Who said life is never busy ?

Has never lived the life of a mum with 2 children under 3 lol ..I never stop!

I havent been doing much felt cooking as of late, got lots cut out and lots of ideas down but pattern design or acquire hasnt been high on my to-do list. Did finish off the cupcakes I started and just need to take a pic and upload it. They will be for sale a set of 2 for $10.

Instead I have finally helped a friend out and designed some swing tags for her SAHM business 'The Sweetest Thing'. You can access her stuff here .. its gorgeous!!!
I (by that I mean Adi and I) have heaps of her non-slip hair clips and they work GREAT!. Adi has really thin hair and they stay put - as long as she doesnt fiddle lol. I have been using them in mine as well :) .. saves having to style it each day.

Here are some of the ones I got from her a few days ago for $3.50 each!


Here are the swing tags I made for her, she couldnt decide between the 3 different fronts for it (I like the one with the butterflys,blue sky & clouds!). What do you think ??

twice in one day!

Figured I had better add some pics of the latest creations to the flet food family for Adison's 3rd birthday in July .. sshhhh .. she has no idea!

Deluxe Hamburger (with beetroot, tomato, cheese, bacon, lettuce & onion!)



Watermelon Slices


Other stuff has also been finished but not as yet photographed! .. Will do that later today once we are back from the zoo!

twice in one day!

twice in one day!

where old phone cords go

This was too good not to post! .. I am blown away at the ingenuity and the usefulness that the old phones played in this creation. This is taking recyling to a whole new level!

Check out the feet and faces!!

This is from the Museum of Communications in Auckland, New Zealand!

I know, I know not my normal stuff I post about but I had to!



I am off to Adelaide Zoo with the lil folks & hubby, so I had better fly! .. got a very excited 3 year old in the house today that wants to go NOW!

Bapples, Apples .. yummy goodness.

It would seem that my lovely felt food has been spotlighted with other apples on a very cool crafty blog. I feel so honoured and soo lucky to have got this mention.



You can see the post here ..

As always, my felt food is available to buy. You can go directly to my store by using this link. tea4twofelt food on madeit.com.au. To celebrate apples being on calicoandco all felt orders this month will receive a free extra something :).

Apologies for not posting for a while (yes, bad blogger!). Between kitchen reno's, 2 lil folks, sewing & cooking felt food and scrapping. I never seem to have the chance to sit & post. I promise to try and do better in the future.

I am in the midst of a blog post for sometime in the next few days I will post with new pics of the kitchen and a few layouts that I have done in the last month. I have just purchased a new feltfood book from here with lots of instructions & ideas in it. Cant wait to have a chance to create some goodies out of it for my lil miss. Once I have I will take pics and post them :)

Have a super day!
J
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Some crafty goodness ..

Have been doing a fair bit of scrapping for the challenge I entered at Blue Bazzar and have been perusing all sorts of websites in the past few weeks looking for inspiration.

Came across this one and had to let you know!
Soo many lovely ideas and soo many beautiful colours! ..

On other fronts, the kitchen is ordered and we should be getting a call in the next week to pick it up. WE got an excellent price for a gas oven, gas hotplates and brand new sink from someone that hubby knows. Those 3 items for $800! .. Thats less than the cost for the oven alone .. they are all brand new, still in plastic and just never got put into the house they were purchased for 4 years ago.. so now they will be in mine.

I have put some of my felt food up in the madeit store as well as offered my digi services for the making of invites/cards/business cards/leaflets/swing tags or whatever you want .. if your interested let me know :)
You can get to my store here ..

Enough for now .. gotta go get the cyclone from school! :)

Later,
J
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1..2..3..4..HI-5

Yes, we went. Actually it was quite a good concert. Very funny and funnily (or not!) most of the parents in the audience knew all the words to their songs! lol
Cyclone Adison LOVED it as did her friend Kiah who along with her mum Michelle (hi guys!! **waves**) came with us.

