June 22nd, 2010

It’s moving time at the Cloth Nappy Shop! Not going too far, just 10mins down the road to Shailer Park.

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.

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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!

April 17th, 2007

Today was the first day back to school, yay!!
I’d love to say that it was an incredibly productive day and now my house is shiny and spotless and I got heaps of sewing done, but that would probably be exaggerating slightly ;o)We moved into our house just over 3 years ago now, and soon afterwards I bought fabric to make curtains…

Well, the curtains for Rhiannon’s room got done straight away, the curtains for the loungeroom were done 6mths later, but the fabric for the boys’ curtains has been cut and sitting there making me feel guilty for 2 1/2 years now! I bought fabric to do curtains for the rumpus room about 2 years ago… it’s been all cut and sitting around waiting to be sewn for 18mths now!
Anyway, on the weekend I asked DH if he could put up some shelves for me in the cupboard in the boys’ room. He has resorted to blackmail/bribery, and said he’d do them when I did the curtains! So when my mum came to visit the last couple of days, we’ve been pinning and sewing curtains! They’re not quite finished yet, but I’ve hung them up so I can measure the hems, so I thought I’d take some photos to make this post a bit more interesting.

So, here’s the before and after shots (excuse the mess!)

Back - before

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Back - after

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Front - before

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Front - after

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