Me Made June!

YAY! I am sewing and wearing what I sew! Everyday for a whole month seems easy but I have tried and failed this challenge before. Just click on the badge to the left if you want to go check out the details on So Zo's Blog.

There is my outfit number one - I am a day behind so will HOPEFULLY do another post later today!

I LOVE this skirt - I made it when I was on a family holiday and I was doing lots of things for lots of other people including my at the time one year old terror!

My dad looked after bub for two hours on afternoon and I sat with mum in her sewing shop and made something just for me! And I was VERY pleased with the result.

Then one of the first few times I wore the skirt a stranger stopped me in woolworths and asked if I made it. I said I did and she replied;

"I dont even know if you know about it but I just wanted to say that's very 'Frankie' of you!"

I was so stoked! So now I always smile when I put this skirt on!

My biggest concern with this challenge is that despite having quiet a collection of self made clothes in my wardrobe they are all fairly summery and it is NOT very summery at the moment. So even this skirt got coupled up with some boots today.

So it looks like some sewing warmer clothes over this month! I do love a good excuse to sew for fun!

See you here again soon with another out fit!

And I hate my hair at the moment so maybe some hats are in order!

PUSH - Mirror

I am SO excited by this weeks Push theme because I took this photo last week when my camera was new (to me at least) and I was taking about 100 pics a day!

So I dont know if thats cheating but here is my pic anyway.

I've always wanted to see a film clip where it is just the singer in a rear vision mirror - but given that I have no musical talent it was never going to be me. I like this pic cause its interesting.

Love playing this game!

Oh and dont forget it is the first of June tomorrow so for the next 30 days I am going to try and wear something I have made or altered everyday! See you back here with my first outfit tomorrow arvo!

PUSH - Numbers

There is my Push Pic for this week - better late than never I always say!

I love this pic because it is not just a puzzle, its about my boy, its about colors and its about learning and they would have to be three of my favorite things in the world!

Cant wait to play next week - you can too over at Hello Owl!

Darn Camera Cord!

I havent been able to play the Numbers theme of the PUSH game from Hello Owl because I have once again lost the cord which connects my camera to my computer! It may be because my spare room (which is meant to be my craft room) looks like this. . .

So instead here is the images that popped into my head soon as I read the theme for this weeks theme. I thought i should share them with you, these pics were taken by my beautiful friend Kelly Rae!

Arent they cool! She is a awesome lady and I miss her deeply as she is off conquering the world! You can check her blog out here and see some more of her photographic genius!

So what's new?

Well as much as I love the idea of this blog and I want it to be a place where I focus and share my creations I have been hopeless at regularly posting. It hasnt been helped by my lack of internet access - but I'm not here to make excuses!

I am here to make it better!

So - Over the next couple of weeks I am going into serious blog training! And I am joining in some fun blog challenges to keep up the motivation!

The first is PUSH - it is a fun little photo game hosted by one of my favorite bloggers Danielle at Hello Owl. And having just purchased a second hand Digital SLR I think a photo challenge is only fitting!

Next is Me-Made-June from over at 'So Zo...' - it is all about wearing clothes and accessories made by me each day, for a whole month! I tried to do it in March but on day 7 my house got flooded and I became homeless . . . well staying with friends that is!

Anyway if you want to follow some other participants, sign up or just check out Zo's blog head over to the sign up page HERE!

I hope you say hi along the way!

So expect to be seeing a lot of me aroung these parts in the coming weeks. . .

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Just checking if I added the comments widget properly

And thats a FAIL!

So that is an epic fail on my part! I worn clothes made by me for five days, missed the sixth and managed the seventh and hoped to sew for 12hrs straight to ensure the next few days were sorted.

When I got home on the 7th my craft room was full of water! Yes WATER!!

So a flooded house, a late night evacuation and crashing at a friends house all week has lead to very little sewing and even less inspiration - I have been doing some cool embroidery and today I learnt to knit - so this blog is now going to be dedicated to my creative musings as well as trying to find some direction in my life!

I need to find direction but I also need to remind myself of all the fun and exciting things that are hatching in my head!

So when I get back to my house and find the cable for my camera I will show you all the outfits I made and I will make more! Because despite the fail I have found a renewed excitement for my sewing machine and even have a few of my own patterns in the making!

And now I am going to take five min to myself and check out all the other people who participated in the challenge!

6 months went where??

WOW - i thought i was bad last year but without even noticing it has been SIX months since my last post (and that one doesnt even count anyway!)

In the next few weeks I plan to post A LOT of post! I want to get back to reading the book 5 which is what this blog is meant to based around and in the mean time I am participating in So. .Zo's Me-Made-March challenge to wear clothes I have made or altered in some way. So come by every few days and see how I go with it.

I am worried because while I have always been a sewer my current wardrobe has only TWO items I made for myself! So thats today and tomorrow covered and after that I will be doing A LOT of sewing!! I am hoping it will help ignite my enthusiasm which i seem to left back in 2010!

