AN AFTERNOON IN THE KITCHEN

PASIFIKA CHRISTMAS

We had the opportunity to visit the Corban Arts Estate last week for a 'Pasifika Christmas' workshop.........we were shown (and were able to try it for ourselves!) the art of Pacific drumming and dancing. We also made some Pacific 'Angels/Fairies' out of native materials...all organic according to the tutor!

CHRISTMAS FUN!

NOVEMBER CATCH-UP 2: The Girlz Weekend!

The girls got to stay home......yippee! Hanging out together without interruption, creativity, yummy food, friends, walking, swimming. The girls made some amazing little creations.....E11 and R12 shared a pattern and made their very first gorgeous dresses (I'll add a photo later) and E10 made such a funky apron from a tea towel.......fantastic effort!

(*We did miss the A's girls though*)

September Happenings 7

Crafty, creative things

a friendship bracelet

a thank you card

a three year old's first sewing

a one hour skirt

a sparkly card

working together on a project

BEAUTIFUL PRESSIE

e11 has been busy over the past couple of days creating and making (with a little help from Mum!) this beautiful apron, for her friend's birthday tomorrow. we used this tutorial to make it out of a teatowel that we found on sale not so long ago. the teatowel already had the stripes on the bottom of it so with a couple of little additions this is what we came up with:

QUILT REVISITED!

You might remember this ...........it has been sitting in the bag in the corner of the sunroom for some months now...........it's E10's birthday next week and I am hoping to have the project completed in time. Typical me, I always end up working best under pressure!!

(the photos aren't great quality, I forgot the camera settings had been changed for some TradeMe pics)

I had a little helper while she was waiting to go to bed. She was dressed in her new 'zoot' suit (as we call it, otherwise known as a sleep suit). I can now report that she has taken it off in bed tonight and has resorted to her blankie, which invariably comes off in the night and then comes the all too familiar "Mummy, Muuuuuuuuuummy.........." Looks like it will happen again tonight!

Have lots of other holiday pics to write about, it will have to wait until after the finishing is done.

BAGS GALORE

We've just had a big clean-out in our games cupboard - YIPPEE! I mentioned to our creative E10 that another way of condensing them would be to make bags for the 'little bits' that take up very little room in an otherwise huge box. She had them whipped up in no time......here's a couple of pics:

BEGINNINGS....

We've talked about making E10's quilt for sooooooooo long! Just to let you know it's finally underway and now that I've posted this I will just HAVE to finish it! It's my first attempt at anything remotely quilty so it remains to be seen what the final outcome will be!

THE WEEKENDS

We had a wonderful weekend.......the boys living dangerously at the Lake, along with Grandads, the McG boys and the A boys.........and the girls, at the A's place, in the bush. In both camps everyone enjoyed themselves. You can read about the girls fun at Rach's and also here. And until J10 writes about the boys weekend on his blog, here are a few photos of the action: