Lots going on!! Pics galore!

Phew, it's been an action packed week here last week. On Thursday night we went bowling with friends and family for Aus's 2nd birthday. His birthday isn't until tomorrow but some friends were going on holiday and my brother and sister were both going to be at uni so we brought it forward a little bit. :)

This is a friend's little bundle, Aus was fascinated and wouldn't stop touching him. I think the shock of seeing Mummy with a baby was getting to him as well. He'll have to get used to that soon enough though!

Aus and Daddy relaxing between bowls.

Everyone looks so stunning in those shoes they make you wear!

Pop and my sister
This is the cake I made him, I'm totally hopeless at cake decorating. The robot's head tried to fall off as soon as I put it on, so I had to stick a knife through to hold his head up! Lol, oh well. Aus loved it and started singing happy birthday to himself as soon as it came out!

This is the inside of the cake, a very funky bright rainbow cake! And it was so yummy if I do say so myself!

We've also been trying to toilet train our precious boy... I think many mothers would agree, this is totally horrible. I think I spend most of my life at the moment sitting on the toilet floor trying to urge him to do number 1 or 2. But it makes it much better when he sits there like this:

On Saturday we went to Bendigo for my cousin's 18th. I can't drink of course so J made up for my lack with enthousiasm. On the way home we stopped for a 50c cone at MD's and this is the aftermath of the 'icecream fight' between J and my younger counsin... (that is not J real hair! He was modelling my cousin's clip in hair extensions! How horrible does it look though!)

Ok now onto craftiness...
On Sunday morning we came home and went straight to a 3 year old b'day party. It was for my boss's son and I was trying to think of a present I could make for him. My boss told me he likes puzzles so this is what I came up with:

A lined bag with his initial on the front and inside...

A puzzle of himself and his little sister. I cut it out of chip board and glued the photo on. Then I went over it with mod podge to seal it, and lastly a varnish coat all over to make sure it's kid proof. When we gave it to him at the party he sat down to do it straight away. I'm taking that as him liking it!

The shop has been doing so well- I can't thank everyone enough for purchasing my products. I hope it continues, I'm having a great time making everything!

Remember this? I've been making so many little clippies for it! Oh they're so much fun, so quick and onto the next idea. Lucky I don't have girls otherwise I'd make one of these every morning to match the outfit they were going to wear for the day! :)



Lastly yesterday I sent out all the baby toys I'd made for the Toy Society Bush Fire toys appeal. I had fun making these too and tried to make things littlies would find interesting.



Yikes! That's all folks, I need a Nanna nap after doing this post!

Happy Mail! And other adventures...

It wasn't really a huge weekend here, J went to cricket on Saturday and we went to watch him bat- oh big news there... no duck this time! Yay! :) J is sadly not the best batsman in the world, but I will say he is very good at bowling!
Then Sunday morning we decided to leave Aus with J's brother and head off to Echuca to watch a movie. We saw 'Gran Torino', with Clint Eastwood as the main star. I really can't rave about it enough, we giggled all the way through! Except at the end... but I wont ruin it for you, go and see it. I also recently saw 'Changeling' with Angelina Jolie. That just left me sad and affraid to let my child out of my sight! I suppose it was a good movie, but maybe Mummys shouldn't go see it.

Anyway, I got myself a Valentine's gift (from my husband)... A new BIG work bench for my studio!! Oh the joy to have space to work in! Aus very happily helped me paint it this afternoon... or himself, either way he was happy to help.

Who could resist this cheeky face? 'Sure you can paint the concrete too Sweetheart!' lol

Onto my happy mail!! Yay! I bought these awesome bibs from Sparkly Green Knicker's Etsy Shop last week to support her in giving her profits to the Bush Fire Appeal. Aren't they fabulous!! I'm keeping the dots one for our bub but the pink one will be a gift- I'm sure my friend is having a girl!

And this package arrived from Miss Curlypops! Thanks so much Cam! I bought the beautiful wrap (which is huge by the way... so good for keeping baby IN!) and she also sent me the cool cars bib. This new baby is getting so spoiled and it's not even here yet! But wait there's more... you know all those awesome shorts Cam makes? Well she photocopied and sent me the pattern, with hand written instructions!! Brilliant! As soon as my new work bench is in, I'll be churning out shorts like there's no tomorrow!
THANKS CAM!!

I've also been making toys to go to the Toy Society for the bush fire victims. I thought I'd just concentrate on baby toys because I'm no toy expert! So I made a few things with fluff and sparkles and ribbons and different textures just to keep little fingers entertained.

I've also had a go at making little note books from paint samples to send with the toys:

I'm going to make small pouches to house a few of these with some cool pens for older kids to take secret notes :)

Well that's pretty much what I've been doing, except sending out all the orders I got from last week, thanks to all those who purchased my jewellery! I'm about to make the $75 donation from the shop today! Thanks so much!

No! How could this happen?!

Our state is still burning and I feel totally helpless. Over 100 people dead and many still missing. Families with nothing. Children who have only the clothes they escaped in. It's just unbelievable.

So I'm going to spend the day appliqueing kids clothes and making toys that will be in the post this after noon. They will go to the Toy Society and to Grandy and Baa. I hope they help in some minuscule way.