Not Quite Crafty

Random Thoughts

05 Sep 2010 Leave a Comment

by notquitecrafty in Cooking, Craft, Family, Loo, Noos Tags: baking, Craft, Family, Loo, Noos, Sewing

Lots of things have been happening here lately.  And I haven’t had time to put any coherent thoughts together on them.  So in pictures, here is what has been happening:

 I attempted to fix something for the very first time.  This is a very special cushion.  I bought it back when Loos was 2 and getting his first bed, complete with Bob the Builder bedlinen.  It quickly became one of his essential items and has since been taken everywhere he has slept, including camping in the middle of nowhere.  However, the material is getting thin and so Bob developed a large hole in his face.  After many tears, I offered to try to hide the hole with the lent sewing machine…..a bit of a challenge for me!  So after many attempts, including forgetting to lower the foot, getting the thread from the bobbin tangled up and going in the wrong direction, I managed to cobble it together and hide the hole.  Loos is happy, but it does mean we are now on the hunt for a new cushion – and it has to feel the same, but doesn’t necessarily have to have Bob.  I am thinking of finding a cushion cover of a similar size and stuffing it with the disgusting old stuffing from the current cushion – it will feel the same and smell the same, but just look different.

We have also had bookweek.

I sent a socceroo and dracula off to school.  I absolutely detest bookweek and any day when we need to organise costumes.  The Sunday before (the dress up day was Tuesday) we started discussing costumes.  Nothing like being prepared, as I had tried desperately to blank it out and was hoping for the boys to tell me that they are too old for this dressing up nonsense.  Anyway, Loos wanted to go as Battle Boy when he was looking for the Red Baron, so I needed to create a French peasant boy farmer circa 1916.  Noos wanted to be some bloke with battle armour.  At 10am Sunday morning, there was no way I was going to manage either of those.  So we remembered that Loos had been a particularly good Vampire for his birthday last year, and I was able to convince them that there really is a book called Dracula.  As we had lots of soccer outfits I tried to convince Noos that he could be an English soccer player and that there would be at least one book somewhere in the world about them.  He insisted on being Australian so we ended up at the shops to buy a cheapish socceroo outfit and some Vampire teeth.  And the most amazing thing of all was that Loos won a prize for his costume in the k-2 group.  A minor miracle for this creatively challenged family.

We have also had a birthday here.  And I discovered that pavlovas are easy to make.

I have put off trying to make one of these for years as it all looked to hard.  But it was nothing like I expected, and I even managed to make 2 a week apart, one as a practice and one as the real thing.  They were both consumed with much gusto and appreciation and encouragement to try again.  From this, I have learnt that I need to challenge myself more often, and to try to make the things that look hard to do.  Still not going to attempt a sponge though!

And here is the birthday boy, with a new haircut.

This is much anticipated as we have now ditched the Justin Bieber look alike hair and moved to something much cooler, when he bothers to do it. 

Not much else to report on here.  I need to get crafting again, my friendship quilt needs the last block traced and stitched and then I can find out how to put the whole thing together.  I have also managed to cut up some more blocks for the practice quilt I am trying to make and the knitting has ground to a halt.  Round 3 of 12wbt is looming and I need to get all the craft things happening to minimise the opportunity for mindless eating!