Some recent sewing

I have a lot of things on my to-do list and finally, finally I am nearly finished a gift for somebody special who gave me a heap of flannel last year so I could make lots of raggy quilts. I don't think she reads my blog so I think I'm safe posting he pics here.

So I made a pair of warm winter pyjamas for both of this lovely Mama's boys - I'm a chicken when it comes to sewing stretch, so the tops are just from Big W and I appliqued (quite badly) their initial on each one so that they can tell whose pj's are whose! They are quite close in age so I made them the same size. The flannel is from spotlight.

Along with each pair of pj's I have a sock monkey - I have yet to make them - they are almost completed but just need their limbs sewed on. So I've added a photo of a sock monkey (same socks but different colours) that I have made as a special order for a friend overseas. I wonder if she'll read this and think "Oh it's mine!!" :-)

He was so lovely to make - I didn't use the machine - and it turned out so much nicer than my machined sock monkeys. For some reason (it's that stretch fabric thing!!) the seams just always seem to split :(. I never have a problem with the ones I've hand-sewn. Any ideas on what I"m doing wrong?

Haven't posted for ages so I just thought I'd let you all know that things are happening - I just don't have 36 hours in the day. I wish!

More Beanstalk action.

So here is how we are situated now. We have three clouds, from left to right is O's, mine and then E's :) She subscribes to the "less is more" school of design.

On the top is O's artwork - the Giant's castle with the Giant poking his head out. The Giant, as well as the O figure and the Mummy figure are all separate and have little cardboard sticks on them so we can make up stories and move them around. O decided he didn't want pegs on them - he wanted sticks. So there you go. Glad I didn't rush out and buy a bag of dolls clothes pegs!

And here is O, Mummy and their house.

Master O's version of the story is . . . .

Once upon a time there was a boy named O and his mummy. They lived in a house and one day the Mummy asked O to go to the markets to get some food. He came back with lots of vegetables and ice-cream for dessert. He grew big and strong because he ate his vegetables. Then they threw the beans out the window and went to bed.

Next morning they woke up and looked out the window (much throwing up of hands and exclaiming) and there was a GIANT BEANSTALK!!!! It was so cool. So O climbed it and went up to the top through the clouds. He knocked on the door and the giant was there and he said "come on in O!" He wasn't mean at all - he was a friendly giant. His name was Mr Friendly. Then O's mummy climbed up and they all had a cuppa tea.

The End.

I love his stories - but then I am a sucker for a happy ending :)

Jack and the Beanstalk

O was home from Kindy today - could probably have gone, but tomorrow is the last day of term 2 and they're having pizza and doing other fun things. So I'd rather he have a quiet day today so he can enjoy tomorrow :)


I saw this the other day via One Pretty Thing - this has to be one of my favourite online resources for cool things to make. I HEART it even. I know. It's serious.


Anyway - O has really been getting into the Jack and the Beanstalk story in one of his bedtime books so I thought this would be a great way to take up some time today.



Here is our beanstalk - I drew the rough shape on some old cardboard I saved (see my husbane??!! There IS a good reason to hoard all that stuff!), then I squirted some green paint on and the kids painted roughly where they were supposed to. Do you like my beautiful christmas-themed drop sheet? Then I cut around the shape with a stanley knife (NOT a box cutter as we live in Australia ;) )





Next we hung it up on the door in the loungeroom so that it can be a focus for awhile and be played with while I'm doing things in the kitchen.

Then we were going to use some old photos as the characters but I got such a look of disgust from my son! He wanted to draw them! So he did - and little sister wanted to be in on it too.






The concentration is palpable!

I will update over the weekend once all our characters are drawn and attached to either iceblock sticks or clothes pegs - haven't decided yet.

The sick house

Yes. Again.

But I have many plans to do many lovely crafty things so while I have O home from Kindy today we'll try and do something fun and when they have a rest I'll try and do something fun for me.

Does that sentence even make sense?? Meh. No energy to change it. Going to have a cuppa and blow my nose.

SEWN competition winner :)

I decided that I cold really do two draws - why not, right?? I drew the two numbers randomly (using the random.org random number generator) and got . . .


25


And that post belongs to . . . . . .


Tas!!

And the second winning number is . . . .


53

Digital Misfit

congratulations!


I will be contacting you both shortly to discuss what you would like :)


And thank you to everyone who entered :)

Just to remind you . . ..

I've just finished uploading some pics of my favourite pieces of jewellery I have made over the last couple of years. Mainly because some of you entering the SEWN giveaway were having trouble finding pics on my blog - and that owuld be because I didn't have very many up!Silly moi!

So the posts are now labelled better and you should be able to find pics to look at.

Now go here and leave a comment so you can be in the running to win some jewellery :-)

More jewellery pics

simple glass beads and silver-plated beads on tigertail.


Memory wire bracelet with cut glass rounds and hearts and silver-plated twisted tubes.



Indian glass beads on double-strand of black cotton.




Another wedding set for a different friend ;) Swarovski glass pearls, swarovski crystal rondelles and silver-plated wire. This is such a beautiful, elegant set. My photography (including setting up the backgrounds!) has improved a lot since then!