Creative Valentine

Yesterday was Valentines Day of course. As a blog I read said...we don't 'do' Valentines Day!

The day started with children waking at 6am, and very kindly Colm got up with them at 6.30 and let me sleep on until 7.30. I checked out a few blogs after breakfast while the kids played in their pyjamas. I nearly fell off the chair when I read my name in a blog saying my name had been chosen at random to recieve a surprise package! Yay! What a way to start the day!

We had a lovely brunch when C got back from the yard. The girls went for a nap and I finished the applique on these T-shirts. The older two chose the designs they wanted. These were their Valentines gifts. They were plain white on Saturday.....

With all this 'Celebrate the Boy'stuff going on there have been tutorials on Rae and Dana's blogs about applique and dyeing. Basically, I was inspired, again! These were lots of fun to do and both kids reckon that these are their favourite T-shirts. (you can click on the picture to get a closer look)

Maeve was given Cath Kidstons book Make and both the designs are from the book.

My darling husband spent his time doing a bit more to one of our ongoing projects....

This is the porch at the back of our house. It is our laundry-room and boot-room, as well as the main way into the house. It is where dirty hands are washed and muddy boots are left......needless to say it is not the easiest room to keep clean and tidy. Hopefully this will help......

So not a bad Valentines Day all in all. Of course I got the usual aray of beautiful handmade cards from the children.

Today I was longing for the Postman to arrive...I was expecting a pattern..Onion 20022. It arrived at last with a lovely bonus of some appliques, to make up for the delay! Also in the post was two Ottobre Woman magazines which I had ordered. These are my first Ottobre Woman...We'll see what happens, I'm very unsure of the designs, they're not styles I would normally wear, so I'm not sure what will suit me. Oh well, I'll try something soon.

I managed to make the girls a couple of pairs of trousers from the Onion pattern today, despite my brain and hands not working very well together...

I hope you all had a lovely weekend and wish you a wonderful week ahead.