Trick or Treat

I'm not a huge fan of the Trick or Treat process, but the younger generation seem to be taking it on. We let Mr J & Roo dress-up in their scary dinosaur costumes and knock on Grandma's door. We even dug out the prototype costume for Ed to wear! Luckily G'ma had some treats in stock...

Little Chickens

Over the holidays we made our own little colourful chicks with pom poms, eyes and scraps of polar fleece.

We whipped these ones up at the last minute for a couple of young friends we were about to visit.

We had to resort to PVA glue as I'd run out of sticks for the glue gun, but I'd strongly recommend stocking up on the glue sticks! The yellow chick was dismembered within a couple of hours but, as far as I know, the pink chick survived. Our chicks have been nesting in cotton wool in yoghurt containers

Dino Fun!

It was a bit of a mission to get the kids to stand still long enough to get some photos of them in their new dinosaur costumes, but I managed to get a few!

Bring on the Sun!

What a great weekend! Collingwood wins the AFL Premiership; cooked breakfast at Mud Bay Cafe with friends; and the sun is FINALLY shining for the first time in four weeks (I'm being generous - think it was really more like six weeks...)!

I also got a chance to finish off more dinosaur tails, so it felt like a productive day. Mr J & Roo have been putting up with the prototypes for too long, so I've made them both a dino tail & hood set each, in their fav colours. They're currently sitting on the couch in costume, watching the Playschool Dinosaurs DVD, but I hope to get some great photos of them running around dressed-up outside in this BEAUTIFUL weather.
The photos are of two others I finished for an order....

Heads or Tails

It's been a busy term, but I finally got around to making some more dinosaur tails and have just listed some on my Felt shop.

I designed a hood about a month ago and made a head and tail set for MrJ's friend's birthday. The b'day boy looked so cute in the costume. MrJ & Roo are stuck with the prototype so I wil have to make them a new set each so I can get some cute photos of them chasing each other in the hoods and tails, so everyone can see what they look like on.

More dino colours to follow very soon including blue and green, hot pink and royal blue, and pink camo with grey.

The Acid Test

I finally got around to making a new nappy cover for Roo, yesterday. Some that I made for her a year ago should still fit, but don't as they need more shaping around the thigh to allow for little growing bodies getting longer. The shape needs to be narrower around the leg instead of cutting across it, otherwise it drags the waist down and you need the next size up- one with more length through the crotch. I have found this problem with some commercial nappy covers. Maybe they are trying to accomadate the different ways people fold their inserts. I just fold my inserts into long rectangle layers, but I have also made shaped snap-in inserts which are handy.

Anyway, I made this one from navy sandwich PUL, white FOE and white snaps. It's a quick and easy way to make a cover, although I have noticed that white FOE tends to stain. I chased Roo around the house to get these photos. I think it fitted quite trim, considering it had 4 layers of hemp fleece and 6 layers of microfibre.

As for the Acid Test (pardon the pun)- it lasted the night with soaking inserts and no leaks. I think that's a great test for any nappy. Happy with the results.

Fathers Day

Mr J and Roo got crafty yesterday and whipped up some cards for Dad and the grandfathers. Mr J is getting pretty good at wrapping now, too!