retro delight

i have done it again... i have ventured into the tweens section of 'target' and snatched the best t-shirt ever!! when i saw it i just had to have it. look at it and tell me if you could resist???

isn't is the sweetest?? but the real kicker is that this utterly cute shirt is a SCRATCH and SNIFF shirt!!

yep scratch away and smell the sweet scent of lemons. there was a watermelon or strawberry one too but not in my size :( i love wearing it, takes me back to my youth). i still give out scratch and sniff stickers to the kids in my class, they love it :)

it is funny how certain smells can conjure the most blessed memories. i have such a desire to hunt down a certain bubble bath that i remember having when we lived on our farm in toowoomba. the bottle was shaped like a princess and the girl on top even had real hair (doll hair) i just loved the smell and even now if i try hard enough i can smell it. maybe this is a memory when my mother was alive... i know i was very young.

do you ever have those sorts of triggers?? wouldn't it be nice to go back in time and salvage all of those things that mean so much to us now. my youth has some very sad patches, as do many family stories but one huge regret that i have is that a beauty case full of old family films was thrown away. those sorts of family films that were on reels... oh i could cry a river of tears for the images that must have been on them. having lost my mother before i turned 4 means that i have no memory of her but i relish any thought of her holding me, wiping my tears, laughing with me, dressing me or brushing my hair....those reels would have held those sorts of images and much much more. wouldn't it be nice if i sent a letter to 'can you help' on the abc and they hunted them down?? sadly i think that case was destined for the dump as my fathers separation from his second wife was not amicable and her vindictive side might have just made sure that that case was never seen again.

ok what started out as a show and tell has turned into something a bit deeper, sorry.

anyhow i am looking forward to sleeping in as i am not taking my girls out in that rain again, we nearly got washed away!!!

goodnight to all of you out there in cyber space, happy memory hunting

%*_*% rosey

p.s. i won again!! not sure what but i will blog about it when it arrives :)

do i have to spell it out??

before my first child was born i used to read to her, sing the times tables to her and all the other crazy things first time mothers do. i would religiously read to her and have great photos of her at 3 months of age sitting on my lap and reaching for the pages. i dreamt of the day she would read herself and be interested in books. those days are here and yesterday she chose a book from the library that was more than a picture book. then the second child came along and she has proven to have even more knowledge of the english language and is learning to read at break neck speed. and the baby isn't far behind, i swear she had the best vocabulary of any almost 3 year old i have come across.

the problem with all of this is that now they can spell too... so gone are the days of mister moo and i being able to spell things out like 'what are you having for S W E E T S when the children go to bed' or ' i am just ducking out to the S H O P S'. i guess i will just have to G R I N and B E A R it :)

onto more exciting news, look at the lovely giveaway i won!

miss vanessa knows how to excite a girl!

her art is just positively divine!

if you haven't visited her blog, a fanciful twist ,follow my link into a whimsical, fantasy land where there is no evil only great great things!

i won an oh so sweet coffee filter wristlet!

the card is already in my cigar box and the wristlet is being displayed on my crafting shelf. she has instructions on how to makes these sweet accessories on her blog.

oh i am so lucky, now all i have to do is win the lotto so i never have to work again.

thanks vanessa you are sucha doll!

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oh happy day!

this photo sums up how the past week has been... blurry! i have felt like a dog chasing its tail, trying to keep up with school work, cleaning mess from sick children, stitching and all of the other 'jobs' us mums do.

i would like to put last week behind me and start again beginning with this glorious Sunday which just happens to be mothers day. even though there is still a whole lot of phlegmy coughing and nose blowing there are no more asthma attacks, vomiting and goopey eyes. geesh i need a rest! mia had to have the whole week off as her eyes didnt want to clear, but she is right now and will have to endure a whole week back at school, how rude!

poor old miamoo conjunctivitis is such a hard illness as they are perfectly well other than this extremely contagious infection. she loved every minute of having to stay home for a whole week! still puffy and red after day 4!

anyhow moving on to more important business, i have finshed 5 babushka brooches and am now working on the kokeshi doll brooches. i really wanted to have them all done ready to take out to lilly cottage yesterday but the week that was put a halt on much of my stitching and running on less than 5 hours of sleep each day has really taken its toll. however i wish to have it all ready to take out next saturday.

crazy cat posing with one of the brooches.

each one has a different colour combo and design on the skirt.

i think it makes a bright statement, oh sew cute! (hope they sell)

now onto mothers day, i have a memory of being spolied last year but this year takes the cake! each present brought squeals of excitement from me and each present got better!

each present was wrapped in this lovely lavender paper...

here is some of my goodies, flowers from our garden, two cards (the babushka card was a gift from clare from clares craftroom, it was blank so that my girls could write in it! she is one thoughtful lady) a gorgous china cup, the funniest tv series i think i have ever watched and a voucher to...

