The next week or 2 will be a bit interrupted while all the stock is packed up and moved, but hopefully (if all goes according to plan) everything will be moved and sorted in time for the monthly information morning/get-together on Tuesday 6th July. School holidays start at the end of this week, which could be a good thing (more hands to help out) or a bad thing, depending on the co-operation of my 4 ‘helpers’!

Phone numbers, website and email addresses will all stay the same, so feel free to place your orders online or by phone/email until everything is set up again! And if you have any questions at all, just call or email me! Details are here.

Next week is school holidays, so I just wanted to let you all know ahead of time that my opening hours will probably be a little unpredictable for the week while I juggle all the kids along with work responsibilities.

If you’re planning on heading down to the shop, it might be a good idea to give me a quick call (0419 144 689) just to double check whether I’m already there or not! Rest assured that it only takes 10mins to get there after you call me if I wasn’t already open, and I’m more than happy to open up for you - it’s just easier for all concerned to not make the kids come to work with me for the whole week!

Have a great Easter break everyone! (and enjoy that chocolate!!)

See you on Tuesday!

New on the shelf at the shop we have a small selection of soaps from Kelly at Fresh Cut Soap Co.  For around $5.50 each these would make great Christmas presents!

The trade day is coming up and the date has been changed slightly.  We have decided it will be on the first Tuesday in December so on the 1st from 10.30.  It is going to be like a pay it forward - in other words anything that you get from the day we would prefer it if when you are finished using the item, that it was forwarded to someone  else who can use it or donated to charity.  It’s just our way of sharing the love, so to speak.

School holidays are coming up fast (along with Christmas - eek!!)
There will be some changes to opening hours over this time - the shop will be open as per usual up until 18/12/2009 and by appointment only through the Christmas/New Year period. If you need something during this time, please don’t hesitate to contact me about coming down to the shop, either via email or on my mobile (0419 144 689). Orders placed through the website/by email will be processed as normal.
We will be closed from 11/1/2010 through to the end of January, re-opening on 1/2/2010. Orders placed via the website or email during this time will not be processed until February.

For next month’s get together we will be holding a ‘trade/swap day’.  So bring all those clothes and other things that are hanging around the house and see if you can swap/trade them for other things that you may be looking for.  The date to mark in your diary is 3rd Tuesday 1st December starting at 10.30am. (see details in housekeeping post above^^)

Ok, so we left off midway through May, just after the Gossamer Dreams stocking.
You may remember it was rather wet at that point in time!

The week after that I was a bridesmaid at my sister’s wedding which was awesome, although a little (ok a lot) wet and muddy.  Despite the floods, everyone got there safely and home again and it made for some seriously cool wedding photos!

Oh, and the family tradition was kept intact, I was sewing Rhiannon’s dress (with the help of a family friend) until the early hours of the morning the night before, and it got finished off on the day! Looked great though! (and who gave my daughter permission to look sooo grown up!!?)

Skip forward to June, we had Mikey’s birthday (wow 10!), followed by school holidays, and the HAIRCUT!

Since then everything seems to have been on fast forward.  Gossamer Dreams stockings have been a little crazy - good, but crazy.

As of July, I’m officially an auntie (bout time, lol!) and my niece is absolutely beautiful! (of course!)

September saw the bi-annual nappy hunt start again with the Cloth Nappy Shop as an extreme site.  For those who are musically challenged, apparantly things will never be the same again! or so I’ve been told by at least one hunter!

September was also time for another birthday, with Lukas turning 7. He had a fantastic party, with cupcakes decorated by the party guests! I’m not sure that a corn chip would be my first choice of cupcake decoration, but then again, I did discover back on New Year’s Eve that sausages with icing are surprisingly yummy, so maybe I shouldn’t knock the corn chip cupcake until I try it!

We then headed north to Hervey Bay for my husband’s highschool reunion, and stayed with family up there for a week, much to the joy of the kids who had a great time! 9 kids in one house is pretty full-on though, I think all the adults were ready for another holiday by the end of the week!

Sadly when we came home, there was still another week of school holidays left to survive…  Ok, so I’m exaggerating slightly, the kids were pretty good on the whole! But with one thing and another, it’s really brought home how hard it can be juggling 4 kids and the shop during the holidays, so there will be some changes happening before the Christmas holidays - stay tuned for more about that later.

So that pretty much takes us up to yesterday, when the kids went back to school (yay!) and supposedly life goes back to ‘normal’! Normal in this instance involves catching up on everything that hasn’t gotten done in the last month or so! Apologies to people who are waiting patiently for nappies - I have my To Do list all typed up officially, and am crossing things off as quickly as I can.

This has ended up much longer than I intended, so I’m going to call it quits for now, and will post again later to tell you all about the exciting new stuff that’s going to be happening!

This month’s theme is hand-dyed, and WOW, there’s some amazing stuff up for grabs! Our guest WAHM Sara from willow and moo has some gorgeous clothes previewing, and oh, how I wish I had a girl small enough for this set from Lesley!

(although if I could persuade people to make beautiful stuff big enough to fit my big girl, lol, that would be even better! cos then there’s a chance that it might fit me too!!)

I’m offering a series of semi-custom options this month, some cuts dyed by me, and some by

Wow, 4 years! I swear it has gone faster than it did with the 3 older kids! I asked him how old he is, and the standard response is “I’m still 4 Mummy!” which considering that at the time he’d been 4 for all of a few hours was rather funny! Very cute though too!

Being the slack mummy that I am, we didn’t have a party for him, but Rhiannon made a birthday cake for him to blow out the candles.

And here’s the birthday boy at the end of the day - obviously tired out by the proceedings! (which unusual in itself, he’s usually a night-owl!)