Dance off your assets!

I'm a huge fan of cheesy pop music. Unashamedly!!!!! Everyone who knows me well knows about my sometimes questionable taste in music and movies.

I love this song!! Go Guy!

Makes me smile!

Makes me get up and dance madly around the room with the kids singing into the imaginary microphone!!

Happy Birthday, my baby!

It's official - we have a five year old!

It seems like only a heartbeat ago we had a bundle of fuzzy nuzzling and gorgeous new baby smell, wrapped up in a blue and white blanket...now he's on the first real step to Big Boy. I know now what all those other mother's who said to make the most of it, as time will fly by, mean now. I miss that baby but I adore the big boy.

I adore his quirky little facial expressions, his morning cuddles in bed, his infectious giggle, his "Mummy - i love you" 's that can fill the gap at any lull in conversation and most of all his innate sense of kindness and empathy. He is truly a beautiful person, inside and out.

I wish all the best things in the world for you, Dom - Fun, Laughter, Love.

Lovely Sunday

Tried to go to Collingwood Children's Farm for breakfast this morning - started persisting down about 5 mins into our short drive so we flagged it and went to Olmecs on Bridge Rd, Richmond instead. Sensational! Kids had a fine nutritious breakfast of pancakes with maple syrup and ice cream, baby cino with marshmallows and an OJ (oh well, at least it was freshly squeezed!) 

We are now convinced that Charlie has an angel on one shoulder and a devil on the other telling him what to do from one moment to the next. Those cute blonde curls and cheeky grin help him get away with murder!

Hi Hip Hurray! Have finished my 24 Halloween blocks for the Halloween Spooktacular Swap. 12 9 patch blocks were finished ages ago but i was dragging the anchor trying to get the 12 themed block Creepy critters done - here they are! I used an embroidery pattern off the net by Fern Treacy at craftblog.com.au
So now to the Dolls quilt for DQS 7! A sneak peek...

1 Creepy Critter down...

...12 more to go...

Halloween Spooktacular Block Swap - say no more...

My Creative Space and I need motivation!

I read lots of lovely blogs every day and often see "My Creative Space" entries...this is mine. It is a bit of a tip at the moment. It was even worse before the lovely cleaner came on Saturday and vacuumed up all the tiny bits of fabric, iron- on thingummy and thread. Raw edge applique does not lend itself very well to tidiness, I have discovered, well, not anywhere in my universe, anyway.

I am trying to get this finished for a little girl who's is a special family friend. It was her birthday yesterday but instead of finishing it I just sat around the house all day eating chocolate and watching movies with the kids! Well, to be honest, Dom played games on the computer in his pyjamas, Charlie watched TV and played with toys and I watched Baby Mama and a French movie called The Dinner Guest. I ate two whole packets of lollies! 

We went to the Kinder trivia night on Saturday night and had a great time, but I drank loads of Cosmopolitans. I had a great time but was really well behaved. Woke up Sunday morning, no hangover! No dry horrors! Bloody miracle! But I felt really lethargic all day and couldn't stop eating for the life of me. I knew there had to be payback somewhere! The quilt got sold. Could've done better. Enough said.

Today I have to get  going on this! And the Halloween blocks need doing and the Dolls quilt too. And Dom's Star Wars birthday invites. No more Cosmos for me.

Finito!

The Kinder quilt is finally finished! I am so happy with it, I'm tempted to buy it myself! Sadly, big daddy has put his foot down so some other lucky bidder at the Trivia Night may walk away with it. I might have to ply him with lots of alcohol to get my way! 


After a lot of deliberation as to how much more work it would be, I decided to free-motion quilt around the kid's drawings. I'm so glad I did. They were looking a bit bereft as I'd ditch quilted (or tried to keep to the ditch as much as I could, anyway!) the pieced log-cabin borders.

Here is Dom's block - he drew himself in a Rainbow t-shirt. He was a rainbow butterfly at the dress-up day last year, so this seems to be a bit of a recurring theme!
I love the back - I had orange in mind for the sashing but when I went to Patchwork House, Kathy and I decided that the stripes made everything pop a bit more so I decided to use this gorgeousness from the Shanghai Edition Collection by art gallery quilts for the back instead. I bound it in a cute green shaded fabric called Chloe by Janet Braxon for P and B Textiles that reminds me of Murano glass beads.

I took it in on Thursday and the kids were major-ly excited to find themselves  on there. I encouraged them to insist forcefully (in a 4 yr old manner) that their parents buy it for them, so no one will be thanking me!

little people

Lots of little people are featured on the Kinder quilt I have been working on for the last couple of days! Quilts from each group get auctioned off at the trivia night on August 1st.

I got the 25 strong Frog posse to draw themselves with fabric pens and pieced a kind of scrappy log cabin around each drawing. It's sashed in black and white stripes and backed in orange. I pieced some of the fabrics from the front onto the back too.

I'm quilting it at the moment. Kids are home from activities due to more coughs and colds - will they never end??? Poor old Dom sounds like he's been on 20 a day for 50 years! I mean, it's the first day back from the hols and we're at home AGAIN! 

Still, a little outing later on to post the latest ATWQB block to Glaucia in Brazil. These are the latest offerings.