2-Whit 2-Woo!

After a busy day yesterday, I finally got some time at my craft desk last night to make yesterday's mini book project. Marie was online making a monkee scrapbook LO so we had a nature related cyber crop!

So, here he is:
I did it for Xander and, as he's nearly 3, I did it all about what he loves while he's still 2 (2-Whit 2-Woo! Groan!):

I've had these owl papers for a while so perfect opportunity to use them. There was also some owl acetate so my first ever go at doing a clear page in a book:

I was going to save it for Xander's birthday but I thought he'd have plenty of presents then so gave him it this morning. He was very impressed and looked through it going 'It's me!':

No mini-booking today, it's a sewing day today, but I'll be back on them tomorrow!

Craft Frustration!

So, this morning, Rob packs the kids off in the car to go to Grandma's and I sit down with my breakfast and log onto UKS to see what today's mini book of the day is and see this little guy staring out at me:

So cute and it's Xander's birthday next month and he absolutely NEEDS one!

Then postie arrives with this little stash:

Luscious sparkly fat quarters that I'd ordered to make a mermaid doll for my friend's little girl.

And then last night I sat and sorted out all the remaining pictures for Gemma and Dave's scrapbook and got ideas jotted down for all the pages. And I finally got an idea for Trina's circle journal about the lovely Miss Chloe.

So, kid free day, all these projects and what am I doing? Blooming studying that's what! Why oh why oh why?! It's getting soooooo boring too and all I want to do is craft but apparently you need to do work to get those degree things so my little crafty stash is on the desk where I can neither see it or hear it calling! 'Lou....come and make us...!'

Big Boy Bed!

Ok, hankies at the ready people because....my baby's in a big boy bed! Today we packed up the trusty cot for the very last time as we gave Xander his very own grown up divan; sniff.

We've been toying with the idea for a while but weren't sure how he'd do. Anyway, yesterday we were at Rob's mum's 60th party, so obviously didn't want to leave too early, so tried Xander in MIL's bed, and he did fine. So we thought we'd give it a go this weekend. What time in the morning he'll realise that he can actually get out of bed on his own now remains to be seen (and quite frankly, who cares, it's Rob's turn to get up with the munchkins!), but so far so good, he seems to like it!

As I said, yesterday was MIL's big birthday party and it was a fantastic day. The forecast was horrible but somehow we all ended up basking in sunshine! I was on driving duty, so did have to watch Rob get slowly inebriated on Speckled Hen, but that did have it's amusing moments! Anyway, it was lovely to catch up with all the family and we all had a great time.

Of course, we can't have a big birthday without the trusty craft box coming out! Here's the card I made her...

And I made her an exploding box, after seeing the wonderful ones that Rach had done a few months ago. I got Grandad in on the conspiracy and he supplied lots of pictures of the family and so on, right back to when MIL was a little girl. She seemed to really like it!

Will leave you with a video of Xander's nighttime ritual in Nanna's bed, which consisted of a Harry And His Bucketful Of Dinosaurs book and Xander making the noises of the dinosaurs!