the party has begun

The kids party every year seem to get bigger and better. The planning stage and preparation were a bit too much this year because I had a few photo shoots lined up as well. I also decided to make it a little bit different. So here are the party details

*this year's theme is 'colour me happy' which means it is just a colourful party

*I set up a cupcake station for the kids to decorate their own cupcake 

*a bouncy castle was hired for the afternoon, saved me time to think of games (*wink*)

*the garden was decorated with fabric buntings and paper lanterns

*of course, pass the parcel was still a part of it

*Josh had an ice cream cake (made by muah) and Tara had the butterfly cake (made by Emily)

*Each guest went home with a crayon roll and colouring page as well as the lolly bag.

*My kids enjoyed the party especially opening their presents

*we finished off with a BBQ for the adults while kids play with their presents.

The photos are taken by a friend in the party, I didn't get the chance to take photos of the party as I was busy getting everything ready, oh well, I have the memory of it in my mind.

lazy day skirt and extra

Yay, I am inspired to start sewing this morning and started my lazy day skirt that Mel organised for the sew along and here it is.

I don't have the ribbon to go on the hem so I decided to just use a contrasting colour to be the ribbon. I finished it in 15 minutes so I decided to keep sewing and did a peasant dress for tara as well. I made a few mistakes but hey they are not very obvious so it works well.

Sew-along starts today

I joined a sew along that starts today to sew a lazy day skirt for my girl started by a good friend Mel. She is one of my inspirations in sewing as well as crafting with the kids. I first got to know her in scrapbooking and then started to follow her blog. This lady is amazing at what she does. 

The sew-along goes for the whole week and since I don't have much fabric and can't get to a fabric shop very easily I can only do one or two skirts but still fun to do it knowing we got about 60 ladies sewing the skirt around the world. You can go to Mel's blog to see all the ladies who are doing the sew-along, she puts them in her sidebar. We are following this pattern here.

And what's a post without a photo, so here is my cheeky little monkey.

The real update!

Ok, I know I have been trying to post some photos of the things we have been doing for the last month or so and really, it hasn't been easy, but here they are. This is about 2 weeks before the school holidays here as well as during the school holidays, as tomorrow term 4 starts.

Some new fabrics have arrived and here is just one of them that I adore.

And this is the finished product from the jelly roll, isn't that adorable for a little girl. I gave this to a friend's daughter for her birthday along with some scrapbooking stuff inside. 

And here is a smaller version that I plan to give to little girls about tara's age.

We had fun building a Lego land as well as Josh's new lego machines.



Then, as school holidays come, we were busy with new books to read, playing in the garden, painting, and cooking. Here are some highlights.





And Josh has read his first book, I will share the book when I get the chance to take a photo. He read it one chapter a day and finished it in six days. That is something. So proud of my little boy.

Updating and Day to Day

Sorry, I haven't posted for so long, I miss updating this blog but work opportunities and loads have come and pile their selves in front of me the last month and I am still trying to catch up.

It is amazing how my photography have started and flourished to where it is now and I am so thankful to everyone who has supported me. I still do enjoy planning a day with the kids and there are a few that we are currently working and when things begin to settle I will try to share as they happen. I really do like to share them day by day, but sometimes times are not long enough to do all we want to do for the day.

I will post some latest creations and update this more often, but right now, we are celebrating. This month is a month of birthdays as three people in the family celebrates their day so as you can imagine its a busy and expensive month for us as well as the most favourite of all of us.

Will update soon, as I have joined a sew-a-long with mel to sew a lazyday skirt for Tara. More details soon.