Not being slack..

... I promise.

I have a few posts to catch up on, we've had a bit of trouble with the internet this end of the country... Grrrrr... But I will be back a little later with a few posts that I'm missing out on. With not having the net, I managed to get quite a bit cut out and sewn together.

Blog-a-long Day 9. - Baby capsule cover.

Just a little makeover for a tired looking doll's baby capsule.

It was my baby's 3rd birthday today, and he wanted a baby for his special day. He got his baby, as well as an old doll's capsule that I had lying around from my step daughters. It was in desperate need of an update, so I made this Thomas the Tank cover for it. My next job is to make a little pillow and blanket for baby.

The Thomas cover.

 

The jellybean ruffles around the outside.

 

and last but not least, baby in the capsule.

Blog-a-long day 8. - Secret Santa Bag.

Well here it is. Part of the present that I'm sending to my EB SS.. The bag hasn't come up as good as I wanted it to, but I tried something new with it tonight and put some velcro in. Might take some time I think to get it working properly. I'm still happy with it, and I hope my SS will be as well. Going shopping tomorrow to buy the rest of the stuff and send it all off.

 

Blog-a-long day 7 - birthday cake.

Ok so I'm here, better late than never I guess..

Have had one heck of a day, had planned on doing some cutting out tonight, but that got put on the back burner, to make way for a birthday cake. My baby is turning 3 on Wednesday, and his Day Care lady is putting on a birthday party for him at day care tomorrow. So being that it's going to be a pirate theme, I thought I'd better make, or attempt to make a pirate ship for the cake. OMG MASSIVE disaster, it looks nothing like a ship, but it will have to do. I'm not going through that again and making another one. lol.

please excuse the crappy photo's, for now, they were taken on my web cam, as the battery for my camera is dead. ooppps.. Going to charge it overnight, so will put better pics up tomorrow.

Blog-a-long Day 6. - Photo's.

Ok so no sewing stuff to show off today, but thought I'd throw in a few photo's from our trip out and about today. I just love the vastness of the South Australian country side. We went on a picnic and lovely Sunday drive, down through Cape Jarvis, Rapid Bay, Normanville, Myponga, Sellicks Beach, Goolwa and then home to Victor Harbor. It was lovely.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blog-a-long Day 5

Nothing to show today, although I can tell you that I'm madly working on the quilt cover, as it needs to be finished by Sunday next week. Hopefully will be back tomorrow with a few photos of it.

But I will update my list for Christmas.
K's skirt 25th Dec cut out

P's skirt 25th Dec cut out
P's Bag 25th Dec
P's bday present 14th Dec working on that now
L&P's Christmas Present. 15th Dec
Gr's Christmas Present. 25th Dec
J&V's Christmas Present. 25th Dec
Mu's Christmas Present. 25th Dec
Us Christmas Present. 25th Dec
EB Secret Santa bag 1st Dec cut out

Blog athon day 4.. - Quilt.

Yet again nothing finished to show off but, I do have some of the quilt to put up. I was up till 1am this morning trying to get quite a bit of it done. I've done about half so will try and get the rest done in the next few days. It's looking really good so far, and I'm happy with the way it looks..

Advent Blog along Day 3.

Hey there... Nothing to show at the moment, although I did manage to get into Spotlight today and get some gorgeous material to make my step daughters bag for Christmas. Now to just work out what pattern to make for her, maybe I'll just stick with the backpack like I did for her big sister. This is the material that I got for her anyway...

Secret Santa.. - Day 2 Advent Blog along

This year I joined up to the EB Secret Santa for one last try. The last 3 years that I've been a part of it, my stuff has arrived about 4 weeks late, and really crappy $2 shop stuff. I know that it's the thought that counts and all that, but after the time and effort that I put in to all my presents, I still felt a little miffed by it all. So I thought I'll give it one more try, and OMG I'm sooooo glad that I did. I got the most amazing presents this year. So a huge thank you to ~Jane05~, I don't know if you read this, but if you do, THANK YOU so much, the present was absolutely amazing.

These are the Hair clips that I got

The beading that I'm going to put on the bag when it's done

And last but not least the material that I was sent.

