Happy Halloween!

Halloween Pumpkin

Originally uploaded by Sew Sydney

Hope your Halloween is full of lollys and spooky fun memories. The is a photo of our feline pumpkin.
Happy Halloween!

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Two More Sleeps…..

Sloan’s party was a big success thanks to great weather, good food and friends and the best jumping castle ever! 
Two more sleeps until Halloween!  The house has been decorated for awhile, but I still need to rally the neighbors to see if they will be up for some  small, spooky visitors. 
Here is what we did [...]

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Spreading the Word…. Gee Bend

Thanks to the wonderful blog by Material Obsession, I was alerted that there is a special Gee Bend exhibition here in Sydney this weekend.  I must live underneath a rock……I had no idea that it was coming.  I have been doing heavy time negotiation with the poor hubby to get Saturday off the kids / [...]

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Birthday Lolly Bags

Work ahead of me tonight.  Lolly bags to stuff, lavender Sprout print girls to finish sewing, pass the parcel to wrap and my feet are already tired from the “no rain” dance I am doing until Sunday afternoon.
Here are the rockets and lavender Sprout girls for the lolly bags. 
Have a great weekend and sun, sun, [...]

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Flying Mommy and Rocket

flyingrocket

Originally uploaded by Sew Sydney

Rhys is at school and Sloan is asleep. I am madly trying to organize things around the house and prepare for Sloan’s 2nd birthday tomorrow! I feel like I am forever fighting the clock these days.
The bulldozer started work this morning on our new house. [...]

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Duckcloth Indulgance

duckcloth
Originally uploaded by Sew Sydney

I’m going to try and make a few things for Sloan’s birthday for the lolly bags. I know these fabrics aren’t screaming “Halloween” to go with the ghost lollypops, but I am really want to try an alternative to the plastic toys that go directly into landfill.
I bought some lavender and [...]

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Duckcloth Indulgance

duckcloth

Originally uploaded by Sew Sydney

I’m going to try and make a few things for Sloan’s birthday for the lolly bags. I know these fabrics aren’t screaming “Halloween” to go with the ghost lollypops, but I am really want to try an alternative to the plastic toys that go directly into landfill.
I [...]

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Ghosts

ghostlollypops
Originally uploaded by Sew Sydney

Sloan’s birthday party is a few days before Halloween. I am going to go for a Halloween theme with some of the treats for the lollybags. These were a favorite from my Halloween days: ghost lollypops. I used plain napkins with black marker on the eyes tied with yarn. Hopefully I [...]

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Morning Tea / Mornington Peninsula

We had a wonderful week in the Mornington Peninsula on holidays.  We definitely weren’t prepared for how cold it was down there, but still really loved the holiday.  If you are ever in the Mornington on a weekend, you have to visit the Red Hill House store in Red Hill.  It is one of the [...]

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