Piggle

Made it By Monday

We did have a very creative weekend this one just past.. the little one needed new pants.

I have completed two pair with two to go.

Here is a sample.

 

 

 

Perfect for running away from mamas with a camera...

Quick and easy Baby Wipes Tutorial

Baby wipes are the one thing that I forgot to factor in the cost of during the tiime that I was expecting our little one. And boy do they pack a punch! I don't know about you but we just go through so many!

I got a bit sick of having to dash to the shops every second day for wipes and I also wasn't that keen on the chemical component of the purchased wipes.

So after a bit of research - I made some!

Here is how you do it:

 

Using 1/2 a meter (or 0.6 Yards) of polar fleece - guage the width that you will need to cut from a commercial baby wipe. (or any size that suits you)

 

Using the width and length of the commercial wipe as a guide, cut your polar fleece into rectangles.

Stack them in a pile and you are ready to go!

I keep ours in the baby's room and simply dampen them with water to use. Our bathroom is right beside the baby's room - however you could also fill a reusable wipes container with water mixed with a little sorbolene lotion and a little tea tree oil - and keep some of your polar fleece wipes in there. If choosing this method, you will have to change your solution daily.

For a dirtier nappy change I usually use about 3 wipes, pre dampened with water - clean him up with the first two, then use a little sorbolene on his bottom and wipe this off with the third wipe. I then dry him off with a terry towelling flat nappy.

they also make great face washers to clean up the little ones hands and face after eating - again - just dampen the polar fleece - and use as you would a normal washer.

These can be put in the nappy bucket (Diaper pail) and washed with your nappies (if you use cloth) - or simply pop them in with a load of baby clothes.

Crafty Podcasts are my saviour

A little while back I started a love affair with listening to crafty podcasts - one in particular - Craft Sanity. I have worked my way through the entire 111 (and counting) episodes up until this point and I just can get enough.

The craft sanity podcasts soothed my soul throughout overnight breast feeds - I had a little ritual going there for a while. Light on - Baby to the breast - Ipod earphones in - sit back and listen for 40 minutes. I am quite sure I would have gone insane with out them.

Then - once we had moved past the 40 minute feeds 4 (or more) times a night, I switched the ipod to podcasts and listened away on my daily walks. Quite literally I just couldn't get enough. And sure enough - soon I had listened to all of them and had run out.

I tried to tell myself that this was a good thing because I would no longer lust after all the lovely books and etsy products that Jennifer was talking to the creators of - but it just didn't satiate me. So I started again - patiently awaiting the next installment - and then saving it up for an extra good walk once it was downloaded.

Since then I have been looking for something similar and of similar quality - but they are few and far between. Jennifer just has such a lovely conversational style and really draws her subject out - making you feel as though you are part of their life.

So I was so happy to find that Jennifer herself was being interviewed on another podcast - Within a quarter inch! Oh Joy I have been saved - 50 + new episodes of a podcast to listen to! It is the little things in life that excite me evidently!

You see - now that I have started back at work - they are becoming my friend there as well. I have a very quiet job that involve much physics and computers and the like - many many hours a day at a 3D modelling computer. The work itself is rote for me now - but it does get just a bit too quiet OR the alternative people start to chat and can be distracting. Out comes the ipod and on goes the podcast - ah bliss! I get my crafty fix and do my work at the same time. Could it get any better (other than of course quitting my day job and having some crafty business from home!)????

There are a few others I dabble in; Crafty Pod and some Radio National programs from the ABC. But I think Craft Sanity will always be my first love.

xoxo

last day of freedom crafting

Today is the day before I return to work from my year of Maternity leave. It has gone so quickly - I can barely believe my boy is almost One!

I decided that it might be nice to have a little bag to take my book or any hand crafting or even my lunch along to work in.

So on my last day of freedom - that is what I made.

Using the pattern for the Super Cute tote from the Meet me at Mikes book

 

I took one vintage thrifted tea towel:

 

I added some red spotty fabric from the stash (Scotty was looking on with great interest):

 

and I turned it into a sweet little work extras bag - scotty wants to come along to work with me it seems!