October 6th, 2009

Which is kind of like “Four Seasons in One Day” but not set to music! (although if you’re anything like me, you’ve now got that song stuck in your head, so it might as well be set to music!) (and it’s Crowded House, for those who are racking their brains trying to remember!)

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!
muddy feet
the bride

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!!?)

the brats

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

the cake
the birthday boy
after 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!
cupcakes

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!
holiday
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!

May 15th, 2009

which means today is the monthly Gossamer Dreams stocking!

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

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March 12th, 2009

Yes ladies and gentlemen, we’re in the middle of another nappy hunt! Incidentally, Hunters, if you’re here and reading this, I’m afraid you’ve come a bit too far - you might need to look more closely at the link that brought you here! shhh!

As usual, nappy hunting season is busy busy busy round here! I don’t even have time to do much hunting for myself (other than the extreme sites of course, which are my own personal challenge - just 1 left to go, and not enough time to sit down and do it properly! lucky we’re not even half way through the month yet!)

Anyway, I’ve got quite a few works in progress at the moment - orders that are nearly completed, and a few green goodies for this month’s Gossamer Dreams stocking which is coming up on Sunday 15/3/09. I’ll try to put up some pics tomorrow so you can see what I’ve been up to, but feel free to check out the Gossamer Dreams blog to see what the other ladies are creating for Sunday’s stocking frenzy!

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