Tuesday, October 27, 2009

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






































5 comments:

Vickie said...

yeah yipee doin the happy dance..oh my you have been very creative and busy..you did a magnificent job of your daughters warp well done....the pin toppers look rad,your machine apron is gorgeous love the fabrics you used,cheers Vickie

Pauline said...

yeah jules..welcome back..good on ya...
hope you are well mate..been a while..once a month is acceptable..ha ha...
cheers

Rose Johnston said...

Keep sharing hun!! You do great stuff, your just far too modest!! If I petition for Farmtown to come over to blogger you could do both at once lol
Wish I had of known u needed the wrap, Maddis old ballet ones are floating around her somewhere...clever job though!

Sarah said...

Oh Jules.... I havent dropped by for ages, sorry! Didnt know you were going to leave us! I am glad you decided to stay! You are not pressured to blog every day or every week.... just when it suits you!
LOVE those pin toppers... you guys are SO clever! You should whip some up and go to the markets
x Sarah

Teresa said...

Hi Jules, I'm the Teresa (not the other Tereasa) who made the block keeper! (she passed the message onto me!) I am seriously thinking of posting the tutorial, but I am heading off to Melbourne for a week, so I will be MIA for a little while. Just thought I'd let you know... and by the way.... glad you decided to stay in blogland!