Lolli b chie

Busy,Busy,Busy!!

With Christmas dinners and making card etc. etc.

We had a great Chrissy dinner with Christina's family and Marion. The Mc Queen's brought their Fairy floss machine. Our kids thought it was quite the novelty having one right there and they could just about have as much as they wanted.

 

 

They set it up in our new extension, which as you can see is not quite finished....but getting there slowly. I have been meaning to blog about it before now...I'll get there one day!!!

Making Christmas cards turned out to be quite labour intensive this year!!  Me and my big ideas.

Firstly I made 200 small laminated dolls (50 of each child) which had to be all cut out and then cut again once laminated.

       

 

Then I made a quick background for them to go in. I put a hole in the top of each one so any friends or family who wanted to pop them on the Chrissy tree could!!!

 

So this it what the final card looked like....worth all the work I thought!!

 

Also I have been doing some small plates as place cards for Christmas day. (also did them for the dinner with my crafty peeps Marion and Christina because I knew they would enjoy them.)

They are a bit of work and I still have quite a few to go!!!

 

I am thinking about taking orders for these next year...starting in Sept. or October of course!!!

Whoops!!!

I didn't mean to fall off the wagon on my posting everyday promise but as usual we had a run of craziness!!!!!

First up the emu painting from the last post inspired this little fella to have a go at his own....Check it out.....a little brag on my behalf!!!!

 

How good is that for a 4 year old!!!!

He and his older sister then went here.......... 

and here they are sitting on the stage after the show, they had great seats and loved every second of it.

 

Last of all for today I have been working on another commission for a friends Mum as a Christmas pressie. Something for her lounge room. The daisies aren't quite finished yet.

Emu's and Bon Bons

Have finally finished a commissioned emu painting...quite happy with this one.... 

I have cut the outside of the painting off in this picture, but they are looking in through a window....

Well the bon bons are turning into a typical Kirsty saga....

I went to Ikea and decided to get some good pressies to go inside each one.  What I found were small I thought, but on returning home realised they weren't as small as I thought. So no toilet rolls would do the job. So I set about making my own tubes... and to fit the pressies they had to be.....well let's so HUGE!!!!

 

Here they are being used as super hero arm bandy thingys!!!

THEN when the banger bits for inside arrived in the post , even though they were the extra big 12" ones MY tubes were still too long for them ...... 

SO I had to cut about an inch and a half off each one!!!!

Now I am up to the first stage of the decorating, sticking some white tissue on, hopefully from here on in they will go smoothly.

 

I'll just leave you with this gem from the mouths of babes. Mr 4 says ......

"What ya makin' Mum?.....Sick bags???"

Birthday dress

Here's a dress I made a few months back for this little ladies 1st Birthday. I had the brainwave the day before so I had to whip it up real quick.

 

I was quite happy with it except it was only just big enough...and....The grey over bit was too short showing too much of the floral underneath. Should really make her another now that I have ironed out the problems.  Probably doesn't look the best over that shirt but we just had to try it over her party clothes. She loved it...kept trying to get the bear off the front to play with.

Someone said goodbye to his manhood today!!!

And no Christina it wasn't K it was................. 

I am not going to rave on about how I had forgotton about blogging I am just going to blog everyday till Christmas......get myself back into it!!!   Do I really think I can do this?????

Hell no!!  But I am going to try...See ya tomorrow!!!!