Today I stuck, due to flood waters 3 hours drive from my sewing machine so we will see how this pans out!

Anyway off to pack the car in the hope that the highway opens. And I will pop back later to post some pics of todays homemade outfit!

my poor blog!

I do love you and I do plan on coming back here - i have SO much i want to say!!! But uni and Monkey and the new Business have meant that the only down time i get is enough time to sleep! And maybe watch Rafters. . . .but I WILL be back here. . . SOON

What a busy week

I think I may be making some progress this week - heading in the right direction as appose to just drifting!

I have registered for an online store at MadeIt - a great Australian website for all things crafty and handmade! Because this required me to make a decision about the name and logo I was then inspired to dive even further down the rabbit hole! I than made a facebook page for my little store and the most exciting thing of all - I bought myself a new toy!

She is a beautiful Machine and her name is Janome! We have only spent a couple of hours together but I have read the book from cover to cover. . .

I learnt a lot and have since bought a walking foot so that we can sew quilts together.

Anyway the point of this post is basically - I have a new toy and to justify its purchase I have decided to stop talk about selling kids clothes and SELL them. I have even registered and paid for a stall at the Baby Markets coming up Townsville in July! SCARY!

So wish me luck . . .

Hopeless. . .no lazy but hopeful!!

I have been so busy reading other peoples blogs lately (I think I have a problem) that I have not posted anything at all for such a long a time and anything worth while for even longer!

Not too make excuses but life has been pretty crazy these last few weeks and by the time I get to 'me time' there is nothing left in the tank for my poor neglected blog. So in the hope of making amends with my sweet blog I have given her a face lift - both the books and the red background will hopefully help me remember where this blog started in the first place. It was meant to be a tool to help me work through the book 5 that I so desperately want to use and apply to life. I seem to have got a little side tracked - at first by writing about other things and then by not writing at all!

I will say though the blog reading has been very interesting! And it is exciting to know there are so many like minded people out there in the world. And many more who think and see the world in a completely different way! Which is maybe even more fun to get insight to! So to all you interesting people - this blog is for you. Please check out my reading list there are some great reads among them and in later blogs I want to mention a couple that really got me fired up.

But for now it is a lazy Saturday afternoon - I am in the front yard watching super baby explore and somehow seek out all the dangerous things to touch, eat and stand on! Thanks super baby for keeping me on my toes!

TTFN

Where did that week go?

So last blog I set myself a task, or a list of ten tasks actually to try and inspire myself to DO the many things I think and,or talk about doing but so often don't.

I knew I wrote this list on a Sunday night and tonight is Sunday so my week is up and it is time to set down and reflect - OPPS it has really been TWO weeks!! And that makes me really sad because I already know I have failed at a lot of the tasks planned and the fact that a whole two weeks has just slipped away amazes me!

So lets reflect;

This was weeks tasks;

- Two blogs based on the book FIVE - I did NONE X

- Two uni assignments done and finished - I did do two YAY

- Start made on third assignment - YES

- Start made on Exam revision - XX Bombow!

- Research started on ou Market stall idea - Nope

- One or two meals in the slow cooker (that I have had for at least 6 months and used once) - one happened but only cause Kel was so inspired!

- Ride bike at least once - I didnt even do this!

- Paid all bills to date - mostly - my banking was too slow today to finish the task

- Make a start on writing a budget (I want to start July with a stick budget in place!) - havent even thought about it

- Post some pics on my new (currently empty) PICS page - two pics posted directly after writing the original blog!

WOW despite the fact that I sucked at achieving these self set task I am excited to do better this week. And I like the process of self evaluation so I shall give it another crack! But not tonight Im off to sleep! My boy has a cold so he may be up a fair bit later so i better close my eyes while I still can!

TTFN

hope you all enjoy your week.

Late Night Call to Action

So I should be asleep, I have been asleep but bub had a dirty nappy that needed attending so I delt with that, then had a shower, made myself a hot milo - oh and ate half a packet of shortbread!!

Now I have 15 min before my battery dies and I have been reading my blog posts and blogs of strangers and I have decided that while I have got more regular with my blogging I have got a little side tracked on the whole purpose of it. So starting tomorrow - it's BACK TO THE BOOK for me! And I am going to set myself weekly tasks and see how I go at achieving them :-/ that is my attempt at a worried face!!

SO this weeks tasks;

- Two blogs based on the book FIVE

- Two uni assignments done and finished

- Start made on third assignment

- Start made on Exam revision

- Research started on ou Market stall idea

- One or two meals in the slow cooker (that I have had for at least 6 months and used once)

- Ride bike at least once

- Paid all bills to date

- Make a start on writing a budget (I want to start July with a stick budget in place!)

- Post some pics on my new (currently empty) PICS page

There - thats ten to kick me off. I hope writing them down makes them easier to achieve because some of them have been on my to do list for a WHILE!

Can only try I guess.

TTFN

Mad Hatter Tea Party

I have joined the greater blogging community and am having a blog party this June! Check it out by clicking on the Mad Hatter Tea Party Button on the side of my rock.

