Happy Birthday to my lady!

Happy 1st Birthday to our little lady Clementine! We celebrated Clementine's first birthday with a party (as you do)! It was super fun and all three of us dressed up as furry animals. Baby was a Meerkat, I was a Tiger and husband was a Bunny. It was great to feel a bit silly and the costumes sure did keep us warm :)

Lovely invites complete with illustration by Chris. Nearly didn't get these out before the party. We got there eventually though :)

Animals! 

View of the party room / our lounge room. This was a lot of fun to set up. 

Food stuffs. Fruit skewers with caramel sauce and red velvet cupcakes included. YUM! 

Red velvet flower cake for our girl. Happy Birthday! xx

Winter is coming

Graffiti in Battery Point. Game of Thrones YEAH.

New crafty stuff

First crafty things made after a looooong break :) Patchwork scarf and sampler kitty! I had so much fun making the sampler kitty. It was a great way to use up special pieces of fabric that were too small to do anything else with. To make it warmer (it has turned very chilly here in Tasmania - winter is definitely here), I put a layer of soft cotton wadding inside the patchwork scarf. Next time I will make it longer and wider as the fabrics are so fun to see.

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter folks!



Things are changing here at our house. Sewing and writing are beckoning again! Hurrah :) See you really soon!

xxx

7 months old

Our lady is 7 months old :) First tooth has poked through. Wah-hey!











Life is sweet and good.

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Lady cakes

5 weeks to 4 and a half months old! I am slowly getting back into sewing :) And by slowly I mean stitch by stitch. All going well otherwise. Fingers crossed for sleeping through the night soon!

Little Lady

Little Lady Clementine. Nearly 5 weeks old :) Such a sweet girl.











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Little Clementine

Our lovely lass is finally here! Born on July 23rd at 11:27am. 3.6 kilos (8 pounds 1 ounce). All doing well :)


Clementine Lyra Downes.

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Nearly there!

Seven days till our due date :D


*Super cute strawberry hat made by Abby at Small Craft Alert, especially for our kidlet.*

We still are yet to move our desks out of the study to clear space for the little lady room but we have everything else covered (we think!). She has a snuggly bed and a good change table - lent to us by some super lovely friends - way too many clothes, nappies ready to go and a bunch of other fun little things.


*I'm totally not into frilly, overly girly things for our kidlet but this is her bed and it looks pretty stinkin' cute. The crochet bunting is from Candy Stripe Cloud and was made by their mum.* The drawing above was done by Chris ten years ago for his Masters show. He's doing the Monday political cartoon for The Mercury newspaper now!

Her bed and change table have wheels so we figure we can just wheel both into our room for the first few weeks while we slowly get her room set up properly. I see no sense in getting stressed about having everything perfect before she arrives. We'll just take each day as it comes. Fingers crossed she decides to come soon (39 weeks today!) as I don't really fancy being induced. But if that has to happen then so be it. We have no idea what to expect from our birth experience so we are trying to stay calm and see how things go. As long as everyone is happy and healthy at the end of it all, we'll be content :) Trying to be in complete control of everything takes up too much energy, especially in this situation where you are lucky if everything goes your way. So, here's to having a baby!


*OMG!*


*My ace little family, July 2011.*

No mistake

30 weeks prego. Make no mistake, there's something in my tummy. Starting to get a bit nervous now!




Bear suit for the kidlet. Too stinkin' cute.

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