school holidays

Well, as one would expect, the school holidays haven't been particularly productive yet as far as sewing goes! Still working through customs, slowly but surely.
I've started adapting the pattern for Rhiannon's communion/confirmation dress. Let's just say that it would have been easier to start with a kids pattern rather than to try to adjust an adult size one! But after a lot of effort, I think we now have a working pattern for the bodice of the dress, and the skirt should be easier than trying to take 'boob space' out of the top!

The kids managed to break the door of the dishwasher on the weekend, so it's now out of action for a week while we wait for the hinges to be ordered. Hopefully that's all that's wrong with it! Needless to say, the kitchen looks even worse than usual now, although my darling mother did a lot of washing up for me today while I was swearing over the dress pattern adjustments!

Oh well, there's a reason the word 'chaos' is in the name of this blog!!

update...

I *think* it worked, lol!
If anyone notices any problems let me know, but everything seems to be transferring to PayPal OK now, so with any luck, that's the end of it!

Now to pry my backside off this computer chair! My eyes and back are telling me I've spent too much time in front of this monitor today :o(

%^$&^% shopping cart!!!

After trying extensively and unsuccessfully to fix the PayPal problem with my shopping cart, I have given up, and will be reinstalling the whole bl@@dy thing!

I would like to say at this point, just how much I *hate* it when things decide not to work for whatever reason!! So, here goes, wish me luck, and hopefully I'll be a much happier little vegemite at the end of the day! (if it doesn't work, then stay away and don't come near me, lol!!)

it's clean!

Yes, you heard right, the sewing room is clean! (and vacuumed)
I thought such a monumental occasion deserved it's own post and photos ;o)

Saturday...

With only one child at home for most of the day today, I managed to finish cutting everything out for all my current orders, yay! This is all the cut out nappies waiting to get sewn!

Now, I think the next step is to clear some space in my sewing room, so I can actually move around and sew! At the moment, I can only just turn around with all the piles of fabric and stuff :o(

And this is what Ben got up to while I was working :o)

lunch-time thoughts...

Taking a quick break while I have some lunch...
I'm just remembering why I hate one-directional prints!!

I've started cutting out for all the custom/semi-custom slots... these are going to be gorgeous nappies if I do say so myself!

Whales, dolphins, wizards, tiny little newborn size nappies...
I'll post some pics once they're all cut out ;o)

oops

my poor abandoned blog!

It's been a busy month and a bit!
I'll update some more later when I get a chance!