1st birthday dress

Here is a cute little dress I made for Talia's 1st birthday party. I bought the "Double Ruffle Knot Top" pattern from Little Lizard King on Etsy as it looked like a cute party dress. I used a bright flower patterned cotton with Fushia coloured cotton to match, as her party was an "Upsy Daisy" theme (from In The Night Garden). I also added a layer of Net to give the dress a 'party' feel, and of course a glittered number "1" on the front!

Here is the b'day girl in her dress!

I also made the Fabric Flower using the Little Lizard King tutorial

Here she is with mummy & daddy!

HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY TALIA!!!
Love Mummy xxx

Talia's 1st birthday!

Our baby girl was 1 today! I can not believe how fast the last year has gone, I hope the next years don't go too fast. In the last 2 days, she has cut through 3 teeth, now she has 6 teeth. She is not walking by herself yet, but maybe soon... She seems to be quiet happy jumping around on her knee's. Here is a few pics of her on the morning of her b'day when she tried on her party dress that mummy made! Another great pattern from Etsy, I'll post about that soon!



















We had a wonderful day for her birthday and she has been so spoilt. We waited for daddy to come home from work and then we unwrapped presents!
Look at my presents and I am 1! and look at me giving my Upsy Daisy doll kisses!!!



















Here is a picture of her celebrating on Thursday at DayCare..



















We have a party planned for Sunday and I can't wait! Now I know when my friends love doing their kids birthday parties, they are soooo much fun! I'm sure we have too much food, too much fruit punch, too many lollies and handmade too many decorations, but it will be a great day spent with wonderful family & friends and our girl only turns 1 once! So why not, hey!
Cheers Lee-Anne

Our Wedding Anniversary!

Today is our 3rd year wedding anniversary. It does not feel like 3 years since we were standing on the beach at Vanuatu with our closest family & friends. Here is a pic of our amazing day!There has been sooo much going on in our house at the moment, my sewing time is vanishing!!!

On 8th July it was John (my hubby's) b'day and we had a roast lunch with friends and I made him a meringue cake, which Jade helped me decorate.

Uncle John I promise I didn't eat all the M&M's......

I have never been successful at making meringue's, so I got out my Margaret Fulton encyclopedia that my sis bought me for my b'day, and SUCCESS!!!! I also received a gorgeous book called "Homemade" for my b'day with lots of little projects in it! It is such a pretty book, thank you Rini! I'm not much of a knitter but I might aim to get these Fingerless gloves done for next winter... maybe.... Here is the Meringue recipe and Fingerless gloves pattern!

Angel always loves sitting on the pages of a book that I want to read, and Talia found out the joy of her big sister (Angel) boxes & toys...

Talia has a bottom tooth now, hence the last 2 weeks of a grumble-bum bub!! I think she also has the other bottom one coming through too! Here is an update for my parents of Talia jumping (sorry mum you have to look sideways..)

Love Lee

PS. I promise some sewing projects to come... PPS. Also Happy Anniversary to my sis & my Richie Bro! who joined us for a Double Wedding in Vanuatu! Love ya's

It's my birthday!

It is my birthday today and I have been so spoilt! My mixer blew up on Sunday while I was baking cupcakes to take to work, so today I received an AWESOME mixmaster from John & Talia! LOVE IT! LOVE IT! LOVE IT!!!!! I couldn't resist today by baking some more cupcakes with my new mixer! I baked some peach & vanilla cupcakes today with cream frosting and I coloured the coconut for the topping.

We had morning tea at work yesterday and I baked some mudcake muffins and cappacino cupcakes with a meringue topping. I used my cupcake stand and I forgot to take a photo, it looked awesome! But managed to take a pic of 2 cupcakes before John demolised them!

Here are some of the pressies I have recieved, some boots from my sis, cupcake stand from my mother-in-law(pic above), mixer from John & Talia.

I also had a wonderful card made from Talia at daycare yesterday. It's the first hand & footprints that we have of her. Thank Nicole & Jess! I did try once when she was really little, but ended up with paint everywhere and no prints....
I have had the most enjoyable day today. Here are some things that happened on my b'day!
Morning tea with Nikki at McCafe, I hopped out of the shower this morning and turned around and there was Angel sitting in the wet shower!, also some pics of mummy & Talia. The most memorable thing today was having a dance with Talia to playschool...... our own little moment....






















As my parents are RVing around USA, I told mum I'd keep her updated on Talia on my blog. Here she is crawling around on the weekend. She is now standing up and desperately grabbing onto anything she can pull herself up on!

Love Lee

Bonnet, Booties & Mittens

I have a very clever Nanny! Before she left for her holiday she knitted me a Bonnet & Booties and I love them!!! Thank you Nanny, I love you and will miss you! Love Talia xxx
We have had a few Milestones for Talia lately.

• She has started slowly crawling, even if it is to reach for toys & food!
• She is also now saying "ba ba ba...", so she now has mmm & bbbb down pact and hasn't stopped talking all day!! Another chatterbox in the house... poor John....

I have been looking for some knitted fingerless mittens in a babies size and haven't found anything.... So I made my own with some old baby socks, just cut out the toes and a tiny hole for her thumb and they work great, so i'll do some more soon! They do the job and keep her hands warm!
Cheers Lee-Anne

Mum's 60th!

A few weekends ago we celebrated my mums 60th birthday with a party at Mt Lawley Golf Club. Lots of family, friends, food & drinks!

Here is my wonderful family: Talia, me, John(husband), Mum, Richie(bro in-law), Dad, Stacey(sis) & Austin(nephew).

Here is Talia's party dress I made. I made it out of remenants, using hot pink satin for the slip dress with a chiffon, net & ribbon swirling design. It looked so cute. I also made a cute headband to match! I don't have a detailed pic of it, so pics to come soon! I also made mum's b'day cake. Awesome choc-mud muffins with ganache on the top. My Aunty Jean also helped ice them. Sooo yummy!!!!!! I wanted to sew a dress for myself, but ran out of time... So I wore this Teal dress I made for Aunty Jeans 60th a few years ago, I was lucky it still fit me otherwise I would've been sewing all night.... I'll take some good pics of it later as I love this dress!

We also had more great pics taken by Jeannette. I hope you had a wonderful party mum, HAPPY 60th!

Cheers Lee