Category: Crafts

A busy day with my two mums

Yesterday my mother in law, mother and I headed to the craft and quilt fair. A lot of fun was had by all and I got a very good deal on a very exciting purchase I will be making Tuesday.

Then we raced home and got ready for the Brisbane municipal concert band and Brisbane City Big Band concert. It was a fantastic night and the audience seemed suitably impressed. Click the photo below to go to the band gallery. Thanks to Angie (my mother in law) for the photos of the concert band.

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Stay tuned for two exciting announcements on Tuesday as I will be sharing my first daring bakers challenge and hopefully my newest toy purchase.

My sewing stuff has a home

I’m really really excited that my sewing stuff now has a home and that after 2 years we have finally worked out how to set up the lounge/dining room and actually taken action to get it done.

We swapped our current dining room and lounge room. They are one long room but have a archway between. This makes the bigger room a flexible room for eating and crafting and playing.
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We added a 2m*2.6m wardrobe! Most of my sewing stuff goes in the right of it, with a home for the ironing board and vacuum in the middle. They finally have a home instead of just floating around the house.
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The left side has the rest of my sewing stuff (yes I have a lot!) and will contain other things like craft, board games and christmas stuff.
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Because I think the cottons and satins are pretty, I’ve put them in the display cabinet.
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The new dining area, with extra chairs and table, can now take 12 people! Now I just need a kitchen big enough to cook for all of them.

Travel Hobby

During my travel to and from work, I was going through too many books and couldn’t get to the library so I needed to find something else to occupy my time. After some lovely hints from the ladies at nappycino, I decided on knitting.

This is the first i’ve knitted since I was about 10, but after a few youtube videos, I was underway. I’ve decided the holes etc are features 😀
Oh and to the question, what am I knitting…. I have no idea

Crabby

That’s how I felt tonight, well honestly how I’ve been feeling a lot this week. Anyway with some of the things I ‘had’ to do out of the way, I decided to take the night off and do some sewing. I tried to continue some of the applique work but my concentration levels were just not high enough. I then decided that I wanted to make a soft toy lorikeet (random thought) and after drawing up a pattern, I realised I didn’t have any bright green or yellow fleece. So I decided to make a crab since I had red fleece.

Here is the final result.

He is pretty rushed as tonight I didn’t focus on quality but just wanted to create.
I made up the pattern and went for it. Those little feet take forever to turn the right way around!

Andrew likes his new crab and I’m happy I got to spend a few hours being creative.