A new skirt

I made Ainsley a new skirt today,It is a wrap skirt that can be worn 2 ways which i love.
I made the 1st side with Denim and a couple of ribbons-Horse ribbon of course.
The other side i used red cotton and stamped the Medallion stamp from stampin up with bleach.
I love how it turned out.

Ainsley's 1st sewing project

Ainsley needed a new library bag for school and i had planned on sewing her one.

I had the perfect fabric for the horse loving gal.

So we were talking about how it was going go look and and i told her to sit down at the machine so she could sew it, the excitment in her face told me she was excited, that and the squeal lol.

so here she is sewing "all by herself"

Byrons 10th birthday

It was Byron's birthday today and  i was rather unorganised and illprepared but it made for a great day anyway.
WE decided on wednesday to send a text to a few friends and see if they wanted to meet us at the park/beach for a bbq.

He ended up with the perfect number of kids getting rather muddy and having a ball with a sausage sizzle cake and lollies, it was so easy we all had a great day.

Yes we seved cake all muddy

I hadnt bought his gift until about 8pm last night.

Idid have a thought yesterday afternoonabout turning an old picture frame that had a jigsaw puzzle in it into a teeball memorabilia frame for Byron.

this is how it turned out.

All proud on the wall outside his bedroom.

Ginger Bread houses

I had a friend and her 3 kids over for Ginger bread house decorating and construction on monday.
I am pretty sure the kids had fun creating.
3 worked well and 2 I  just couldnt get to stick together---I think the roof may have been too heavy.
Byron took his across the road to show the neighbour and very kindly gave it to them.

The works in progress

The Final products

Off to the movies

We are meeting a friend and her kids at the movies tomorrow.
We have on occasion made up ziplock bags with lollies in it for the kids when we go to the movies, so they have there own.
Ainsley said mum can we make up Party bags? No sooner were the words out of her mouth I was in the cupboard getting the cutest bags out for this exact occasion.
I saw them at ikea a few weeks ago and couldnt put them back on the shelf.
So we made up a little stash and decorated the rest of the snowmen cookies.
I didn't put too many lollies in them as I am sure my kids will still ask for  a frozen drink and popcorn.



Santa bags with the little stash.



Are they not the best bags? there are 12 in the pack and they are all different santa's from around the world.
they had wrapping paper as well but they had sold out of the individual packs, i did buy a little pack of cards though hahahahah.

Some festive baking.

Ainsley and i have managed a bit of christmas baking and decorating.
The Reindeers were for her end of year class party at school.
The Puddings were with the leftovers from the reindeers, the chocolate had started to fall off were it had melted a bit but they still look like what they were meant to be,don't they?
 The melted Snowmen have been on my list for a while now and when one of the ladies at work bought some in on friday and I showed it to Ainsley she was very impressed.
We made choc chip cookies for the kids last day and they took them in little individual bags with ribbons tied to  them, The cookie dough makes approx 80 small sized cookies so I usually make the whole mix and freeze what I don't need.I didn't take photo's.

But as I made the cookies in the morning before school the cookie dough was in the fridge all ready to be baked and turned into snowmen today.
Ainsley did a great job decorating hers,She was very good at the icing pen, I think she may have been better than me.
She did however get  a bit carried away with accessories on her last one,trying to add all the lollies she could hahahaha.
The santa hats are oh so easy and got me thinking about cheesecake suffed strawberries so they have been added to the menu for our christmas.

The Reindeers

puddings

My snowmen

Ainsley's snowmen

Mr and mrs snowman

Santa hats

The Christmas wreath.

I know i was a little late but i just finished my 1st ever wreath yay for me.
i am pleased with how it turned out.
love the colours