Party's and Gifts

Saturday July 12th, 2008

The other w/end S attended her first birthday party for a playdate friend who was celebrating his first birthday. I was surprised S was such a trouper lasted 3 hours and seemed to really enjoy herself. S was the only girl - yet again! - looks like she won't be short of dates when she is older, like 21!! - lol

I made the gift for the b'day boy - a "no sew blanket" in Disney "Cars" theme and placed the blanket in a drawstring bag made of tonka car/truck material. The blanket was completed by 90% help from my Mum and rest help from my little bro - Thanks for the help, otherwise I wouldn't have had it completed in time. Instructions for how to make the no-sew blankie

Opening of presents - oh look it's our pressie!!

Mum and Dad with B'day boy

Let him eat cake!

S inspecting the balloons - hmm - yes they are ok!

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Today is another important person's birthday - my dear hubbie - Jameson, who is turning the big 40. We are going out for a posh lunch at a nearby restaurant and will have his cake at home. I'll post pics of his cake later.

Happy Birthday J - May you have many, many more - Lots of Love from C & S xxx

Finished Projects

Wednesday July 9th, 2008

Finally finished a couple of projects that I was working on for S - yeah! Love it when projects are finished - see previous post re beginning of project - http://10minutecoffeebreak.blogspot.com/search/label/Knitting

Blocks

Making S's blocks became a family affair - Thanks to Mum for sewing the blocks together, straighting my very tight knitting (well it's a learning curve) Dad who cut the foam for the blocks, my little bro who sorted out the patterns and color scheme for each block. J supervised the whole process! Picture of finished blocks below

S playing with her blocks

Booties
I also knitted a pair of baby booties for my gf who baby is due within the next couple of weeks. Big thanks again to Mum for sewing them together for me. They turned out a tad big - for 3 inch foot, so he (they know it's a boy) can wear them in the winter. Actually they look like footie boots lol! Pictures below

Now I'm knitting a striped cardigan for Miss S - I'll post later about that.

Friday on my mind - when it's Thursday

Thursday, June 12th 2008

Sorry I've been MIA this week, busy with 4 play dates for S, catching up on my household chores and just generally being Supermum!

Thought everyone might want to see what S does on hot days...

Favourite Toy

Friday, May 23rd

Miss S's new favourite toy is her exersaucer. My gf lent me her daughter's a couple weeks ago, since her little one is 2, and a tad too big for it. Well S loves it, and when she is not in it playing she will crawl to where it is in the room and try to get into it.

I now have to move it out of the room before her sleep time, otherwise she will crawl over to it and won't leave it alone. I worked out how to solve this dilemma, I produce another toy for her to play with, this distracts her enough so I can move it completely out of the room.
Kinda like when you give a dog a bone!

For me it gives me some freedom so I can get some cleaning done around the house, I just take S into the room I'm cleaning, place her in the exersaucer and she plays happily for 20-30 minutes. Just enough time to get some jobs done quickly.

After researching the cost $100 - I thought maybe I might be able to find a second hand one at a local thrift store. Well I ended up finding one for $25 - barely used - yeah! So I grabbed it.

Well this is the best $25 I've spent, a toy that amuses her for more then 5 minutes is really priceless. It's great when you can find a bargain, that you want or need. The purchase then becomes more worthwhile.

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Next Week:
I saw this in blogland and thought it would be fun. Every day of the week is dedicated to a color (see below) and participation only involves taking and posting photos that include the color of the day.

The colors for each day are:
Monday - green
Tuesday - yellow
Wednesday - Orange
Thursday Pink and Red
Friday - Blue

If you want to join in, post a comment including your blog link and I'll add it into my blog. I'm looking forward to this project, should be fun.

Diamond in the rough...

Sunday, May 11

The other day I went to a garage sale, actually it was an at home child center - closing down sale, I thought it would be great opportunity to get some toys for S. I ended up spending $48.75 and found some fantastic finds.

I purchased many books both new and used, (in my opinion you can never have to many books), play mats including rubber connector mats - these will be great for S to play on in our basement, blanket, posters, alphabet magnets, plastic bowls and two big ticket items:

Workshop - OK she is way to young for this but this time next year, I probably won't be able to keep her away from it. I was lucky to grab it for $15.00 it looks kinda like this but with a sink, mobile phone and message board and all the workbench tools one little girl will need! I thought will be great to teach her how to make things with tools.

My little pony castle - This toy will have to wait till she is older then 2. The castle looked like a nice girly toy for her to play with, and included all pony accessories needed for a pony land castle. The cost was $7.00. The castle
looks like this .

They are currently sitting on our garage - they need some elbow grease, so poor J has been parking his car on the driveway. Looks like another job that will need to be done this weekend.
I'll post photos of them once they are cleaned and placed in the basement.

At the moment her favourite toy's are wooden blocks - she loves to be a human bulldozer and knock them down when you make a tower.