Ventilator Pouch 2

I didn't realise how big the ventilator was and so my previous pouch was a tad too small.   Here is the next size up!   Ample of room now :)

I even had room to turn it into the box shape as per the tutorial.

Ventilator Pouch

It's that time of the year again!  WINTER

It means my oldest has started his coughing again!  Last year it led to Bronchitis... This year I decided to take him to my 'good' doctor after three weeks of coughing...  Now he's back on antibiotics (get rid of that fluid out of his lungs) and on a preventative ventilator. 

Now that he needs to take this to school with him I thought I'd make him a zippered pouch to keep it all together.     The tutorial is from here. 

Dr Suess

 

Remember those floor cushions from a few posts back.....

 Well I made a few more!   Not for me this time but for my boys lovely library where I spend my every Friday morning :)

Blues

My posts are becoming quite sparodic as I weave in and out of the blues.  Some days are great and I am on top of the world!  Other days (many other) I spend overworking my tear ducts, continual pyjama days (they are soo warm and comfy), wearing out my bed and feeling sorry for myself!     Yesterday was another 'crap' day!   Managed to send the boys to school and got halfwalf way through my dishes when another tidal wave appeared!  The rest of my day was spent in bed and I got dressed just before it was school pick up time!  (Just in case another mum comes for a chitchat to my car...)
Hubby spoiled me and took us all out to dinner to my fav restaurant so we all had a healthy! feed.  (The flower shop he drove by didn't take card on the way home from work :) ).

Today was a better day, with the prospect of having someone pop in for coffee maybe.  So I got dressed...and tidied up here and there.  Despite my possible visitor not being able to pop around I found some motivation and completed! another sewing project.   I did have a surprise pop in by my mum who brought a lovely cake to cheer me up!  Thanks mum :).  More on my project another time...

Tote

Remember that post from last week, where I mentioned I had bought some gorgeous fabric from Stampin' Up?   Well of course I couldn't wait to use it!  So when it arrived, I spend the evening throwing together this tote for MYSELF :)

Did I use a tutorial?  Nope!  I have seen enough of tote tutorials to suck this one out of my thumb :)

A number of pockets are inside.....  I used a very thick interfacing/webbing so the tote doesn't collapse :)

Floor Cushion

Recently we rearranged furniture in our home.  Our lounge room has somewhat become our library now.  I made this cushion for the kids to sit on whilst reading.  Its the perfect size for little ones and big ones alike and if it's not enjoyed for sitting on, there is always that occasional 'pillow' fight going on.  I chose to fill it with beanbag filling.

tutorial from here, minus the piping.

Nappies

My little girl is always changing dolls nappies.  I am totally fine with that, its part of role play...   But what I am not happy with is is that nappies are constantly disappearing, and wet wipes are found all over the house!    I knew I had to do something about it, the wet wipes all over the house bothered me the most.  I still had a scrap of an white towel floating around, so I cut it into squares and used the overlocker to give it a quick edge.   I made four wipes, as I figured I didn't want too many of those floating around the house either :)    I then found an unused nappy box and placed them in there.

 Then the nappy, a quick search on the World Wide Web gave me this simple pattern from Cindy at Skip To My Lou

 and here you have it, a very domesticated daughter, changing her dolls nappy :)