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 :)

Stampin' Up Fabric

I attend a craft class every week... we make cards, we chatter away, we have drinks made for us and plenty of nibblies to eat....  Great fun!!  On top of it is that my little girl attends creche at the same facility! 

Anyway, our 'boss' is a stampin'up demonstrator, and by and by  I found out that Stampin' up sells fabric!!!    "Woohoo" I shouted!  Fabrics - pre-matched - is what I need!  I am useless at matching colours together...  (the cards we make are kit form so all we do is stamp away and stick things together and basically copying a sample).

So here is a swatch of colours for your taste buds.  Soon you can expect to see a project containing these fabrics! 
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a Facelift

about three months ago now I had some work done on my face.  You see...there is this deep groove between my eyes and the more I frown (I tend to do that a lot! :) the deeper it gets!  It became a constant frown, and there was some type of pressure between my eyes to keep on frowning!    I found it was time to do something about it!!

 So I had a visit to our local beautician who have a Dr that comes out every now and then and performs botox......Yes, I had botox!  It took two shots of botox and a filler to start lifting this groove out!

  Here I am just after the treatment.   It was a tad tender for a few days, like a massive bruise on my forehead.  I am just glad that it didn't go purple as the Dr suggested it could happen.

 anyways, here I am.......with a whole lot of a happier face...  The crease will never totally go away  (see it as a sharp paperfold which is very difficult to get out), but it has definately lessened.  Now there is less frowning and less pressure between my eyes!! 

Passport Cover

Remember the suitcase tags I made a while ago for one of my boys teachers?    Here is its matching passport cover! 

and here is the pattern from Sew Mama Sew.

Stilts

Here is our little girl joining in all the fun :)

 and here Oma and Aunty A arrive, dressed up as cowboys...

 aunty A made her own cowboy hat!

 opa couldn't make it, but he handcrafted our boy some stilts!! 

now its time for lots of balancing to get the right walking in motion!

Lasooing

I made some lasoos of ropes, and whilst some of the boys rode the horses, the others tried to lasoo them.  Anything with running and catching for boys is always fun!!

This wild brumby was especially wild...check out his ears, flat back with an angry look!

 even this little one was a tad worried about the wild cowboys around!