Sewing and back to school

Last week was back to school so to make it more fun i've been sewing.
I made this pencil case for Dudette.

And one for me. I found this material in spotlight an sale so had to have it. It reminds me of something out of the 70's.

I'm doing five subjects for my finale year of school so instead of covering my books with paper i chose fabric. The first few gave me some trouble but on the last three i found the secret and could make one in 15 minutes. The best thing about them is that they can be reused or be made in to something else.

This year i'm learning to sew useing a pattern. For my first try i've been making some soft toys.


I've also had my earrings sitting on my shelves in a huge mess for months. I did this because i saw i storage method on better homes and gardens months ago. I've been looking for a nice picture frame and finally found this one for 3 dollars. I removed the glass and added some wire. Although it does not hold my stud earrings I'm able to hang all my other earrings on it. It looks great on the wall and because i can see them i wear them more.

Till next time MnM : )

Very cute news

This is Heidi. She is our new RSB guile dog in training. Usually puppy educators get their pups at 8 weeks but Heidi needed a home so at 5 months she has been welcomed to our home, where she will continue her training to hopefully become a fully fledged guide dog.

The toy she's holding was a quick sewing job the other day. I had a squeaky thing that use to belong in a toy of Tim Tams. So I sandwiched it in between some stuffing and chose some fabric which looked fun. She really loves it and plays on her own while making it squeak, it's rather funny.

This is one of the reasons for the drought in blogging. I made my first quilt. I have wanted to make a quilt for my grandmother for ages. Mum and I used some fabric which you can print your photos onto and printed twenty pics of our family. Then quilted them together. Of course we found out halfway through sewing that there was going to be an addition coming to the family so we got a pic of a stork carrying a bundle. When the baby arrives we can sew the pics in the empty spots. We also made some white patches so at the family xmas everyone could write a message to her.

It took lots of pretty fabrics and the middle wadding is bamboo so it is soft , light and flexible. I'm quite happy with the end result and my grandmother was so thrilled to get it.
Till next time MnM : )

It's been tooooo long!!

Well how is everybody?
We have had such a busy last few months so I do apologies for not blogging.
Well what have we been up to? We've had lots of birthdays, concerts and other time consuming stuff.
I'm not sure if I've mentioned it but Little Letty our guide dog in training has left us to further her training. I'm very pleased to say she is doing well and fingers crossed will be placed with a visually impaired person later this month. We sewed this bag to remember her.

Houses around the corner from us were due to be demolished soon as was the front gardens. So we took some cuttings of the frangipani trees. After letting them dry for a couple of weeks we decided to plant one near our chicken coop. Unfortunately there was a huge tractor tyre under the spot we needed. The tyre has lived there for quite some time and some how we have managed to work round it, until now. After about 3 hours digging we finally got it out.

We have also been doing lots of spinning and knitting.


From blogs ago you may remember three very little chics. Know they are all grown up and laying several eggs a day. We were all very surprised when we collected the following egg. It was so big I thought it better to show the size of the eggs we normally collect and a normal size pool ball.

When we used the egg it was a double yolker. All the chooks got extra scraps that day.

By the way happy New Year MnM : )