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A Summer Blazer

So I decided in honour of the approaching summer that I would whip up a cute little jacket for my daughter. My mom had sent me some of this lovely fabric, and it just screamed to be made into something really cute:

 

 

So I settled on this blazer pattern, and pretty soon my living room looked like this:

 

As you do. Those of you who have kids, you know how hard it is to sew with kids around. So it took me several hours longer than it should have. But the hard work paid off….

 

…and the little stinker looked so cute I now want one for myself! Maybe another day though. Off to play now!

 

I’m Not a Food Blogger

I’m not a food blogger. But I love food. Specifically, I love baking. So when I heard my son’s school were asking for donations of cupcakes for the school fair, I was all over that like ketchup on fries.

 

I tried a new recipe, from here.

 

             

 

So far so good.

 

The last time I made cupcakes for the school, it was a disaster. I spent a huge chunk of my evening making these little meringue snowmen to top snowflake-and-sugar coated vanilla cupcakes. At around 11pm, I stood back and surveyed my work, and it was at that point the husband said something like, ‘Yeah, if you’d had more time you could have done better.’ :-0

So of course I made them again.

The next day, with minutes to spare, I was putting the finishing touches on a new batch. They looked better, certainly. But by that stage, I just wanted them done. I carefully positioned them on top of the stroller, bribed my daughter into her seat and we rushed up to the school to pick up her brother and drop off the cupcakes. The whole way there I was thinking, ‘Don’t drop the box, don’t drop the box.’

We made it with a minute to spare and I breathed a sigh of relief. Whew! I handed over the cupcakes to the waiting TA and….

…she dropped them. All over the pavement.

 

Oh well, perhaps better luck this time! Fingers crossed.

 

 

Not All Who Wander Are Lost

Coming soon! This blog is an attempt to catalogue my projects, and a place to explore all things crafty and creative. Etsy Shop coming soon!