The little family of 3: homemade presents

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Friday, 24 July 2015

Day 1 of the holidays

Today has been an almost home day. we are off visiting family tomorrow so we decided to take it easy. Especially as Stephanie is still not over her chest infection. I did pop to town as we needed a few bits and pieces, then to the library to return books. We also stopped at a lady up the road who is giving away Pigeon breasts as her hubby got carried away shooting! LOL

There were 400g worth of breasts which she gave me, we haven't had pigeon before so I decided to make an almost familiar meal;

Pigeon has a stronger taste than expected, but I enjoyed it. Dylan devoured most of this himself so I am guessing it wa a hit for him. Stephanie was not so keen but she is not much of a meat eater even when she isn't poorly so I didn't expect her to eat much of it.

I have finally finished the quilt for my niece just in the nick of time as I get to deliver it this weekend!

I hope she likes it.

Saturday, 22 June 2013

Another birthday party

Stephanie has another birthday party tomorrow. Again I have decided to mind the pennies and make the gift rather than buy one.
Remember the bags I made as gifts earlier in the year? Well Stephanie wanted me to make a bag for this little girl too.
So I went off to search through my fabric stash and found this:

An old torn/outgrown dress of Stephanie's...

and an off cut of pink fabric from an old project.

Inspired by the shape of the dress once I unstitched the ruched parts, I used the hem of half the dress and cut two of the corner pieces out to form the shape of the bag, and two identically shaped pieces of the off cut fabric.

Less than an hour later I have this;

A pretty handbag. Just need to get Stephanie's approval when she gets home tomorrow, then off to her friend it will go.

Sunday, 10 March 2013

Presents

I have spent today making gifts for 3 of Stephanie's friends as they have parties coming up. I want to try and make more gifts this year. I have not purchased anything to make these gifts. I have use an old and holey pair of my jeans for the main, then I used 2 tops and some material I had left over making a dress for Stephanie last year.

This is one of the tops and the pair of jeans.

All cut out ready to sew.

3 bags ready for wrapping. Stephanie has chosen the colours for her friends and the embellishments. I am really pleased how they have come out. I have one more gift to make, this one for a boy so I am thinking about a pencil case. I have plenty more old clothes etc to re-purpose.

I just need to embellish the pink one, as Stephanie is in bed it will have to wait until tomorrow so that she can choose from the stash what she would like on it.

Sunday, 11 December 2011

December so far

Most of December has been spent preparing for Christmas. A mix of laptop issues, work and illness has meant that I haven't managed to blog yet. Here are some pictures to show you what we have been up to so far this month.