Chalkboard lunchboxes

I love being able to write notes to my kiddlywinks as they head off to school.  I have laminated notecards on their bags, but also I sprayed part of their lunchbox lid with primer, then chalkboard paint so I can write a message to remind them about sports.....to have fun......or some special event. 

Personalised Shopping Bags

Hitting the past bigtime today...

These are some appliqued shopping bags I made when I had just the two kiddlywinkers and thought this might distract them and be fun at the shops... well only used them once at the shops but they have been good for heaps of stuff and my son still uses his all the time.

I did fruit and vegies on the front, I just did a tight zig zag stitch on the machine around these

I did a froggie pocket on the back

And my little gals

I lined the insides with a coordinating fabric...

Have a great weekend everyone....hope you get your "Craft on" or that's what the kids are saying these days anyway!!!!

Thrifty and lovin' it

Off to town today and with just a quick trip to Vinnies, I score yet again...I don't always check everything in the itty bitty store, but always check for furniture out the front...never much I must admit. 

Checked for crystal glasses and chenille bedspreads but nothing so I popped over to the book section and picked up a great woodworking book for kids with 40 projects.......kids love it....2 soft toy books, with only a few projects but a dollhouse book, that folds out and ties back to form a dollhouse...perfect for the coffee table and to be honest my 2 yr old adores it and might just leave her sister's bigger dollhouse in one piece...here's hoping!!!


The girls lovin the new portable dollhouse




So cool, two doors link each room...cupboards open..







I hope I can get the kids onto making this....what a cool idea!!!

This is the cool little book

While checking to see the price of pegboard to deck out my office/craft/sewing space....I grabbed some pretty green coloured paint swatches....GUESS what I am going to do with these....

Birthday preparations

Well what I got up to today, is nothing that tricky or delicate, but it is practical and going to be great.  I recycled some timber used for packaging as a base for a wooden train track for my little sweetie.  I even screwed the castors on myself...as I said, nothing tricky, but a small accomplishment that will hopefully deliver a hugh HAPPY SMILE and hours of enjoyment to my darlin'!


                                         This is the board screwed together with primer on it.

I superglued the sparkly water down and had planned to screw the track down so it doesn't get knocked about, but it really does take the fun out of designing tracks, so I just grabbed some sandpit trees and animals and added them to the assortment and glued trees, dam and river to the painted board.

Dollhouse furniture redoux

Now I loved barbies as a little girl, and always struggled with the fact that my sister did not love playing them anywhere near as much as I did....thank heavens for best friends!!

Anyway my eldest girl isn't really that into dolls, but all she wanted last year for her birthday was a dollhouse, so Daddy built her one, with the intention, that when she wasn't interested in it anymore it would work really well as shelving.

We are about to attach the roof, so piccies of the whole thing later...but yesterday we did a quick spray paint of some old my barbie furniture (Yes, I have kept every single barbie in mint condition and their beach and outdoor furniture....I said I loved them)

Here are the pics.  I found some old grinder boxes, really strong cardboard,..gave them a quick spray paint and they are the kitchen shelves

Before:

After: 

The old table of mine.

In it's new glory in the kitchen.  The mat is a cut up old bathmat that we dyed.

                   An old makeup case with a modge podged computer screen.

 

My old poolside set, pool missing, but pepsi bottle, esky, table, chairs and backdrop still fine