Today

 

Today I turned 40!  Arrrrrrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh, sounds old!!!

 

It all started at 6am with chocolates and presents in bed, then cake for breakfast!

 

 

Once the kids were at school and preschool I went to a friends house for a lovely morning tea, felt like we were at the Ritz for high tea!  Thanks ladies was a fun morning and I came home with armfuls of great presents.

We didn't even get to the birthday cake so we all took a wedge home for avo tea.

My Cath collection is growing, roll on summer and picnics, I'm all set to go.

And this is what I bought myself, been using already, the hooks are lovely to use and I love the book.  Happy birthday to me!

Trug

 

 

I'm back, been slack, busy making for school fair, been away in school holidays and then away again!

 

My new trug, the next best thing to a lovely rimu one that I wanted but didn't fit my budget.  Its going to be great in summer, I always used to take a big bowl out to pick veges only to have it overflowing, then the dogs would wander off with cucumbers and tomatoes then I'd find them half eaten around the lawn!

 

I've just been weeding the garden and thought that last years spring onion flowers would be perfect for the picture!! And then the dog wouldn't get out of the photo.

Linking up with Max for OP-shop show off

Sunday Crafternoon

We borrowed this book from the library, its the first week of the school holidays and we had a very wet and cold weekend so it was good to have something to keep the kids occupied and me too!  We started on Saturday afternoon and the kids have asked to do crafternoon everyday since!  And they are big enoughnow to give them the craft box and they can get on with it themselves while I do some of my own craft.

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So this is what I made while they played with buttons, cut up fabric and fiddled about.  Lillie chose the buttons for their letters while Marco flicked buttons everywhere!  

I was given this crochet lady by a friends Grandma who moved into a retirement home, along with the pattern so may have to give it a go now I've found a very small crochet hook.

We've just taken a window out of Lillies room so now I can fill the new wall with some crafty art from our crafternoon sessions.

London quilt

 

We were recently sent a lovely pacel from my Aunty in England.  It was a pile of London themed patchwork squares so no time was wasted and I got straight to work sewing.

 

I labeled some of the things as wondered if the kids would know what a phone box was as there aren't any left round here and it broke up with black a bit too.

 

And the union jack turned out lovely!

And I discovered double sided iron on batting, it was great hardly needed any pins and it didn't move one bit!

Looks like I should have been weeding the garden instead of sewing!!!!!

Doily lampshade

 

I picked up a pile of old doilies from the hospice shop, hand washed them deliciately but a few holes still appeared after being washed.  I'm just learning to crochet so I'm starting to look at these doilies differently, so much work involved.



 



Then I covered a bare wire lamp shade for Lillie's room. Ta Dahhhh!

Linking up with Max for Op-Shop Show-Off

Chopping boards - Op-shop show-off

I found these old chopping boards with the original care stickers on from Marks and Spencers.  They have never been used and don't have a mark on them. Label said do not chop on flower side, keep for show and chop on plain side.

 

Nice and compact and retro for the caravan, might even hang them in there.

 

Linking up with Max for Op-Shop Show-Off

The missing tooth



 

The wiggly tooth has finally fallen out but she swallowed it in the night!  She came in early in the morning and wondered where the tooth was, think she thought that the tooth fairy may have already taken even though it wasn't in the tooth pillow.  So we hunted all through the bed and couldn't find so she must have swallowed it.  She didn't seem too bothered but got straight to work writing this note!  I axadentlei swollowed my tooth!!  So cute!

 



 

 

 

Now we're trying all kinds of excuses not to eat this and that cos the tooth has gone.  Nice try Lillie!

 

And the tooth fairy left a note and money saying its ok to swallow but next time hope it doesn't happen as she needs teeth to built things around fairyland.