Here are the things that have kept me busy the last week or so. Miss Fab and I have been cre­ative to bits, work­ing on mak­ing some sur­prises for Little B’s birth­day. It has been fun and I have learned a few new things too. So I will share, cause I am nice that way.

I will start with KravA-pA! This is the name the birth­day girl gave to one of the dolls in my hand­made toys book. Not just that. The girls would say the name, after look­ing at the page, and then crack up like there is noth­ing fun­nier out there. And then again…KravA-pA! Muahahahaha.

So, I had to make her.

Big sis­ter joined in too. She weaved two friend­ship bracelets.

She made these two lovely fel­las.
She chose the fab­rics, the colours. She stitched up on the machine and did the hand stitch on the faces too.

The pack­ag­ing too, of course.

I have been dis­cov­er­ing cro­chet­ing. I have never done it before, even though it seemed inter­est­ing and I think I enjoyed the idea of  its ver­sa­til­ity. I don tknow why, but I thought it will be a good idea to delve into it now.

It was not hard at all. In a night I had a grasp of it. And the sec­ond night I cro­cheted half a hat. Not planned that way, but my wool ran out, so it ended up a tiny lit­tle hat. I fin­ished it up with a han­dle, cause I thought it will look nice as a soft bas­ket of some kind. Then I left it around until I fig­ure out if I want to keep it or not.

Next I was ready to fol­low a pat­tern. You think there is noth­ing to it, but I beg to dif­fer. Patterns look like alien lan­guage in code and then scram­bled with eggs.

But yours truly did it with­out a hitch. Thank you, thank you:

What am I doing with this beauty? With these won­der­fully fancy stitches?
I am elim­i­nat­ing them, thats what I am doing.

I am felt­ing, babeeey!

I stitched two of those squares and a big thread and the whole thing went in the wash­ing machine.

And then I had a beau­ti­ful fluffy puffy bag (and the gift wrap­ping for it)

I was hooked!

Hooked I tell ya. Even Mr.Blab was impressed.

My eyes were scan­ning any­thing in my field of vision that will be suit­able for felting.

Voila! My half hat turns into a basket:

This one went into  a sim­ple paper wrap, but I made a cus­tom bow for it.

Those are won­der­ful. Next time I will try the recy­cling ver­sion
(if you are keen, get the instruc­tions from How About Orange)

Just in case our newly five year old is not impressed with our hand­i­crafts, we had Mr.Blab get her a scooter and he ordered her a bunch of „Lego guys”, the lat­est being the favorite play bud­dies lately.

Now to the most antic­i­pated part — the cake.

The order went some­thing like that:
Chocolate cake with hmmm…white top…colorful, rain­bow frosting!

Right.

Luckily I had some vol­un­teer­ing help:

I admit, I was not excited when she expressed enthu­si­asm to „help” me, but I handed her the tools and held my breath. Maybe even my eyes were closed, I am not sure.

She did the flowers.

She did not dis­ap­point. Not even a bit.

The swoosh is just a defect in the way the cake baked. It is a wonky cake.

At first I thought we will make a hilly cake, then while we were work­ing, we thought we will make a path in the big crack…then Miss Fab sug­gested bushes. I did bushes and then decided to just fill it up with grass.

And we ended up with 5 fairies somehow.

Couldnt have been more perfect.

Ok, I am tired now.

And I am get­ting a cold.

And we are off to cel­e­brate a birthday…

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