Humpty Dumpty

Henry's birthday was today. He turned 7 and decided on a Humpty Dumpty cake (?!) Seeing as I was invited over for a bowl of soup at my very good friend I said I would take the makings of the cake with me and assemble it at her place. We made a great wall together, but sadly I left

Humpty at home in the fridge. 

Master Lamington Builders Ness and Catherine made a skillful lamington wall...

Once I got to Frankland I bought two new Humpty's from the shop and finished assembling 

the cake at the playground.

The broken Humpty nearly came with a MA15+ rating!

In order to make the humpty on top of the wall balance better, I cut the bottom of the egg off. I didn't think about the fact that it was a caramel filled egg.

When I went to get the cake out of the car I discovered that poor old Humpty knew 

what was coming and had crapped himself in fright!

Happy Birthday Henry!

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Sam

So Sam's room needed a repaint and seeing as he has to share his space with the toy/TV room for all the kids we decided to turn it into a bit of a perk for him by letting him choose the design. Our painter backpackers brought a special skill with them. Yeshe is an accomplished graffiti artist.  

 Sam wanted the colours red, light blue and dark blue, so we

 chose a feature wall of red behind his bed.

The remaining 3 walls were painted light and dark blue 

with a dividing white stripe.

 Next Yeshe came up with some prototypes for Sam to choose from.

 He chose mostly the top one, with a bit more letter clarity so you could see his 

name very clearly.

 Yeshe does this work with spray cans. First came the outline.

 Then he filled in the letters

 Finally he added some more details.

 Extra slime at Sam's request!

One very happy boy! (and one very naked boy!)

Sam with Yeshe on the left and Franz on the right.

Dam fun!

We went down to our neighbours this evening for a birthday party. They had a family member visiting who was turning 11 and we were invited for cake. After the celebration the kids took to the dam below there house with some cardboard boxes. This dam is very big and has a long drop over the back of it. The kids spent some time  sliding down it on cardboard.

After they tired of that they decided on a late afternoon swim.

Cold but fun!

Sewing updates

Having been scolded by a friend for my tardy entries, I thought I would pop in quickly and give an update. The dining room table is currently swamped under the contents of Sams bedroom. It has been stripped out to be painted. I found a small amount of space around the sewing maching to applique on the OHD letters.

 Finally that bit of the quilt is finished and I can move on to the back.

 The next exciting thing is that I picked up my red quilt from the quilters. The talented Jo Northcott from Albany WA has done a wonderful job on her long arm machine.

 Jo was great, I got on with her really well and will definately be taking the rest of my quilts to her!

 Jo joined the back for me and all I have left to do is sew on the binding in contrasting blue. I'm looking forward to this as I'm sure it will look amazing.

There you go Ness, I hope that gets you through at least one night feed!

Handy women

I havn't been sewing much lately as I've been doing a few other jobs.

My new neighbour and I have been kiddying up her yard a bit for her 3 kids. First up we got busy with the chain saw and trimmed up a large tree in her yard. Then I pinched the tractor and we dumped a few loads of sand under it to make a sand pit mound. The kids will take care of spreading it out themselves!


Seems to be popular...


Item 2 on the agenda was a swing. None of this piddly small swing stuff for us.


Expertly created by master swing hangers at Gungunnu Inc.!


Your probably wondering how we got the ropes over the branch? Well I drove the tractor under the branch and we stood in the bucket and lifted it right up high.

From the bucket we had a piece of long string tied around a rock and spent an undisclosed amount of time trying to throw it over the limb. Eventually we succeeded and used the ropes to string up an old truck tyre. Guess this makes us the best Mums in the world now!




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Quilt updates

So I have been very neglectful of late, but only with the blogging side of things.

The Briar Rose topper is almost finished, but most frustratingly I have run short of fabric. I bought more than the stated amount as I intended to bind in it as well, but I am short by 2 x 4 1/2 inch squares.

I spent a great deal of time in Spotlight trying to choose the back ground fabric and eventually went with my current favourite colour... teal. I think it looks fantastic!



I've also done up the appliqué letters for the OHD quilt. Just waiting till I get some of the fusing tape to stick them down whilst I sew them. Here they are laid out ready to go.


The main body of the pin wheel topper is also finished. I just need to add two borders before adding wadding, back and binding!



And Richard used to think this table was too big! Here we have managed to scrape up a little piece of table top to eat dinner. The kids had to sit at the bench!


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Quilt updates

So I've got a few things on the go at the moment. First there's the Thimble Blossoms Quilt. I have all the blocks sewed up and have now to sew them into rows. Here is the first row completed.


The second project I am working on is the Jelly Roll I bought in Donny Brook. This quilt is called Briar Rose and can be found over at England Street Quilts. Instead of the soft florally pinks they have used, I have branched out and gone rich reds, golds, blues and greens. It will be interesting to see what it turns out like. I have had to halt progress whilst I find some coordinating background fabric. This is what I have done so far:


My final project is something I started zipping together last night. I wanted to try an Oh Happy Day Quilt since I saw this one on Pinterest. I decided to applique it over a log cabin so I thought that as it was already going to be fairly schmaltzy I would embrace that and make it a pink baby girls quilt. Progress so far:





Looking at the photos now I am not sure about the white border. I intend to go round once more with some blue, but at the moment it doesn't look quite right.


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