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Sep 28 2010

Train Theme Birthday: The Details

Thank you so much for all of your lovely comments and emails about Noah’s birthday party, and a big thanks to Cyd for featuring our party over at The Sweetest Occasion. It seems to be party season at the moment, I know quite a few of you have been celebrating birthdays and anniversary’s. If you are planning a celebration, take the time to pay a visit to Amanda at Homely One – she has put together some great tips for planning your next party, from choosing a colour scheme to the food, getting organised and encouraging guests to mingle.

I thought I would share some of the details of our little party. As you can see it was a very small celebration, just our little family at home, which was nice and a bit more relaxing for Mum (me), who didn’t have to run around after lots of kids!

Suppliers:

Brown paper for wrapping gifts – local office supply store

Paper Straws -Imprintables

Ribbon – Ribbons Galore

Washi Tape for the flags – Upon a Fold

How-to:

Washi tape food picks tutorial at bento zen

Train cake topper at Cake Journal

Coconut Ice recipe

Best wishes for your next special occasion!

Posted in Kids, Parties Tags: birthday, children, craft, DIY, kids, make, parties, party, shopping, tutorial

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Sep 26 2010

Coming Soon…

Posted in Blogging, Colour, Inspiration, Series Tags: blogging, colour, cooking, decor, inspiration, photography, series

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Sep 23 2010

My Creative Space: Colour Inspiration Scrapbook

I’ve been trying to soak up as much as I can of Holly and Leslie’s cleverness over at Blogging Your Way, there is just so much inspiration to be had there. I’ve just started a new scrapbook dedicated purely to colour. As great as it is having all these files on my computer, trawling through images online is wearing me down a little, so I’m going back to basics and tearing up my ridiculously over the top magazine collection. Sorry Real Living, it was nice knowing you. Prepare for decimation.

Posted in Art & Craft, Colour, Inspiration Tags: colour, inspiration, my creative space, projects

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Naomi - September 23, 2010 - 1:32 pm

love your idea – bring it back to basics – creating a book that you can take anywhere sounds fun and special! I love the idea of being able to open a creative colour book to any colour I was in the mood for looking at Enjoy your searching and creating Naomi.

Becky - September 23, 2010 - 6:10 pm

Love this idea and what beautiful colours!

just Martha - September 23, 2010 - 6:17 pm

Hi Abby. Just wrote a little piece about your site and your lovely quilt which has inspired me to make my own! Hope you don’t mind. I find you very inspirational with your ideas. Will be posting tomorrow. Have you zhuzhed up your site? (if that is how you spell it!) Very nice…

Abby at Two Little Dicky Birds - September 23, 2010 - 7:33 pm

I don’t mind at all, so glad you’re going to give it a go! If you follow the tutorial, you can’t go wrong
And I have zhushed it up a bit, glad you like it!

Clara in Paradise - September 24, 2010 - 5:48 am

I love those greens. Very beautiful choice of colors. I used to have a scrapbook when I was remodeling our previous home, but then I went paperless. We are going in opposite directions.

Leslie - September 24, 2010 - 10:31 pm

Beautiful! I love keeping scrapbooks just like this -it gets us using our hands and away from the computer!

Minnie - September 25, 2010 - 1:19 am

What a beautiful blog you have. I love how clean, crisp and well-organized it looks. I really love your idea of a color journal. I had my two kids (ages 3 and 5) make “happy journals,” basically a collection of pictures they cut from magazines that make them happy. We love to flip through those little books and now I’m wondering why I shouldn’t do the same for myself.

Abby at Two Little Dicky Birds - September 25, 2010 - 7:54 am

That is such a lovely idea, Minnie. I like it! I just found Noah (3) sitting at the table trying to stick two rolls of washi tape together with a glue stick, so perhaps he needs a little book of his own too

Chuzai Living - September 26, 2010 - 1:06 am

I’m inspired to go buy a new notebook and make a scrapbook to keep the record of inspirations!! I agree with Minnie. I love the clean, crisp, and well-organized look you have on your blog. Your photos are beautiful!! Kaho

Belinda - September 26, 2010 - 4:38 am

It looks fantastic. What a great idea.

Jenny - September 30, 2010 - 5:53 am

Your site is just beautiful! You have inspired me to get cracking with my inspiration board/scrapbook. Aren’t Holly and Leslie so inspiring? So much to learn …

Amanda - September 30, 2010 - 2:34 pm

Wow, these look fabulous – I can really see how you’ve been inspired by our great course. Love these pages you’ve shared – beautiful colours.

Sep 22 2010

Heirloom Chenille Cut Quilt

2010 seems to be the Year of the Baby for our circle of friends. I guess we’re all around 30, most of us are married or engaged, and as is often the way, people want to start sprogging up. Three of our close friends are about to give birth, two for the first time, so I’ve been wanting to do something a little bit special. There are so many great gifts that can be given and I was hunting around for ideas when I came across this clever tutorial at Aesthetic Nest.

I’d never made a quilt before, so I was a little bit nervous, but Anneliese had written up such a great set of step-by-step instructions, I figured if I could manage to follow her tutorial, I should be okay.

The outcome actually exceeded my expectations, for a newbie, the steps are very easy to follow; I had no problems at all working my way through it. Some of my lines are a little wonky, but you can’t really tell unless you look closely, and the chenille just looks fantastic after a burst in the drier.

So thank you, Anneliese, I so enjoyed making this blanket. Now I’m going to make two more!

NB. The fabric I chose is Amy Butler’s Optic Blossom in Linen from the Midwest Modern collection.

Posted in Art & Craft, Fabric, Projects, Sewing Tags: baby, DIY, gifts, make, projects, quilt, sewing

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