baby hair

oh yeah, how i love first-thing-in -the-morning baby hair……

i thought of this hilarious bit from my Rookie Mom friends, and wondered if nearlyMabel had snuck a curler into bed….

the bloomers!

i forgot the bloomers underneath the perfect party dress….. 
coz it’s hard to maintain your dignity when you’re forced to crawl in a dress!
i used Bella Baby Bloomers from Romeo and Mae 

one already!?

nearlyMabel, i can’t believe we made it through a whole year already!

 perfect party dress by heidi&finn….fabric from spotty quilting dept
(the dress was much easier than it looks, the pattern is really friendly and has heaps of sizes too, cheers heidi&finn) 
maybe i should practice bow tying for next time….

crochet crime

crochet bikini anyone?  well, maybe it’s a bit brief to even be called a bikini.  i have no idea how i ended up looking at these beauties

image: what not to crochet

while i was looking for a picture of cate blanchett in her granny square dress.  weeeeell, actually that’s not true.  i found what not to [...]

repurposing

nearlyMabel comes home from visiting grannyMin with a plastic bag of dirty washing.  she’s 8 months, so the laundry is fair enough, but i thought i could do something about the plastic bag bit.  i fossicked through the stash, snipped a few inches off a pillowcase and sewed it into a drawstring, then turned down [...]

my morning

this

plus this

equals seventeen jars of food for nearlyMabel