Hair Bobble/Clips Organizer

Whilst browsing through various online Forums for some inspiration during the last few weeks, I kept seeing wonderful hair bobble/clips organizers sewn by a lot of ladies. We have at least 5 girls with hair clip chaos at home and the idea of making each one an organizer did not leave my mind at all. Now, due to Little Miss Madam that takes up the...

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Xmas Pressies & Prototyping

My mother and sister are quite surprised about me and my sewing machine this year. Especially since I am not a huge creative talent (give me instructions and I may produce something recognisable...). So when making the list of presents for the extended family this Christmas, I thought they would maybe like something I made especially for them. As both...

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Another No-Sew Poncho

After one of my friends had seen the babywearing poncho I created last month, she asked if I could also make her one. Our Little Miss Madam had a longer morning snooze today, so I seized the opportunity to snip and snip at the fleece and out came this: I hope she likes it. As it is, it's turned out a little bit nicer than the first one I...

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Babywearing Poncho

To state that I have sewn something today would almost be a white lie ;-) Time for DIY projects has been very scarce since our Little Miss Madam has arrived. After almost eight weeks since her birth, I have finally gotten around to making something practical yet simple (as stated: time is scarce). To be completely honest, the weather forecast made...

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The Latest Creations á la Nessie

Despite the current impression I may be making by hardly updating my blog, I am actually doing something ;-) The first thing I decided to try out was a so-called apron dress for my godchild. I hope it fits, it's a german child size 80 and has been sewn so it's a 2-way dress (is the material familiar to you?) : This was the first item for which...

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Finally...

... finally, finally: the baby bed is finished! Well, the draperies at least ;-) This has been the reason that I have not had that much to post during the last weeks. The material had been lying around, waiting for me to take up the challenge at last. I was a bit reluctant to start, as  my darling husband fell in love with the beetle material...

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The Lunchtime Clothespin Bag

As school and playschool are shut, I am working in the home office today. During lunchtime, I thought I'd give a clothespin bag a shot, seeing as our old one was only planned to be an emergency solution that my darling husband wizzed up on the sewing machine a few years back. Now it's best days are over, I felt like sewing something completely new,...

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The Next Batch of Jeans Shorts

So, after the first round of "Make Shorts Out Of Ripped Trousers", I finally was able to motivate myself in processing the next batch of ripped jeans. The sewing machine played up a little, which meant that I was spending more time threading and re-threading  than I was with the rest of the stuff (cutting the trousers to length, ironing, etc. Anyway,...

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'Standard' Stuff

It felt like 100 hours that were spent in front of that sewing machine - and only because our youngest finally agreed that it was time to transform his ripped-at-the-knees trousers into shorts for the summer ;-). He has enough now for 3 summers and is still finding trousers for shortening ......

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Pencil Roll

I still have quite some of the material left over out of which the apron and the book cover have been made, so I browsed the web for some inspiration. I found this: Stifterolle This is a really great guide on how to make a pencil roll yourself, even I was able to get something done here! I cut the fabric up and began sewing yesterday evening when...

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Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte

It was my darling husband's birthday a few days back and as he is saving for a new laptop, he did not have many presents to unpack, instead he received some gift vouchers from me and the kids. To still make his birthday a bit special, the boys and I decided to try and make his favourite cake: a black forest gateau. As the kids and I also wanted...

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An Afternoon Spent Sewing

I had bought some cotton fabric a few weeks back, planning on making a cover for my youngest's medical check-up book. As I am no expert with the sewing machine, I bought more than enough cloth, just to make sure that I had enough 'chances' to get something that went right. This afternoon the boys and my husband decided that they would build a Lego...

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Easter Lambs

Tomorrow is Easter Sunday and, according to various traditional things here in Germany, you should actually go an visit your parents, siblings, etc. My mother- and sister-in-law are also celebrating their birthdays tomorrow but both stated that they do not want presents. My parents have invited us for dinner (hmm, lovely roast!!). So I decided to...

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Day Trip to the Discovery Center

Today is Good Friday and like all Good Fridays in Germany, everything is shut. Not even the cinemas are open. So like all Good Fridays we decided to take the opportunity to have real quality family time and go on a day trip that everyone of us would enjoy. After thinking long and hard about this and having the one or other short discussion on whether...

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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, J. K. Rowling

To be honest, reading about the availabilty of Harry Potter eBooks via the Pottermore Site in a german tabloid really tipped the scales in favour of me buying an eBook reader. After over a year thinking "shall I, shall I not", I marched into the next retailers and bought myself a really good one :-) Two hours later and with a very bemused husband sitting next to me, I was the proud owner of all seven of the Harry Potter books in eBook format - and...

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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J.K. Rowling

After my then 9 year old read his first Harry Potter book, he was sooo fascinated and  definitely caught the Harry Potter bug. "Mum," he kept pleading, "you just have to read these books". After my normally football-crazy son starting wishing for bookshop vouchers from his friends for his birthday and started getting panicky when a book neared it's end after bookshop opening hours, I started getting curious. Even his teacher was thrilled with...

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My first blog entry!!

After being inspired by reading many really good blogs the last weeks, I have decided to take the plunge and also dive into the world of blogging. I'm looking forward to this and hope that I get the hang of this quickly ......

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