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Pyjamas

I'll double up on the 365 post today because it also involved sewing. I love, love, love these cute PJ's that I made for my big boy. With the weather warming up, he was in dire need of some summer PJ's and these have turned out just great.

I made him 4 pairs yesterday and also made another pair for his cousin as a Christmas gift. One pair to go for his girl cousin, however I am going to look through my pattern books and see if I have anything a little more girly that might suit her.

I have the biggest stash of small lengths of fabric - not enough to really make anything for me but enough to make things for small people. Miss 8 the cousin is the only small girl in our family - all the rest are bigger or boys. Many many boys.

There is going to be some serious mischief in their future I think.

H Boy's 2nd Birthday

There is a reason that Valentines Day doesn't register very highly with me these days - that is because 2 Years ago this little boy came into our lives on V-Day eve.

 

So today we celebrated his 2nd birthday with a construction themed party. I will apologise in advance about the quality of the photos - I am unhappy with the performance of our new camera - especially outdoors.

I created some ambiance with some  construction tape from a local hardware store and printed off some construction site signage pictures from Seton.

I also sewed some of these together to make a bunting decoration.

There were Hard Hats and party favours -  little "Authorised Bulldozer Driver" ID tags for each of the kids, which I again made using the customised sign designer on the Seton website.

This is my heirloom to be handmade Happy Birthday banner. I began sewing this over a year ago in preparation for his 1st Birthday. It didn't get done in time for that and then it got shelved in the infamous UFO box. I vowed to finish it before his 2nd birthday. I am really happy with how it turned out and look forward to seeing it through many birthdays to come.

And the finishing touch - the Bulldozer Cake.

 

Not as complex as it looks - although I did use half a bottle of yellow food colouring and it still wasn't yellow enough. Licorice for the wheels and tracks and honeycomb for the dirt out front.

Happy birthday my little one!