Kicking myself for not waiting for the sale

because of course everything at Kaleidoscope is now 20% of instead of just 10%. Never mind. I'm just kicking my heels waiting for the dress form. I'm not used to waiting for ages for a delivery dammit!

Plus, got the wrong delivery of fabric - I got blue stars instead of dots. I did tell the bloke and he was lovely and sent the right order immeidately with an envelope to return the stars.I have since realised however, that I cannot part with either (and the polka doesn't match my shoes, because its white based not cream based) so I'm going to have to email him back and tell him he just made an extra sale...

Onto other matters - Noah has shown some artistic flair this week. This is a drawing of me and him. And some rocks, apparently.

 

Also, I got me a lovely Next dress from ebay. £3.40. Its kind of a little girls style summer dress, but it makes my knockers look bigger than they are. Always a bonus!

 

So, in summary, I have been not doing much sewing of late, unless you count patching up school trousers. I really really want that dress form before I start again because I want to make up the swing dress in blue stars but with more modifications. C'mon already and arrive!

In which I trick the hubby into agreeing I can buy a dressmakers dummy, and make a confession about vintage fairs.

Actually 'trick' is a bit harsh on me. I didn't trick him. I asked outright if he minded me buying one. He said 'yeh thats fine' without having a clue what I was on about. He can't say I didn't ask though!

I got it from Kaleidoscope for £67.50 (10% discount). Its not perfect (as in the torso is static so I can't adjust back height), but the sizing is right, and its better than not having one and using the chair back/sticking pins in me. I am v. excited - it should arrive this week if I'm lucky.

The weekend was spent entertaining small children as usual, but I did get to go to Cambridge on Saturday morning for an hour.
I have to confess something too <whispers> I didn't like the vintage fair much </whispers>
 I realised quite quickly that I can't be bothered to rummage through rails of tat. I only liked the vintage jewellery, but nothing 'spoke' to me. I tried on a couple of hats that were ok but too expensive to buy. I also quite liked the vintage repro store, but none of the dresses were great so I mooched off again. I didn't see anywhere doing hair and makeup as promised - maybe they were hiding or coming later.
I ended coming out with two things. A voluminous 70's dress which swamps even me, and a cream beret the lady I bought the dress from gave me for free. I bought the dress because I love the fabric (pansies I think) and theres loads of it. I'm loathe to cut it up, but I'm going to.

 

I may try to make something along the lines of the collette chantilly with it. Just because I actually like the gathered bodice. I will chop off the bottom frill and the sleeves have to go! I may put them back on in smaller form. I will also replace the elastic below the bust with a band like the chantilly. Not sure yet. When I get my dress form, I'll be able to play.

 

This is the boys tree climbing in Ellsworth. Daddy bought them ice-creams which made things a little tricker but they still managed to get up there. Noah won't remove his Peter Pan hat since I made it on Thursday, and put the matching t-shirt on too.  (He located this in the laundry basket - its covered in food from the previous day when he was at a Tinkerbell party. Bleugh)

Tomorrow I shall be endeavouring to escape, even if only for a couple of hours...

..to http://www.judysvintagefair.co.uk/events/cambridge-vintage-fair-4/

I have informed the hubby. Its his turn to take the boys swimming anyway, so he won't have to cope without me for too long.

Then we have two parties to attend - one 4th Birthday for Noah, and one 6th Birthday for Joey.
Noahs outfit is ready (unless he loses his new Peter Pan hat at nursery today) and Joey will not be needing one.

I quite like taking them to parties - if you discount the sugar intake - I get to chat to the parents and sneak some cake into me :)

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I'm currently not sure whether to stay with wordpress (https://pottscrafty.wordpress.com/), or move to blogger, which is what you are looking at now.

See, wordpress irritates me - I don't want to pay to change my fonts and wotnot - and with blogger you can do that FREE.

The only think I don't like about blogger is that you can't have child pages. As you can see - I've had to put the pages on links to the right - but there's no sub-pages. Does it matter. Really?

I think I should move. Should I move? Or should I just continue to post on both LOL.

I haven't done much sewing this week. This is because my patterns have been lost in the post. I did make Noah a Peter Pan hat and boots yesterday though. After much pressure to do so. Thats it though!

Foxie trousers - finished :)

 

I finished off Noahs trousers this morning and he is wearing them for nursery. If there is any test of durability - it is wearing things to nursery!

I'm very happy with this pair. I made the waistband taller so they have more chance of staying up. I love the colour. I think I'll make a vest top for him with the remainder. I also think I'll make some shorts - possibly in the tiger fabric but with the waistband like these. Joey may even wear those!

   

   

Tigers, foxes, flowers, bows and wicked hair.

So firstly, the good news. Noah has finally accepted his tiger trousers. He wore them today. Phew. Not a wasted effort then!. I now have to decide what to do with the remainder of the fabric.

Secondly, I have very nearly finished a new pair - the foxie trousers (just need to sew up the waistband) Its so quick when you've done it (and made umpteen mistakes) once already.  These only took and hour or so to cut and sew and Noah is enthusiastic about this pair - he seems to like them better with cuffs. He actually said they are 'so nice mummy' - but 3 year olds are fickle - he may change his mind tomorrow. Bad photo as taken in poor light. Its so late I can't be ar*ed to get the machine out again, change the needle to a double, and get going, but I'm so close.



Thirdly, bed hair. Mostly its bad. On Joey, however, its cool. Seriously - how much does this child rock his slept on hair? That never happens to me LOL!



Finally - I'm still trying to embellish this flipping bag. I tried a gathered flower with a button in the middle:



The I tried making a bow:



I'm still not convinced. Noah did say 'that's a lovely bag mummy' and I do take his critiques seriously (was trying on a dress the other day - "No" he said "that would be a bad choice" - he was right)  so even if I cannot create the right brooch I'm happy enough :) I will keep trying though.