my baby is 2

Thank you for all the birthday wishes!!! I can't believe its been 2 years since my little baby was born......at 5.57pm weighing a healthy 8pds 10oz and with a full head of hair and one of the biggest babies we saw in the nursery during our hospital stay


we never could have imagined how cute she would look or all the attention she would get for her big blue eyes (courtesy of daddy) and her curly hair (courtesy of mummy) or her ability to speak non stop (also courtesy of her mummy)


she makes us laugh non stop


and she's a treasure to look after...I feel very blessed to have such a fun full time job and we're very proud of our little keira and we can't wait for her to be a big sister

the birthday party

today we had a fairy ballerina party for miss keira who turns 2 tomorrow.....we had all the right ingredients including 1 fairy ballerina


a fairy ballerina table full of food


to be shared with other fairy ballerinas


one birthday cake made by mummy (those bl**dy chocolate sprinkles did not stick as we would have liked and retro daddy needed to step in to assist)



lots of lovely presents including this gorgeous dolls house


and lots of tired little fairy ballerina cousins all sitting on retro daddy's lap


so now its out of fairy ballerina land and back to reality with our move to sydney happening in 8 days!!!!!!!

selling fast

Just 2 days left of my huge sale and I'm almost out of cupcakes


french apartments and cuties



paris roadmap on linen


with only 3-4 pieces left of each get in quick because I won't be reordering! I'm off to post another 15 orders out this morning so if you've been waiting for your order my huge apologies I had a backlog and I've been working as fast as I can.

and fingers crossed we've put in an application for a cosy (read small) house in Sydney and I'm nervously waiting today to hear if we got it...downside is no sewing room,study or lock up garage and I'll be taking over a hall cupboard for my sewing stuff...good news for you is I'll be having a stash sale on here in a week or so with patterns, fabrics, wool and loot going cheap cheap cheap!

She's wearing it!!!!

Yes without any fuss this morning my little miss agreed to wear the lovely jumper and it looks sooooo cute (if I do say so myself and I can take credit for both jumper and model)...I made the size 1-2 and I probably could have lengthened the sleeves a tad but overall I'm happy!


it did take about 10 photos to get a still one


as there was lots of moving


and getting around to do

Softies 101

Today I went to a softies class taught by this talented lady....and the result was this dolly we've named Madeleine since she looks a bit frenchy...the pattern is actually from a japanese craft book but cute....I had so much fun at the class and there were lots of things to learn and nice people to meet.


Madeleine came home nearly finished until a little voice kept saying 'gimme gimme' (yes what a beautifully mannered girl I'm bringing up) so I quickly finished her all off and she's very well loved and has had dinner at the big table and lots of cuddles!


So it has been very satisfying to see her appreciate something I've made....much more than that lovely jumper!!!!

the placket neck 4-6 hour jumper

Well this is the little placket neck jumper from Last Minute Knitted Gifts which apparently should take 4-6 hours to make....sadly I don't get to sit that long and even if I could I think this jumper would have taken a tad longer....but its very warm and soft thanks to the Bendigo Woollen Mills Charisma I used ....its now discontinued but is a lovely blend of wool, alpaca and yorkshire mohair and just beautiful and the colour is cherry red (its a rainy dreary day and the light isn't doing the colour any justice)


Sadly as soon as it went on keira pulled it off and wouldn't wear it and kept pulling the neck away....I think I might need to put her in a skivvy (which we don't even own) in order to get it worn and I'm so sad because I've been so excited to see miss keira wear it.

Here for a good time not a long time

yep....we came to melbourne for a good time and looks like it was a short time!We're waiting for the final approval at retro daddy's work but they need him back in Sydney and since he spends every week up there it makes sense we go back.....I've managed to get in with my lovely OB and hospital up there and our only hurdle is finding a place to live since Sydney has a 0% rental vacancy rate at the moment...nice for us since we own a house up there and have no tenant troubles but not so nice when you have to join the queue to find a house! I'm looking forward to being back 'home' in Sydney but feel sad that I've just started to get to know people and will have to move on again....


It looks like i'll lose my sewing room for a while...boo hoo....so I've reduced the price of almost everything in the retro mummy store for a week and they'll be the lowest prices you'll see for a few months ....I'm also waiting for the 'talk' from retro daddy that I might need to ...gulp...cull the stash....


oh and thank you for your lovely comments on that cute skirt....I need quick projects at the moment because I've lost my weekday sewing time now that little miss has decided she doesn't need to sleep during the day anymore so we religiously sit and watch Days of our Lives and have quiet time in the loungeroom instead...I hope I'm not traumatising her too much with Days....I remember when I first stopped working and I'd switch it off when it started but then you get hooked...silly plots and all