Friday 19 April 2013

Scrapbooking

Thought I'd quickly share with you what I've been up to of late. I've temporarily exchanged the needle and fabric for paper and glue and dug out all my scrapbooking supplies. Yet another of my hobbies!! In particular, I've been working on Alex's album... and another goal for before bubba number two is born is to at least get to Alex's first birthday. As you can tell, considering he just turned two, I'm a bit behind with his album. Although, I have been jumping around with this album... for some reason I had already completed a fathers day page (which was when Alex was around 5 months) but not his first weeks.

Unveiling for you now, his 'First Weeks' page and a 'Getting Bigger' page with some shots from early months. The first page is quite busy, but I think that's an accurate reflection of the time in question! With the second, I had this lovely 'barn yard' paper by KaiserKraft and couldn't bring myself to cut it up. Instead, I've highlighted a few elements, such as made the sheep all glittery... unfortunately these details need to be seen in person!



Can't believe how little Alex was! So cute, if I do say so myself.

Until next time xx

Sunday 7 April 2013

Yet another UFO

A couple of weeks ago I had another baby check-up in Singapore. I'm happy to report that all is going well on the baby front! Unfortunately Tom and Alex couldn't come with me, so I made the most of my overnight trip to do some things for myself - ie, visiting craft shops and clothes shopping!! I managed to stock up my wardrobe with some fab new maternity clothes, and also visited two quilt shops. I can't believe how much stock they can fit in tiny little shops!

At one the first shop I visited there was a stitching group in action (well, on their lunch break!) and I was amazed to find out they knew all about many of my favourite Australian designers... in particular, Anni Downs, Leanne Beasley, Lynette Anderson and Rosalie Quinlan. And what a coincidence... the owner of the shop had just completed her 'Gardeners Journal' quilt, designed by Anni Downs - the very quilt I had recently pulled out of my UFO stash and started working away at again. Here is her quilt (with her peaking out the side):


She had absolutely TEENSY stitches, and had handquilted the entire thing herself. Having experienced the Singapore heat, I can imagine it was no easy task! Here is a close up of one section of the quilt... although the photo really doesn't do it justice.


As I say, this quilt happens to be yet another in my UFO pile... I started it sometime last year: I bought most of my fabrics and completed two or three of the stitcheries. Remember how a few weeks ago I shared that I had received a small fabric order from Anni Down's latest range? This was to add to what I already had for this quilt :)


My fabric choices will make the finished product a little darker than Anni's original, but I love all the tones together! I've also been rather distracted from my 'About the Boy' quilt and have been working on stitcheries for this quilt. Here are a couple of sneak peaks of finished bits...



Still a fair bit to go, and I really should get back to Alex's quilt, but am really enjoying working on this project again!

Until next time xx