The girls are both around the same age and both loved it. Even today, 4 days later she still talks about it constantly and about going out for the day with mummy, Michelle & Kiah. Soo cute. Soo pleased that we all went together and sat together too.




whatelse .. I have signed up for Crop Bootcamp over at Blue Bazaar. The object is to complete 25 layouts. They provide sketches and basically all I need is time to scrap.. anyone know where I can buy this from (they dont seem to sell it) .. while on the subject an extra set of arms with hands attached! wouldnt be a bad idea ..

The info is a PDF so I can print it out and attach the sketches to a 12x12 baggie with all bits in it. Yes I am usually that organised lol. I have to be to survive. if you want to do it as well you MUST go sign up on their scrapping forums here to be officially in the challenge.

I am looking forward to doing this! Have got some ideas already and with it being Tuesday. Adison is at 'school' so Boonty will sleep lots without her to keep him awake lol so I can scrap lol -- woohoo!!

We are also a step closer to our kitchen being produced. The guy came and did the final measure last week and we finalised some stuff for it. Now to just wait and see the final plan for it be emailed back and then wait 4 weeks .. cant wait. Ohh I cant wait to have a new kitchen, a stove that works and if I am lucky my red kenwood mixer all at the same time. Good Guys are going to love us when we come to buy!! lol

Okay.. time to start prepping challenge kits.. that is after I go put a load of washing on and have some lunch!

Have a lovely day :)
J
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Things I am loving at the moment ..

The peace & quiet with both lil people tucked up into their beds for the night Well one for the whole night (till 8am at least!) and the other until 3am :) and then again until 8am :) ..

Being back in South Aust and having the opportunity to drool at IKEA whenever the whim takes me. 45 mins in the car is much nicer than 3+hours in Melbourne.

Scrapbooking ..

That hubby did 160km y.day as part of the TDU from Norwood to Goolwa. It was a long day and he has very sore calves (mmm calves) and a sore lower back. Soo proud of him!

My lil man growing everyday and exploring all that he can with his belly shuffle along the floor and seeing him in the walker move to be where sissy is.

Hayden's fascination with the cat.. and ohh and his bits - and yes I know that wont change. ever.

Miss A learning more and more everyday .. she is soo social and clever. She scares me. Really have to watch our p's & q's more closely lol.

Sunshine and lots of it. MCN washing (yes, for 2 kids!) and having it dry in no time at all.

Seeing Miss A 'mother' Hayden when I am out of the room :) .. its very cute but she is yet to learn the art of gentle. "If he doesnt want his dummy you can just force it in like you can with your dolly!"

The Tour Down Under .. gotta love a nice set of calves. Did I tell you my hubby is a cyclist ?? lol ..

Chocolate Rum Balls (minus the rum) .. way to yummy and easy to eat in one sitting!

Icecubes.. helps to relieve stress (for me anyway) and helps with the heat lol

Ohh and these 2 pics.. they never fail to bring a smile to my face.





I am sure there is plenty more but thats enough for now .. what are you loving .. and please dont say McDonalds! :p

remember me .. ?

yes I have been a tad absent. Its been way to long but I am back!

Quick update ..
I have been pregnant and now have a 6 month old lil boy Hayden (boonty as we call him)
as well as my ever cyclonic 2 1/2 year old Adison.


We have been posted and are now back living in South Australia. We moved back into the place we already own here and are mid-renovations. You will hear lots about them in the weeks & months to come. We (by that I mean hubby & fil - I bailed out with the kids to escape the noise & mess lol) have already jackhammered up all the slate floor in the house (over 60sqm of it) and sanded it all back with a floor sander type thing and have laid the majoirty of the light coloured ceramic floor tiles. The new kitchen is about to be ordered and then comes double glazed sliding doors, new bathroom vanities & fixtures and loads more. Ohh and a picket fence around the pergola area so the lil folk have somewhere outside to go on wet days other than under mummys feet.

