Making your own Christmas Wrap

This weekend the noisy boy and I got into the Christmas spirit by making our own wrapping paper. I have some Christmas stamps from last year and using kraft paper and some cream craft acrylic paint we made a start on some snowflakes and christmas baubles. What do you think? You can do any design you want and it is great fun for the kids using the rollers and getting paint everywhere!

We also did this in the summer for some rather cool birthday wrapping too.

Yippee some more Noisy Boys in the world!

Ha Ha no this is not news from the bump!! We have had some exciting new arrivals from friends who have both had beautiful boys in the last couple of months! I finally got my shower gifts together for each of them and was so happy to be able to print up some little onesies in my favourite boy prints - the rocket and robot. The gifts wouldn't have been complete without matching fabric gift bags - which will be perfect accessories in the diaper bags or for the new nurseries! As for us? Well will it be a boy or a girl is of course the question of the moment. Most surprisingly the little noisy boy has put in his request for a girl - I have tried to explain that I really don't have any control over that - but at the moment I don't think he quite believes me. Luckily he has had more pressing matters in hand anyway - which comes in the form of halloween candy! Ahh bless the concentration of a 3 year old..oh who am I kidding...the candy has been distracting me too - one for noisy boy - 5 for mummy!!

Phew !! Out of the first trimester.....

....and feeling like today is the first time I have had any energy to work in the evening. For the last 3 and a bit months I could be found unconscious in bed by 8pm or near unconcious lounging on the sofa in front of crap tv. Hence the lack of activity in my etsy shop - on this blog and anywhere else you may find me in this crazy world of social media. Today though was a good day - I finally got to list my new tea cozies in my store - finished off a whole slew of sewing that had been haunting me for a month - hemmed a curtain for a friend AND finally tonight mixed up a very sweet new blue that had popped into my head last week sometime. I just knew this was the right shade for a giraffe flag gift for a new baby arrival. NOW the only issue I have is that I have no idea how I finally ended up with this colour. It was the result of lots of adding and redistributing the main mixes - so I will have to do the same process again I'm sure. Sometimes though it is fun to just go with your instincts and worry abt the details later - especially when you have been such a slug for so long. Ahh it is nice to be back and to feel the whiff of motivation again - pls stay Mr energy - just for a few more months!!