Tulips and Rainbows

Hi everyone after a lot of thought I am closing this blog down but don't worry I will still be blogging over at my new blog Tulips and Rainbows

The reason behind a new blog is simply to combine this blog and What Are You Waiting For into one. 

I look forward to having craft, life, family and food all together and I hope you will join me over at Tulips and Rainbows in the near future.

This blog will be kept open for reference, thank you for taking the time to visit and comment over the years.

LETS GET IT DONE

I woke up this morning intending on making myself a couple of new tops to wear, instead I pulled out a few quilt tops from the pile and made a start to finishing them.

With yet another sports trip to Adelaide next month I decided it was high time I got off my butt and finished some projects to fill up my shop (will let you know when it's up and running).

This was my lounge room today.

I wanted to share what I think is one the most awesome new quilting products on the market, Pinmoors.

These little silicone corks go right on the ends of your straight pins and I have to say are fabulous.  If you are a quilter that pins your work then you are going to love these little beauties they make the process so much easier, I ordered 100 just to see if I liked them and as soon as I can afford it I will be replacing all of my quilting pins with them.

 

 

Okay, I had better get back to it so my poor family can have some room to move.

 

Have a lovely weekend everyone :)

PROJECT LIFE - weeks 10, 11 and 12

I have been working all day on my project life to try and get a little more up to date.  Thank goodness for my trusty notebook, sketchbook and keeping up with editing and printing of the photos or I wouldn't know where to begin.  I am still a couple of weeks behind but closer to being caught up than I was yesterday.

WEEK 10 - left page

 

WEEK 10 - right page

 

 



close up of Sophie seeing her new purple sparkly violin for the first time.  Priceless.

 

 

WEEK 11 - left page

 

 

WEEK 11 - right page

 

 

 

WEEK 12 - left page



 

WEEK 12 - right page

 

 

I'm joining in over at The Mom Creative again this week.

UPDATES

My granny ripple is getting bigger.  It's nice just to sit down at night and hook a couple of rows.  I really hope it's finished and on our bed before the end of winter, I'm about half way there.

I've started making up some ideas I've had floating around in my head for my Etsy and Madeit stores (they will be up and running again very soon I promise). 

Last year I made myself a Kindle pouch and wanted to make more but just hadn't got around to it.  Last night I crocheted one up then lined it today. 

There's a couple of quilts that need binding that have been sitting around for quite a while, I'm slowly getting through my pile of quilt tops and I'm not making any more until at least 5 are completed.

So that's what I'm up to in my little world of craft, what are you making?

TAKING UP ALL OF MY TIME

I'm pretty determined to get at least Lachie's cricket album done in the next couple of months.  I've been learning lots of new digital stuff, finding lots of papers, cards, embellishments to use and I've been making up some more pages.   I am going to sit down today and do some crochet and traditional project life as all of a sudden I've found myself nearly 4 weeks behind!

So if you really don't like cricket photos then this might not be the post for you.....


Sadly these are the only photos I have for this year. Oh well you have to make do with what you have.















Journaling still needs to be added to these last pages.

GOING DIGITAL......

After a lot of thought I have decided to do digital layouts for the boys 7 years each of cricket and football albums.

It is impossible for me to catch up (or in Lachie's case, start) these albums doing them the traditional way so I am making 12 x 12 pages, getting them printed and then slipping them into an album.  I did think about having a book made out of the layouts but decided against it as I want to include paper clippings and other bits and pieces to them.

Here are a couple of pages I have made, I will probably still add too them, but for now they are done.



I am half way through an awesome tutorial by Jessica Sprague on Project Life in Photoshop.  I have learnt so much already, I really have been doing things the long and hard way before now.

HAPPY MAIL

It's a wet and windy day down here but I received some happy mail to brighten my day from the lovely Sarah of Quilt Fabric Delights

Sarah had 40% off so how could I not take advantage of that.

 

I am a huge fan of Toni's patterns from Make It Perfect in fact most of the clothes I make are from her patterns.   I'm so happy to add 3 more to my collection.

PROJECT LIFE - WEEK 9

WEEK 9 - left page

For those that are really over all of the cricket photos this was the last game of the season, now it's onto football!!!!

WEEK 9 - right page

PROJECT LIFE - WEEK 8

WEEK 8 - left page

WEEK 8 - right page

PROJECT LIFE - WEEK 7

It's been a while since I updated this project, here goes.....
left page &insert

insert & right page

The "love" paper is a flip pocket and under it is journaling relating to my uncle who died 30 years ago in the Ash Wednesday fires.   I haven't finished the journaling yet, I recall so many details about that day that it's hard to put it all into words.