Beyond Pink and Blue - GIVEAWAY !

How cute are these !!!!!!!

These are Underwater Besties


Micador make these gorgeous little textas that are not only great for drawing but to also make friends with !

'Twist off their heads to draw up a storm. Non-toxic, washable and tough, means they're friendly for the littlest of folks to use.'

Other Besties sets are: Fairy Tale, Puppies, Barnyard, Dino, Jungle. $13.00 per set of six.
They come with collector stickers too.



BPAB are giving them away to a lucky person commenting on their Blog so how could I resist !

See HERE for more details !

Go on, you know you want to !!!!!

Question ....

I have a question although I doubt I will get many answers as I don't think that many read this blog LOL !

If you were given a small tin filled with a few goodies for a new arrival would you want the tin decorated so that it's suitable for use or would you just class it as packaging & wouldn't really care ?

I know that sounds odd & cryptic & I shall try my best to get some photos up tomorrow nite so you can have a sneak peak of what I am talking about ...

I have had a few ideas of late & am tossing through a few of them & what will work ... We shall get into what goes into the tins when I show off what I am talking about !

Cubby house fun !

I remember as a kid making cubby houses indoors through my school holidays with either our dining room chairs or with our dining table ... Depending on my mood & my allowance of t.v viewing of course !

I also remember the year my dad & I came up with an elaborate model outdoors which involved our outdoor table, umbrella & many, many sheets ... It was wonderful & always brings a smile to my face.

I Remember waking up at un-Godly hours ( damn now I know where it comes from ! ) & running out there every morning through the holidays with pillows to camp out for the day only allowing adults in when bearing gifts of food, new books or toys !

I do believe it even resurrected itself later in the year for another round of holidays !

Our cats would use it as place to, well, just be cats & sleep really but I loved having their company & to be honest I cannot even remember how all my time was spent in that little sheeted hut but I can remember it being something I loved.

My kids it seems don't do elaborate ... Well at least not yet at this point ( I shall endeavour to change this ! ).

My attempts to do various throws over the chairs etc was all a bit too much it seems ... They preferred this & well who am I to say it isn't at least a little fun !



Lunch was promptly eaten sitting down for once & all without screaming at each other !



Please excuse faces ..... We are 4yrs old now & that means one cannot simply obey our mother when asked to smile because we are obviously well on our way to teenage-dom .... Dear God shoot me now !

Kids & their parties ....

No, no this isn't going to be a rant about terrible teenagers & parties of the notorious 'Corey' type ...

Boof is going to his first birthday party outside of my friends kids ...

A little boy from Kindy has invited him to his party tomorrow.

I am soooo happy because it's for a little boy that I know that he has become close with & the teachers call them ' little old men ' because they have their own ways of doing things & stick together like glue.

It also means that we as parents have the opportunity to meet his family & get to know them which I look forward to because they will be going to the same school next year, so I really hope this starts a strong bond between them.

So I guess this means I shall have to be on my best behaviour tomorrow to impress .... Oh the burden !

Anywhos I decided to take the plunge & make a few items for this little boys gift .... Game I know but hey ya gotta take that leap sometimes ! If they don't like/ appreciate them so be it but hopefully they will at least be useful which I am pretty sure they will be !

One pencil roll .... 20 Bloody pencil slots later .... Won't choose that pack of pencils again !!! How many kids really appreciate that many shades of blue, green & purple anyways ?!?!?!

I used a basic cotton with a dinosaur print, a fat quarter & some denim for a more rustic look on the outside ...

And a library bag that I sorta stuffed up but hey it still works ! Oh & it probably should have a thicker heavier weight cotton for durability but I liked that they matched so I just used the quilters cotton as the block at the bottom which will hopefully keep things in check !

Inside I have a dinosaur colouring pack with a 'Hairy McLairy' CD & read a-long book ... Gotta love Hairy !!!

Heading my way ....

Just a quick post I am afraid ... Pretty poor form I know but things have just been so blah !

I wanted to post this so that I can give a huge shout out to a lovely lady who is in the process of doing my new header ...

I have updated the basic form for now so I can at least look at it !!!

