Thank you

I am one lucky, and grateful, lady bug lady. Last month I opened the letter box to find this beautiful pendant, all for me. I have been wearing it all the time. It is perfectly me.

Thank you again Kris, for thinking of me.

Lady bug magnet.

Back in December, my mother's group held a Christmas party for the kids, and we all took along a present so the kids could do a kris kringle.

All the presents were wrapped up, they just had to pick a present for them selves from under the tree. This was the one Abbey chose - a cute lady bug and bumble bee game of noughts and crosses/tick tack toe. Abbey must be a lady bug magnet?

Special hand made Christmas presents

I am one very lucky Auntie. My gorgeous niece and nephew, who live all the way over in England, made these for me, for Christmas - a ladybug needle holder and a ladybug pin cushion. My lovely sister-in-law Justine helped them.

How cute are the backs?

They are getting used all the time, I don't know how I survived before I had them. Thanks Jus! xox

Is it possible to have too many lady bugs?

I don't think so.

Cloth nappies and wipes, I love you

I am still talking about what was happening before Zoe was born. So, 8 or 9 weeks ago I was sewing up these lady bug cloth nappy wipes. I was rather excited when I found the lady bug fleece, and had to stop myself from buying dozens of metres of it!

I love my cloth nappy wipes. They are so soft. I use them instead of disposable wipes at nappy change time, with a spray bottle of water (you can also buy already made up, natural solutions, like floral water) Then I just wash them with my cloth nappies. They dry so quickly. They save me money. They are better for the environment. And no chemicals on Zoe's newborn baby bottom too.

This was my nappy change table, all set up at the end of August, and waiting for Zoe to arrive.

It was also before I got some more of my favourite cloth nappies, itti bitti d'lish's. Look at all the different colours. There are even more colours to choose from at itti bitti. For many years I have been a self confessed pink hater. But pink as a colour is starting to grow on me - lucky that, as we now have two little girls.

I made this today.

I am well chuffed I made this today. I actually finished a project, in one day.

Feels like it took me 5 hours to make one small zippered pouch/pencil case, but I had lots of distractions and managed to fit in a few house chores along the way too. One small step at a time.

Abbey chose the fabric if you hadn't already guessed.

Thank you to Amy Karol's book Bend-the-Rules Sewing for instructions on how to complete this project.

Look what Abbey made me today, a lady bug! I love it.