Sofia's Olympic 1st

So, it was baby's 1st birthday and I thought I should try and make something for baby.
The theme was "The Olympics" and as a coincidence it was on the closind day of the Olympics in London.

This was the invitation made using cupcake cases:

 

 

 

 

 

The food (or what was left of it). I used these free printables to make the table decorations and some of the games

And of course I made her clothes. She's dressed as Mandeville the Olympic Mascot. These were the first clothes I have ever made for her.
I am so proud :)

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SEEDS of love...

I made these little bags for a plant swap...



It was so difficult to let go of these...combined with the desire to share these cuties.

The seeds were from packs that I go withe some gardening magazines. There were four little packs in an envelope. I made a bag for each of the packs and embroydered 'Seeds', so then people can use them with any seeds they have. I made a tag using the graphics from the seeds envelope. I glued a picture of each of the plants on the little pack; these pictures are from the front of the envelope. On the the tag I used a smaller picture from the back of the envelope which was next to the sewing instructions. so on the back of the tag I glued these sewing instructions.



These are so thin that you can fold and put inside an envelope and post to some friend...maybe your own 'special seeds'..all you have to do is take a picture of the plant whilst in bloom; otherwise it's like a recipe book without pictures. (Unless you want it to be a surprise)



Let me know how you liked these..
(and sorry for the bad photo)


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Outside

My backgarden...done!

Specially for my mate 'Mike':

here's a view of the backgarden completely renovated. It took an entire year to get all this work done. The pictures show the work in progress and final layout. This was all done without spending a penny...well, I did buy some seeds and the compost bin, but that's it.
Hope you like it!

First step (June 06): My (very helpful neighbour 'Blue' started digging up the crazy paving and built a new step which made up to a quarter of the garden. I made a 'stone' wall with the dug out stones.

August 06: He eventually completed the entire step and this is what it looked like (as well as the mess left in front of it):

April 07: I used some of the stones to build a couple of little walls at each end of the step (see next pic on the left corner, just behind the carpet).

And finally...just completed this weekend (May 07)....

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