OK! OK!

Well I won't go then................lol How lovely it was to hear that you don't want me to go. Well I cant promise a regular blog but I will try for a monthly one.

Firstly I have been so busy helping out at the High school and Primary school. The little ones have been doing 4 weeks on craft. The teacher wanted to show them some 'Olden day' crafts. Now we think back to the horse and cart days but these poor little ones think 'olden days' is when their parents were children...................lol.... We soon put them straight. We went on an excursion to an olden day school farm. The children got dressed up in prairie clothes and had to attend class with Mr Grumpy, who acted out the old time school class routine. They had a lot of fun as well as learning how different it was back then.

I have been doing a church doll with them, they made clay marbles, a wooden plane, french knitting and finger knitting. It has been so much fun. They are showing their crafts in assembly on Friday.

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Little one needed a new ballet wrap so after much hunting for a new one, unsuccessfully, I scanned her old one and made a new pattern from that...............I have never done anything so bizzare before but look how it turned out. It cost me $4.49. I am so pleased with it and so is little one, as it is her 'dance school' colours.

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Steven, little one and I have also been making 'pin toppers'. They are so much fun. It does pay to read the label though before you buy the sculpey. I thought I was buying white but it was actually transparent. That is why some look a bit strange. But they came out ok.

Stevie's toadstool and cup cake

Little Ones pin toppers................she so clever.

done with transparent even though it looked white to begin with.....silly me. I was making a cupcake but it turned into an icecream.

Teapot and cup done with real white.....hehehe

The cakes are done with the transparent. It starts off white though.

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And lastly pop over to Claire's Craft room as I made her sewing machine apron which was in this months Handmade mag. Clare has a pic of it on her blog along with some others. The pattern was so clear to understand and was just what I was looking for. She does some beautiful work.

Any way thats it my friends.

Until next time........Take care

Jules

leaving

This is a pic of the 'eyespy' quilt I made for my great nephew. It was the first time I had ever done machine quilting and I didn't do an awful job. It isn't brilliant, but it's not awful. I like it.

This is probably going to be my last post also as I really don't have anything to blog about. I enjoy reading all yr blogs but I don't have time to do my own and found that I don't do anything of interest for blogging anyway. I have enjoyed reading yr comments and I thank you all for visiting.

Jules

blog block

Heard of 'writers block'?, well I guess I have had 'Blog block'...............lol.

The last few months have been a wee bit of a roller coaster with sickness with the family and myself, a couple of deaths, a marriage breakdown (not mine) and on the positive side, a new baby. On the 2nd of September my new great nephew arrived. I had to wait until he was 9 days old to see him because of my bugs. It was worth the wait though. He is so beautiful............

This is Thomas.

Little one also had her dancing comps at the beginning of September. She did her very first jazz dance on stage. I was so proud of her. She danced to Strawberry Kisses.

Yep...I made the costume. I really am enjoying the costume making now. Not as scary as I first thought.

Well that's it for now

Jules

He's done it again

My son never ceases to amaze me. Long story short, I was in charge of buying the sewing teacher, from Steve's high school, a mud cake for her birthday and Steven decided it would be better to make her one. So the night before the cake was needed, he came up with the idea of a messy sewing basket (hers is always in a mess because the students get into it like little mice and muck it up). He made all the sewing accessories and the cake on the Friday night. The next morning he iced the cake and filled it with the accessories. The teacher was pleasantly surprised and amazed. So was I. Steven is just getting too good.

Jules

Musical 18th

Stevie has done it again. He was asked by a friend if he would make a guitar cake for their son's 18th. He accepted and after looking at the receivers guitar, made a replica. He got paid for this one.

He is so clever

Jules

there were 5 in the bed...................

and the little one said.........................cough, cough, splatter, spit................lol

5 down, 1 to go. 5 of us have had the flu over the past 10 days. We have never been so ill.

Any way, enough complaining.

10 days ago I had the pleasure of attending my niece inlaw's baby shower. I haven't been to a baby shower in years. It was so much fun. There were four young pregnant women there at different stages. Of course I had to touch all their bellies and say hi to the bubba's. I am sure I must freak some mums out but I just can't help it...................lol

I only had three days to come up with some gifts for our 'mum to be', as my invitation got lost in the mail. Typical Australia Post. Luckily I was chatting to my sister who asked if I was going or I would not have known about it.............lol. Here are the items I made her.

Little one made the card.

snoodle doll

huge bag

burp cloths

On Wednesday when Little one was feeling better, she decided to make the doll I bought for her on her birthday last month. She only needed a bit of my help, sewing around curves and cutting the pattern. She did the rest.

Gather your supplies


start sewing

Stitch a beautiful face and stuff the doll

Introducing...........Ruby.

Jules

New to me

While away in Sydney, did I mention Rose and I went to Sydney???? hehehe Anyway, Sue, who we stayed with, taught me a crochet technique I have never seen before. It is called 'broomstick lacework'. It involves a very large knitting needle and a crochet hook. I used a 12mm needle and a 4.5 hook and made myself a beautiful scarf. I love this technique and hopefully will do a baby rug soon.

Sue was using a 15mm plastic needle but I found it too slippery to work with so I bought a wooden needle. I could only get a 12mm at the time but I am very pleased with the end result.

Now I have a little story to tell.........................................

Whilst in Sydney, I went off to take a photo and asked Rose to look after my Banana Bread

I turned around from where I was and zoomed in to take a photo of Rose and look what I spied.................................................

Rose texting............Banana bread alone................

A Pigeon lurking...........................

Rose still texting...................banana bread still alone.................A pigeon swooping

'Was that a pigeon?'...........................

"Nah just my imagination.................mmmm Banana bread'...................


Well I never!!!!!!! I should not have worried about the pigeons.....................

Hehehehehe..................Just joking, Rose had her own banana bread but it was so funny. Sorry Rose. Just too funny not to share....................love ya

Jules