. The rules are:
"Open the 6th picture folder on your computer, open the 6th photo and blog it. Write something about it. Then tag 6 more people to do the same." I seem to recall that hers had cupcakes too - a little spooky.

This is Poppy's first birthday last year, as you can see I went a little mad with the cupcakes. I made so many of those little suckers, unbelievable. I even made some into little hedgehogs and ladybirds. They tasted so good though, I have vanilla with raspberry mouse, almond and blueberry's with cream cheese and chocolate and banana with chocolate icing. This lady has the best recipes EVER. My little birthday girl looks so tiny compared to now, and it wasn't that long ago. She wasn't walking or talking - that now seem to be her 2 most favourite activities! You may be able to see cupcake crumbles all around those lips - that hasn't changed.

Anyone that wants to play PLEASE do and let me know.