Blogtoberfest day 9

Yep I totally missed a few days of blogtoberfest, but I kid you not I have been sewing like a mad woman for the past few days.........the crazy christmas rush is starting a little early.

I sent a huge box of goodies including these advent calendars off to Shop Handmade on Friday, hopefully they'll arrive safely tomorrow or Tuesday.

 I made this one for the boys!

 This one for the girls!

 And this one is a bit neutral!

 The lining on this one looks amazing, the skinny arm belongs to Megan not me!

 I'm going to try to get a few more made over the next month, not sure if I'll do the same colours or not. What do you think, should I do a different colour theme?

Even though I have a few things I need to finish off today, I need to devote a few hours to preparations for school tomorrow. I need to do some baking and ironing of uniforms!

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Today I'm working on....

.... another two advent calendars, this time they are done in more boyish colours as my last two had a girly thing going on.

I love the whole process of making these calendars, they are a bit like piecing a quilt together, the only down fall is they are just as time consuming.

I hope you are all enjoying the the sun shiny days we've been having!

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Taking inspiration.

Last week some time I had a weird dream about how incredibly busy I was with all my Christmas sewing last year and how I vowed to be more prepared this year. I'm thinking it was a message to pull my finger out and squeeze a few Christmas items into my sewing list. I know what you're thinking, she's crazy it's June, who thinks about Christmas in June!

I'm trying to think ahead because I know that our house will almost be finished around this time and my energy is going to be needed else where, packing, cleaning and organising all that stuff we've accumulated over the years, I know that there is going to be limited sewing time!

So because they're so time consuming I made up a few advent calendar bases last week, now all I have to do is come up with a few different colour schemes......some traditional and some a bit whimsical.

I love this little make-up bag I bought Megan last Christmas and I thought I'd take a little inspiration from it for my first calendar. I can't wait to get stuck into it in between orders which are starting to flow again after my short break.

I'd just like to say a huge THANK YOU to all of my lovely blog readers concerning my last post........your kind words mean so much XXX

Weekend Wrap!

The market on Saturday was a huge success, I had loads of fun and it was great chatting to some of the locals.......some of which had no idea that I lived here!

Now I have to get all geared up to do it all again in another few weeks, but first because the last two advent calendars went really well down at Shop Handmade and I've had a few emails requesting more, I thought I'd better get crackin' on another couple! This time they should be much quicker, or should I say less stressful because I have the pattern worked out and I know exactly what to do...........well that's the plan anyway!
Here is a funny or maybe not so funny story I just have to tell! Back to Saturday morning the morning of the markets, my husband had the kids and had to deal with all their activities, which doesn't hurt him to do every now and then, they had quite a busy day with cricket, riding lessons, birthday present shopping for little girl and a birthday party to get ready for..........average day for most mum's! Well he thought he'd get a little domestic and clean up a little in the laundry before he took the bins into the tip after dropping Ryan off at cricket. This was a nice surprise for me when I got home on Saturday afternoon, that was until I was ironing all the school uniforms for the kids yesterday and noticed that Megan only had one dress! I searched everywhere, in the car thinking that she left it in there after little athletics, under her bed, under my bed, everywhere! It was driving me crazy until I realized that it was in a plastic bag on the laundry floor waiting to be washed! Guess where it is now?