I admit that I miss my life in Sale. We had lots of great friends there (Hi Everyone!!! I miss you!1) and a fairly good social life for Miss A (playgroups, friends, child care). It has been a tad diffucult having to find it all again but we have and are. We are going to start playgroup at Salisbury Heights Playgroup in Feb and go to music hour and reading hour at the library each week as well. There is always the local kids play centre 'kids Bidz' if we need something to do.

I have been a tad busy. I didnt realise that life would change so much with 2 lil people to care for. Especially one that is too much like her mummy was at the same age - payback is what I can hear you all saying!.. she never stops - even when I remove her batteries!

I still make felt food. Mostly its just easy stuff (fruit, vegies, cookies & tarts)In fact just this morning I purchased with the hope of making it in time for xmas! (hey, I this gorgeous gingerbread house instruction booklet can only dream!).
You can buy the instructions for yourself as I wont be making 2 of them lol

I am scrapping again, with 2 little subjects to focus it on and lots of things on my todo list.. I am organised and trying to do a few layouts as week. I am covetting the below furniture from IKEA so I can have a space that is lockable from sticky & often grubby little fingers (and prying eyes if it gets too messy!) .. just got to talk hubby into letting me spend $618ish on it.


So nuff for now .. I hear a lil person now calling out 'Adi awake' .. I know full well she didnt have a nap (could hear the noise from the other end of the house she was making!) so this afternoon will be great meltdown material. Going to make some vegetable fritters with her (seeing as my oven doesnt work, and I wont be getting it fixed but will get new appliances with the new kitchen - yahhoo!!) it can be difficult for things to cook that dont require cooking.

Ohh and its 36 deg outside today .. the evap air is on and its cool & cozy inside :)

Chat Later
J
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enough already!

I have had it up to my head and beyond with ignorant people and with people who take their kids to kids places when they are sick!

For the last 4 weeks A has been battling on & off with colds. A runny nose constantly, at one point a dry cough and no appetite. AND NOW she is back on the mend only for her to have some sort of vomitting bug for most of the day!

It wouldnt be so bad but today was her day at day care and my day of sanity but that was not to be with her vomitting episides today! .. yucho!

She is still her usual happy hyper self and doesnt seem to care to much. Is eating anything that I give her (arrowroot biscuits, cream cheese sanger, sultanas, bits of left over silverside meat). I was soo looking forward to a sanity day but Murphy just isnt on my side at the moment so I should have known better than to get my hopes up!

On the bright side, she has a few new words now and is just happy to play and isnt at all clingy.

Onto a different topic .. when will people realise that cloth nappies are not like they were a gazillion years ago ??? .. other MCN users know what I mean by this. You dont need copius amounts of nappy-san, you dont need to soak them for a day before you wash and they are not hard work.

Just rinse (if needed) place in a bucket and when you have enough put a load of nappies into the wash machine. Get with it people!! .. and if one more person says to me 'ohh, you are such a good mum for using cloth - I couldnt do that' I think I may have to slap said person. Or if I hear 'ohh I am on tank water' It would be too hard .. think again people its really simple and uses no more water than a load of washing every few days and a fluch of a toilet! If it was hard work, I wouldnt do it I am too lazy for anything that involves more work that I need.

Has been a lovely few days here with the Spring Sun finally making an appearance. A and I have been spending time in the yard eating dirt (well okay she eats the dirt and I pretend not to notice as she puts handfulls of it in her mouth) and playing with the ball. I am trying to teach her to roll the ball to me but all she wants to do right now is just run away with it.

The Aussie Version of Etsy! .. madeit.com.au

Just a lil something while I dont have a cling-wrap kid in my arms and while I can sit down.

I made the decision last month to relist my felt food on a few places and get some $$. was missing my felt sewing and this will give me the excuse I need to make more and create new items when I have time.

I checked out ebay, monkeys undies and etsy and then remembered about a website I had known of for a while and finally had sometime today to check it out. Its very etsy looking BUT its better lol.

So I took the leap and listed some stuff. You basically buy credits and use these to pay for your listing fees - upfront and then get to work listing items.

