It's back!

We have moved into our rental and I have my sewing machine here! Wooop!
So excited, plus I just put in an order for my first issue of Ottobre! I got a back issue from the beginning of the year, I think it is an Spring issue so perfect for me to get started soon. Now I just need to add to my piddly little fabric stash without Al noticing! Ah Crafty Mamas you will get me in trouble!

Sergers and more.

I hang my head in slight crafty mama shame, but I didn't realise a serger was an overlocker until I read THIS today! Ah I love learning something new each day!

I also have been frequenting the CM forum and oh my goodness those girls know how to motivate a woman! I cannot wait to move in a few weeks and get my machines back and get into it again! Ottobre here I come!

My new blog......

Here I am attempting to cut down my time on the computer, yet starting a new blog! This one will hopefully help me spend more time off it and more time sewing and gardening. The gardening is problematic right now seeing as we are moving in 5 weeks time.

The sewing, also an issue seeing as my parents have my machines while we pack up this mad circus and move into storage and their house.

Yep, we are moving in with my parents.... it won't be so bad, I will be able to sleep in because I am sure my mother will adore being able to get up early with my children and feed them breakfast and entertain them!

I will have hours to spend sewing with her very able assistance and will be able to also spend hours planning the vegies I will plant in my great organic vegetable garden once we move.

Once we find a house.

Who am I kidding?

At this rate ALL my time will be taken up with house-hunting. We went through a house we are interested in last night. The appointment was made for us. There were 10 groups there. Today the house was open for inspection, they had 73 groups go through. There is a serious housing shortage in Melbourne right now particularly in the areas we are looking in.

But I digress. Sewing and gardening I WILL blog. Crafty mamas forums and blog will be my inspiration, along with the multitude of other blogs I follow...Stay tuned for the fun and frivolity that is sure to follow!

House hunting.......

I have decided that looking for a house to live in is the worst job in the world. Maybe we are too fussy and our requirements are unreasonable....here, let me know what you think....

1. A yard big enough for kids to play in, lawn, vegie patch, etc. and flatish.
2. 3 or more bedrooms.
3. 2 living areas.
4. In the suburbs we like, there are about 4 of them.

That's IT. Doesn't have to be flash, renovated (we can do that ourselves) but the basics need to be there. Apparantly the typical family sized block of the past is a thing of the past. So many places that were on large blocks have been sub-divided, or else, they have built huge houses on them that take up more than half of the block.
It all makes for some frustrating searching going on in this household. Somethings gotta give and I think that someone will have to compromise, I just need to decide on what I want to compromise on....

One thing I keep telling myself is that it doesn't have to be perfect to be beautiful and we will make our house a home no matter what.

Being a mum......

Today I got a sleep in which might account for the brief thoughts I have had today about having a third child.........

I just LOVE being a mum.

I love carrying my babies in utero, feeling their kicks, and feeling them grow and be nourished from my body.

I love breastfeeding, seeing my baby grow and be nourished from my body, smelling their milky sweet breath, having warm snuggles in the night.

I love hearing all of her new words. I love hearing and seeing her learn new things every day, knowing that she is all mine and I am able to shape and teach her. Incidentally, this also terrifies me.

I love my family. I love seeing Al play with the kids and hearing them giggle and laugh at each other. I love seeing their faces light up at the sight of each other.

I love cuddles. I love kisses. I love tickles. I love my kids.

I love being a mother and at times I feel like our family isn't finished but for now I am content with my 2 adorable, smart, gorgeous wonderful children who fufil my life and who I love with everything I have.

Where has the year gone!???

I am lamenting the year that is almost half gone, my baby girl who is two, my baby boy who will be 1 in 5 minutes time, and the time I don't have to craft!

We have sold our house which happened so fast which is just wonderful but now we have the arduous task of finding one to buy that fits our fussy requirements..I'm sure the perfect Star house is out there, it just isn't on the market yet!!

Now that J man is crawling and eating I also just don't have time to scratch myself, thankfully he is sleeping better so I'm not in a stupor spending hours on the computer instead of with the kids but I still have less and less time to do anything! I can't wait to move, have my sewing machines back and start crafting again! I'm not even checking my regular craft blogs right now because there are such cute things out there that I am dying to try that I can't!!

Oh here is a cute photo too just because I can! Izzy was using the J monster as a mattress..payback is going to be a bitch isn't it?!