My latest project and Easter holiday!

At last I have some time to myself. After alomst 2 weeks of solid child demanding hours I have a little for me, Mama time! School has been on Easter holiday and yet Easter seems like a long time ago. I have had 2 weeks of fighting, someone explain to me how an 8 year old and a 19 month old can fight??, and 'mama what can I do now?'

Of course all my little projects have gone on the back burner and only now I have a little time to finish some. I did start one little project. I found a lovely pattern for a doily to make. I am really pleased at how it is turning out so far. I only started last night I already I have about 60% completed. While I have been making it I have had lots of ideas to do with it, a bag or make some more to make it into a skirt, it is too nice to only use it on my table, or how about a cushion!

The only other piece of Mama time I had was a lovely cycle home from a friend's house which is about 10km away from me. The sun was setting and it was quiet with just me, some ducks on the canal and I thinkI passed a few people. Just cycling along enjoying the cool air and my thoughts, pure bliss! And I got some excerise.

W.I.P. and My New Toy!

Since my last post I have been doing very little but more ideas keep coming! To my ever growing list I have now added a Mei Tei to make so that I can carry Charlie. We do have a metal framed carrier but it is too big and heavy for me but Robert manages just fine and another reason for it is that Charlie hates his pram. So much so that when we try to put him in we have to tip it back slightly so he can't escape, not very safe. So I have been searching the net for different ways to make it. So far I haven't found one single pattern I like so I have been drawing my own plans from the inspiration of others. When it is completed I will definitely have a post about it. It will be first big project that I will be using my new toy for, my new sewing machine.

So far I have only been doing simple things to get acquainted with how it all works. I made Andrew a rice pillow for bedtime and a cover for it. That is my work in progress. I have started to embroider it to brighten it up. On one side he wanted some chicks because it is coming up to Easter and he has just come home from a farm trip with school and is still all talk about the animals. Orange Flower has a lovely chicks and Easter bunnies pattern that I used. For the back I took some inspiration from one of the boys t-shirts but I haven't started the other side yet.

Here is a beautiful present Robert came home with last night. I hasten to add he didn't buy me it, it was a gift from a person he works with. His brother grows them in the Netherlands. I have some from another time but the flowers have since died but the plants are still alive so it looks kinda dull, I think it takes up to 6 months for an orchid to re-flower so we will hang on yet!