February?

Gee that flew by. I am hoping to have more time to check in now that hubby is working, Hunter is at school and Levi is at kinder. Imagine how much time I will have when I find daycare for Raife and Pepper. For now, I will slip in when I can. I hope to be able to comment a bit more, I feel like I sneak in and out of blogs more than I'd like. Anyway, any interest in some Christmas crafting?

Wrapping paper painting

I've been making some fabric bags the past few years and decided to sew the kid's name tags as well. It was fun!


And some gorgeous yarn dyed by my lovely friend. Her shop is shut at the moment but hopefully will be open again soon. Ladybug loops
I already used the bottom right one for a friend's baby girl.

and so this is Christmas

Merry Christmas to you and yours from me and mine!

Retromummy Giveaway!

Check it out!
Ooh so pretty!

Help Cliff and his family to be

This gorgeous little boy needs some help this Christmas.

Can you help him?

Around the corner

So, Christmas is just around the corner. I am getting ready, revelling in the warmer weather and preparing for what is for us, the very busy season. I've just started school, Hunter is going to school next year and Levi is off to kinder so we've been doing lots of transition sessions. Then we have Christmas and then it's birthday week. Then the juggling starts for reals!

Anything I can do to make this busy time easier is a plus in my opinion. So, when I read about an awesome promotion just for bloggers to get 50 Christmas Cards for free I stuck my hand up!
I normally buy plain white cards and print my photos and glue them on and decorate them somehow (LOL) So this is right up my alley this year, pick the card, choose print, then they are delivered to my door! Love it!
Here is the Shutterfly website

And there are some beauties to choose from, these are some of my faves in the card section:

They also have other products, like personalised ornaments (so sweet!)

And invitations

They are all classy designs with some very classic and some modern designs. Lovely!

Check them out and bloggers, sign up here.

Pepper's professional pictures

I recently went on a little holiday to Sydney with my gorgeous mother's group and had the luck to book a session with the talented Alinta from Capturing Life's Colour. She is one of the fabulous photographers we had for the wedding.

I got my cd back today and just have to add some pictures of my littlest baby and me.

I am trying to convince her to come to Melbourne next year when Pepper is a bit bigger to do family shots. Anyone else want a session?? :)

Oh handsome

No, not you. :P

I have been looking for some cool kids knits, stuff that I would actually buy and put on my boys, and stumbled on this gem.
I decided to give it a go and I have to say that it is so easy to make! I love the pattern! I think I may even purchase it and make it in the bigger sizes for the bigger boys.

I wish I'd added a few more rows to make it a bit longer though, the pattern says it's long, but maybe my Raife is just tall.

It is knit up using Bendigo Woollen Mills 12 ply rustic in midnight tweed which is a gorgeous deep blue with flecks of red and green.