go and spend $30 on fabric or other related craft! and i can do it for 5 hours on my own!!!

and my favourite present... another charm this time a cupcake :)

i love how personal this braclet is and i havent even chosen one thing yet.

of course after i open my presents i was presented with breakfast in bed but decided to join the rest at the table. what a lucky gal.

i also recieved my fair share of mothers day stall goodies that lili chose just for me. SPOILT

now i am off for a walk around the local park while the girls ride their bikes. really wish i didnt have to work tomorrow....

smooches rosey

sick of being sick!

the one thing i never thought about before having 3 kids was that the length of any illness is times by 5 as we all slowly catch it off each other! i had some sort of hideous sinus infection last week but made it through my three days of work only to walk into a weekend of sneezing, wheezing and coughing by my 3 year old and husband. the baby was coughing so much that she vomited several times and let me tell you almost 3 year olds don't have good aim. no matter how well set up she was with towels covering every surface of her bed and bucket within reach, she still managed to get the pillow, carpet and anything else within wakingwhilecoughingandvomiting distance. why do babies do that? why do they walk and vomit at the same time? why don't they make a nice neat pile of it?

anyhow as mr moo and claudia slowly recovered poor old lili was knocked to the ground with it. monday was a holiday, by which time mick and claudia were showing signs of improvement but poor old lili hit the deck that night and mick took tuesday off to take them all to the doctor only to be told they didnt need antibiotics just ventolin. oh lili is on a course of steroids as her asthma was quite bad. mia has conjunctivitis so i had to stay home on wednesday! lili and mick are back at work and school and the two youngest are at home with me slowly getting better.

phew! in amidst all of that wheezing, sneezing and coughing the girls stitched a few more things. they might just become my mothers day presents i think :)

lili put some lavender in this one and a ribbon to hang her anywhere.

i drew the picture and she stitched almost all of it. she even did the button which she thought was dead easy!

and she chose my lovely violet fabric for the back.

mia started to stitch this kokeshi doll but i think i did more than she did.

she chose the backing fabric and i made her sew it up and fill it all by herslef.

here she is with her two softies!

aren't they sweet. they almost look like saints :) like butter wouldn't melt in their mouth!

i am hoping that this is the only bout of illness we get this cold season but something tells me this is only the beginning...

%*_*% rosey

wordless wednesday

the next big thing...

when i first started blogging (august last year) soft owls and mushrooms were all the rage, i am yet to attempt either but they are certainly on my to do list. so i am not sure if i have missed this boat or i am about to set sail with the next big trend but here she is..

this is my version of a kokeshi doll, which reminds me of the Japanese version of a babushka. (don't kill me if i am not even remotely close with that last comment :)

a few things to tweak but overall i am happy with her cuteness.

the best thing is that the little details can be changed to make each of these unique just like the little babushkas.

although she doesn't have a flat bottom she looks good propped up against anything. here she is enjoying some sunshine along with a dragonfly in the garden. she measures 3 inches or 7.5 cm a real cutie patootie!

corduroy would have to be my most favourite fabric, this print really suited my kokeshi gal.

i was thinking of making her into a brooch, maybe the next one :) what do you think? what should i do with her?

so am i onto the next big thing or has this trend been and gone???

and on another subject i am enjoying twitter, come follow me so that i can follow you. and a big thank you to christy over at sweet tidings for featuring me in her collage of etsy shops to visit, i am alongside some wonderfully creative gals.

off to enjoy our long weekend.

smooches rosey

what is the point?

we have two printers at the moment, one even has a scanner and photocopier built into it... but you guessed it neither of them work!! the problem is that my Pay It Forward parcels are ready to be wrapped and sent but i just need a few things off the printer first. the other technological genius is the wireless router which is sitting idle since spammers stole my identity and i have been too scared to hook it back up. i will have to wait until my computer whiz brother in law has time to come back over and assure me that all is fine and helps me hook it back up!

looks perfect but looks can be deceiving.

see the brand new wireless router, it is supposed to be allowing me hours of warm indoor pleasure but thanks to pirates of cyber space it is sitting around looking pretty.

so to jenny, beki and karen (bunny) your parcels are almost ready!! i so much want to show them to you but i also dont want to spoil the surprise. they look so nice all together it makes me want to hold a stall at the markets. i wonder if anyone would buy my stuff?? that is the gamble i suppose, would you make enough money to cover the cost of the stall itself? anyone have any suggestions or words of wisdom/support about holding a stall at the markets. one success story that i personally know is linda from lilly cottage, she started as a stall holder and now she has one of the most beautiful shops (in the same market place) where she sells all of her hand made beauties.

off to put the baby to bed and have a rest for once.

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