Sick of being Sick!

It\'s around 2:30am... And I\'ve been up with two sick children... One is 7 and groans like he\'s been shot and is dying - though he only has a temp... And then my little baby (who, by the way is not really a baby at 2) who is covered in spots... Don\'t ask coz I don\'t know... The doctor we visited today said it is a tummy virus as she has loose poos but I\'m not so sure I believe that... So later today (when the sun has actually risen and people are alive) Ill take her to another doctor for a second opinion... They aren\'t itchy as far as I can tell though she is complaining about her eyes... Poor duckling is covered! Especially her face!!
I was sick not long ago with an ear infection... I\'m over being sick... I\'m over having to deal with it all!! I mean it summer for heavens sake!! Shouldn\'t you get sicker in winter?!! All I can say is that I pray I get rest tomorrow and get off kitchen duty!! ;D

Aiming too High...

Sup y'all?! 

HOLD THAT THOUGHT - Gotta change a dirty nappy... Hum a song for a moment would you?

S'all good... DONE!

Back too it...

Last month (that being October) I thought to myself, 

"Christmas is coming up! So why don't I make some gifts?" 

Harmless thought you say?? WHATEVER! I have 20 nieces and nephews! So after that realization I says to myself, "NO WAY!" Then the Hubbs suggests to take all of the children to the movies as their gifts! BRILLIANT me thinks!! But then it occurred to me that there will be three (from my side of the family - the rest are from Hubbs side) that live far away - as in Melbourne far away. So i thought, "I'll just make them a beanie to keep em cozy in winter. And that can be there present..."

Surely learning and making three crochet a beanies all by Christmas shouldnt be too difficult - I being pro at teaching myself how to make things and all... 

This is what I wanted to make...

It started off good... But that is where all the goodness stopped...

Sigh... I really need to stop tooting my own horn when I cant back it up... 

I've been teaching myself from YouTube videos for over a week now... So far I've made an adult side beanie and a newborns beanie 

It doesn't even fit my two yr old... The top left corner is the adult one half done...

But cant seem to get a grasp on the toddler sized one... not only that, I seem to have done something wrong in the one that I'm working on now and its puckering as it were and wont sit right... Not to mention my darling daughter (3 1/2yrs) thought she'd be sooooo helpful by cutting my yarn off at the last stitch I did, successively undoing much of my work... 

sigh...

I dont think that I'll get there by Christmas... I'm feeling rather discouraged...  :(

Trystan...    

My Logo...

Tonight as I was tidying, I found a rubber stamp on the kitchen bench... I picked it up thinking,"The children have gotten into my room again! Bunch of little grubs!" Put it down and thought nothing else about it till it was about to be used as a weapon and confiscated it! I looked at the picture again, Then the idea came to me... That\'d be nice as a logo... I began thinking (as I fought with my children to put them to bed) how would I be able to do that?
After I put the children down I high tailed it to my crafting room to fiddle and play around... I put the stamp on paper then wrote "Maiden Tatters" down the side of it... I will tell you now, I sux at writing neatly, so set about finding another way to write my name prettily on the picture... In the end I took a photo of the stamp and used an app on my iPhone to write my name neatly on the picture... Sigh... I love my iPhone... As of now I\'m blogging in bed with it!! What would I do without it? Due likely as not!! Lol

Here is my new logo!!

First Sale!!

Im sooooooo flaming excited! i sold something for actual currency! not just favours or lunch! For cold hard cash! And it felt dam good too! There! Stick it all of you who doubted me!! *happy dance* My first EVER sold quilt! I sold it for $75! What do you think? Was that too cheap? Who cares!? I don\'t! That money gave me to opportunity to make an overnight/ weekender bag!

And this a matching makeup purse!


I\'m feeling rather self satisfied!

Trystan xo

Halloween...

My children and I have been invited to a Halloween party on the 31st of this month!! 

I'm sooooooooooo excited!! Even though we live in Australia and don't celebrate this holiday as largely as American's/ Canadian's do, there are some of us that love to do what we can to have some fun and dress up at the same time! And i like to use this as an excuse to goof off! 

I've already made plans for costumes for the children and for myself!! My SS (Sewing Sister - who also has been invited) and I have decided to make ourselfs into Pioneer Women!! 

Today we went together to Spotlight and picked up a pattern and fabric too, as well as the bits and bobs needed for our dresses... I'd post a picture but can't seem to do it from here... Boo!
My SS is coming with her children to play tomorrow - rather the children play and we cut out patterns!! I'm soooo excited!

