Wondering Wednesday

Today was a beautiful sunny day in good old Wellington! So the Mechanic prescribed sunshine and picnics in parks for his family before he left for work. Sounded good to me!

Thrilled about shopping!

First stop SUPERMARKET. Remind me not to go to the Supermarket when I have MEGA cravings for chocloate. Whoops. I promise that we did get fruit and veges and other 'healthy' things...but I think a great % of our trolley ended up having chocolatey goodness in it....I found that the local Yellow Supie sells actually VERY good chocolate coissants....mmmm....I think as good as any I had in France!! So there ya go! I planned to share it with the lads..but once I took a bite....well all sharing went out the window with my waist

line! mmmmmmmm

watching and eating.

Neo wanted to go to a park by Fergusson Drive (which is the longest street in our dear little town...one that Neo thinks is pretty cool cause it is soooo looonnggg). I chose TMP. Its a cool park. And what do you know! There was a minature world cup rugby tourny on! Seems I can not escape RWC no matter how hard I try! There were lots of schools all assigned to a country and were having their own cup matches. We sat near S.A and Fiji! Cool!

watching the ruggers

A wee play on playground, then home. A long and tiring morning, full of sunshine, sports, srums and scrummy foods.




What will next Wednesday hold?

Whose dad is a mechanic?

Wondering Wednesday.

I have decided to start a weekly Wondering Wednesday post.

Wednesdays, in our house are generally the day that nothing is planned and we often stay home, or at least close to home. Every morning Neo will say "I wonder what we will do today?!"...so there we have it....

Today looked as though the weather was going to be grand, so I suggested that after Little Who's nap we go for a walk (something that often occurs on Wednesdays...I nearly named it Wandering Wednesday...).

While Little Who napped, Neo and I baked! YUM. I found a very grand lemon muffin recipe indeed. Here it is: http://www.bhg.com/recipe/muffins/lemon-curd-muffins/

We made 9 normal sized muffins. SO YUM!       

He just couldn't wait!!! 

Do you blame him?

 One of my favourite things about this time of the year are the flowers and trees. I LOVE Rhodos. "No Smell" though....

CONCRETE ART! This is an elephant. Neo said so... I can see it..can you? Do I have an abstract arteest on my hands?

                                                                                                                                                                  

Just cause he is cute and today he FINALLY learnt how to clap his hands!!!!

I promise next time there will be more photos. This first attempt was poor as I forgot my camera for our first outing and on the second one I got caught up in the fun of it all.
xxx

Im in LOVE

So, Im not sure if I mentioned how much I hate going to a certain fabric store...*coughs* spotlight Kaiwharawhara. The service is soooo emormously CRAPPY and well...its a 30min drive one way its just not worth the angst and hatred it builds in me...because that is really not conducive to good crafty vibes. ANYWAY I hate it there and I am NEVER going back.

On Friday I decided to venture out to Porirua (which is nearly 40mins away) and inspect the Spotlight out there and also go to the local Emporium...which I have never been to.

If I knew how to add one in I would HEART...I AM SOOO IN LOVE WITH THE EMPORIUM! ohhh sighhhhh. Just thinking about it makes me get all mushy! haha. All the sparkly things, the giant buttons the ribbon, the dress up stuff...even the plastic swords had me going!! The boys really enjoyed it too...except that Little Who kept trying to climb out of the cute mini shopping trolley...hmm next time I will take my backpack to chuck him in!

Unfortunatly they didn't have any knit fabric...well none I wanted for this particular project...but they did have this:

Not really sure what I will do with it...But I HAD to have it!!

After dragging myself out of the Emporium of Awesomeness (and convincing Neo that we would come back and look at the various torches and bouncy balls another day) we ventured (with trepidation) to the other Spotlight store........ duhduhduhduh (Hmm JAWS music)... I was pleasantly surprised! The sales girl greeted me and led me STRAIGHT to gorgeous knit fabric and various other things I needed. The cutting lady was happy to be there, so inturn, so was I! YAY! Thankyou Spotlight Porirua for being a pleasant shopping experience..we will be back!

The creations:

 Good old Neo...modelling "girly" shorts...BOOTIful!

 And yes...Little Who had to model the matching Flower!

