Crafting - at 4 weeks !

Madame is 4 weeks old now.... I can't believe how a whole month has flown by ! To date she is still very sleepy and her darkish eyes are starting to go a tinge of blue. Apart of eating and sleeping she is alert for a small part of the day and is very serious taking in the smells, sights and sounds of this big wide world.
Having been given so many beautiful gifts I thought we could do our first craft activity as mother and daughter and make our thank you cards. I had this lovely 'announcement' photo printed up :


and sent little hand written thank you notes on the back of tags using Kiah's foot print as a stamp !
Unfortunately the 'soft pink' foot print does not show up that well in the photo but looks rather cute and matches her announcement. Kiah was the perfect little crafter, and while she slept through the entire experience - Mummy had fun !

Stitches and craft fair - part 2

After a quick coffee - no time for lunch when time was limited I went to a workshop with Monica Poole of 'Moon shine designs' and looked at quilt as you go blocks - very inspiring ! For her book and range of patterns see here.
Then the workshop was over it was time to hit some more stalls. See my purchases below:

In summary I purchased: 1. a quilting glove - to help with free motion quilting

2. A new rotary cutter

3. A bias maker

4. A jelly monster ruler - this amazing device cuts perfect triangles, heagons, and squares in one easy swift motion from two strips of jelly rolls joined

5. A pattern by monica poole to make these cool ruffles flowers perfect to embellish bags with or wear as a brooch

6. A piece of special plastic that when sewn onto fabric, it causes it to shrink and shrivel up - will have to try out a piece and post about it

I saw plenty of fabric and could of spent a fortune but sense prevailed !!

Stitches and Craft fair - Canberra

We are home from the stitches and craft show in Canberra. A very looooooooooooooong day. Left at 7:00am and got home at 7:30pm. It is approximately a 3 hour trip to Canberra from home, so that means little Miss had to spend 6 hours in the car.

I was dropped off at the fair and hubby hit the shops with the 17 month old, she didn't sleep, eat her lunch nor did much shopping get done.

Will share goodies from show soon.... got to do a few workshops as well. Canberra's stitches and craft fair is 1/4 of the size of the Sydney show.... would of loved to go to Sydney but that's when I was in plaster and on crutches... it would not of been much fun.

Also got my swap partner for the Urban home good swap...... thinking cap needs to go on for this one... am also concerned I may have sent mixed messages to my partner but more about that later.