And just because, she also sent the kids a packet of chocolate. I am so totally over the moon with what I received this year, thank you once again to ~Jane05~ if you read this.

Christmas Advent blog a long December 1st...

Wow who can believe that we are here on the 1st December.. How quick has this year gone???

Well I've got another 2 things almost of my list. I've cut out part of the Rock n Roll Skirts for the girls. Due to the majority of the back of the pattern written in double dutch, both Mum and I under guessed the amount of material that I needed. So I only got 1mtr of each material instead of 2. I've cut out half the skirts each, and will head to Spotlight on Thursday to get some more, and finished them off. Hopefully I'll get them finished in time, as the girls are arriving next Sunday night. :)

list update.

Challenge Items.

K's skirt 25th Dec

P's skirt 25th Dec

P's Bag 25th Dec

P's bday present 14th Dec

L&P's Christmas Present. 15th Dec
Gr's Christmas Present. 25th Dec

J&V's Christmas Present. 25th Dec

Mu's Christmas Present. 25th

Us Christmas Present.  25th Dec
EB Secret Santa bag 1st Dec

Plus anything else, that I could possibly add and get done to that list in the time frame. 

Christmas Blog Along.

Ok so I followed Skip's lead and joined up to this Blog-a-long. From the 1st of December, the aim is for me to post a blog everyday, until the 24th December. Let's see how this goes. I've never done anything like this before, so it will be interesting for me.

just an update.

Just thought I'd quickly update how I'm going on my Christmas challenge. I've now finished 3 full lots of placemats, and have 1 and half more lots to do for those going overseas and interstate. Then I only have to work on 4 more lots for Christmas presents here. I've updated my list a few posts down.

While I have a child free day, and my house work is up to date, I plan on spending the day in front of the sewing machine and watching the Cricket. Whoo hoo... Hopefully will be back tomorrow with some more updates.

Christmas Card inserts.

Just thought I'd show off a couple of designs I've been playing around with to go inside our Christmas Cards this year.

might do a few more over the next few days, as I want to try and get some nice family photos with hubby in as well.

Christmas Challenge..

Ok so Skip has inspired me to start my own Christmas Challenge.

These are items that HAVE TO BE FINISHED come the 25th December, some of them are more important, so will have dates next to them as to when they have to be finished. Maybe doing it this way will keep me off the computer, and closer to my sewing machine..

Challenge Items.

K's skirt 25th Dec

P's skirt 25th Dec

P's Bag 25th Dec

P's bday present 14th Dec

L&P's Christmas Present. 15th Dec

J&Geoff Christmas Present. 15th Dec completed
 Jo's Christmas Present. - 25th Nov completed - sending this afternoon so it gets there on time.
 J&F's Christmas Present. 15th Dec completed
 Gr's Christmas Present. 25th Dec

J&V's Christmas Present. 25th Dec

Mu's Christmas Present. 25th Dec

C&H's Christmas Present. 15th Dec completed

Us Christmas Present.  25th Dec

1st lot of Christmas Presents finished.

Well here we are, the first installment of my Christmas Placemat's finished and wrapped...

Here is the final product.

On the Ironing board after I'd finished them.

  Placed on the table right sides up.

  On the table again but backside up

 

All folded up, wrapped and tagged.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

Everywhere we go..

I love that song.. Plus I can't believe that Christmas is 5 weeks away tomorrow. I'm not even organized. I have all the Adult's presents ordered and 20% made, but have sorted nothing out for my own children.

I guess with organizing a 30th birthday, a 3 year old party, and the girls arriving, Christmas is the last thing on my mind, when in reality it should be the first. Oh well, I'll get there.

I went into Ned's the other day, and found the most gorgeous little Christmas tin's with teddy bears on them, so this year, insted of Bon Bon's I'm going to make up tins with goodies in them. I've raided some old Bon Bon's and opened them up, so each tin will have a Hat, the toy out of the Bon Bon, some chocolates, a Christmas Tree ornament, and for the Ladies/Girls a pair of earrings each, for the boys, a matchbox car each, and haven't decided on the Men yet. But I'm sure I'll find something for them.

 

 

More for my SIL!!!

A couple of weeks ago my SIL asked me if I would mind making a few more bags for her. So after emailing her a couple of times, she finally got around to sending me some material to make them.

