Exhausted.....

My little girl, that is. After our big weekend I mentioned earlier, with the sleepovers, we babysat today and she ran herself ragged- I couldn't help this pic, she went to bed with her new "toy" she found today. It was in her craft box, and she used it in the new pink glitter playdough I made for her and her friend. I trid to explain how rolling on a pine cone when she is asleep may not be very comfrotable, but hey, what would I know? She's looking forward to day care tomorrow, I think she'll get a rest! And speaking of unfinished projects, here is my big one- 12 quilts in various stages of assembly I want to get finished so I can move on to other projects! Some need batting and finishing, others have bias tape made and ready. I used up quite a bit of vintage chenille in these, and tried to use up lots of scraps- still have heaps left. My 'scraps' box never gets smaller.

A nice sunny day today, bit of wind but had my first 'clothes drying outside' day for a few months. I don't usually bother trying, but got heaps washed and dried and ready to fold. I'll leave that story for another time. Ciao.

Too cute

Finished the little gown I mentioned in the previous post, thanks for posting the pattern http://http://thismamamakesstuff.blogspot.com/2008/08/tutorial-t-shirt-to-newborn-gown.html (sorry, haven't worked out to change the lenght of thelink yet, if someone could help out I'd love it!). This was super easy and such a different thing to make for a newborn. I love the "Tag Team" on the back, boy, is parenting that or what!
It was a short sleeved t-shirt, so the sleeves weren't long enough, but it's a summer baby, sort of anyway. Other news is a girl's night out tonight. My faithful mum's group friend's and I are hitting the town, off to heae a band and drink beer and generally get up to mischief. Little Miss is having a sleepover at her friends house, homemade pizza's and The Incredibles on tv- who couyld ask for more? Both girls in this household happy.

Making presents

I had finished the pink zig zag quilt (see earlier post) for my friend having her bub, and had a night to spare- someone at work told me her favourite colour was red, so I made these too. Don't know if I overdid it with the ruffle around the leg AND the back ruffle, but my new motto is 'their can never be too many ruffles on a baby's bottom" so they will be fine. The front view is pretty nice too, I thought.
I thought I would try and make her a baby gown like this http://thismamamakesstuff.blogspot.com/2008/08/tutorial-t-shirt-to-newborn-gown.html. I like giving things that no one else has (der, why else would it be hand made, I ask myself), but also something a bit funky. She thinks she's having a girl (I hope she does after the girly goodies

I have made), she could swap it all for boys stuff, I wouldn't mind.

Big grown up daughter is having her first sleepover here at our house tonight, her 2 little boy mates, nearly 5 and nearly 3. They are all engrossed in "Go Diego Go" at the moment and being absolutely no trouble. They've had dessert and I'm off to make the beds up. I feel very domestic having extra kids in the house, and want to spoil them all rotten! Pancakes for breakfast....http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Good-Old-Fashioned-Pancakes/Detail.aspx Not for the dieters! Best pancakes ever.

A hard earned thirst needs a good old....

SPARKLER!
Cleaning up the kitchen? Reorganising the cupboards? Thinking life can't get more boring....?
Then you find the birthday box! Filled with candles and other exciting stuff, the sparklers were found from the first birthday almost 4 yrs ago. Who needs and excuse- I used 2.

I love the smell at the end of the sparkler, probably toxic and definitely addictive (I said I did 2, didn't I?). I wrote my name, and my girls name. Don't feel guilty she missed out- there are a few left. If she's ever up after dark, she'll experience them teehee.

remember 'throw downs'? They are my best memory of cracker night. That and trying not to get killed! I wonder what our children's equivalent is? After my Ikea jaunt the other day and four new candle holders, my girl now sleeps to candlelight, maybe she doesn't need the thrill of cracker night as she has candles each night. I have never had her sleep so quickly as now she has candles to gaze into......

