A Simple Gift

My dear friend came for a morning tea catch-up and brought along
this gorgeous gift for me!
I love it so much I wanted to share it.

 I love the simplicity of this gift.
I Love the green bottle!

We often gift each other and our kids with something pre-loved or up-cycled.
We both love a bit of thrifty-ness and crafty-ness!

Thank you Meg. x

Homemade Freckles

Everyone loves a bit of chocolate-y goodness, right?

As one of our Christmas gifts for family and friends, Abbey and I made these 

simple and delicious Chocolate Freckles.

We used this recipe as a guide. 

We used more chocolate - a mixture of cadbury's and choc melts. We melted the 

chocolate in a glass bowl over simmering water.

Delicious!

Finally!

Completed!

I will admit that this Quilt has been a 'very long time' project. 

This Quilt has been one of those projects that I got stuck into 

and then I put it away for several months, pulled it out again, put it away, etc etc.

Anyway, it is finished! Finally.

I am pleased with the Quilt 

and My Friend loved it!

Happy Birthday Meg

xx

Birthday Gift

This is the finished Birthday gift for one of Abbey's friends...

Abbey fell in love with it when I showed it to her and immediately asked if I could make her one!

Abbey is a stationery freak.  I am quietly pleased with the end result.

Let's hope the Birthday Girl loves it too!! 

I also made her a pair of p.j.  pants made from a thrifted sheet! I will post a photo soon!

note: I used  this pattern as a guide to create my version, using only one main colour and a pink to join the 3 pieces together which also created a border/edge. The Heart pattern can be found at Meet Me At Mikes. 

So Very Grateful

We had a visit from my dearest friend and her daughter yesterday! It was lovely to sit and chat over a cuppa as the girls all played happily together. 

We were given a huge bag of little girl clothes and shoes that have been outgrown! Miss Evie was delighted to have some new shoes to try on!!

 My dear friend does this every couple of months. 

I am so grateful to receive these clothes & shoes for Miss Evie! I had nothing of Miss Abbey's outgrown clothes stashed away as I had passed everything onto another friend believing that there would be no more children for me! I have only had to buy some bare minimals for Miss Evie and I will op-shop before buying new.

Speaking of op-shops..... have a look at what I found.....

I became very excited when I discovered this lovely wooden shape posting toy!! I had to search through several baskets to find all 6 shapes, it must have been my lucky day as they were all there!!!

Miss Evie seems to enjoy the repetitiveness of this game and this morning we started another game with the shapes!

There are so many opportunities for a young child to learn through this activity. 

Also from the op-shop; some material books.

and these too;

I have dyed two of the doilies, the rest will also be dyed other colours. They will be used for sewing onto some future projects. 

For dinner tonight, the Big Ones are having some delicious Chick Pea Curry, 

 you can find the recipe here. This was so easy to make, I had everything in the pantry, and it is delicious!! 

I am not sure yet what the Little Ones will be eating for dinner.