YAY

we came back home from the inlaws at 4pm - don't know how we managed to do that but we did :)

We were all pretty tired once we were home though, I had a wee nana nap. Woke up feeling really refreshed.

All the kids came into our room and watched a movie on Sky TV with us, while I was sewing miss 9 and mr 7's trackpants for their school uniforms. I could only get 2 pairs out of the 2mt of fabric I bought, with lots of scrap left over - not enough to make anything out of really, but enough for me to hoard and prolly give to miss 9 who will LOVE it - gosh, she LOVES collecting the scrap fabric and she hand sews little dresses...lol. So cute. She really is a mini me I guess.

I made some date scones too...cos poor FIL who picks miss 15 up for school at 7:15am every morning and usually brings her home too, bless him, has been requesting them since forever, and I either keep forgetting to buy the dates or have been too busy, but they are sooo incredibly easy to make. So late night at 11pm, I made a double batch. He'll really appreciate them I am sure :)

I also cleaned up my sewing area of my room. Organised a few of my fabrics, twas getting incredibly messy on the floor with all the scraps and threads!

Well this week and next week, I am going to focus on making me dresses and tops for my holiday to Samoa. Not half-assed-jobs, but good quality garments, well constructed, well designed :) I've got a couple of styles in mind for a gorgeous dress in mind with some lovely lace type fabric I bought on Saturday, will fully line it in a satin fabric...this will be for when hubby and I have diner or lunch somewhere flash :)

So I have organised to take a couple of different fabrics today so I can whip up the pattern and hopefully complete a couple of dresses...fingers crossed :)

My auctions that close this week will not be relisted, I can't be bothered with TM for the moment, just want to focus and power through making me some garments.

Oh and I was up early again this morning, before 6am - don't know why - maybe excited about a new week? Excited about sewing me some gorgeous clothes - I dunno - but it feels good to feel good lol.
ONE WEEK COMPLETELY AND HONESTLY SMOKE FREE - passed two huge tests over the weekend...firstly the boys league games, where everyone knows the more excited I get, the more I smoke - wasn't even interested! Then again at sunday lunch at the inlaws...where everyone except FIL smoke...it's a social thing and I can proudly say that I sat with them outside while they all smoked and I didn't even want for one...let alone a puff so YAY for me :)

10pm - I had a GREAT DAY!!
Made three dresses in class today, have photo's of two of them...first one is completed...




















This next one needs to be 'roll hemmed' on hemline and sleeves. I'm going to rouche the sleeves to shorten them right up, but to keep the length underneath to hide my bat wings.

They are both super comfy to wear. The fabrics are gorgeous, hard to see in the pic, but the second top has flecks of gold all over - it's quite dressy ;)


















So yep - this is what I have been upto today :) Oh and fantastic news on the financial front!! We have a guy coming over on Wednesday to do a valuation on our house - wish us LUCK!!! Will be such a relief if it all comes through!!

I'm going to finish off a couple of dresses tomorrow - and I'm going to work on a cowl neck style top - with maybe short sleeves...we'll see. I love cowl necks - LOW ones lol...

Right now I'm off to bed, maybe watch a bit of tell until I doze off :)

Nighty night :)