Hands up if you watched Seasame Street as a kid!

Did you know this week marks the 40th anniversary of Seasame Street’s premier on TV? I grew up watching Seasame Street, and my own children love it too.

I’ve just listed some Seasame Street PUL in my shop, and I’ve been planning a giveaway – so it seems fitting to give away a piece of this fabric this week.

Just leave a comment to enter. Do you have a favourite Seasame Street moment? One that springs to mind for me is their “cereal girl” rendtion (sung to Madonna’s Materinal girl) – but there are so many others. Do you love Snuffy or prefer The Count?

Sharing the giveaway love by posting about it on your blog will give you an additional entry. Entries will close next Friday November 20th at midnight.

Goodluck!

A bit more to show than last week – but not alot more. I probably spend alot of time lamenting the lack of creating time I get (which isn’t really a good thing I realised yesterday when emailing someone about a swap we’d organised). The sewing and whatever else I want to do will still be there, but my baby who needs me when he’s sick, or who wants me to read his favourite book won’t always be there asking for these things. The same goes for my 3 year old, my 7 year old, and even my 16 year old – there isn’t too much more time that he’ll be under our roof I don’t think. One day, I will have so much time for creating and no beautiful little people under my feet during the day – it will come soon enough and it will be a very sad time.

I hope I get time to work on these this week. But if not, so be it!

So, I’m sorry to the lovely lady who emailed me asking  when I’ll put up some bigger pads. I’m working on them very slowly. And to the lovely L – I know YKWIM.

My wonderful man has managed to iron out whatever bugs were in our computer – and so now I can view photos. Hooray!

I’ve been meaning to share this little recipe with you all for a while – some of you may have already seen it before. It is from the lovely Lauren of Owlet  - I came accross Lauren’s blog when I started regularly doing creative spaces. I tried something pretty similar to these delicious little treats at Greenfest in Brisbane earlier this year (I was there volunteering at the Australian Nappy Network advocacy stall). I’d been wondering how to go about making them for some time, when I came across Lauren’s post.

They are called Bliss balls, and they are truly divine – and even better, they are gluten and dairy free which makes them very dangerous in this house!

150g Raw cashews
250g Dates
1/2 cup coconut
a drizzle of maple syrup

Add ingredients to your food processor in the order listed, whizzing between each addition. Roll into little balls that should be firm, not mushy. Roll in extra coconut and pop in the fridge for a bit.

YUMMO!

It’s been very quiet around here in blogtown of late. The last couple of weeks have seen gastro do the rounds through our house, and any spare time has been spent appeasing the tax man making sure our returns are in order. And this week, the puter has decided to have a little bug all of it’s own – it’s not letting me view my pics. It’s a wee problem when you have an online shop and want to put pics up!

So there is a bit of creating going on – it’s just that I can’t show you anything. For some pretty pics of creative spaces, visit Kirsty’s

Is creative again – YIPPEEE! I finally have room to cut fabric downstairs again LOL. I’m currently finishing off some UFOs – particularly some things for a tiny boy cousin who made his way into the world on Sunday morning. I’m still trying to decide whether or not to add a small embroidery of some kind or applique to the kimono top. What do you think? I kinda love the simplicity of it…

I’m also finishing off a present for a friend of mine. The present stalled when a piece that I cut out went missing somehow. Even after the massive clean up, it still hasn’t appeared so I’m just going to have to cut out and iron on some more interfacing.

And finally, alot of my creative headspace is of course, taken up by wedding stuff.

I’ve chosen the stationary for the invitations – now to start fiddling!

For more creative spaces, visit Kirsty’s.

Is boring, boring, boring! I’d really much rather be sewing… 

I’m STILL tidying and cleaning up. The up side is, of course, that it is so clean and tidy it will actually be a pleasure to use this space next week and I won’t feel guilty sewing when I should be cleaning. Visitors due tommorrow and Sunday is our local reusable nappy week event – so there won’t be time for sewing then either.

 

DON”T FORGET REUSABLE NAPPY WEEK! Check here for events local to you.

I have hardly been on the computer this week. I have done only about 1/2 an hour of essential sewing. I do not have a single piece of fabric or UFO laying about the house – they are ALL away. OH MY!

For some divine creativety, go visit Kirsty’s

Is a bit of a celebration today. This Jule top was started several months ago, and has been put down many times in annoyance. Partly due to the fact that the instructions on the pattern are in a different language (it is a Fabernix pattern), and partly due to my own stupidity in missing a cut line on the pattern. It’s also called for doing some things I’ve never done on my overlocker before (like rolled hems) – so I’ve had to dig out the demo video to see how to do it. The O/L instruction book has gone AWOL in my sewing/junk room.

 

 

Excuse the threads not being tidied. I planned to do that this morning, but spent over an hour waiting in the Dr’s with DD and the bub!

The back is the best bit – the little spiral hood is very whimsical.

And now I must get to cleaning my bomb of a sewing room – we’ve got visitors next week and my creative time (AKA baby sleep time)  will be mostly spent tidying and cleaning.

It’s been quiet here in blogland. We’ve been naming the date and furiously booking things! Aside from this with 2 littlies home as usual, and the 2 bigger ones on school holidays there hasn’t been much shop sewing going on.

DS7 and DD3 were invited to a party, and so we put our heads together to decide what to give the birthday girl. I’d recently purchased a gorgeous felt crown from a fellow crafty mama with several recipients of it in mind (just can’t quite decide whether I can part with it…but it doesn’t fit me). I’d had a similar project from here planned since before christmas last year with the felt purchased and  stashed away, but it had just never got to the top of the “to do” list. But with this gorgeous crown inspiring us, we decided this was the project for the little lady. And of course, we couldn’t make just one for her.

 The crown made by Helen is in the middle (not a great pic of it though) – you should go visit her blog here and take a look at some of her beautiful work.

 

 

The kids love delving through the ribbon and trim box

 

So do I!

Almost finished… For more creative spaces, visit Kirstys

Has more reclaimed wool fabric – from a different blazer this time though! A nice dark navy wool cashmere, to be put with this Petite Granville fabric from Alexander Henry. I’ve been hoarding this in the stash waiting for the right project cause it’s so cute - fortunately there’ll still be plenty left. I thought a little art folder would be the perfect gift for my dear friend. I recieved an absolutely delightful folder myself from Michelle a little while back  in a swap – scroll down about 5 or 6 posts to see it.

The notepad is from Kristen Doran. I LOVE her stuff!

 I think I may do a bit of embroidery on the front – embroidery is great for self admiration of the object in the post below…

To see more creative spaces, visit Kirsty’s

Was chock a block full! It involved having a garage sale on Saturday morning, a diagnosis of chicken pox for the bub, a romantic evening with a wonderful man and an engagement ring, and a work picnic.

I call the lovely man in my life my DH. But we didn’t ever go through the formalities – we fell into it really over 8 years ago. An accidental pregnancy kept us together in the short term, and deep and lasting love has kept us together since. Last night I was taken out to dinner in a special restaraunt, taken for a romantic walk along the water and asked by this lovely man to spend the rest of my life with him. I said yes! We had chosen the ring together a month or so back, so it wasn’t a surprise. But he said some very lovely things to me, and got on his knee and asked me to marry him.

I am walking on air this weekend!