 This one is finally done!

Love, Flowers and Hearts to all. xx

creations

 Lunch Bag of fishing goodies...yes! I added some hooks and sinkers....I thought an empty bag was a bit sad.......

 Aeroplane, hand and Little Who's foot. He wouldnt do a hand...kept trying to grap the cnavas!

 Rainbows and mermaids...

LA LA LA LUNCH BAGSSSS

Remember....its The Mechanics birthday this weekend....Oh woe is me...He is SOOO hard to buy for...so LUCKY HIM he gets a home made gift from me!! I have sewn him a lunch bag out of tablecloth....well vinyl table cloth. Was pretty cheap for what I got and I think it has opened up a WHOLE NEW sewing world for me! I have so far make a Lunch bag, a wine bag (which was meant to be the lunch bag but was to tall and slim) and I have made a wallet. I LOVE putting snaps on things! Hammer Hammer Hammer.

I have titles this LA LA LA because my mum told me I was nuts. A bit la la making all these bizzare things. Little does she know, I got it from her haha!

No photos yet as Mr Mechanic is sitting in the lounge with me and will see....tomorrow. I will also put up the paintings that Neo has made for his Dada too. Pretty clever wee guy if you ask me!

Spring has Srung in my house!

The weekend was spent doing lots and lots of fabulous sewing. A friend of mine is moving to Sydney in a couple of days, she needed a laptop tote bag, she thinks her sewing skills leave a little to be desired..I think they are alright, but I offered to whip one up for her anyway!

Here it is (my apologies for the photos...maybe Latte Junkie will take some photos of the bag in use and post some:

Button!!!

internal zipped pocket!!!!

From this project I learnt how to make boxed corners and how to make a internal zipped pocket this tutorial is really easy to follow. I searched through quite a few before I found this one...the other just made my brain hurt!

I am annoyed that I put the straps in the wrong place AND the lining inside seams could be seen.....where did I go wrong here? Can anyone help me?

My second project of the weekend was the dress and head band for my friends darling one year old..Here it is:

It was during this project that spring sprung. I had SO MUCH fun making fabric flowers...I made an entire garden! Lovely Jubbly! I think I am going to embellish ALL my clothes and accessories with flowers, BIG Beautiful Bouquets!

Its my Husbands and Father In Laws birthday this weekend (YES same day). So now I am on the next mission.....watch this space...

SLACK SLACK SLACK!!!

Goodness me! Is that the date? I look away and step back from the sewing machine and two months just wizzes by! I think it must be high time I got back on the machine!

I have actually sewn ONE item in this time. It was a gift for a friends baby, a halfmoon pillow.....I thought it was pretty funky! It had his name and birthday sewn into it too! Sadly, I didnt take any photos...I will have to ask her to flick some to me! Perhaps the quality of the pillow was the greatest....this was when I discovered that wine and sewing machines don't mix...despite what the user thinks!! haha "Oh WOW, I am really good at sewing tonight, I am going really fast and not making any mistakes and it looks GREAT.....the next morning...."Oh...dam...looks like I have some fixing to do" HAHA. It WAS fun though!

I have been very busy setting up TWO businesses. Our main family one, a brake machining business that the Mechanic runs (its mobile) and my own one selling handsfree stroller adaptors...see my facebook page www.facebook.com/StrollSmartNZ I have a couple of expos coming up...so things will remain slow on here for a while, but I AM sewing a wee dress for my friends little girl this weekend. Here it is:free-pattern-baby-dresstunic I am a bit in love with this lady and her gorgeous boy! The things she makes are so cool! And her blog is fun to read! I wish I could zip over to Norway and meet her!! Instead I will just follow her life and sew up some of her groovey ideas!

On the 1984 pattern front...have nothing yet.... :-( Not to worry though...all in good time!

So anywho....This weekend will be dedicated to sewing and hanging with Neo and the Little Who! (whose birthday was last week...so I HAVE been busy! Here is a pic of the epic teddy bear cake!)

 Here are some other cool things we have been up to lately in this crazy New Zealand weather!!!! Aparently its been about 40 years since it snowed like this in our town! It was MAGIC!

 Check out the Paua Shell eyes!!! A little bit of beach in the blizzard!!!!!!!!!