Only a little bit of sewing and lots of unpicking

I did do a bit of sewing this week after a trip to the spotlight sale on Monday night, I am making a little block rug for a birthday present for a friends little boy who turns 2 in November, but thought it best I make a prototype for Connor as I hadn't made one before. As it turns out this was a good idea, after finishing it and threading the cord through I discovered that it didn't quite close up the way I wanted it to, so had to unpick the entire thing in order to put in extra buttonholes to thread the cord in and out of.

So now I have to start over, first to do the buttonholes and then put it back together, shouldn't take too long as it is a pretty simple project, will post a pic when its done (in the morning when I can get a better picture)

Connor's Birthday Party

We had Connor's 2nd Birthday party today, and although there were quite a few no shows (I understand that people can' t make it but I wish they would have told me in advance, thanks to those that did!!!) we still had a great time.

Everyone loved the party bags I made, they were very simple but were a hit!

I love how this banner/ bunting turned out, I will now hang it in Connor's room (so much better than a paper or plastic banner that just gets thrown away)

I was happy with how the cake turned out too, I bought the cake topper off of ebay and just cover the cake with cream and piped some extra around the edges for effect. (the cake was mostly for the adults as I made cupcakes for the kids to have, much easier to hold than a piece of cake)

A finally a pic of my baby boy blowing out his candles, he's pretty good at it now (hes had a bit of practice now, we had to keep relighting the candles to get a good photo cause he's just too fast LOL)

I can only assume that Connor had a good time cause the party ended at 12, he was in bed by 12.15 and its now 3.30 and hes still asleep.... we must have really worn him out!

The Curtains

I finally got a photo of the curtains, because they are stripes they don't photograph so well but you get the general idea.

A close up of the material so you can see the colours, I didn't want anything to babyish as I want them to last him a while.

And finally, the photo/note board that I made him a few weeks ago, decided to coordinate the curtains to this.

Some sewing at long last!!!

I have finally had chance to do some sewing, nothing terribly exciting though, just some curtains for DS's room. Thought i'd better get them done before daylight saving starts.

Will blog a pic when he wakes up from his sleep (cause I haven't taken one yet!!!!)

Now to start a set for DD's room!!!

I'm also working on some decorations and gift bags for DS's birthday party next weekend.. Wiggles theme. I'm borrowing some ideas from the very talented ladies on the EB sewing thread.

Will take pics when I have done some more on them (mostly in the planning stage atm)

In the MOOD for cupcakes

I made some cupcakes today for a friends birthday (practicing for Connor's birthday in October) using the recipe in Heids blog.

After icing them I decided they were a bit plain, I'm a bit lacking in the sprinkle department at the moment so I decided I would put faces on them instead. But not just smiley happy faces, I decided to make mood cupcakes, so you can now have a cupcake to match your mood, whether your happy, sad, confused or surprised there is a cupcake for you... (yes I am going insane, I think I need to get out more LOL.)

Connor felt a bit left out that I had made a dress for Izy and nothing for him recently, so he decided to share her dress instead. Over the top of his pyjamas naturally. I'm still yet to get a photo of her in it LOL.

Flash Back Fridays

This weeks theme for FBF is a group photo, so I have taken mine from a couple of my birthday parties.






This is my 1st Birthday, mum made me an Elephant cake (sorry the photo is so dark)

Me at my 3rd Birthday party











Don't forget to check out the other friday flash backers by following the blog ring.

Quilt for a new baby boy

One of my good friends had her baby on thursday (a week early) a little boy they named Hayden, weighing 8lb 14oz.

I wanted to give them something special that they didn't already have (2nd child) and found this lovely "Pooh Bear" panel at SL the other day. You cant see it in the photos but I stitched around all the characters, and Embroidered his name onto the front, and then found this lovely starry material for the backing.

I was hoping it would be a little more puffy where I sewed around the characters but as I had to use a cotton wadding (the whole thing is 100% cotton materials as her oldest suffers from excema and has been told this one probably will too) it didn't really puff up.

Overall I'm really happy with it and it was received with great appreciation, so I guess thats all that matters really.