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an easy alien costume 21 Aug 2013 | 07:47 am
This year, with A at school, we had our first Book Week parade. The children could either dress up as a favourite book character or, because the theme was "Reading Across the Universe", something spac...
a grown up quilt 20 Aug 2013 | 02:21 am
My sister had a birthday last week and, fairly close to the event, I decided I wanted to make her a quilt. This was possibly a bit rash because I usually only make cot size quilts for babies. I might ...
from the archives 19 Aug 2013 | 01:43 pm
Recently I felt like something different for breakfast, and started googling granola recipes. I remembered there was one I used from the (now defunct) Little Birds blog, back when we lived in Tokyo, b...
unscheduled 2 Aug 2013 | 11:24 am
I had my next couple of sewing projects all planned, but then realised that Milla is about to outgrow the sizes in my School Photo Dress pattern, which I haven't made for her yet, and as it's a long s...
central west weekend 23 Jul 2013 | 11:35 am
I'm a city person through and through, but it is nice to get out in to the countryside sometimes. This past weekend we ventured to Orange for a mini-break, and I loved waking up to a view of hills and...
works in progress 18 Jul 2013 | 11:29 am
I'm not going to have much sewing time over the next few days, so I'm not sure if I'll finish anything else for this KCW but this is what I'll be working on. First - a pair of Elegance & Elephants Bub...
mirako roller skate dress 17 Jul 2013 | 10:37 am
My mother-in-law visited San Francisco last year, and brought me back some beautiful Liberty lawn from Britex Fabrics. There were four pieces altogether, two in blues (which I have earmarked for a Fam...
peasant blouse 16 Jul 2013 | 10:53 am
I've never made one of these simple peasant-style blouse or dresses for Milla, although I made a couple of similar tops for myself from the Built By Wendy / Simplicity 3835 pattern. For this one I us...
pink pants 15 Jul 2013 | 11:17 am
What do you think about harem pants? I can't decide if they look cool or ridiculous on adults, but I do think they look quite cute on toddlers. Milla had a pair of chambray Bonds Roomies pants that I ...
sunprints & school holidays 8 Jul 2013 | 05:40 pm
School and preschool holidays can be the best of times or the worst of times - when they go well it's so good to spend lots of time with my small people without the intrusions of school drop offs and ...
