Dana

summer thus far (part 2)

My nephew's 5th birthday activity - don't you love this ticket?

 

You can see her on your way to Ikea, to which I have visited maybe 6 times in 4 weeks... There is now a cool Melbourne band named after her and some amazing night shots on flickr

 

Sometimes I get an awesome view whilst doing my makeup work - like from the 49th floor of the Sofitel! This particular day we witnessed thousands flocking to the tennis.

 

Is it cruel to dress your 1-year-old in a 70's polyester body shirt? I think not.. (and I must confess I bought 3 of these shirts so he will have to lump it.)

my new re-fuel station on work days

Still good!

Okay, first of all I would like to thank all the goddesses whom left me comments (and those whom did not but sent me actual e-mails!) about my last post. Clearly I was a little wigged out.. I have recovered from this by:

a) reading the comments of other mama's confessions from the playroom.

b) booking a trip to Sydney for 3 nights with a girlfriend at the end of October to shop, drink and read magazines in bed. Even though we can't afford it - can you put a price on sanity?

c) digging out my copy of "Kid Wrangling" and having a giggle. One quote in particular - "if my kids are alive at the end of the day, I've done my job". - Roseanne Barr

d) bitching to my mothers group which opened a can of worms I tell you... hours of entertaining conversation about screaming at children to make me feel normal.

I never really blogged about the woes of motherhood before - I thought it was dull reading and we all just wanna look at great pictures and get good ideas and you know, buy great craft and vintage stuff... Nope! Talkin' crazy mama brings out the lurkers and strikes a chord with everyone! Perhaps I shall whinge more often...

Aside from all of this I have missed a few days of my self-challenge "digital spring cleaning" and now it's the last day of September so I will just purge at the last minute (isn't that how all spring cleaning ends up?) and throw a bunch of shots at ya:

Some Bali Purchases - glass fishing floats VERY cheap yet VERY hard to bring home.
White Rabbit - carved timber, so beautiful and I had to stop myself from buying one of each 5 sizes. His limbs all move, so sweet.  Hobby horse, owl and deer - also carved timber to add to my collection of lovelies, cos you know, I don't have enough ornaments...

Leon and his amigos - Owen and Hardi, all whom have now turned out to be total boofers can't wolf down enough breastmilk/formula/food. Boy do we go through apples around here...

A birth gift from Megs.  Can't.pull.tag.off.  Must.preserve.vintage.goodness.

So there was my marathon clean-out post. Now I can go back to normal blogging - a post per month! (kidding - I think I may have re-trained myself to be here more regularly - but don't mark my words!)

 

snaps of the mini's

Doh! I missed a day! Broke my own rules... Nevermind! (Had important things to do like go back to the gym, go to Northcote Festival and do a family budget only to find out we have practically nothing left over after the weekly outgoings. Looks like I will be selling some stuff on ebay again...!)

Here is Mahlie playing in her new kitchen which she got for her birthday and which we set up for her in the corner of the playroom and which I must take more photos of because it's so adorable. She makes us "frog soup" and "mama coffee".

And Leon whom I am trying desperately to take more photos of so he doesn't grow up with a complex that his big sister has about five baby photo albums and he only one... and most of his photos have Miss M in them anyway!

my little man

can you believe he's already in 00 ?

Show'n'tell

Just thought I'd do a quick (is there any other kind these days?) post to show some cute gifts we received for Leon

(adorable fleur from Leslie with luxurious Luna Ninos blanket in background from my mum and sister)

 

(beautiful handmade quilt from Kerri)

(cute rockin' top which I couldn't photograph properly due to constantly moving 12 week old)

 

Oh! And the Affa craft book has been released! I mentioned it aaaaages ago and it finally arrived - check me out with my bib tutorial which you won't make sense of unless you understand Chinese...)

Catching Up...

Hello!

I'm still alive!

It will be a jumbled catch up post and will last as long as the bubs are both asleep. (Can you believe I got them both to sleep at the same time? First time since Leon was born and he is nearly 8 weeks. Still hope for me!)

Well, it has been crazy. Fun, chaotic, stressful, emotional, frustrating, busy, amazing. At times I feel like all I do is clean-up after, run-after, feed, and do it all over again and that that is all my life has become. I keep telling myself that it will get easier. I keep telling myself it's not forever. Other times I wouldn't have it any other way and feel lucky to have a girl and a boy whom are beautiful and healthy and make my heart sing and I keep telling them not to grow too quick!

Amongst the chaos I have:

Seen The Black Crowes live. (Amazing band but didnt play any songs I knew and dragged out the songs they did play for 10 minutes...)

Saw Brick Lane. (Beautiful film, as is the novel.)

Did a few makeup jobs (some 4+ hours - boy did my breastmilk leak!)

Visited 3 new babies (Owen, Hardi and Gisele)

Spent half a day at Aurora Day Spa (thanks Pete!) twas lovely - although it's the kind of place where you feel like you need to have a pedicure before you go...

Tried to finish decorating Mahlie and Leon's bedroom but it's still a functional WIP

Got frustrated about having no time for Twiglet (or any craft/sewing at all) and have since found a way to keep it going. Mahlie is now in childcare once a week and also goes to Pete's parents house for the day every second Tuesday. Pete is also going to car pool to work once a week with another hairdresser so I get the car one extra day a week. Woohoo! So fingers crossed I might get out to the studio finally! To celebrate I am doing a giveaway and a May Sale. I will post again in a few days with giveaway details!

Some catch up pics of the babas and around the house...

Ooooh - and did you get your copy of Mixtape? Did you see mine and Nichola's bumps? Heehee! Sooo glad to be back in normal clothes again...

This Is...

This Is My Creation Ah, really it's just an excuse to post another pic of Leon... (feeding and sleeping going well, by the way, but I shant talk about the birthing experience - don't wanna scare anybody!)

Leon Ray

Leon Ray Leviston-Camilleri

Born Friday 7th March, 2008

We're pretty happy with him, we think we'll keep him...