Cow Pants & Cord Skirt

My son needed a set of brown clothes to play a Minotaur at the school assembly. I couldn't find anything dark brown so decided to buy some cotton fabric and make a simple of pants and top.

Once I got to Spotlight I clapped eyes on some brown fur fabric and thought what the heck. So I got fur off the pants and shiny stretch for the top. The mask is being made at school.









After that I got pattern fever and dug out some corduroy I bought ages ago to make a skirt. It's a very basic A line pattern that I have used before.









I had a little bit leftover so used it to make a pair of toddler pants for a friends little girl.








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So I need to update this entry with a post assembly photo.



My little Minotaur was a big hit and he even got to keep the mask his teacher made for him.

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Map Room

My eldest son turned 12 today. I decided to celebrate with a surprise room makeover. My very kind neighbour volunteered to help.

I had been given a whole pile of old Western Power survey maps of WA and put them to good use.

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Turns out everyone was right when they said wall papering is a shitty project! So glad the maps were small individual ones and not long strips of wall paper.

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