Mushroom Birthday Cake

I know I say this every year, but I really do think this is the best cake I've ever made!

It's a three tier vanilla cake with chocolate butter cream and fondant mushrooms.  

I coloured some of the buttercream green and piped vines up the side and added little sugarpaste flowers.

It wasn't the design I'd intended, but I love it anyway!

Princess Olaf Dress

I can never resist an interesting project, especially when wistfully asked for by a beloved small person and so I present to you the Princess Olaf Dress.  Just the thing for turning 5!

It's made of cotton lawn and t-shirting for the sleeves, with plastic buttons to be Olaf's coal.

It has a whist satin waist ribbon and plain buttons on the back to fasten and was well recieved by a very excitable birthday girl!

A New Work Bag Birthday Gift

Not every three year olds idea of fun, I grant you, but this sewing bag was well recieved!  My beloved Goddaughter adores playing at sewing and has wanted her own 'work bag' for some time now so I made her one for her birthday!  (Please note this is not something she is allowed without supervision.)

She loves ballet so my choice of embroidery for the front was easy!

Inside I filled it with sewing paraphernalia!  It's roomy enough that she can keep her 'projects' inside the bag and I look forward to helping her sew more in the coming weeks!

Happy Birthday Mogling!  I love you!

A Birthday Princess Dress

Small Bean is 5!  How did that happen?  I'm sure she was only a baby last time I looked! Anyway, last time she was round we talked birthday gifts and apparently the in thing this year for the discerning 5yr old is a princess dress, as pink as is possible.  Well...  WHo am I to gain say such authority?

Please excuse the poor photos - I've been so busy recently I had to take the pics the minute I finished it and that was quite late at night...

 The dress is pink stage satin, with a hot pink lace hem, a pink sequin star applique and a petersham ribbon with white circles printed on it.

I also added a rose ribbon trim to the neckline and it's got pink polka dot buttons.

I am reliably informed that it meets all requirements!  Phew!

Wish Jars

Smyrna gave me a make your own wish jar kit for my birthday!  I went a little off piste from the instructions, but I love what I ended up with!

Aren't they sweet?

Baby Blanket

Ok, I was away for a bit longer than intended, but ah well!  I've been out and about enjoying summer adventures rather than sewing!

My cousin has recently welcomed a beautiful baby boy into the world so I sent a little present!

I do like making baby quilts!  This is a cheery full on number, which will hopefully be of some use to my cousin in her new journey as a mama!

Welcome tot he world little one, I can't wait to meet you!

Birthday Beads

My Lil Sis had a birthday so I made her a little gift!

I had a lot of fun picking out colours to make the pattern!

I backed it with a scrap of pink fleece and used a pretty patterned ribbon to hang it up.

My Little Pony Dress

When you know someone who loves MLP and has a birthday, well...  A Pony Party Frock is clearly the perfect gift!

 I paired the pony fabric with a purple cotton and added white buttons and a purple satin ribbon!

Happy Birthday Me Part 2

On my actual Birthday we visited Arnos Vale.  Possibly not to everyone's taste but I had a lovely time!

This time, I wore a circle with an Alabama Chanin t-shirt bodice and a circle skirt which was drafted by the fabulously talented Katy (who also helped sew it, because I decided I needed this dress with less than 48hrs before I actually needed to put it on because I'm clever like that...)

The petticoat is one I already owned and the waist sash was very hastily made from faux satin.  The dress itself is a gorgeous floral print t-shirting.

It's a very fun outfit and I can't wait to wear it again!

That said, petticoats add quite a weight to you, don't they?

 Lots of photos, because why not?

Parasols, incidentally, are amazing and I encourage everyone I know to acquire one!

Happy Birthday Me!

I've leveled up again and so I made myself a couple of frocks to celebrate!

This is McCalls 7117 version B with the longest length skirt for maximum twirl!

 All photos were taken at my birthday party, just before we played 'Parcel Parcel' and made candyfloss!

 I had a wonderful day and I can't wait to wear this dress again!

Owl Nightie

This is a very belated Birthday gift! 

I found the owl tshirting and knew it was perfect, but I wasn't sure what to make from it.  Lucky for me I got suggestions and this nightie was born!  It's loosely based on the Alabama Chanin  patterns but adapted for a more relaxed fit and I deliberately left it unhemmed in case it's too long and needs a chop!

Embriodery Hoop Art

So, things rarely stay serious when Katy and I are chatting and sometimes we end up saying things wrong.  A few months back Katy came out with this gem "Swift as a fox, cunning as a badger!"

For reasons even we're not sure of, we keep saying this, so what better to put on a quote embroidery for her?!

I also added a daffodil embroidery, using a free pattern from Oh Sew Bootiful, because I know she likes daffodils!

A Pencil Case

Birthday gift time again here!  I made Katy a trimmed pencil case for her birthday!

Look at how neatly I got the sides lined up!

A Snow Queen Dress up Outfit

Frozen love still reigns strong in the small people around here and so, what better 4th birthday gift than a Snow Queen outfit?

It's the Cottage Mama party dress pattern.  It's made of lycra lining and what I think is leotard fabric.

The back is velcro and it has an organza ribbon waist tie. I also hand sewed some gems to the neckline just for extra sparkle!

 The cloak is detachable at the shoulders (more velcro!) and made of organza.  I was so pleased with this dress, but I never want to make another!  The fabric is HORRIBLE to work with!