Not Keen on Decorations

Christmas Decorations have never really taken my fancy but last Christmas a friend got me to find my style of Christmas. I found this on the Internet just recently and thought it was lovely so decided to make it. This wreath is the only decoration I have up right now. Maybe I will do some more decorating over the weekend.

Here is something from Stevie too, made from clay this time. Anyone guess what it represents?

Jules

Two little ladies

Hi there. I know I haven't blogged in like........FOREVER.......but I had to share these two cute little ladies I purchased from here http://www.lynetteandersondesigns.bigcartel.com/
Aren't they adorable????? And sew useful too.



Jules

Strawberry Shortcake

Did I make this?......................I think not.....................Of course you know who really made it.......

Little One's Birthday

Little one turned 9 on Sunday. Of course the cake was made by you know who.


She got a sewing machine. A half size Elna. Goes like a dream and does just enough for a young beginner.

She is still too short to reach the floor so Pop's stool is now hers to prop up the foot pedal.

A little ironing to finish


And TA DAAAA!!!!

Her first Item on her own machine

A Headband.


Thanks to Clare of Clare's Craftroom for sharing this lovely Head Band pattern. A fantastic pattern for a beginner, especially a fashionable little girl beginner.

Jules

Why did I do it????

Well I have started my Polytechnic course for Education Support (which is just a glorified name for Teachers Aid, lol) And boy am I overwhelmed. I have come to say goodbye for now as I just don't have time for blogging at the moment.



I will leave you with this beauty though. Another cake from Steven as promised in the last post. This was for a baby shower. A lovely moist boiled chocolate cake.

One more thing. 'Fame ' the stage show is absolutely phenomenal. If you have the opportunity, you have to see it. 'Jersey Boys' is also very good. Fantastic singing and great old songs.

Bye for now

Jules

and one more cake

I think Steve needs his own blog...........lol This was a cake for another friend at school.

By the way, his cakes taste just as good as they look. His next cake will be made at the end of April for a baby shower...................stay tuned.

Jules

Last chance giveaway

Hop on over quickly to Olive Grove Primitives for a chance to win a giveaway for her 1st year

Bloggerversary

Sweet Encounter

Today I met with a friend for lunch. Lots of us meet with friends I know, but this meeting was extra special for me as I met face to face, for the first time, an online friend. We met through a doll group first then started emailing and eventually phone calls. We both have 4 children around similar ages, we are around the same age, we love crafts and a whole lot of other things in common. Coryn used to live in Melbourne but is now living in Hobart. We met today in Campbell Town, half way point for us both, had lunch and a short stroll around some antique stores until I had to head home to pick up the children. I had the best time. The conversation flowed so easily but the time went soooo quickly. It was decided that we will definitely be meeting again.

And we both had the same idea of giving a gift. Coryn bought me some fabric and A Janelle Wind pattern. The fabric is beautiful and I love the bag pattern. I even like the wrapping paper. I will find a use for that too I am sure.

Thanks for a lovely day Coryn. Looking forward to the next one.

Bye for now

Jules

Taking a different path

Life has been busy for me lately but it has not included a whole lot of craft at all. I sewed these bibs a couple of weeks ago and the little slippers I made on the weekend. The pattern for the slippers can be found at www.stardustshoes.blogspot.com It is a free pattern. Thank you Joanna Armour . There have been a number of babies either born or still to arrive, around me lately so I have been making bibs, burp cloths and now slippers to give as gifts. The two bibs here are for Tommy Turtle, my favourite baby. The slippers are for a little girl yet to arrive.



This is a quilt in the making for the little girl yet to arrive, I have until the end of June to finish it.

And I thought I would throw this in. Of course another lovely cake made by Steven. He made it for a female friend at school. She was very impressed. He is making a hephalump next for another friend at school. I will post a pic when the time comes.

Well thats it from me for a while again I should imagine.

Jules

This site sound like it is going to be a lot of fun. Go and visit and enter the competition pictured above. Good Luck

Jules

100th Post

WOW!!! This is my 100th Post..............YAY It has taken me a very long time to get here but I made it. As a little thank you to you all for your lovely comments over the last 99 posts, I am offering my 'Odd Sock' bag pattern for free. It is not written as a professional would write it though so if you have trouble understanding it then feel free to email me questions. I will be only too happy to help you out.

I hope you enjoy it and a big thank you to Jenny of ELEFANTZ for the idea, encouragement and help to put my little pattern out there.

Just click on the link below and hopefully it will lead you to the pattern.

Tea Towel

Jules

tea towels and dress

Jenny of Elefantz, has a tea towel challenge for January. All you have to do is make something out of a tea towel. It is a lot of fun. There are so many pretty tea towels now days too.


I chose a tea towel, added some applique and floss.............

and made an Odd Sock bag....................

To hang in my laundry......................
Now all those odd socks have a home to wait in for their mate to return. With 12 feet in this house, there are always socks going missing............lol

I also made little one a shirred dress. So easy and fun to make thanks to Kuky Ideas.

I have two young men, young enough to be my kids I am sure, putting my dishwasher back in, after an unfortunate accident, and I am not sure they know what they are doing. I had better go and supervise I feel.

Bye for now

Jules

New Sewing Machines

Yesterday I had my two beautiful Nieces come over to learn how to use their New Sewing Machines. They were so excited and by the end of their first lesson they were dreaming of sewing all sorts of things.

This is Jac, Tommy's Mummy, learning to thread her new machine. Jac is married to my nephew Luke.


This is Bonnie pondering...............Now what do I do next?????..........................Bonnie is going to be married to my nephew Michael next year. WOOHOO!!!!

Jac is proud of her sewing and mastering the dreaded button hole stitch........................ Well done Jac.

And here is Bonnie showing off her button fastened by her button hole stitch..........Yay. Good on you Bon Bon..................See Michael.......she can sew.

We had a great laugh. I even refreshed my own memory with a few pointers I had forgotten about. Well done girls. I cant wait until the next lesson. We may even make something. I think the girls will be spending a bit of time at spotlight......................hehehehe

Now onto Stevens things.........................A swarm of Bees.......................Aren't they so cute. Clever boy.

Just a couple of pics

Well here we are in 2010. Happy New Year to all of you. Here are just a couple of pics of things I have been doing. Not much really.



We demolished our old kitchen.....................................


We have a new one now but it is not quite finished so you will have to wait for the finished pics.




I made an elf suit for Charlie out of an old singlet top, t-shirt and scrap felt. It was for her dancing groups end of year party. I even made the shoes.................................






We had a son turn 18 and of course Steven made the cake....................................







I made Tommy the turtle from an old bedspread and left over fleece,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,








And more recently I finally put my 'quilters blessings' stitcheries into a quilt top............................

Now I just have to finish it and send it away for quilting. I had to open a jelly roll which was very difficult to do you know.................so sad. The fabric is 'Natures Chorus'. I thought I had a crisis when I couldn't fit the strips the way I wanted but I just improvised and I love how it is turning out. I never measure anything I just sew then cut so sometimes I have to do strange things that would make a real quilter cringe..........hehehe But that's me........................



Bye for now

Jules

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