So to the lovely Jo ... I really appreciate this *hugs*

*shakes fist at a lazy Mr Ooo*

I do have a funny story that I will have to share another time ...

It involves a 4yr old, hospital, foam & a nose *rolles eyes*

Giving & recieving ...

So the last few weeks I have just been so overwhelmed with all the appointments for both G & Mr Ooo that I just haven't had the energy to post ...

I have been reading though ...

My nite time cuppa just wouldn't be the same if it wasn't sipped in the glow of the computer screen reading a little into other peoples lives !

I just can't get enough some nites !

Anyways so I have also participated in a few more swaps around the forums & the latest being a 'Jar Swap' ...

A jar ( or as some have taken to tins & boxes ) filled with crafting goodness that can be passed onto another in the hope that its useful even if maybe not something you would normally get yourself !

I ended up going possibly a bit overboard & decorating my tins ( couldn't resist because after all they are then useful to hold things ! ) then stuffing them full of all bits & bobs for two very lovely ladies ( I did also send another to another lovely lady to apologise for the lateness of a project for her but sadly forgot photos of these ! ).

Now remember at the start of this blog I apologised for photos I would submit due to my terrible lack of photography skills & the fact that anything electrical hates me with a passion. Well this is another post where the photos are truly lacking ....

I swear I don't know what I did this time ... It worked earlier in the day & I got photos of the boys but these are truly terrible ! I think Mr Ooo fiddled with something ... Yes that's it, he fiddled with something & it's all his fault !!!!!





This was the one that arrived in the mail for me today ....


When I saw I got the Sock Monkey material I couldn't have cared what else was in there LOL !

I also have to admit to squealing with delight over it with Mr Ooo looking at me with an expression of total confusion ... Apparently it's " just fabric " pfffft they never get it do they !

The long & the short of it.

I realised with all the wacky weather of late that the boys are rather lacking in the warm clothing dept. so I recomissioned a pair of trackies that belonged to Mr Ooo after he decided to clear out some old clothes ... I've only been trying ( read : begging ) for him to do so for what ummmmm almost 4yrs now !!!! But hey it worked in the boys favour it seems !

I am not sure how Boof's pair are going to fit as he wouldn't let me try them on him ...

They aren't red nor do they have spiders or webs on them ... Nor does Spiderman wear them or anything like it so I am told ( with a foot stomp to boot ! ).

Surely even Spiderman has trackie days ?!?!?!?!

Anywhos I have a feeling they will be too short as I was caught out when cutting them due to the way I cut G's ... Whoops maybe I can convince him they are 3/4 trackies ... That will work right ?!?!?!

Maybe if I can find someone to alter a picture of Spidey wearing trackies .... 3/4 style no less ....


As for the short, well I have had these sets sitting waiting to be sewn for what oh errrrr .... *cough* 3mths *cough*

Just basic elastic waisted 'shorts' in a puppy dog print ( quilting weight ) with a store bought Tee that I have reverse appliqued in the messy fashion style that I lioke !



Again basic elastic waisted 'shorts' in traffic print ( quilters weight again ) to go with a shirt I scored second hand that is a pretty darned good match even if I do say so myself !


Now no, you aren't going mad & seeing things neither am I for typing 'shorts' in the above descriptions as these too come with a story ... Heck what doesn't in my life !

See being that I cut these out 3mths ago in the hope that they would be sewn fairly quickly I actually thought that by now Master G would have grown & because I had plans to put cuffs to fancy them up a bit I figured " nah he has grown surely so better not ! " ....

Why do I not learn to measure ....

Master G hasn't grown, he is still my little short stuff ! So the 'shorts' are rather long & a rather odd sort of length so I am pondering whether to just leave them & let him wear them through next summer because I now do have to face facts he isn't the giant his brother is.

I mean he isn't tiny but due to his rough start to life he is a lot smaller than he should be & a heck of a lot smaller than his BIG brother ... Let's put it this way G at 18mths is still wearing stuff that Boof wore at 10mths !!!!

Slight difference there.

So I am pondering whether to make them shorter or just leave them ....

Wonder if the Spiderman trick will work with the youngest too ....