I then using the ideas from the creative family for making a pair of pants made these for emily. it was so easy, i used a pair of her pants as a pattern and i was off. The demin is light weight and stretchy so perfect for me so i just added elastic for the waste band. PRETTY is all she says when she looks at them,. (excuse the photo...hard to make a nearly 2 year old stand still and in the light lol)
And then i moved onto this. This apron....a version of this sits on the wall of the material shop and i stare at it every time i go. It is well worth going to your local material shop and getting to know the people that work there....they r so full of information and willing to help, so unlike spotlight where they often have no idea what will and wont work. After i bought my material the other day we were talking about what i could do with the scraps and she suggested the apron knowing that i always stare at it! lol...she then pulled it down off the wall and talked me through making it myself. I was very happy with this...i used an old apron of lillys as a pattern for the top. and was very happy with the frills and how it all worked out. Lilly loves it! Emily is gettong one, im going for some lime green gigham fabric tomorrow.
And heres is one of our art on the go bags...its just a draw string backpack bag. one panel folded in half. I did line it.
How is it u can keep your sewing secret through 8 years in brisbane and live in a small town for just 4 months and the secret is out lol here is an art smock for preschool that i have been working on...i have one cut out and on the table ready to stitch tonight.
i hope everyone else had a productive weekend too.. :)
also been making these cute little rolls for the pencils to live in
and coveriing some of our art journals
no scrapbooking yesterday but thats for tonight, i have a scraploot dt comp challenge to catch up on
will be back to share that later tonight!
right now im off to make some bread with lilly
When we woke up this morning their was a rainbow in the sky, their was some blue sky and the sun was trying to poke through and the clouds were rainy grey ones (which have now started to rain down on us. and its really come with a cooool turn in the weather.)
I went thrift shopping yesterday for something we could use as an art cupboard. Came up empty handed. I moved onto the second hand shops and found this white set of drawers. So i picked them up for $49 and they have become our art drawers. they r of course half empty but i dont think that will last long. I wish i had always had a cupboard that was for storage of art supplies now that i have this one. Its so tidy when u have a place to put everything! derrr. I think we will rib them back a bit to expose the wood underneath and give them that weathered look.
and lastly, our art display...we would love to attach a rail with hooks but seeing as we r currently living in a rental i went with command adhesive hooks, some ribbon from the stash and some wooden pegs. Its serving a great purpose....: )
well im off to join lilly, emily should be asleep by now fingers crossed and lilly and i are watching enchanted.
ps guess whos climbing out of her cot at 22 months...many months longer than lilly at 19 months, but still it looks like we pack away the cot today or tomorrow for what might possibly be the very last jones child we have....its a bit bitter sweet for me even thou i am enjoying emily at the age she is now...my sad to say farewell to this stage in my life....here somes the toddler..and the toddler bed as well
here r my two cuties on the planeon the way home, i caved and bought the pay tv...at 7 in the morning when they had been up since 5 it was the best decision i made the whole trip.
I HAVE BEEN READING THIS....oh my god fantastic book. we r already putting things from this book into play in our home. If you have children i guesson the smaller side its well worth the effort of tracking it down and buying it. I got it in australia after much searching from http://www.booktopia.com.au/ for minimal money too. it took about 2 weeks i guess to come from the states. i am loving the new lease of life its given me and the changes in our daily life its helping me make...and all for the better~!
here is lilly finger kniting, which is an activity from the book and the first step for me teaching lilly to knit. handing on those traditional crafts that my grandmother taught me. we have some sewing planned this week also and some drawing in brand new art journals with lovely art supplies that we shopped for before coming home. and today on the way home i shopped for some material supplies to make us all some art on the go bags. i will share some of my making later on...crochet a scarf on holidays and started a baby blanket for a friends first baby, most of my friends have something handmade from me for their babies.
the close up certainly looks alot better than the whole layout!....on a time limit with this one i was, and well the creativity just didnt flow, mine is else where...its ok but certainly not dt comp quality in my eyes. but oh well as i said no time to wait for it to happen it had to be done today and today only
because
tomorrow we FLY home for a weeks visit...woohoo....we leave tomorrow night, but lilly still has preschool, and then the 2 hour drive to get to the airport and well i havent actually packed our bags yet! So no time to fix dt challenges tomorrow im afraid. we r however looking so forward to going home for a little visit. Just me and the girls, but we have grand plans for a week of social butterflying...: ) including a visit to the scrapbook convention on sunday and a creative photography class as well....again i say woohoo, im right into my camera at the moment. and excusing todays photo of the above layout for the scraploot gallery {edited : i just fixed it i couldnt stand the yukko photo upthere} im actually getting better (i just didnt have time today to deal with getting a better photo) best part of doing the photography class i need no tools cause i couldnt handle kids stuff, scrap stuff kids and myself all on my own at the airport and well my camera will be coming anyway so it so suited me. I will post some of our queensland adventures next week, it all feels so shiny and new when u havent been there for a few months....and while for u qld'ers it might be cold....its a big 10 degrees warmer than here most days so i say bring it on!
have a great week everyone
sorry about the pic of the layout. had to use the flash its dark and rainy here today
im going to work on the scrapjack today, something else just for fun! be back to share later
ok heres the shot of lilly i took before i left home the day before...i love the photo and once upon a time would of happily printed that out and scrapped....but i have been playing in photoshop for some time with NO knowledge at all about what im doing or should be doing....hence going today
and heres the outcome....I LOVE IT looks fantastic printed and so different
it now sort of has that slight professional feel to it....i cant wait to scrap it...and i have it here to scrap buti am thinking on tuesday when im back in ballarat that it would probably look fantastic printed on matte paper at the photoshop...so imgoing to take it in and have it printed properly i think if i can wait that long.. :)
also a big thanks to by dear dh, who stayed home with the kids today...not something seemingly unusual but today was a big deal as he is a person down at work and as the boss has to go pick up her slack AGAIN!! needless to say this was the last straw with her and she was sacked. so i thank him because he will have a late night tonight doing things he could of done during the day for the mothersday function tomorrow.
i love this photo its just so lovely, we r hoping to print it out and send it to aunty sam shortly who has just moved to canada for the next 6 to 12 months. of course emily wasnt really into cooperating, not knowing people is hard for her. by the end of the week she was doing really well with nanna jones which was nice
and som quick close ups of some of the elements i designed and cut with the wishblade
i still have half or more of the kit to work with. I love these photos of emily...hehe...peek a boo is a favourite in this house except she cant say peek a boo, so for us its just boo boo. Not the greatest photos but she is so quick at it when she knows u want to take a pic. she is getting such a funny little personality
most of the lovely product is from my new lss that i finally made it too today. the imagination factory. its a sweet little shop in ballarat. im all booked into the sunday crop there in a few weeks. check out their blog http://www.theimaginationfactory.typepad.com/ im loving lots of the new products that r out atm
We were off and away from avoca this morning thinking we would be able to do some shopping and decided today we would go to bendigo instead of ballarat. Future note to self...bendigo has limited shoppingo n a sunday...we did get to big w which was something ihad to do and office works for a sharpener that was nicer than a normal one LOL...i hate sharpening endless pencils. After that we took lilly to mcdonalds. She has missed out on going a few times lately as she hasnt been behaving so well in the car, today she was perfect and we finally got to go
we all had to wear helmets with lights. dan and i had the big led light lights and lilly got to wear this little one which she played with for 45 minutes and i was continually turning it back on and telling her to leave it alone. She was a little scared i think, we saw allt he mine equipment much of it still working so alot of it was demonstrated. Its all quite loud. Emily slept throught the tour and poor dan had to carry her while holding her helmet above her head!
