More Christmas & Newspaper Taxi

A couple more christmas designs available.

The street party was originally designed for my own street this year, last year we had a great time.   Funny how you can spend a whole lifetime in your house and not know the people down the street, or do I spend too much time in the house designing quirky reindeers perhaps ?

Think this is me secretly wishing I could sew a quilt.  

The Street Party

Introducing Newspaper Taxi  "We LOVE Mail competition"

I cant even remember how I came across this blog, but am grateful I did and is now on my 'Blogs I Stalk' list.  And to make it even better the owner Stef has a boutique vintage store in Newtown. Think I will be popping over for a personal visit in the next couple of weeks. 

So anyway what I wanted to share is her great giveaway of stationary. 

So, my desk is covered in packs of christmas cards, so there is a couple of packs on their way.

Hope you can join in, be quick it closes Friday the 4th November 2011.  You have gotta pop over to her blog and check out all the amazing stuff she has received.  

Personally I would have trouble letting it go, its going to be one AMAZING prize !

Christmas & So Soon !

I am sure I will say what we all are thinking ... 


"I can't believe its only 2 months till Christmas" here are some new designs will a couple more to come, and some freebie giveaways very very shortly !


Merry Christmas, sorry carried away .. thats a little bit too soon isn't it.

"Cant wait to see you this Christmas" 

"Sending Big LOVE this Christmas"

" M E R R Y   C H R I S T M A S "

" The Reindeer Tree "

The Pirate Adventure

The Pirate Adventure !  My little man turned 4 today, and it felt like his actual birthday would never come, we had a pirate party for him two weeks ago, and I think I started preparing for the (what turned into an event) at least 3 weeks before that.  I really enjoyed the theme of black, white and red.  Happy Birthday my beautiful boy I hope you enjoyed your party as much as I enjoyed creating it x mum-ma x


The Invitation ......

The FRONT

The BACK

Address Card #1

Because most of the kids were from kindy they were hand delivered.

Address Card #2

And an address card for those that needed to be posted. 

mmmmm, Am I sure I really want to invite 25, 4 year old pirates with swords to my house ?

The Cake ......

I found a silicon pirate ship for the cake and used food dyes with fondant icing which was a first for me, but just like playing with clay, I pushed it into the mould to make imprints and a bit of cutting, rolling and painting I was quite pleased at how easy it was.

The Pirate Ship ......

I saw this idea somewhere on the net (but couldn't find it again to give credit sorry).  


But basically a trip to your local hardware store for three pieces of dowel, a couple of buckets, a piece of black fabric, and string.  Out with the power-tools I drilled a bracket to the underside of our dining room table to hold the first piece of dowel in place, carefully trying not to drill all the way through, otherwise that will be a story for future dinner parties. (you could always just have three pole's standing straight up if the drilling is a bit scary)  The other two are just poked in a bucket full of dirt (wet to add weight), then tie some string and add some bunting (the striped ones are just wrapping paper cut into triangles.  The others are what I just designed on the computer.  Super easy and super cheap.  


Now its just getting permission from Master 4 that it can be taken down, thats the hard part !

The lollie bag ......

Kicking myself for not remembering to take photos of the table all set up with the food etc, I also forgot to take pics of the take home gifts for the kids.  I used empty tennis ball containers and filled the bottom with cannonballs (jaffas) and topped with pirate bits and pieces, pencil, bubbles, cards and gold coins.  This was the left over one that doesn't even have a lid left on it and their were more jaffas in the bottom, but you get the general idea.  I cant stop thinking of the great pic I didn't take of all of the 25 of them lined up together. 

Decorations & Games .....

Decorating was easy lots of stripes, bits of garden netting, we had a treasure hunt after a mystery Pirate phoned Sam to tell him there was a map buried in the garden.  He had to lead his fellow pirates around the house outside, finding a parrot, sword and scarf for the final clue to find a treasure box full of chocolate coins and pirate rings. 

Phew, Pirate Adventure 

 The End