clean up of my desk!!!

Yes the hubby made a space for my sewing area and it has gradually been created to be the space I want.
BEFORE
AFTER...note the wonderful new shelf and corkboard!!! Long live the hubby!!!

My collection of buttons!!! LOVE LOVE LOVE!!
I have hung all my ribbon/rac pieces so that they are easy to see at a glance.
have put my bits and pieces and cottons in plastic buckets...


colour coded my felts and scraps

this is my lame attempt at a echidna pin cushion..

And I will leave you with my inspirational quote I have up on my wall...
What does your space look like??

what does one....

fill up a down pipe with so kids dont get fingers stuck in???? Well hubby came up with this solution and did it all by himself!!


Such a clever man is he

another pillow case dress

yes another one loved the little emroidery on the front thou...

even got a little tricky(NOT) and added a little ric rac on the straps
this one was for a 9 year old

destressing creations part 2

The one and only hubby also created for me yesterday 2 wonderful shelves. They were inspired by this photo of Tara's

So the following photos are my version of Tara's genius...

Bubba's shelf

I found this feather ages ago and love it framed...(PS..Mum note the little toy soldier for Xmas bubba loves it)
Notice I covered the E too. Think the spots go well with the spots on the feather??



Then chicken's shelf...

have finally framed one of the divine prints from Tiel (again Mum note the rocking horse)
see the D??? repainted the aqua frame and rubbed it back alittle before the paint dried to reveal a bit of the past colour..

well that's all folks...hope you like ....thanks tara for the inspiration..

todays creations to ease the stresses of motherhood

yes today started out a doozy due to my little chicken!!! She is currently the epitome of the terrible twos!!! Anywho my beautiful hubby kindly assisted me all day today and let me be a bit creative in daylight...(I usually do my creating iin the night time kid free). To start out i covered a D wood shape for the chicken with some lovely fabric I got from my romp at the Spotty christmas sale the other night, but I will post more about that later. here are the pictures...

xmas is here at our house...

much to my hubbies disgust!!! I love christmas...the atmosphere of family time/giving summer fun etc!! So I thought that I would share with you our decorations thus far!!! Now I decided to have a go at doing a minimalistic /stylised tree in our living room...still not sure if i am happy with it...daylight pictures


night time

also revamped the door wreath....to match
and side extra decs

However all this lovely minimalistic stuff did not impress bubba as he was looking forward to decorating the tree!!! So as any cool mum would I let the two cherubs put up the old traditional tree in the corner of their bedroom with glow in the dark angels!!! Here are the pics...

see how much he has grown..
bubba's creation from playgroup
chicken spot can be detected by the double ups on most branches ...

brooch craziness

Well remember the brooches I whipped up for the girls night out prizes??? well they have multiplied!!! One of my buds wore one to work and came back home with orders!!! So these are the completed orders...

"Give back the love"...giveaway

Okay so I have finally pulled out my finger and organised a giveaway for this lovely Blogtoberfest!! Big thanks to Big Cat for starting this revolution!!! Have had a few wins over this last month with this and this. So now it is someone elses turn!!!. I have two prizes. One electronic of sort and one material !!!
First prize is this stash of materialand a pair of little hairclips like this.
the other prize is a new blog header personally designed by me..in consultation with you about your likes and dislikes!!! And a personalised family squares palm album/bragbook (just in time for a christmas present) like this one.... All you would have to do is send me the 10 pics that you would like to put in it!!I made these for bubba and chickens grandmas...cause every grandma loves a little brag book. Tis very handy cause it can fit into your purse and be added to as time goes by.

So now you know the give away stuff all you have to do for me is tell me...
1. what you like/dislike about my blog
2. which blog have you found to be the most interesting find from your blogtoberfest travels
3. which prize would you like to receive??

I shall draw the 2 winners on Tuesday Nov 4th 8pm

Enjoy the last week of the Blogtoberfest peoples!!!

***giveaway is now closed and has been won****