2 quilts

Ok, here are the 2 quilts I finished off theis week...actually, tomorrow, I have binding to finish on the one on the left. The one below is a cute made up one- had the cowboy fabric from a shirt I made for my nephew, plus bargain bin ric rac and vintage chenille. Found the lovely backing in an op shop, I think, have had it a while. I am happy with the result, especially the binding! :)

Excuse the poor photos, it was night and the clothes airer was handy....

The one top left (added after and not in too bad a position) is an actual pattern, found here http://www.purlbee.com/zig-zag-quilt/ However, I forgot to add binding to the top and bottom, and made the squares 5 inch, as 4 and 7/8 was too fiddly for me on that day! So can't tell you the finished size, maybe a cot quilt size? This was is for a friend finishing up work this week to go on mat leave. When I started it is was just for fun, with no one in mind. It's good how that works out. The cowboy one will go to a stach of finished projects with no homes.

My mum sent me the chenille, it is new, from Spotlight. She has just started sewing with it, and didn't like it much, so I got the leftovers. Thought the zig-zag effect was nice, plus it's super soft.

Will post a few more finished ones during the week. I have about 10 cut out out the moment, all in varying stages of completion, waiting for the day I have a market or something.

Knock Knock

Ok, don't know what these pics have done, will keep going to see what happens. After my woeful blog yesterday (as in how feeling sorry for myself was I?) I packed us up and headed to...Ikea. Me and the rest of Melbourne. I thought there was someone famous there or something. Photo by 4 yr in back of car as we left, she is way too good at using my camera. I didn't go with anything in mind, maybe some inspiration, I thought...

and came across 2 of these baskets for kiddie's expedit bookcase- great for the Mr Men and Little Miss Collection. Took us 2 laps of the store to find them- I find going against the 'sheep' great, everyone got out of way! Little Miss Tired....



rested in the trolley, after a kiddie meal in the cafe. You could seriously spend a lot of time in that joint. I had ridiculously bad morning sickness with this one, and for some reason went to this Ikea- walking through the rug section STILL gives me nausea! She dressed herself this morning too- I thought it was a good look, I didn't dare mention the cold legs, but she didn't complain about them either.






Also got this cute little shelf, it now has the kettle on the top, and the toaster on the middle shelf. Was all too high for the top of the microwave, so is now next to it. The toaster crumbs (-more annoying than......I don't know what) can be swept out form underneath. I will keep the bread in the bottom rung, and maybe a teacup- cute!

Lastly, my favourite shopping mate, despite what I said in my last post!

Strategic seat belt too, how funny, she is a ham at the best of times, let alone when there is a camera. Here's a sample:
"Knock Knock"
Who's there?
"Courtney"
Courtney who?
"Courtney fish lately?"

As I can only put 5 pics (?) I will post later with my quilt pics

Single life

Feeling much better now, I went to work yesterday with an annoying cough, but able to function at least. Finished one and a half quilts, and more to do tonight. Having a general tidy up today, and little miss wet the bed last night lots of washing and new sheets to put on. Poor little tacker only does it once in a blue moon when she is exhausted. She had a sleepover at her cousins Friday and night, and has a ball, comes home exhausted though!

Sunday blues have hit me, I find the weekends so hard to do stuff. Working, running the house, all these things I do on my own, and I get a bit tired. During the week I have friends to talk to, can ring up or pop in for a coffee, weekends are very much family time, I find. Dad's home from work, wants top hang out with mum and kids, go visiting or do zoo's, museums etc. I find going to those places hard, my daughter runs around and has the time of her life, and I have no one to talk to or say "hey check that out". Hope I don't sound too whingy. I didn't plan to be on my own at this point, I expected a few more little tackers around too, so I often get a bit frustrated. Does anyone have ideas for me? Something not involving too much money is also handy. If I had unlimited cash flow, I could definately find more entertainment. Luckiliy little miss is happy with Ariel the Mermaid whilst I finish up the chores, then maybe in the car for a drive to somewhere. I'll keep you posted.....