If you want to come to my Tea Party, or have one of your own please say so. We will don or prettiest dresses, bake our scrummiest cupcakes, brew some delightful tea and partake in the madness and and frivolities.

Details will follow at a later date but I just wanted to put it out there that I am VERY excited.

"MOVE DOWN!"

This kid knows how to party

All I plan to say about this pic is that;

- this weekend way and above topped the one a few weeks ago;

- I love having good friends and family around me;

- The people in my life inspired and encourage me to be more;

- This kid is the light of my life and he too makes me strive fo improvement; and

- This kid sure knows how to party! YAY First birthday party was a success!!

Thank you to anyone who played a hand in the festivities of the weekend! I do NOT know what I would do with out you all!!!

Loads of love . . .

TTFN

Everyone needs a good opshop!!

I just spent $25 and 1 n half hrs chilling out on the floor of my local op shop reading second hand books! Ah, hows the serenity. I should have been doing laundry o tiding the house - but :P that will all wait! I should be doing it now but here I am blogging. . .

I have so many things to blog about that I dont know where to start and if I try and blog them all today it will take me two weeks to get around actually post this blog so all I am going to say (and then housework here I come) is I love that I am blogging. When going about my day I cant help but think "what part of my day is worth blogging" this leads me to pay more attention to the details and take notice os the unusual.

The little monster I created also helps me to do this as even though he is not even really talking yet he points to things all day. He notices things that i dont even see and it is wonderful to watch the world through his eyes.

I realise I am not saying anything profound or even original but I really am doing these things every day and it has changed how I feel about the world and my place in it! So I challenge you all to look harder and notice more (you dont even really need to slow down I run all day).

Just see what you can see in your everyday lives that you didnt see yesterday.

TTFN

friend wanted. . .pants optional

Today I told Miss Rae Rillie that she was such a great friend that I dont even fell the need to put pants on when she is around. She then suggested that I should put up a notice looking for more friends that would allow me to be pantless. Hence the pic!!

So while on the topic of friends I want to say a quick hey and THANKS to all the amazing friends I have - I honestly dont know how I got so blessed with so many strong independent kick ass girlfriends in this crazy world!! Could do what I do with out all of you!!

Could say more but it would just get sappy and I should go to bed!

TTFN

The Perfect Weekend!

I dont even know how it happens sometimes but once in a while, even in this CAZY world you can manage to get a couple of days in a row where you simply cant wipe the smile off your face!

And that is how I found myself this weekend.

With wedding business on Saturday - a stunning grassy outcrop over the ocean on Magnetic Island, guests all in white, Bride and Groom in purple, seafood, palm trees, rolling waves, it was a simply magic day!

And today has been a day I could even sneak into my top ten days ever - just hanging out at home with my best buddy in the world! Bub has been a bit grumpy and out of sorts all week (those dam teeth!) But today he was so happy from brekky to bedtime! We read books and played with the hose, walked on the beach and had a picnic by the sea, laughed and laughed and barked and barked! And even had time for us both to nap.

Then, to top it all off he went to bed without any real complaints and I have been on my computer ever since reading some VERY inspirational blogs. OH and I found a new publication that I want to get my hands on ASAP. You should all check out Dumbo Feather.

I do find though that there is a fine line between inspirational and overwhelming. Read a good blog and I go "Hm I should blog tonight" read another one and "I should TOTES blog right now - and start that art thing I have been thinking about all weekend" read a couple more (especially one from a lady who has 7 of her own running blogs, all of which she has posted to in the last 36 hrs) and it is more "I don't think I compare to these - maybe I wont blog at all anymore."

Never the less - here I am - having a go - throwing my hat in ring! In more ways then one this weekend but I will tell you about the other few things when they come to the light a little more.

In the meantime I hope everyone had half as good a weekend as I did!! :)

TTFN

some days its just all too hard!

I pretty much played hooky yesterday - i failed to do much uni and i succeeded in not doing a hell of a lot at work either! Why?? Because it just all seemed too hard - i wanted to hide in a little hole and just sit still for a minute!

Today is not much better though I have made some improvements to the state of our house!

This pic is me at Laneway Festival earlier in the year and I keep thinking about it yesterday because it is just how I felt all day - simply spent!

Today however I am going to get rid of the junk in my car (stuff for vinnies) and I have already cleaned the floor and done some laundry, so I am feeling much more accomplished! I am still pissed at myself for having NO $$$ in my bank account. You would think by now I would be better with money - and I have been of late but this week I bought myself a bike - which is awesome and I am determined to go riding today (with Asti in his little seat on the back!!) - but I some how miscalcuated my financial situation and am now not sure how I am going to put fuel in the car between now and Friday. Lucky the bike is a free mode of transport!

I realise I am saying a lot of not much but I am just forcing myself to Blog! And hopefully in the next few blogs I will refocus and say something worth while.

So in the meantime . . .Peace out :)