It's giveaway time!!!

Head over here to see what Retromummy is giving away! While you're there, check out her shop. Lots of gorgeous prints and designs...

Bow competition.

I've just come across this competition here. I'd love to win some cute bows for my little Miss "does my hair look pretty today, Mummy?"

Go on over and have a look. There are some gorgeous designs. I think I'll find it hard to decide which ones I'd like!

Family Fun Day.

Today we decided to have a family fun day. There was a lifestyle show on down the road so we went along. It was small but there were some Chinese Dragon's doing some dancing.

And the giant wiggly worm was 'so much fun!'

Afterwards we went to a little park to eat some lunch. I got to really test out my new camera today. I love it so much!

How was your Sunday?

Pincushion Organiser

My Mum mentioned that she needed a new pincushion. I'd seen this organiser on sew,mama,sew! and had wanted to try it out for ages. Mother's Day was the perfect motivation for me. Here is the one that I made for my Mum. I had raided Mum's stash years ago and have always loved this vintage fabric.

After making one for my Mum, I decided to make one for myself. I used one of my favourite Sandy Henderson fabrics and it always makes me smile when I see it.

I made the scrap bag slightly different to the pattern but it works just as well. Notice the cute little decorative stitch. I really should make more use out of some of the decorative stitches that my machine can do. There are some really sweet designs on there.

Aren't these the cutest pins you've ever seen??!?

This is a great pattern to try. The instructions are clear and simple and it took me just UNDER an hour to whip one up and that includes cutting out!

It's not only great to use at the sewing machine either. I use it when I'm hand sewing/embroidering so I don't leave pins stuck into the lounge somewhere. It means that my quick unpick and scissors don't fall between the cushions/under the lounge/on the floor or under my butt LOL.

You really should make one of these. Go on. You know you want to. If you do, let me know. I'd love to see it!

Easter Time...

Easter this year was a quiet one. We woke up to find the Easter Bunny had left a trail of mini Easter eggs. Emily thought it was so much fun collecting them in the basket!

The trail led us to the table where the Easter Bunny had hopped all over and left his footprints! He left some winter clothes and PJ's and a Humpty Dumpty Egg.

Once Emily had collected all the eggs and opened her Humpty Egg and ate "Just one bit Mummy, ok? Just one!" we gave her our present from us. A Dora Vanity. I am not a fan of licensed products and infact I will go out of my way to NOT buy them but I just couldn't NOT buy this. It was heavily reduced in price and I just knew she'd love sitting there looking at herself in the mirror and styling Dora's hair.

This is the reaction when she saw what it was... Jumping up and down saying that this is what she has always wanted and it's her 'FAVOURITE in the whole wide world'.



She's so proud of her little vanity. I still don't like licensed products.

I hope you all had a safe and happy Easter.

I have a new addiction...

I've been sewing for awhile now. Mainly children's clothes. Sometimes clothes for me (not nearly as much as I'd like though!) and various other bits and pieces for the house. I was never really interested in quilting until I made this quilt for Emily. Now I'm slightly hooked. So hooked infact that I joined a quilting/patchwork group. I love that I can go and spend a few hours talking to people about something that I enjoy doing and learning lots of things along the way. They are mostly older ladies but there are a couple of 'young'uns' there too ;) Here is my progress so far.

I'm making the 'Joys of Springtime' quilt. There is lots to be learnt making this quilt. I'm looking forward to learning how to embroider and doing some applique. I'll try to blog my progess on here.

Onto something other than sewing now...

This is what she calls the 'Princess Hairstyle'. She loves different hairstyles. I'm often asked to do 'braids' or 'platts' or 'piggy tails' or even a 'bunny tail'. I'm just grateful she'll sit still for me to do all those things!

Gimme Gimme!!!

Do you want to see some sunshine? Check this out! GIVEAWAY!

It's so puuurrrty. I love it. I want it. Dare I say, I neeeeeeeeed it...

Haberdashery Swap.

Valentines Day was swap opening day. I was so excited when the day finally arrived! My swap partner was the lovely Ingrid from Lottielulu. Ingrid sent me a gorgeous package full of lovely pink goodness. I received some pink ricrac, pink ribbon, pink velvet ribbon/trim, pink binding, pink buttons including some very cute Hello Kitty ones, some pink fabric with sweet bunnies on it and a pink tape measure! I must say, I am very excited about the pin tape measure because for some reason all my tape measures seem to disappear into some kind of abyss. Now with my new pink tape measure I can see it clearly on my table (the white ones that I have blend into everything) AND I know that DH wont 'borrow' it ;).. It's MINE!!! ALL MINE!!!!

Thank you so much Ingrid. I love everything that you sent and I really appreciate the lovely handmade card you made as well. It's nice to add a special little touch like that. Here is a photo of the lovelies that Ingrid sent me. Thanks again Ingrid :)


My swap partner was Natalie from GoMama. Silly me forgot to take pics of what I sent so I hope that Natalie managed to take some to share.

This was a fun swap. I really enjoyed this one. Many thanks to Karen for organising it.

EB Haby swap...

My likes:

• Colours pink (I love pink ANYTHING!) and green.

• I'm a girly girl.

• I sew all different things (children's clothes, clothes for me, bags, quilts, lots of things). This year I plan to get more creative and try new things.

• Vintage anything.

My dislikes:

• Fluro colours.

I'm so excited to be part of this swap. Thanks so much Karen for organising!!