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Monday, July 6, 2009

purple day


today i had a little extra time, and enough motivation to make (and eat) a carrot cake... it was most definitely worth it!

I also had to make a little outfit for Poppy, as tomorrow we will be attending her great-granddad's funeral. It is a bit sad for the family, someone who has always been around is now gone. But then again, he had a long life and a full one which is the best kind right?

Difficult to know what to wear to a funeral, i think black is very serious, and if you believe in life after death, it is not as scary. I didn't want to put Poppy in black, so i thought purple was a good choice, respectful and pretty.

Crafty crafty..


Just back from the crafty market this weekend, and it was good fun!

What was really nice was to see my friend, Tanya Mac, show up to have a stall! that was a great suprise, and made the day pass by so much faster!

Here is a shot of her stall, though this isn't the woman in question, but a shopper buying her lovely wares. Tanya, where are the shots of you posing at your stall???!!

Also, this gorgeous piece of art, which i LOVE this piece, which is going up for auction on Friday 17th July in the Bernard Shaw, Dublin. In aide of Battling Autism , so if you want to have this beauty hanging on your wall, wander on down this friday!

Saturday, July 4, 2009

Baby exchange


This photo is above our baby changing table, i love it! somehow i always misread it and read "baby exchange", which makes me laugh cause sometime when there is a really explosive nappy, i wouldn't mind having a baby exchange!


But that is the only time i would temporarily consider it..!

if you would like to have photo in your house, it is available right here.

Friday, July 3, 2009

lemonade



how do you like this little dress?

it will be on sale at the fair this weekend, i'll be at the Crafty Market in the Dublin Food Coop, so if you want it, come along!

Thursday, July 2, 2009

little pouch!

Having my sister over recently was great, especially cause we like to do a lot of the same things and one of them is making pouches!

Since i have a fair coming up, and i was making about a million of these babies, i thought i would show you how very easy it is to make a pouch. I know there are a stack of tutorials on the net for this, but here is mu own version. so here goes!

1) you need:

-1 Zip
-2 pieces of outer fabric, cut to length of zip and depth of however deep you want your pouch
-2 pieces of lining, the same size as the outer.



2) First, get your zipper foot on your machine. Then unzip your zip, and sandwich one edge of it between your lining and outer fabric. Make sure your zip is FACING your outer. Pin and sew.

When you open it, it will look like this:



3) repeat the same with the other side. Again, make sure the zip is facing the outer fabric.




when you open it it will look like this:



4) Open it out and face the lining to the lining and the outer to the outer, like this:




5) UNDO ZIP to halfway at this point.. very important...



6) now sew all the way around the outer edge leaving a gap in the lining. make sure you sew over the zip ends.




7) Turn the whole thing inside out through the gap you left.



8) stitch up the gap.



9) and voila! you have a cute little pouch!



How easy was that!!

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

hand made..


This afternoon, after the public health nurse (who, by the way never said anything about the now bruise between her eyes, and i never had to explain the "clash of Noah's ark vs Poppy's face" incident, for which i was grateful. i had considered bringing the ark down, just to show them how possible this was.) we did a little finger/hand painting!

Yes, it was fun, and mostly a grey sludge was formed on the paper. You will be happy to know that this grey sludge will be cut up and used as thank you cards for all the pressies Poppy recieved. People will be delighted to own a piece of this art!

And then, as i was taking Poppy to another corner of the paper that she had missed, what happened next? Well, ofcourse i stood blindly on a box which was in the middle of the lawn, full of crockery. I would like to state right now, that there may be a bit of white trash in me. I fell down and so did Poppy.. oh my goodness, how scary... she is fine though... and amazingly only one sugar bowl broke...this is what you get for hording...a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzezTB2tvC3nnAe4rCaxIxQdosLqLjtRPcPnLsmWIH8Ig0rYhC-UajbVtPIhwLPK7qWi8REpx3ftReJMvilnySVL7-geRN1KNJWhAQhizOYMii1tcNcSKffmqMSjL8HZCS2vb7CrtOSh9U/s1600-h/crockery+1.jpg">

a nice fine bump..


just in time for the public health nurse visit today....
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