December/January Holidays... Part 1

To record our holiday antics and remind me how many wonderful activites we participated in over Dec/Jan I thought I would do a few blog posts.

Here is Part 1.

The start of summer hailed the need for some new nighties. I located a tutorial online for pillowcase nighties and a couple of hours later...Ta Da!!! Pretty nighties for 2 gorgeous girls! A couple of crafty gal pals have also been creating these in the past few weeks... here and here.

Then Grandma arrived in her new motorhome for a stay. When you hit the big smoke what else to do but head out for a cino...

Nothing as exciting as finding an Elmo ring in your cupcake!

Last day of swimming lessons for the term and Squirt (from Finding Nemo) made an appearance!

What a gorgeous way to spend the day...a backyard picnic with a lovely friend!









Only 4 more sleeps to go!!!!!

Well the time has come for my biggest little girl to go to Prep (or for those reading in NSW Kindergarten). Why can't each state use the same terminology???

So Miss Lily decided we needed to have a dress up day to share some photos! And she plans to stay dressed this way until bed time!

Don't you just love the excitement in her face!

To go with the uniform we needed an art smock... not just any art smock but the most colourful one we could make! Thank you Grandma...

Then we needed a matching chair bag! Thank you Grandma!

Next to come was the matching swimming bag, library bag and pencil case!

And the last matching school items come courtesy of a size 12 uniform I found at my local Salvos... now chopped and sewn into hair bands and hair ties... thanks for the inspiration Karen!

Many more of these already made and gifted. Still quite a few to go...!



More headwear...

Who could resist posting pics of recently made headwear when their models look this gorgeous!

Miss Georgia in her new beanie and scarf... will be 2 in 2 weeks!

Miss Lily... who will be 5 in less than 2 weeks!

This is what you get when taking photos whilst the small person is eating an apple.

I make the flower from this headband for most of my hats, it is just so pretty.

Details of the hats and headbands Raveled here.

Party Central...

It is party central at our place... 

The sunroom is filled with all things pink, white and silver - lots of paper lanterns to hang in the bare frangipani and crepe myrtle trees, disco balls to catch the sunlight (please let there be sun on the weekend) and lots of crepe paper for me to make some beautiful flowers like these and a ton of paper to make some bunting like this.

Until I have lots of gorgeous pink party photos here is a couple of recent photos of the girls...

Miss Georgia... she usually has a huge grin although I have

trouble catching it in a photo.

Lily with her face painted after a friends 4th birthday party at her

favourite shop... Bunnings!

Lily doing a dance for us at Aunty Pam's 70th Birthday brunch.

The girls having lunch with their Gang Gang! Miss Lily couldn't say

Grandad when she was little and now the title Gang Gang has stuck

and everyone calls him that - even his wife!

Miss Lily after another 4th birthday party...