Derby Saved My Soul....and gut...and rear!

The Dolls and I have decided we would share some before and after pics... The change in body shape for every single one of our girls has been amazing, whether they have been over weight or thin to begin with. All the girls even the slimmer girls get more shape, look healthier, look stronger and seem to stand with so much more confidence.
For me personally I feel better than I have for years even pre kids when I was a lot smaller.
I realised whilst looking through photo albums that I didn't let people take many pics of me when I was at my biggest but I did manage to find one in there that was taken just before I started derby and compared it to one taken the 24th of Oct this year (the day I broke myself).
I will never complain about doing another sit up in my life!

jeeps well it has been awhile...again!

A word from the worlds slackest blogger...
I really should update this thing a lot more, well maybe I will now that I have broken my damn leg and cant do much else but sit on my bum while it heals!
Roller Derby seems to have consumed my life for the last 18 months, it has been a crazy awesome journey and have loved every moment...well nearly every!
I broke my leg at a family and friends scrimmage we played in a few weeks ago and have been off it for nearly 3 weeks...I don't think I have ever been bored in my life until now, there is always something to do as a mum or crafter but at the moment I am sitting, reading, smegbooking...I have attempted a few loads of dishes, I only seem to last until my toes go purple and foot feels like it's about to drop off....ahhh well the price you pay for fun hey!
Here are some photos of the leg.


This one was taken by Scarlett Savage a few seconds after the crunch... I won't repeat what I was saying!

This is the before x-rayThis is the after op x-ray...now part bionic, shame they just couldn't give me the set up they gave the guy in the movie Kick Ass!
Not gonna be a pretty scar!
Now that I have some spare bum time I might blog about some other stuff thats been happening over the last year!

Where does the time go?

I can't believe August was the last time I made a post!

Lots of stuff has been happening in the land of T, Not much sewing though!

My sewing stuff is still in boxes, I make the occasional thing but not like I used to. We are getting a big bus to park in the backyard to store all of the stuff thats in the back room then hopefully kitchen time!! I am so over cooking on a stove top with no oven..

I am still in love with Roller Derby, I don't think that will change anytime soon. I had a nasty sprain a few months ago that left me with a cankle (calf/ankle) and off the skates for 5 weeks, I managed to keep busy with the admin side of derby for awhile.

This was taken at the hospital about 3 hours after it happened.


This was a few days later, the bruise got worse a few days after this too, it went from my toes and up my leg like a sock!


We had an interview with a local magazine that came out at the start of December, here is one of the pics that the magazine gave us, the team has grown a lot since these pics were taken.


Here is a link to our roller derby blog Dragon City Derby Dolls

derby!

At the moment I dont have anywhere to sew in our new house, occasionally set up on the coffee table but the back doesn't like that much, so until I get a new kitchen and an extra room I wont be doing much! :(
BUT... I have found a new hobby to keep me busy and it is taking over my life, I love it... ROLLER DERBY!!!! OMG how much fun, if I had of known how much fun roller skates were I would have started a long time ago...
So please excuse the lack of craftiness in my blog for a while.. -_-

..........need to update more!!

Ok I am reeeeally going to try and update over the next while... after moving house and not have anywhere to sew or the mojo to do it I have badly neglected my blog... even my dad got on my case about my lack of updating the blog..haha

Little Bea

This is a cute little jumper, it was the first time I have had to follow a non english pattern so I just put it together how I thought it should go... :)

Kids clothes...

The groova got some shorts a while back..
This crazy fabric came out of my mums stash from when we were kids...fun!


Little miss got a new purple stretch denim skirt and a cute top.
I am most impressed with my zipper efforts.. getting so much better..yay for me
the purple denim was out of mums stash so sadly limited, and I wish I had of bought more of the pink stretch when I could... but really how much is too much?


I used press studs instead of buttons because Taegan says they are easier... makes my job easier too.. :)

Thats right... I love this one!

I made mum a bag for christmas, its the Wasp bag that I made a few months back from the very clever machen machen, there is a link in my older post about the wasp bag..

