Blogtoberfest Day 19

A pretty productive day here at home. The school had a half day teachers strike today, for the morning, so the kid's were only able to attend from 12.38pm until 3.15pm (normal finish time). Lunch was going to take up about 45mins of that time too. That all seemed a bit hard for me, so I treated the girl to a day home with me! I know, she's so lucky! As it turns out, my dropped-in-the-toilet-iphone finally bit the dust, so a quick trip out the Apple store saw me with a new handset, finally!

Oh, before we left the lawns were mowed by the mower man, and washing hung out. The sun came out after all that!

I also got my little bundle of goodies finished, I went with the iron on labels I made ages (I even found the tutorial I got them from- now that's good labelling!) If a non techie person like me could make them, so can you!

 

 a little shot of the doily bit I snuck into this coaster. Oh, and the iron on label cooling down!

And some new tools- I had a really old Birch small rotary cutter, and it needed a new blade. Those smart people at Spotlight decided to have 25% of Clover products- and was it just coincidence, or had they accidentally run out of small replacement blades? Sucker....

Happy I've finally gotten a Hera marker to try too!

And now I'm wondering how I made it this long without trying the Clover rotary cutter....

What new tools have you discovered lately?

getting ready for a makeover.....

and hopefully an online shop, if anyone wants to buy my handiwork!

My awesome pal designed me some new cards, and worldwidelabel made me some new labels

Next will be the blog makeover!

they are a changin'

Busy busy times. You blink and they grow up. Making her own lunch seems inevitable, it still makes me miss my little baby, but loving the grown up girl emerging! Lunch Sunday and breakfast Monday (for herself and the little boy I mind -toast). Have to get used to holes in the butter.

Making more labels. Ones for every occasion, I hope. Wow, never thought that would happen!

And growing so fast! After a few new pairs of pants, needed more tops- an old size 8 pj top form the oppy cut down beautifully to about a 6, leaving the cuffs, facings and buttonholes attached, and easy hour.

Grouchy dreams everyone!

It's been a while...

I've been busily cleaning up and moving around furniture, but managing to do a few things new. I followed the directions here and ended up with these!

I have used most of them, they definitely go better on non stretch fabrics, oops! I'll use my sew on ones for those. Thanks, Sandra!

Little Miss has had a busy time, she is still enthralled with the beads, and produced this little piece. All. By. Herself! Pretty proud of her, what a great pattern.

The lurgy has caught up with me- I think I caught it online haha. Very sore throat and generally feeling crap, so this dessert tonight. A craving for rocket is a bit weird, but the yummy lemon and olive dressing made it yummy, hope all the vitamins help.

I cheered up a bit by watching this with the girl, trying to rest (yeah, right! Have you seen my house?). Great music!