Boys Birthday Pressy.. Circus time :)

I try to make presents rather than go out and buy plastic cheap crap that will last a week, so for a little boy turning 3 I made a circus outfit..
I made these shorts last week after finding this gorgeous circus fabric from Spotty, then appliquéd a plain yellow T.. I think the out fit looks great aside from the issues I had with the appliqué...hmmm


The applique goes from the front around to the back..
note to self- avoid appliqué on the sleeve of an already constructed garment!! duh...

How...

Gorgeous and grown up is my big girl... I was going through the school newsletter today and have to fill in her book list for next year and it only just hit that she is going to be in grade 3 next year... OMG!!

I remember being in grade 3, I met people I am still so close with... I might hunt down some old pics when I go to mum and dads next..

Hoody

Central Vic feels like it has had an iceberg hit, it is freezing here....brrrrrr
Quinn has been growing so much that all his jumpers are too short for him and I have been wanting to make this little Otto pattern for ages...very cute!



Aren't we cute......

Learning to sew.. :)

My big girl has been asking me to learn how to sew but it is usually when I am in the middle of something..typical! lol
Anyhoo after I finished making my bag the other night I thought I would start by getting her to sew on a scrap to get used to it and use back stitch etc... Ahh such a proud moment!

Next I think we will make a bag or cushion but I will get her to cut the fabric and start from scratch...and not at 7.30 pm....

Don't look at the chaos, you can tell when I have been sewing, my table looks like a bomb has gone off...so does the house actually!

Grumpy hour!

Arrggg I hope Mr 2 stays down for a snooze today, he has grumpy hours, usually 1pm, 3pm and 5pm since he has started to cut out day sleeps.
I have managed to convince him to go to bed for awhile but I am waiting for the foot steps to tell me I was kidding my self!
I cant go out the front and weed my garden because I don't have a fence to keep the child in and I have a busy road and a reservoir across from us. My front yard looks like a botanical garden of weeds and my roses are shriveled it is depressing.. I need a week of day sleeps from Quinn so I can weed the front and clean the house with out the whirlwind affect behind me. I have forgotten what it is like to clean something and for it to stay like that for a wee while.......here come the footsteps.. bye blogger off to amuse the gorgeous tired tanty 2 year old..
here is a pic of my fenceless yard and dry as a bone drought flavoured garden..

October already!

Wow time flies... It has been 2 months since my last blog.. maybe I should change the name of my blog from stuff doer to slack blogger..!

The kids and dog have grown heaps, I need to buy Obar a new collar he has filled out so much the little boof, he is nearly 5 months old.


Quinn had an accident with his sisters bedroom door and nearly lost the end of his finger..ewww
And I have been doing stuff and have pics to prove it, some arent so good because I have ran out of batteries and had to use my phone.
I will make aother post with some sewing stuff I have been doing..

weeks!!

It has been weeks since I last posted. I haven't been sewing much, a cushion cover for our new furry baby and a pettiskirt/tutu/ballerina looking thing for a fancy dress festival for my sister..and I think thats about it!!!



We now have our gorgeous furry baby, we picked him up last thursday and he is oh so cuteness..
He is a 12 week old Staffordshire Bull Terrier and he is just adorable, we have named him Oberon 'Obar', he is so great with the kids and vice versa, I think him and Quinn are on the same level, toilet training a puppy and a two year old.. OH YAY!! haha
He loves the heater vents..
hmmmm I think Obar is giving Quinn the look of "that is my heater vent your sitting on buddy"!!

ahh well

Done catching up on the blogging, time for a cuppa and some other blog surfing..
But before I go, some random home shots of this last week!!

This is my beautiful Mothers Day card that my big girl gave me, I love it..

She Came home from her dads after having a fantastic time at the Teddy bears Picnic in Castlemaine with her face painted, it is amazing.. I think it was actually the Castlemaine Peace Festival...

Taegan's rabbit Custard.. it is her first Winter, she comes inside of the night..spoilt thing!
She is extremely cute, she is a Dwarf Lop, in saying that she isn't so small...
And in the yard, Dont you love the way kids put their bikes away, even when you supply them a bike rack they seem to think this is how you stack the bl**dy things..LOL

Sick kids...

I hate it when my babies are sick.. this time my big girl is sick.. A day off school and some warmth and a vegetate in order.. hopefully she will sleep past the crack of dawn tomorrow.. I really dont know how me of all people who thinks the best bit of sleep is 6am to 10am can have kids that get up at 6am!! its no fair, thats the best snuggle under the doona time of day...
Oh wella, I guess it means no going out in the crispy morning for the school run for the rest of us to..!!
Oh gosh I am tired I feel like I am making no sense... I'M GOING TO BED... night xo

Quinn's first night in his own big bed!! woohoo

Quinn is in his own BIG bed (c/o Grandies for his birthday) and he was so excited when we set it up..
So far tonight he has only fallen out once.. I heard a thump so I went in there and turned the light on to find him sitting on the floor rubbing his head and pointing to the bed saying OOOHHaaah.. So cute, so we read another book and he crashed.. I haven't heard any bumps since!!

The Cake!!!

WooHoo Quinn's guitar... I am not sure what I will be making him next year, someone suggested a drum cake with working cymbals..LOL

And one of the boy today with his real one..

We Plugged him in!!

Good lawdy, he is his dads boy..

My Little Man is 2!!!

Wow, I really can't believe how quick life goes by these days.. my kids are growing up so quickly I could cry..
Quinn turned 2 yesterday and we had a little party for him today..
He is such a beautiful little boy, so cruisy and happy, he makes me laugh my tooshi of most of the day..