I found some fabulous fabric from spotlight with phoenix's on it..I lurve it!



I used metallic thread to topstitch the bag....OMG what a pain in the rear... not something I would choose to do again in a hurry...

Ok just dooo ittt!!!

Jeebus it has been ages since I have updated anything...I have been such a slacker since Christmas. I didn't want to put anything up until I had given everyone their gifts...
Anyhoo it is late so I will try to make sense..

I got the Olivia pattern FINALLY and I love it, so cute and so easy and so fun to make...
I made one in a size 2 and the other in a size 6ish..

Quinn was really not happy to model a dress for me.... poor kid the things he does for his mama..!





I can see me making lots more of these......


I made for the little brother of the first Olivia a pair of Ottobre Aqua shorts, they come together really nice..

I am sure I have made more over the last month I just need to think...haha

New years resolution...

Is to update my blog...!

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...

Goodies

I found some goody mushroom goodness from spotlight today.. and some cute circus fabric.. there was so much yummy stuff that I want but I think maybe I should make to sell some stuff so I can go buy more..haha
STOKED!!!!!!!!!!! :D

Grocery Bag

Grocery bags I think are going to be on my christmas list, I think these are better than the green bags, aside from being more enviro friendly they are space economical too.. :)
Here is a LINK..
And here are some pics....




My pattern piece, next time I think I will use a bigger bag..

WaLah...
Don is starting to call me the bag lady...he aint seen nuthin yet!!!

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!

Added Button

I found a button that had came off one of my fake fur jackets that I haven't worn for years, in fact I think the jacket is still in a box from the last move so when I find it I will take the other button off it for the other side of the bag!! I think the button sets the bag off nice, it now feels more finished..

I love this bag!!

I love the way this bag turned out. It is The Wasp Bag from machen/machen and the tutorial is from here..
I had a few issues with the destructions but I think it was all me.. haha
Anyhoo, here is a pic....
I am going to hunt for some buttons to fit on the tear drop bit of the handle..
The inside pocket and key thingy!!

I think I will definantly make this bag again but it did take me alot longer than I had expected!!

Comic.. haha

I love these comics...so wrong but so funny!!
They are from Explosm.net

My day...WHOA

What a day I had!!!
I got up this morning and wrote out a cover letter for the Australian Defence Apparel while I had coffee and emailed it off to my mums work for her to proof it, hopped in the shower got all fluffed up, even put eyeliner and mascara on !!
Felt really confident leaving the house and as I was unlocking the flywire door with an arm full of bits I started to drop them and as I caught them my plastic folder that had my resume in it came up and straight into my open eyeball....MY GOD it hurt and I have a scratch across it, so after cursing crying cursing some more screaming the universe is against me getting a job we go to... hmm well emergency is the only place in bendigo with the eye machine!! whats with that... so off to emergency and it is PACKED even the ambulances were parked across the road because there were 6 in the bays and a taxi already...far out mondays aye the grog has worn off and people have just realised how hurt they are from their weekend!! the nurse said mondays are the worst day!!
After about an hour with a 2 year old and me finally being able to open my eye I spoke to the nurse and she said I wont be seen at this rate till 9pm (it was midday)... So I said I will go in tomorrow and get it checked to make sure it wont get infected and all that lovely eye stuff.. so off we trot to mums work and get the letter app printed and off we go to ADA to be told this is ADI and ADA havent been there for 10 yrs WTF!!! where have I been... hmmm
I wish I had google maps on my phone... the man was lovely and found me a map and ADA is around the corner from my house DUH I am really feeling like a doofus at this stage of the day but staying strong...... finally off to ADA hand my bits in and finally get home feeling like I have had a f**ktard of a day and being miserable.
Then less than an hour the phone rings asking me to go in for a machine test... PHEW all goood...
what a rant!!!
ANyhoo I hope I get this job, its 6 pm till 11 pm on a 9 day fortnight, great with the kids I don't need childcare and when I have both kids at school I can figure out what I'm gonna do when I grow up!!