The listing fees are really small and it is relatively simple to set-up and sell. I like it as its not as crazy as Etsy and you dont get lost amongst the zillions of other people who are all peddling their wares on there as well.

Check it out when you get a chance .. its pretty new & easy to use. Ohh and payment is in AUD so there is no conversion happenning and my listings I added today are open until 18 Dec so you dont have to go in and relist them all the time! - a big time saver! ..

other news Adison had her 2nd day at Child Care last Thursday and LOVED IT! .. I spoke to one of the carers this morning and she told me that A basically follows the bigger kids around all day and wants to be doing what they are. She commented on how interested she is in everything (how could she not be with parents like us ?? lol) and how she doesnt sleep all day. She really does crash when she gets home. She has to be into everything and with everything. No seperation anxiety at all - she more or less says 'buy mum, dont let the door hit you on the way out' when I drop her off.

Tomorow I am off to a StampinUp! workshop at a friends place, cant wait to have a play and hopefully see a new catty other than the online copy I have from the US.

Adison's 1st Birthday

This post has been sitting in my draft box since July 13th (the day of her party) as I just hadnt gotten around to putting the montage together of some of the birthday pictures.

As you can see from the pics, a good day was had by all. It was fairly low-key. Just a BBQ at home with a few friends from mums group and some friends from the LG Cycling Group. We had a yummy mud cake that was ordered from Woolies bakery and lots of BBQ things and fun. The weather was fairly good for most of the day, just a tad cold 12 deg.

My parents drove over from Sydney for the weekend. They left Sydney at 6pm on Friday night and were here by Saturday Morning at 6am with a few stops. They then left Sunday Morning for the return trip. I think they spent more time in the car than they did here and we hope their next visit will be a bit longer and a bit more substantial as they will be on long service leave!

We got the Birthday Pack from the toy library for the weekend to keep all the little ones entertained so we had the castle, a tunnel they could crawl through, a car to sit on and a few other things. They had a ball, we enjoyed watching them and chatting while we watched them all.

As you can see from the pictures, Adison enjoyed her piece of cake immensley and covered herself, the highchair and her head with cake crumbs!

For anyone wanting to join ..

I created a facebook group tonight for all the ppl that are going to Create08 either the Melb or Brissy Workshops. You can get to it from this link ..

On the homefront and scrapping front, I am about half way through a 12x12 LO that shows Adi's milestones till now. I just cant work out how I want the title to be so I may just put it into my WIP album and work on it when it hits me. I am also 1/2 way through a LO c alled 'up close & personal' which shows her love for the camera and how she has to be about 1 ince from the lense at all times :) .. its very funny!

Ohh and I got 5 loads of washing sorted today. Its about 2 weeks worth as I just couldnt handle it last week and I have all her MCN folded and ready to be put away as well. Farmer wants a Wife finished tonight (and yes I watched it while folding the washing lol .. !) and aside from one that I didnt expect (Nick & Steph became Nick & Kristy) it was pretty much textbook. Poor Howie .. he is soo sweet and soo cute.. he needs a good country gal. I am not putting my hand up! .. happily married here!

Okay .. time for bed!

I bit the bullet ..

I am going to Create08 in Melb. I had been thinking about it seriously for a few days after I did that post saying I couldnt justify it and decided that hey its not everyday I get the chance to scrap & learn from someone who I admire greatly. So I bit the bullet, and have paid my $$ to go.. if you know anyone else that is going, I would love to have a friend or 2 before I get there (not that I have a problem meeting people, but I hate being alone lol)

now I need a countdown thingy to put on here so you can all count down with me ..

Ohhh I am soo excited!!!!!!!! I just did the hapy dance around the room complete with ugh boots, and flanny pyjamas .. such a good look but hey its cold here! :)

This pic was from the last time I had the chance to be in her workshop in 2004 when she taught at the Inspiration Convention in Melb. Time's sure have changed :)

looky what I found .. I just stuck a countown timer at the bottom of the blog ..!!