Trystan... 

Sewing Sisters

A few weeks ago a friend of mine stated she wanted to learn to quilt! "Well!" says I, "I'll teach you!" And so it began!

WE got together at my place with our little buttons (four of em') in toe and sewed all day...

This was the set up, in my dining room...

By the end of the day the house was trashed, children were wasted but very happy and the mummies were tired but satisfied with the days efforts!

We had both put together a quilt top made from a layer cake!

This was what mine looked like... 



That day my friend (of whom I call my sister) and I decided to get together on a regular basis for sanity's sake as well as feminine enrichment and learning!!

So last night was the first time we were able to get together to just sew and chat and be ourselves... All in all there were three of us sewing UFO's (Un Finished Objects) and sharing our birth stories - as you do!! LOL

Can you see three machines??

It was really a relaxing evening with the girls... no children to bother and distract or there was nothing that needed our immediate attention or that would take us away from our machines! It was a night that made me smile and gave me so much personal enrichment and satisfaction...

I have dubbed us the Sewing Sisters (one of the ladies sewed a dress... so this guild is not exclusively a quilters one)

 I was only able to get one block done...

This is the first block of baby quilt I'm making for a friend from church... Her baby is due in November.

I decided to use a small jelly roll that I had laying around and looked on YouTube for a tutorial on how to make a quilt with it... I found this tutorial done by the Missouri Quilt Co featuring Three Dudes Quilting, that showed me a simple yet effective way to make this block! I have to say that now I'm completely hooked!! I font know if I really want to give away this quilt when its done!!

Since I was only able to get one block done last night, I've decided that tonight I'll continue on in quilting style!

I'm baby sitting my cousins two little girls (my two little girls have some too) at her place tonight and have bought all of my sewing gear with me... (Between you and I - the stuff never actually left the car from when I said goodbye from my friend this morning!) So when all of the children are in bed I'm gonna SEW, SEW, SEW!!

Trystan...

Doh!

It has just come to my daft attention that whilst creating and applying for this blog address I spelt it wrong...

Instead of spelling it the inteneded way of 

"Maiden" I spelt it "Madien" *shakes head in shame and sighs*

I've been searching for my blog for days only to discover that this was the problem... Needless to say I'm quite disappointed with myself, but in the same token I'm not wholly surprised...

I suck at spelling... Always have and by the look of it always will...

Oh well! We live and learn! Lets move on!! ^_^

Trystan...

For Sale - Part Two

No one has yet shown any interest in the infinity scarf I made the other day... But thats ok... As they say

"Rome wasn't built in a day" !!

I can wait... heaven knows I've time for that...

The other day when I posted the first part of this post, I wasn't able to post a picture of what it was that I had made... Me phone (which is all I have for blogging at the moment) was being a tad daft and wouldn't upload it... Meh... What can you do?

So here is a picture of my infinity scarf that is made of one of my favourite fabrics...

Trystan...

For Sale... A First

I made this infinity scarf tonight while the children were spending time with their daddy watching "Swap People"... Well almost all of the children! My youngest was too busy crawling over my sewing table and playing with my pins to be bothered sitting still!!! 

I find that most of the things I make are made in a similar fashion... Children crawling over me and playing under my feet or under the sewing table/ trashing my sewing room!!! Though having thought on it, I wouldn't change it for the world... That's the way I like to do things... FULL ON!! Lol 

Anyways... Back to my infinity scarf... I've made it out of one of my favourite fabrics as shabby chic floral and its a little longer than usual... Just the way I like my scarfs... Longer than the norm. 

Now that I've made it I've decided to sell it. I figure if I love that fabric surely someone else does too! Why not share the love?? 

First Post Ever!!

I have begun this blog to try and sell some of my wares... I make things with much love in my home for friends, family and for my general enjoyment and pleasure... Not only will I post about the things I make but about my little buttons and life and food and everything that comes with being a Mumma! 

I want to prove to myself (& others) that I can make money by selling my home made love whilst raising little ones and enjoying every minute of it! I can do it! I know I can! 

Here are a few pictures of the things that I create... 

Apologies...

Right! First things first! I wanna apologise for my blog... Blogger have changed everything on me and it\'s not as easy to navigate as they say... So please bare with me while I unravel this bowl of spaghetti...