Jane Austin Quote:

You may remember a little while ago I told you about a printable I made for a dear friend some time ago?
Well here is the quote/ printable.  What do you think?  I cut the little house and heart out of card and glued them on after printing it out - frame is from Ikea .

And then I made these:

Found here.  Amazing what you can do in an hour or so isn't it? 

On other news I have been busy working on a secret project that you will find out more about later.  A few other projects are on the go (not all sewing) but more about them later. 

Free Valentine Printables

I designed a few Jane Austin Printables a while back to give as a gift for one awesome chick who loves red.  The printable I gave her was of a different quote but while I was making it I thought I would make a another in a few colourways.  I hope you like them as much as I enjoyed designing them.  I recommend having them printed at a photo shop unless you have a good quality printer (even then I recommend NOT printing the ones with heavy colour in the background on your home printer as my printer needed minor repairs after printing it off - all good in the end!)  I hope they can brighten the walls in your home this valentines day  

Click on the colour you want, save as JPG and print.  Let me know if you have any trouble.   Enjoy!

Free 2011 Calendars

Welcome 2011! Thanks for all your support and encouragement throughout 2010. For those of you who are just getting organised (or resolving to become more organised – that’s me!) I have found these printable calendars in different styles to help you in your efforts. Enjoy!

Creative Mamma

Atypical Type A

This one is perfect for writing notes and recording important dates!

Creative Mamma

and a cute little one

also by Creative Mamma

I hope 2011 brings you much success and happiness and special memories.

Christmas Tags

Last week I had our niece stay while she did work experience at Newstead Heights (a local school that caters for children with special needs) I must say she was hardly here as she was often at the gym (roped in by Lisa) so really it just meant cooking and cleaning after another person (no biggie) While she was staying I realised just how much the day is broken up and time is lost when you have to adjust your routine to drop off and pick up someone from school each day. It meant that each day I lost 45mins to 1 hour packing up, driving, waiting, then driving home, which then meant 1 hour less sewing, pattern writing, doing Christmas crafts etc. So basically I realised just how blessed I am that my day is not yet broken up by school pick ups and drop offs, and when our princess does go to school it is walking distance so that will save time (waiting at traffic lights) too :). With that said I did manage to sneak in a little bit of sewing to appliqué a t-shirt for a pressie

and also managed to get the last of the Christmas shopping hubbies side of the family done too (large family). It is tradition on Hubbies side of the family that the grandchildren buy everyone a chickenfeed (dollar shop) gift to teach them to share and show they care about them. When they are very small (like our princess) this means they pick random things that are useless but great for a laugh. Lucky for me hubby was happy to take our princess shopping for these presents and give me a break – who likes shopping with a overtired toddler?! I for one had had enough of that until next grocery shop.

When it came to wrapping the pressies,

I found these cute tags to label them (so much easier than making them as I usually do).
After I had printed and wrapped the pressies I found more cute tags to set aside for future reference. Mushy has these found at http://momomushy.blogspot.com/2008/11/printable-christmas-gift-tags.html (the link isn't working for some reason)

The Black Apple has these cute ones
Yoonie at Home has these
and paper crave has my favourites found at http://papercrave.com/paper-crave-printable-holiday-gift-tags (another link that wasn't working)

I will be keeping these for next year.

I hope you are getting all your presents, crafting and everything else done this season and are able to reflect on the true meaning of Christmas.