free thundies

For all of you wanting some free....yes thats free....

well a chance to win free anyway!

Thunder pants for your kids...

hop on over to Janelle's blog at heart felt to get in draw....

quick it's drawn on Wed night oxo

precious hatching

Imogen Fern

16.01.2011

11.55pm

7lb 6oz

ten fingers & toes

xox

I have excitedly received my first on-line fabric purchase

from stitch bird the other day.

They have a beautiful selection of gorgeous goodies that are often

hard to source in smaller locations. It only took 2 days to get here!

Which is amazing as it's holiday season, and I received

free-bee scraps of other scrummy fabrics as a bonus!

Awwwwww

I hope the holiday season is treating you all well.

I'm in hibernation mode with 3 weeks left before I

hatch (I hope!) so Anya has been hanging with Mum

and yesterday she learnt to sew with the sewing machine.

It was a neat time together

(after she got used to the pedal and stopped nearly running

over her Mothers fingers!)

She is over the moon, and today she has made her own softy pattern

which we have sewn up and is being stuffed as we speak!

We've also had fun making these neat little birds

from a pattern I found on spool which you can download in PDF.

Yes that is the mess which is my sewing room!

currently in total disarray waiting for

the big move into my garden sanctuary.

xoxoxo

Ged and I were children-less the other night, and after a crazy muggy day, we decided to do some thunderstorm gardening. It was so nice to be outside with rain starting to come down and the thunder & lightening. We dug up our rather sad garlic ( we planted late as we moved in to this house in July, so the poor things never got a decent chance, but hey, some is better than none!) Planted heaps of beetroot and sunflowers, new lettuces, cucumbers & some more tomatoes.

Eating from the garden has been SO bloody nice. You just can't beat that flavour!

Time to plant some more carrots, 'someone' has been sneaking baby ones while they water the garden???

P.S: Please feel free to admire the progress on my little sewing studio in the background!

Ashleigh came home from a sleep over

the other day with a little surprise.

There have been here for 3 days and are still alive!

Finger crossed.

They're camped out in the hot water cupboard.

Today I posted off my decorations for the

Christmas decoration swap organized by sew funky

The top 3 pics are ornaments I've received in the post already

and the reindeer at the bottom are my contribution to the swap.

I love partaking in these swaps as the the kids get just as much

of a thrill as I do finding goodies in the mail box!

A few pics of the weekend bash.

Ged and his beautiful niece Chimere

cutting some cake.

The whanau below. Gosh were a motley bunch!

And that's not even half of us!