Frustrated!

It is so frustrating when a sewing project doesn't quite come together like you've planned! I'm in the middle of trying to sew a cover for something, and it is totally not working...taking a little break to figure it out in my head before I attack it with the sewing machine again.

In other news, there isn't much other news!

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From a High Angle

This is Cohen's new(ish) bedding!

Obviously, the second and third pictures were taken on a different day.
I'm fairly sure I've blogged before about how ridiculously obsessed with The Wiggles Cohen and Kason are, so we got them both a Wiggles sheet set for their birthdays. {Sidebar: It is crazy hard to find cot-sized Wiggles bedding!} Anyways, we couldn't find any Wiggles blankets or duvet covers that weren't ridiculously overpriced, and seeing as we 'bought' a really nice cot-sized duvet inner with our Flybuys points before we left New Zealand, I decided I'd make them one each.
Each duvet cover (obviously I made two) only took about 90 minutes from start to finish. Initially it didn't have the patch in the middle and I was planning on putting iron-on transfer images of each of The Wiggles on 'their' colour square, but then Simon brought home this patch and I thought it looked really good in the middle, and made it Wiggles enough. Plus it was way easier than the rigmarole of the iron-on transfers! Although we now have the problem that 'our' Spotlight only had one patch...and none of the other Spotlight stores even remotely nearby to us has another one!!! I've got my Mum checking the Spotlight in Hamilton (in New Zealand) this weekend for one!!! Other than that, Kason's is all done too, just waiting on finding that patch!

Oh, and the rail covers...both Cohen and Kason are shocking at chewing on the bars of their cots. Ages ago, I made rail covers to match their name canvases above their beds, but they really didn't look right with their new bedding, so I made up these ones to match. Each one took about two hours...ridiculous, but totally worth it I think!

{Sidebar: The other side of the duvet covers (and the rail covers) is dark blue minky dots. It doesn't really match, but it works well enough, and I loved the feel of it...and so do the boys! They adore snuggling into it, and rubbing it with their hands. I'm going to have to make little snuggle squares out of it for them I think!}

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Where I Slept

Day 174, a photo by Road2Chaos2 on Flickr.

Wow...so this picture is telling me that I *really* need to get something up on that wall above our bed!!! And next time I take a photo of said bed, I really should put more effort into making it!

Disclaimer: That is Simon's bedside table you can see...mine has a lot more than an external hard drive and a laptop on it!!

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Fave Photo I've Ever Taken

I don't have a single favourite photo that I've ever taken...but these are sure as hell are two of my very favourite.

 It's not the best picture of them, but they are hanging just inside our front door, and I hope they are hanging in our home for many, many years to come.  

This is a better picture of Cohen's one... 

 

And Kason's...

Possibly part of the reason I love them so much, is that each photo only took a coupld of shots each to get. Believe it or not, they are taken in the same spot of the house, Kason's one night, then Cohen's the next. I had just turned on the TV, so they were looking at that. I had to flip Cohen's so when they were up, they'd be 'looking' at each other. I just adore how they came out!

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Peek-a-Boo!!

Day 172, a photo by Road2Chaos2 on Flickr.

Both Kason and Cohen were 'walking' around like this tonight! Crazy boys!!

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Pissed. Off.

So it may be pathetic of me, but for the last 2½ years my brother and sister-in-law (they live in the Gold Coast) have been promising to come to Adelaide to visit us. They haven't visited us once, yet we have been up to visit them three, maybe four, times since we moved here from New Zealand. Their excuse is always that they can't afford it. Last night they say they are upgrading their car. Today, my sister-in-law announces that she is taking their little boy to NZ for a long weekend. So much for being broke.

It upsets me so much because it feels like we really aren't important to them at all. Take Kason and Cohen's 1^st birthday, for example. My sister-in-law promised me that she and lil man would be here for the boys' birthday. The day I was expecting them to give me all their flight details, she has my brother tell me that they have booked tickets for all three of them to go to New Zealand for two weeks instead. Yeah...I'm not trusting their promises anymore. And I am so, so over it.

Just feeling super hurt right now.

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A Bit Random

Again with the lack of blogging! My only excuse is that Cohen and Kason have really been challenging me this last week. It just might have something to do with all the new words that they are {finally!} starting to come out with! It's such a relief that they are starting to say more, and that they are putting more words together...just tonight Kason asked for "more cheese, please Mummy"! And they can both say almost every letter of the alphabet (repeating after us, but still, that's huge for them!)...it is SO super cute when Cohen says the letter 'L'!

Kason misses his Nana quite a bit, I think. Just randomly he will say, "I love Nana", and every night when I get him out of the bath, he excitedly calls for Nana, expecting her to be waiting in the lounge for him. It's things like that that make me sad that we live so far away from my parents and that we don't see them very often, but it also shows me that despite that, he knows who his grandparents are and he loves them. We Skype them at least once a week, and both boys have started wanting to show Nana and Grumps everything! They 'give' them cups of coffee from their pretend kitchen, and throw them balls to catch. They get so excited when I ask if they want to Skype Nana and Grumps, it's so precious.

Anyways, we've had a really good day today, and we're up to FOUR days of naps, IN A ROW!!! This is unheard of in the last couple of months, and it's so, so nice!! Here's hoping it continues J

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