Kiah's Christening

Well we survived the weekend with the onslaught of vistors and rellies - I think it will take at least a week to get the house back into any kind of order... but it was well worth it ! We have had gorgeous beautiful sunny weather all week ( quite warm for winter ) and saturday it decided to rain which put a real dampener on the festivities at the park afterwards !! The park had a small undercover area so we continued on with gumboots and umbrellas and it turned out fine. Kiah cried towards the end of her service and Miss 2 year old had to be part of the action of course but was generally well behaved.


The family shot......

Kiah in her christening gown

A close up the christening gown which I made when I was in year 10 at school. It features pintucks, pleas, gathers, lace insertion and embroidery on the yoke, sleeves and edge of the dress. I made a little jacket to go over the top when Isabella was christened 2 years ago, but it does not have as much detail on it.

All in all it was a lovely day........now wear to begin on the clean up ??

Hair clip hangers for Mia and addie

This week has been a crazy week - Kiah is being christened on Saturday and with both sets of grandparents living 6 hours away we have had a house full and this weekend is bound to get crazier with sisters and brother in law arriving tomorrow. We will have 8 adults and 6 kids in a 3bedroom house ! Anyway it will be crazy but all worth it as I love having everyone around. I will be having my 4 and 7 year old nieces stay and they have just had a birthday and I always give them something 'handmade'. Not wanting to break the tradition I made these quick and easy hair clip hangers to hold their hair clips on and so that they can hang them in their room and keep everything neat and tidy.

This is for addi - ( the 4 year old )

This one if for Mia ( the 7 year old )

Not great pictures - but the ribbon in the middle is straight it is just attached at the top, middle and bottom so they can loop through any ribbons or hair elastics.

I am sure I won't be psoting anything over the weekend - but will be back to share christening photos and a debrief of the weekend !