The Cutest Little Mermaid!!!

Lily has her first dressup party tomorrow, bravely I asked her what she'd like to go as. Given that she has two sets of fairy wings, a fairy dress, a set of angel wings and a ballerina tutu I was pretty sure it would be something along those lines. Nope, a mermaid she says. So it's off to Spotlight we go to collect some supplies.

I can't believe I actually went to Spotters and came home with a bag full of satin, tulle, mesh and panne velvet (all for dressup costumes for Christmas pressies) it's like a knitter coming home with a bag full of acrylic and novelty yarn ~ well for me anyway LOL

Anyway, this afternoon we dragged out the dancetime satin and the rhumba mesh (hmm, no guessing what these fabrics are used to create usually) a bit of padding for the tail, and we had this little number whipped up in no time!!! We chose the rhumba mesh as we thought the ruched ribbon and tinselly stuff looked a bit seaweedish. I'm really pleased that it actually came out looking exactly like I envisaged AND that Lily LOVES LOVES LOVES it!!!

Practice dressup run ~ found a bikini top in a bag of hand me downs and the blue wig from my dressup box. I did have a bikini top weaved out of grass but she said that was too uncomfortable even though it was gorgeous!!!!

If anyone's interested I'm happy to put up instructions for how I made it :D

and a few last things before Christmas

Just a couple of pieces that I have finally put the finishing touches on. These shall pop up sometime over the weekend, probably tonight if time and family commitments allow. These will probably be the last items until mid January ~ but then again I am hopefully getting a new sewing machine for Christmas so the urge might be just too much to bear.

It's time for me to get onto the Christmas sewing, Lily "needs" a mermaid tail for a fancy dress party on Monday, and she has some other orders in for other dress up items. I also want to get some sewing done for some of the other nieces and nephews as well as whip up some dollie clothes... and finish the flower girl dresses!!! hmm, that's a lot LOL!!!!

picnic

We have a great little green belt running through our neighbourhood. It's actually classified land for wildlife and is planted out with all indigenous plants. It's a great little spot, sometimes Lily and I pack ourselves a picnic lunch and walk the 50 or so metres down to it to have lunch. It's a great little explore for a two year old as we have to walk over two footbridges to get to the spot where we picnic ~ we actually don't really have to walk over the bridges (they take us the longer and more roundabout way) but it does make the outing more fun

some overdue pics of our christmas custom

Megsie reminded me today that I hadn't posted any pics of our pikki tint sweet chocolate dot christmas custom, so here they are ~ the completed set!! i have a very gorgeous photo of the beautiful little girl who is the new owner of this outfit to go up on our gallery when we update it. It really does look gorgeous on her!

And this is just some beautiful fabric for Fabric Friday (yes, I'm mkaing that one up but hey, why not?!) Jealous Megsie?????

And while we're on the subject of swaps...

I can't resist posting some pics of these two gorgeous tulle fairy tutus that I sent off today as part of our Summer Swap package. I feel quite comfortable posting these as the recipient is moving house so offline for the week, and I don't know that she reads my blog anyway.

Woolaholics Kitchen Cool Swap

I realised I haven't posted pics of what I made for this swap, you saw the fabulous gift I received from Lucretia.

This is what I sent off to Shona

These odd little squashed ball things are called tribbles, which is basically a flash name for a pot scrubber. I found two different patterns for them, so made one from each pattern. They're subtly different in not only size but also construction.

A papillion dishcloth made from Lily Sugar'n'Cream cotton, colourway Lavender Ice.

Rainbow garterlaec dishcloth made from Rainbow Bright Sugar'n'Cream cotton.

And a felted bowl made from some random handspun yarn that I have way too much of and really isn't useful for much else other than felting. Good thing it makes good bowls, as I'll be making a few more of these LOL

Concentration!!!

Some cute pics from one of Lily's daily drawing sessions, she takes it very seriously!!! She's been doing some wonderful drawings and crafting lately. I was presented with a beautiful picture of some flowers and crunchy carrots yesterday, she'd put little smiley face stickers in the middle of the flowers ~ very cute!!

Somehow she's mastered the art of using scissors, I've tried to teach her a couple of times but hse's never really got it. Then a week or so ago she picked up a pair and just started snipping no worries.... the only problem is that Lily loves to help. Last night I was cutting out some fabric and had put the cut pieces aside, and turned around five minutes later to find her helping to cut them too. *oops*