Sydney / Ballarat: Sunday morning
"Here is a happy Evie on Easter sunday with her bunny Flossie.

To get Evie to smile in photos now I say "Smile! Show me your teeth!". In the beginning we would get her to say "cheese!". She would concentrate on the CH sound and end up with a strange expression on her face in photos. Then I started to say "smile!". That only resulted in her repeating "smileeeeeeeeeeee!" and still no smile in photos. Show me your teeth seems to be working at the moment. Although recently Evie has started to point to her teeth when I ask this. I will have to try a different approach soon I think. "

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I couldn't resist making Evie a bunny for Easter. She has lots of soft toys already but this pattern floating around on Pinterest was too cute to resist. I'd also bought a really sweet fabric which reminded me of little Easter eggs. It seemed like the universe was telling me to make bunnies. I made one for Audrey too.

Evie's was made with brown corduroy and Audrey's in white corduroy. I embellished each bunny with a little felt flower. The pattern was really easy to follow and the bunnies came together quite easily. I picked up some new techniques too which might assist me with other doll patterns (Like the Wee Wonderful's pattern I used for Susanna's doll Alice. I've had such trouble with that pattern.)

At first I nicknamed the bunnies Flopsy and Mopsy after the bunnies in Peter Rabbit. We've since renamed Evie's to Flossie and I think Audrey's gets called Bunny.


More photos (slideshow) on Flickr.

We had such a lovely Easter long weekend.

I had cocktails at Button Bar and dinner at MoVida with the girls on Wednesday night. While we were out we realised that we had accidentally fulfilled an Easter tradition of ours. Way back in the before time we used to go out for cocktails on Maundy Thursday each year to celebrate the beginning of the Easter long weekend. We were a bit chuffed that we were out drinking cocktails once again (pretending like we didn't have kids. Although inevitably the conversation returned to the topic of kids. You can't help but talk about them.)

We loved Button Bar. It wasn't too crowded, granted it was a Wednesday, and it had lots of cosy nooks and crannies to sit in. The cocktail menu was extensive too, more like a book than a pamphlet. I think it might become our regular predrinkies venue when we're out in Surry Hills (every 6 months or so....).

MoVida was tasty. Sue and Sarah liked the Patatas Bravas best. I'd like someone to please explain what faux bacon dust is. MoVida lose points for their sucky, sucky website though. It's really hard to navigate and information is difficult to find. Another example of form over function.


We then spent a few days with Grandma and Grandpa in Goulburn. Evie loves hanging out with Grandma and Grandpa. She goes on lots of walks and does fun things like crunch through Autumn leaves. I get to have a nap so really it's win-win situation (ugh, I feel like I should apologise because I want to have a nap instead of hanging out with my girl. I hang out in parks A LOT. I don't get to nap much anymore. See the attraction?) I also got a chance to pop down to Canberra to see Toulouse-Lautrec at the National Gallery.

On Easter Sunday we hung out with my family in Pyrmont. I made a Cadbury Creme Egg chocolate pudding for dessert by combining two recipes (here and here). Next time I'd only use mini creme eggs instead of regular ones. The large ones were a bit sickly.



More photos (slideshow) on Flickr.

Tash has been busily blogging our Project52 and is completely up to date. Me... not so much; I'm terribly behind. I figured it would be better to just start blogging again and catch up the missed weeks later. I couldn't resist blogging this one. When I put these two photos side by side I had to laugh. Cocktails and embroidery... couldn't be further apart.

Dehli, India / Sydney: Saturday night
"Last year for Wilson secret santa I asked for a ticket to Urban Stitches. It's a craft conference held at Darling Harbour. I spent the day hand sewing and chatting with other ladies who also love to craft. We were given a few projects to do and were told that we could probably finish all of them by the end of the weekend. I picked the embroidery project as I can usually multitask enough to talk while embroidering. I didn't even get halfway through this project though. Obviously I'm still a newbie.

I love crafting and was hoping to meet some other like minded ladies (or guys... boys craft too... I think) from Sydney. There is quite an active online craft community but not much happening in real life. Unfortunately all of the ladies at my table were from out of Sydney (Dubbo, Newcastle and Nowra). Maybe I'll have to start a Dully CWA chapter to get some irl craft action (although would that have to be the UWA - Urban Women's Association - as Dully is hardly the country). "

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There has been a lot of lamby sewing recently. The baby boom continues. It's only March and so far we've already welcomed Max, Hamilton, Lucy, Adam and Cameron. I like traditions so all the new bubbas are gifted a lamby. It's not super exciting craftwise so I don't generally post each lamby on here.

I do like to take a photo of each lamby as a record and so I can remember which fabric I used for each baby. It's a good thing that I've started to embroider initials on each lamby's ear otherwise it might get a bit confusing.

I captured this funny series of photos the other day when I was photographing Adam's and Cameron's lambykins. Evie likes to get involved in whatever I'm doing and decided that the lambykins needed a cuddle. Evie is a good sharer!





And here are some photos of the beautiful bubbas who received these two lambykins: baby Cameron and baby Adam. Welcome new bubbas!