We won't be decorating the house this year cause we are going away for Christmas...so I decided to decorate the dog instead....HO HO HO (or should that be HA HA HA!)
It has been a week two weeks since Aden's Octonauts party and I think I have recovered enough to post about it. Special thanks to my sister for gabbing my camera and my MIL and SIL for their cameras, as I didn't take any all day! Aden is a massive Octonauts fan! So when he didn't go for my initial plan of a 'Monsters' Party ( too scary Mummy!) we decided on Octonauts. I did a lot of Internet searching and looking at a lot of Pintrest posts to gather all my ideas together. There was lots of party food including Octonaut Cupcakes. Cake toppers from Ebay And a Kwazii cake as requested by the birthday boy! I totally forgot to put on the Octopus I had for his hat!! We also had yellow/green/blue jelly cups with turtles in them and smarties cookies. As well as regular party food and hot finger food for the adults. Mummy wiping Aden's face before having cake photos! We had balloons, a birthday banner and streamers.
Here is it....sorry it is late!! I thought I had another day to go!! What happenend to Tuesday?? To make up for my error I have three sets of fabrics to giveaway...just let me know which one you want! Set 1. A ramdom mix of everything - brights, retro, spots, asian - a mix of sizes too....1/2 metre to smaller than a FQ Set 2. So not me! Country wovens! I think they are a FQ size...don't even remember where they came from! Set 3. More ramdon-ness from my stash - All FQ's I'll leave it open for a little longer...24 hours...Winner drawn at 8:00pm tomorrow
It seems that there are a few stashes out there that are out of control....mine included! So after a chat with some online quilting/sewing ladies I've decided to host a stash busting effort for 2013. The aim is that you make something (and finish it WIP's don't count!) out of you stash and that the out going fabrics are more than the incoming 'must have' fabrics. I just can't put a ban on fabric buying....what if the BEST fabric ever is released this year and I miss out! So this will hopefully keep a lid on it! To help keep track of that fact that your stash is shrinking I'm going to suggest that your count in Fat Quarters. Backing and binding for quilts is easy to calculate. Quilt tops can be more difficult. You can use the pattern requirements, if you use a pattern, to help work it out, or measure what is left of the fabric yardage/FQ's that you used, or you might like to weigh your finished top and use that weight of it to guesstimate how
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Love the blooms from your DH :)
Friendship stars are great aren't they?
He looks fantastic! He even seems to be enjoying it. So gorgeous!!!!!
Merry christmas!