The Mighty Groovin Quinn

I didn't realise I could add videos until the other day, so I am going to put the one of my little groova dancing while his dad is in the shed rehearsing..
He is guitar obsessed, if he doesn't have an object of any kind in his hand to pretend its a guitar he will just air guitar.. it is hilarious!!
It was taken in Feb 08

I just want to share..

My Angel Cake

This child of mine is just amazing... And how beautiful is she in this pic.!
She was a flower girl in a friend of ours wedding and she was sitting in the gutter waiting while the bridesmaids got their pictures taken, and the bride asked the photographer to snap Taegan in such a Taegan pose.. I love it that it is so her. My friend gave me this pic in a gorgeous frame for my birthday, I had a tear, I was so touched.. Oh god I'm a sop I know!! lol

My girl did the most beautiful thing last week..
She came in early and told me to just stay in bed because she heard Quinn up all night crying etc, she told me she has made her lunch and packed her bag and is all ready to go to school when we need to, and she will quietly watch tv so I can get some sleep.. God love her!! she is awesome, amazing and has such a generous soul.. I must be doing something right with this one.. ;-)
She is growing up so incredibly fast..
xoxo Taegan I love you honey xoxo

My Cheeky Chocolattte Boy..

I forgot to put this up the other day..
Now that my nearly 2 yr old is climbing out of bed he is oh so quietly getting into mischief in the mornings...
I woke up to the stench of a nappy needing to be changed and as I opened my eyes I had these brown hands launching for my face..well i nearly back flipped over Don, caught the hands before they touched anything thinking OMFG.. well thank goodness there was the sweet smell of chocolate not what I was expecting...hang on a minute what the!!! Oh god no, I left the drinking choc on the bench the night before... as I walked into the lounge I see the container on the coffee table and chocolate silt all over (cringe), I keep walking into the kitchen where Quinn had beat me to and I found him sitting in the middle of it with a bubble blower making chocolattttte fun!!!! I could not even be angry, I was more relieved that it was choc brown all over rather than poo all over!!!
Oh there is actually a print on the front of his t-shirt it was so thick with choc silt you couldn't see it..lol

My Vacuum wasn't a happy camper after cleaning the chocolate silt.. it was a bit buuuurrry to.. What is it with me and household appliances????

More boys pants!!!

Yep thats right... I am really chuffed with these style pants, I like the rolled hem, I should get years out of them I think..maybe..lol.. All except I cant work out how I want to do the waist band, I have tried 3 diff ways so far and not happy with any.. I got some of this fabric really cheap at spotlight so the fabric all up probably amounts to $2 per pair of pants.. bargain!!! I have decided I am not buying clothes for Quinn anymore I am just going to make them, Taegan is a bit harder to please tho!
Anyhoo here are the pants, the darker ones are filthy cause he was wearing them in the yard today but I shook the crap out of them so they are passable for a pic.. and they look majorly cute on him..


Also is one of two baby wrap tops from otto that I made, I made one for a friends little bub Atticus and one for my sis inlaw's bub Elwood..

Boys Clothes

BOYS CLOTHES!!!

I stayed up way to late the other night making Bat pants for my little man, I am stoked with how they turned out, its a mostly self drafted (I used the measurements off the crotch of another pair of pants).. so I think they qualify as my own!!LOL

My dad dropped off some bags of clothes that were going to the oppy and I found a great orange T-shirt that I cut down to a long sleeve T-shirt and appliquéd(sp) a bat out of my bat print.. I love this print!!

And an awesome lady sent me some fabric that I have made a pair of PJ's for my little man, it is invincible boy print... Way cute!!! there will be more of these jimjams..
thanks for looking.. excuse the crappy photo's I want a new camera desperately...

My Piratey babies..

We had a Pirate themed birthday to go to on the weekend and I finally used the last of my jack skull knit for a singlet top for my little man.
He is wearing mama made everything today!!


















My gorgeous girl got a top out of the Ottobre fall o7 mag.. I really don't like the instructions for some of the clothes in those mags, I ended up winging it and it turned out really nice on her.. I am going to make another for my friends daughter who does not like girly stuff but her mum would like for her to wear some things girly, I think this knit dress might be a happy medium for them both!! I hope...






Oh and my overlocker...GGGGRRRRRR it is driving me crazy.. I cant seem to get the tension right and it refuses to sew with black thread, apparently some machines are funny like that because the black dye in the thread is more dense than in the lighter colours.. it sews with navy blue fine.. go figure!!

Skull Knit... heaps of it!!

I bought 2 mtrs of this fantabulous skull knit from Spotlight and have made heaps of things for all the gorgeous little boys in my life.. All there Birthdays are around the same time..


This was my first attempt at Ottobre clothing.. I love those mags..
So this is my little dude Quinn doing some modeling shots for mum in his skull knit top and red cordies..
















These are some fun little pants I made out of Drill for my friends little mans 2nd birthday.. They look great on him..
I made a skull top to go with them too.











This is the back of them, I wasn't too sure I liked this style of pockets on the back, but the looked really good in the end..











This is the whole out fit he got.. Very pirateee cool...








Quinn got some shorts with skull patches but I have to iron them before I put a pic up, another gorgeous little boy got a long T and Quinn got a black hoodie with skull knit lining the hood, I also did one for another gorgeous boy who is turning 4 too!!








And after all the Skull things I still have some left over!!
I am really ready to start sewing some other colours..LOL