School holidays are here

Yesterday was the last day of kindy for term 3 and we are officially into Spring school holidays now. I am making an official pledge to have fun this time. Last time I really felt trapped by all the kid mess and whinging.

I am sticking with my "no tidying the playroom deal". But I am also adding to the list lots of visits with friends both grown up and little ones.

We are kicking off big with Fireworks (care of Bunnings Harrisdale)tonight and then a fab day of gym (the kids think the creche is a special treat) and play date tomorrow with some mummy friend wedding talk on the side. Dad is even getting a special treat of a whole day playing boat building with his BFF - sorry - his mate. Then we are off to the show the next day. I'm pretty sure we will need to follow all of this up with a pyjama day so that we are full of energy for another play date with Miss L's best friend.

I would like to get some sewing done, however I am realistic that it is a complete pipe dream.

Also recently because of a little window of spring sunshine we have managed to venture out to the veggie patch again. We kind of "rested" the beds over winter and added some farm poop and compost to see if we yield better crops this summer.

This is bed number two and we weren't going to really try tomatoes again this year however the garden kind of insisted. They had self seeded and sprouted everywhere. Literally! In the lawn in the garden beds and even in the kids play area which is just white sand! So we transplanted all of the big ones and now have eight seedlings. Not sure which variety is which but pretty sure we will at least have 2 tommy's. Looks like tomato relishes again this summer.

These are both pics of bed number 1. Just from different angles. Clint and the kids surprised me with some more strawberry plants. We have 5 in total now. I still don't think I'll get to taste any as they are too quick at picking them and eating them the second they turn red. Ratbags

Also you can see how during winter i let the kids scatter some seeds that had spilt in my seed container and they turnout out to be lettuces. They have looked after themselves all winter and I am quite impressed at how resilient they are. Only one little brocollini plant survived however. But still that is my best try with them yet.

So far for summer we have planted seeds for corn, basil, watermelon. mini cucumbers and the kids scattered carrot seeds so I will have another interesting harvest.

Also we finally got our tree hat stand from EMPIRE. I love it. It really fits with our quirkiness and the final picture we see out home at in the future. We still have lots to do but now we are one piece of art/furniture closer.

This is Missy moo's tree mural in her bedroom. It also got a spruce up for spring and is now in bloom. We are planning on adding a birdhouse too soon. Another job on the to do list.

As promised even though you had to wait.

So after a month of waiting my fabric finally arrived from Spoonflower. I waited that long not because they are slow, but more because I am too tight to pay too much for postage. In the end it was worth the wait and the fabric is just as lovely as I had imagined.
This time I took advantage of other peoples fabric designs.


http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/potbellybears



http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/weavingmajor

 I am planning to make a cool globe cushion with the world map one and am still tossing some ideas around my head for the circus people. Maybe a cool satchel?
But this one following has already been put to use

http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/amy_lou_who

I bought some fab pale grey denim, a red zipper and made some piping with red bias. I had originally only planned one cushion, however in my spirit of trying not to throw out any good fabric I managed to patchwork a second cushion with the leftovers.

I love that we have some more original touches to our decor. Plus the fabric has such great colours in it that they really add some interest and life to our "neutral coloured lives"

Even this little dude approves.

Hope this inpsires you to make something fun too.

"PEACE" out for now.