I've spent all afternoon in front of the fan (It's really hot here) cutting and sewing. And this is the final result. I still have 2 more to do, so will try and get them done this afternoon or in the next few days. Especially seeing as I'm child free tonight and tomorrow. :)

 

 

Quilt.

Here we go photo's of the quilt so far. I had a really productive night last night with my good friend Skip. We spent the night on MSN talking and sewing away, we often have these "sew-a-thon" nights, and I LOVE them.

Photo's at last.

Whoo hooo...

Now that I've got my camera AND internet back (don't ask about the net side of the things) I can post a few photos..

This is the pile of squares that I said I've been cutting up over the past few days. Now that they're all cut out I can start sewing, and might even do that tonight with a few good DVD's. I'm kid and hubby free tonight, so perfect excuse to sit down with the sewing machine.. yay....


And the place mats. This is 52 cut out, I still have another 8 to do, and another 10 lots of border to cut out, but ran out of the border, so will have to wait till I can get to spotlight in the next week or so to get some more.. Such a HUGE project, not sure if I'll do quite as much next year, but will wait and see.


Look at all that sewing that I have to do. Luckily there isn't too much more to cut out, and sewing them together is quite easy!

Sick of the sight of squares..

I have been busy the past few days cutting out fabric for the quilt cover and placemats. I can safely say that I have cut out all 500+ squares and triangles for the quilt cover, and around 180 for the placemats. I still have lots more placemats to do, but thought I would take a break. My hands are killing me.

I can't wait though till I can start sewing everything together. Not to mention I get my great camera back tomorrow so will be able to start taking photo's again and uploading them on here. YAY!! Can't wait.

Dora Dress.

I have finished the little girl dress that I've been working on for the past 24 hours. I went to spotlight yesterday and found some "Dora" material, and thought that it would be perfect for a little girl's birthday that we're going to on Saturday. I also found a really cute dress pattern to make, so bought both. Spent all day yesterday tracing and cutting out the pattern and material, and then last night sewing it together. This morning was spent doing the finishing touches. I'm really happy with the way it turned out, especially for my first proper clothing pattern.

Quilt.

No photos to show off tonight, but I can happily say that I've started working on my Step Daughters quilt cover for her birthday.. I've cut out enough blocks to sew together and entire colomn, and have sewn together 1 block to see what it looks like. So far so good. Will post some pics in the next few days as I get some more done.

Just wanted to update. As I want to try and get in here at least once a day. :)

Backpack...

Well this is what I've been working on all day.. Pretty much since I last updated. I cut out and sewed together this new back pack... I had a heap of soccer material sitting in my cupboard so thought I'd see what I could make up with it.

The front view of the bag

Inside view of the bag.

The back view including the straps.

Slack....

...in posting that is not sewing...

Wow I can't believe the last time I posted in here was back in July...

I have been busy though.. I finally finished the quilt cover that I was making.. And now that I've given it to the recipient I can tell you who it was for... It was for my step daughter who turned 13 back in August.. Her and her sister came for a holiday in September so I was able to give it to her. She absolutely LOVED the quilt cover. Here it is all finished..


I have also been extremely busy making Invitations for my Birthday Dinner in December. I'm turning the big 30 this year, and have decided to have a big party. So I hand made over 35 Invitations and RSVP cards for that. Finally I've finished, and they have all been sent out. So far from the response I've gotten, everyone loved them and thought they were really well made...



Another thing that has been keeping me busy is making placemats for family members for Christmas. I have about 60 of those to make, as I have 10 families to make for and am putting 6 placemats per family. So once more I'm going to be extremely busy.



And last but not least, I have been/am working on more bags. I've had a few birthday's lately so in the past week have had to make up 10 bags, with a few more to go. I'm also still trying to get my shopping bags done, so that I'm not using the yucky green bags that are out here in SA. But so far haven't got any made. Maybe one day I'll get to that.

Well I think that's it for this update... I won't be able to post many pics of what I get done in the next 4-10 weeks, as my camera has been taken back to the shops for repair. I'm hoping it's back in 4 weeks, but not expecting it back for 10.. ggrrrr...