The Nutcracker

Only 3 days to go and 1 until we head off to the coast and I have just finished my Christmas shopping, well creating, this morn I made two little nutcrackers for my younger sisters. I am hoping that this time next year I will have made Clara for both of them. These little nutcrackers came from the Wee Wonderfuls blog but I kind of re-did the pattern. Well Merry Christmas and have a Happy and SAFE New Year because this is my last entry for 2010!!

Not Long Now

Hello,

I can't believe that it is only 4 days until Christmas Day!!!!! In all the leading up excitement involving the advent calender and Christmas Parties, my sister and I have made time to make a Gingerbread house and my, it has turned out well, with a few dramas. Both our walls broke in half and we under cooked the roof so we had to make a frame for the inside of the house. I also was worried that the royal icing wasn't going to set but with the help of my sister telling me that is would all be fine our house looks fantastic :-)

A New Dress

To start off the Summer Holidays (YAY!!!!!) Mum put me in to do a sewing class at Gardems. The class went over 2 days from,10 - 2:30, and in that 8 hours (we had a lunch break for 1/2 hour) we were to make something using a pattern. I look through the choices they had given us and decided to make a dress with pockets. I chose a very original fabric, spots, and got straight into it. The first class was a little boring because some girls there had never sewn before so I had to wait for about 1/2 for them to catch up.,In the first 4 hours I had sewn on the pockets and sewn the 2 dress pieces together. The second 4 hours was slow with lots of unpicking and me getting fed up with the instructor which resulted into me not finishing the dress before the end. Though it sounds like I didn't enjoy it that much I did like it and met a few nice girls. I must congratulate the little boy for making a wonderful stripey shirt surrounded by girls. After my long, long explanation you are probably dying to see the dress, so here it is-