More of Zoe's Pen Drawings...

...from Total Drama Island...

Autumn at our place...

I love the different flavors of Autumn at our place. From mild March dawns...

To misty April mornings...

...both gorgeous in their own right. On a crafty note, the 8 year old has been dabbling in pen drawings of the latest Bakugan phase. She obviously has her Aunts talent.




And I finallly got around to making those Japanese pj's that I talked about back here. Thanks again to Toni for responding to my plea for a larger pattern size.





I purchased the fabric from my first visit to this great shop in Ballarat.

Gail's is well worth a visit as much for the gardens as well as the shop.

Finally, we took the kids to the local dawn service again this year. We all get alot out of it.

Lest we forget.

Easter...

We tried coloring eggs this year with food dye. It worked a treat.

Then there was the chocolate...

Happy Easter

Hmmm...

..unfortunately I couldnt cope with Typepad. I found it impossible to leave comments and sometimes couldnt even sign in. Anyway now I need to work out to cancel my subscription and how to move my type-pad posts back to blogger. If anyone can help me out please let me know.

On the creative front, Im very excited about my first pair of pj's I created today.

I used this super pattern. As a beginner sewer, I emailed Toni for some assistantce and lucky for me she replied back with the answer within the hour. Not bad for Good Friday. Thanks Toni! I forgot to by some trim fabric, so put my hand on some old calico curtains I had stored away and used the main fabric to embelllish it.

Meggy loves it. Now she wants an appliqued kitten (Ginger) top to match as well - so will work on that over Easter. The older one wants a pair too. Im thinking something with an asian twist. She's learing Japanese at school and is in to all things asian.

In other news, we're about to bid on our first investment property. Keep your fingers crossed for us. Will share more details if we get lucky.

Happy Easter Everyone

Celebrate....

Its been just over a week but gee it was great!

The paddocks were transformed....

Friends and family came from afar...


The kids had a blast.....

There was plenty of music.....

And dancing....

Well into the night...

All to celebrate this beautiful man's birthday....

Happy Birthday Timmy xxxooo

In other news... those who know me well, will know that Im a full time career girl these days , with very little time to craft. That being said, one sure way to get this mama fired up is to send little 6 year old preppy home, with "some other mothers" hand made craft. Ok, ok I know they were doing the right thing by said preppy, but oh how it broke my heart. It did however spur me on to create a very special library bag for Meggy.

So with some fantastic directions from here, Thankyou Niki, this is what I came up with....

I found a great tutorial, to enable me to applique the 'Meg' detail, here (no where near as good as Christies but not bad for a first go)

and some gorgeous rosette embellishements from this book (I will try to remember to post the link tomorrow).

Not a bad job for a grumpy mum.

Ciao for now.

Kitchen Love

Thought I'd get onto Vic's "My Place and Your's" meme. This weeks theme is "Kitchen Love".

Instead of going with just my current kitchen love, I've decided to share with you all of our previously owned kitchen loveliness. Enjoy the ride!

1997 - Yarraville Pre Renovation....

Our first attempt at renovation...

2000 - Hampton....Pre Renovation

2002 - Post Renovation....(kitchen picked up from trading post I might add!)

2004 - Edithvale Pre Reno....

2005 - Edithvale Post Reno...(not too much change with this one I know)

2005 - Mentone Pre Reno...

2007 -Mentone Post Reno....(my favorite)

2009 - Current Pre Reno....

2010 - Whats next.....

Have a great weekend all.

February Firsts

The baby of the family started school this week.

She was so ready...

Our home grown produce continues....

We're yet to start our latest renovation project.....

I feel something very retro coming on....

Have a great week