Christmas has begun

Yay! Christmas is coming! My favourite time of year! Every year I like to have a colour scheme and it usually ends up with me buying a whole load of new decorations, mostly from Myer. Ooh their displays are gorgeous. This year I'm thinking of going a bit untraditional and using pink...but more on that another day.

In the meantime, the Christmas orders have started rolling in for Bebe Bouton, which is so exciting as it means I get to dig into my new christmas fabric stash.

Yep, chevron is still kicking along. I do still love it. I also love that it's ok to be bright and colourful for Christmas - bring it on.

Eep aren't these shoesies delicious? There's a bodysuit coming to match these and the shorts for a photoshoot. *Update - now available to order in store at Bebe Bouton*

Oh, and I tried out patterned applique! Normally I just go around one shape, like on my moustachio tops.

Again...delicious! I think I might have to add this kind of thing to the shop. I love how the raincloud one came out. The raindrops were a bit fiddly, but so effective.

I've been getting a lot of initial top requests lately too, which are great little christmas pressies...

Busy busy busy - love it!

Messy Old Week

So my plan to get all of the Christmas outfits ready for the expo this weekend kind of went out the window and became a week just for me and Henry. We tried out a few new ideas for messy play as we realised he doesn't exactly like getting his hands dirty, although I don't blame him for not liking vegemite hands.

First up was "Yoghurt Finger Painting". All I did was add food colouring to some baby yoghurt we already had in the fridge and put it in a separated plate. At first he was pretty hesitant, but by the end he was sucking the yoghurt out of the plate and rubbing it all over the table. I'd say that's a win!

Next up was "Rainbow Rice" which is just dry rice I coloured by putting 1 cup in a zip lock bag with a tablespoon of vinegar and enough food dye to make it nice and bright. I shook it up to mix the colour in and then dried the rice out on a sheet of waxproof paper. Yep...I'm going to be finding rice for yearrrrrs!

Yesterday we had a go of "Rainbow Spaghetti". You make this by cooking spaghetti then colouring it in a zip lock bag with a tablespoon of oil and some food colouring. This one wasn't as popular although this mummy was smart putting it in the paddling pool outside! I had to rinse it off under water to get the excess food dye off, but bub was still coated in a rainbow poo kind of smear. I think what he didn't like was that as it dried out, it stuck to him. Oh well...baby steps.

This evening I made some Play Dough using jelly as the colouring, although I had to add just a touch more food dye to make it bright. The recipe is from Learning 4 Kids. We might try this out tomorrow - who can't love play dough?! I may have to join in on this one hehe.

OK so I did get a couple of dinosaur beanies done and some bodysuits moustchio'd up...pics to come!

Baby Crossover Pinafore and Bloomers

I have a new baby niece! With all the boys that are being popped out lately, I'm kind of happy to be sewing for a girl finally. So I had a go at the Criss Cross Pinafore and Bloomers by Melly Sews, which is a super easy free pattern.

I put coloured snap backs on both sides so that it becomes reversible! The lamb fabric is Woodland Tails by Riley Blake and I think I found the yellow floral fabric at Lincraft - it's been in my stash for years.

Then, because I just couldn't resist, I made matching ruffled bloomers to match both sides of the dress. I used the tutorial by Melly Sews to make the ruffles, but my own nappy cover pattern.

This is a 3-6m size, so I'll have to wait a while to see this little girl all ruffled up, but by that time it'll be the middle of summer so she'll be nice and cool in it. Heh I just realised it's not pink!

I had some other sewing projects on the go yesterday but ran out of elastic and interfacing even though I'd just been to Spotlight that morning. Ugh.