visitors, autumnness and making making:)

 My sister Anneke has been visiting and brought her adorable puppy Disel along. I forgot to take pictures of us but of course I took lots of photos of this little guy. We had a nice day with Mum yesterday then made carbonara for tea. This morning I had no day care children (poor little sickies) So we took the puppy walking and discovered a beautiful cafe i'd been meaning to check out. Looking forward to going to our local markets together on Sat morning (another thing ive been meaning to check out)

 Heres some autum things weve been doing in my day care... Autumn tree with crayon and watercolour leaves, apples, birds etc.

 Ive been writing down my fav songs and verses and sticking them on the walls to remind me to sing them more often with the children. Its working! Here are our two Autum faves

 (they are stuck either side of the autumn tree)

I made some bees wax autumn leaves and the children helped me string them together and hang them below our photo board

Unfortunately this is our autumn nature table... Yep ill get back to that:)

 heres a few more things ive been making for the shop. This doll quilt is in there (although perhaps not for long, Im way to in love with it he he)

 Ive also been making some organic merino hand felted crowns. This ones in there

This ones a WIP, a few more details to go

My goodness I need to post more often so that I dont have 3 topics to one post! Appoligies about the post overload

Monday again

Well I wasnt realy quite ready for the buisiness of Monday just yet but it came all the same. Im thinking of re-arranging my days when Hansi starts school (I wont have her anymore) so that I will have Monday mornings off instead of accepting another child. Sounds like a good plan! 

We had a realy nice weekend. I found some great new clothes at opp shops, we had a pizza picnic with Mum and Dad at the park and layed in the grass until it was almost too dark to see eachother. My iphone had a sleep over at the park (oops!) We went to see Bennys' sisters new house yesterday and I picked up a cupboard for the day care play area. Yay, storage! Photos to come. 

Today we have been making a tree on the sliding door and tomorrow we will be adding 'falling leaves' to celebrate autum beginning. Weve also made some birds nests, birds and apples for on it. It occured to me this morning that I could have gotten fresh apples off mums apple tree to make an apple crumble tomorrow but ill have Josh until 10pm so we'll have to get some from the fruit and veg shop instead. It'l still be good!

Ive made another garden bed (the one on the right) so weve been enjoying planting. You can see what this spot looked like in november, quite different! I havent actually bought anything for it yet, all the plants have been found in different parts of the garden, mostly plants that have self seeded from things ive planted.
 

 Every day ive been getting ripe tomatoes from the garden (if josh doesnt eat them all first!) I should have taken a pic before we ate all the red ones this morning!

Easter preperations

My friend Alison asked me to read through a pattern that she was writing. Of course when I saw it was for this adorable little easter basket I had to make one!
I cant wait for easter, im planning on making a few more of these and felting some eggs so that my day care children can have lots of egg hunts on the lead up to easter:)

Her pattern is now available in her shop and she has some made up ones for sale too (hers are sooo cute, go check them out!)
Oh and in the background of some of the photos you can see a felt flower garland that I made her a while ago, how fun to see it again:)

(ps, please ignore my horrible blurry night time photo)