All Dressed Up

Spotlight

Its amazing how much damage you can do in the 10 minutes before spotlight closes! Here are the goodies.

Hair Clips

My sewing machine is broken at the moment. Geoff is attemping to fix it for me so next week I may get to do some sewing. This weeks craft project is again using a hot glue gun. So easy and so fun!
The top green head band just has a felt flower which I cut out free hand and sewed a button to for the middle stuck to it.
The lady bird and flower hair tie is made by covering buttons and sewing them to a rubber band. You can buy self covering buttons at spotlight for about $4 for 3. Then you just need to find some cute fabric.
The clip with pink bow was just a metal clip I had that I glued ribbon to and then tied a little bow in pink and stuck that on. Gotta love a glue gun.
The last headband is the flower I made last week which I stuck on for kaisha.
So Easy.


Here are is a link for inspiration
www.rufflesandstuff.com/2010/05/paiges-party-tutorials.html

Playing with Friends

I looked after one of my friends little girls on thursday. Kaisha and Maeve had such a fun day playing together. Kaisha is 2 weeks older than Maeve. They are both little chatterboxes and were so cute to listen to. They had a tea party, sang songs, played with their dolls and got dressed up to go to the shops to buy apples (its always apples with Kaisha). Here are a few photos of the fun.

Conversation with Kaisha

Discussing Boys and Girls.
Kaisha: Kaisha is a girl
Mum: That's right, what is mummy?
K: A mummy
M: well actually I'm a girl too. What is daddy?
K: Daddy's a princess!
Conversation ends due to mum rolling around laughing.

Walking to the park
"Look mum the clouds have come to see me"

Ahhh Frog.

Laura went to the toilet last night and came straight out and said "there is a frog in the toilet" I looked at her like she was crazy thinking where has Kaisha got a toy frog from to put in the toilet.
This is what I saw.




Thank goodness Laura is brave. I was ready to shut the bathroom door and use the garden from now on! She made it jump out then scooped it up and took it outside. Thank you Laura!

Craft Saturday

Every friday I try and do a little craft project. It has to be something I can complete while Kaisha is asleep and only take a couple of hours. I have decided that I will post my project on here on Saturday (if I did one).
This week I have been making felt dahlia corsages. I found this tutorial a couple of weeks ago and immediately got all excited. Lucky we live right next to a shopping center! Kaisha and I went down to the mall to see if we could find any felt. Crazy Clarks had lovely red felt for 69cents and craft glue for 3.50. It took me 2 hours to complete my first flower, these are quite fiddly and there is lots of gluing involved so release your inner child for this project. There are extra tips here which I found quite helpful. My felt was just the cheaper polyester felt and I just used ordinary craft glue for my first one. The peg idea is really helpful too. For my second one I used a hot glue gun and that was much faster. I also cut out templates of the petal shapes in the 3 sizes which made cutting out the petals way faster and more accurate. Happy Gluing!