Exhausted

is what I am this afternoon.

I have 3 little girlies of my own, by Oh My the noise levels of 4 little girlies all aged 5 was just too too much for me. The birthday girl had a fabulous time though so that is all that matters, and it seems the dog is going to get his own party tonight for his dinner, we have sausage rolls, party pies and lots of cheerios left..... and a ittle bit of birthday cake number 2, girlies 1 & 2 will polish that off as soon as they are home from school.

Now I just need to summon up the energy to make 26 little ladybird cakes for kindy tomorrow. I think I will do that after dinner when its a bit cooler and dh can help.

Will be back later with the ladybirds before they are demolished at kindy.

Party Baskets

as promised here are girlie #3's party baskets, we had a lot of fun this afternoon filling them up.

and the loot inside ( you have to love $2 shops)

and my sampler quilt, that I am hoping to start quilting on my next child free day which is on Thursday, unless I need a recovery day from the birthday party lol

I love the way Henry had to get in on the photo too, he is chief quilt sleeper, if I leave it out, he jumps up and has a snooze on it. Did you know ginger fur shows up really really well on black fabric!

have a fabulous day whatever you are doing.

So Much Sewing

My baby girl is having her first ever birthday party on Wednesday and she decided that she didn't want normal party bags.....no my girl wanted fabric baskets, no problem says mum, and I let her select the fabrics (she did OK for a 5 year old lol) as Wednesday is sneaking up really quickly I had to start the party baskets today. I am pleased to say that after cutting, pining and sewing all afternoon and until 8:30 tonight the 'party baskets' are basically finished I just need to hand sew the lining hole closed. Then we get to fill them, and even better, my girl only wanted 3 little friends to come to her party so I only had to make 4 :) :) :) now if I could just wake up in the morning and find a birthday cake magically sitting on the bench I would be a very happy mummy because then I wouldn't have to stay up late tomorrow night making and decorating the cake she wants.

Tomorrow is shaping up to be a busy one. School goes back YIPPEE and as its Tuesday I have sewing :) then after I collect 3 girlie's from school we have to zip to the supermarket pick up some last minute party food then it will be cake making time.........dh asked why I do this to myself, men just don't get it sometimes lol.

The local Ag Show is on this week too, we are going as the girlie's have NEVER been to a show before and girlie # 1's quit has been entered (after much convincing for LPS owner) into the novice section, girlie # 1 is sooooooooooo excited. I still need to make a label for it so I will follow the label tutorial on Sarah's blog http://www.ifonlyihadchocolate.blogspot.com/ and get it on the back before I drop it off on Thursday.

so I will make sure I snap a photo of the completed and full party baskets and one of my sitting here waiting to be basted and quilted sampler quilt and I will have to get a photo of girlie # 1 and her 'on show' quilt.

and I really hope my order of repo fabrics arrive tomorrow.....I want to do some more Baby Jane bocks. So fingers crossed for me please that the Australia Post Gods are smiling down on me in the morning

Happy Stitching

Spoilt

is what I am tonight.

The house we are living in is a rental, so we are making do with what storage space we have which isn't much. Our own house in Tasmania has LOADS of storage so we obviously didn't have an issue. I have to sew at the dining table which has meant for the last 2 months or so, 5 out of 7 nights each week we have eaten dinner on our laps.....so when I raised the subject of sewing cabinents dh just rolled his eyes and changed the subject

Early last week we went to the second hand dealers we were looking for desks the had an old horn cabinent which needed a new door, side and back, dh said he could fix it but they wanted $145 for it, they wouldn't drop the price (which was way to high, so we left. He took me to my LPS and told me to get some brochures on the sewing cabinets, came home looked at them asked me which one I wanted, told me which one he thought I should have, then told me to order one.

Tonight I have a 'Monarch Mk II' sewing cabinent in my lounge room but, I don't have the door storage because when we unpacked to assemble it all the acrylic was damaged, so those bits are in the car waiting to be exchanged for undamaged ones.

SO I have been very spoilt today.

Otherwise, I mowed today, we let the chooks out for a while, they had a great time scratching around in the fresthly mowed grass, mind you there is still a good 5 hrs of mowing still to be done, the joy of living on 5 acres. I only mow the driveway and out the front of the house. DH does the rest.

Sunday I have a gorgeous gorgeous girl and her girls coming for a visit, and another girlfriend who has been on holidays is coming over and I need to do some sewing, I still have to finish my stitchers angel swap gifts, I NEED to get it in the post. I am aiming to get it all finished and posted by the 24th and I have party baskets to make for Wednesday......

I can do it lol.

Found

Can you believe it, I was digging in a crate of fabric and kits and came across a small bowl of DMC cottons and the dish had the sticky dots for my ultra thimble so I dug a bit deeper and

TA DA I found a ultra thimble, the very fist one I bought in June lol. Still haven't found the one from the other day but I am still looking.

I managed to finish the next Noah and Friends block and I have the next 2 blocks ready to be appliqued on.

I have 4 little fabric baskets to make for the birthday girlies party, she is so excited its going to be her very first birthday party and was sooooooooooooo tired tonight, she fell asleep within minutes of being in bed. I need to make a label for girlie # 1's quit, I was convinced to enter it in the Novice section of the local show

Saturday I guess I will have to do the usual housework, dh amazingly as the weekend off so we might go on a picnic on Sunday if the weather is nice, I can sit on the beach and sew the girlies can explore and dh can fish. SOunds good to me anyway.

Have a great weekend everyone, stay safe and happy stitching :)

Goodies

Today was a happy mail day. Shoved into our post box was the Pin Cushion of the Month from quilt fabric delights and Little Bluebirds part 4 also from Quilt fabric delights. **sigh** I guess I should do part 3 of Little Bluebirds before I start part 4............have a lot on at the moment.

then yesterday when we were in the bookshop collecting my 'special order' book I had a quick look at the quilting books with the middle girlie when she started with 'Oh Mum can I, mum, mum, muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuum so I looked, she had found a Kaffe Fassett book and its was the quilt on the cover that she did the 'Muuum can I' about. So along with my ordered book and the new Kathy Lette novel we came home with 'the book'

and one day she will have that quilt on the cover on her bed (she might be 30 but she will get it eventually and my LPS has Kaffe Fassett fabric so I might not have to start the KF fabric hunt just yet lol

FIVE

she is five

offically at 6:54PM

I adore this lil girlie she is my life and I am going to miss her when she goes to school full time next year.

I can't believe she is FIVE

meet 'Snow White'

she has had the best day adores her new dolls house, loves the electronic Guess Who and is still wearing her new 'dress up'. SHe has decided thats is fish and chips for tea so I am having Chinese lol.

Happy Birthday baby doll

Mumma loves you

xxxx