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hot chocolate

The other day I stumbled upon the blog Creature Comforts again and saw she had made her own hot chocolate mix and marshmallows.  It looked like a fun and easy project and although I didn’t try a marshmallow recipe yet, we had fun putting a hot chocolate mix together.

I dug through our cupboard and found an empty jar to store it in.  Made a little label for the jar…
We even got to use our mini snowman hot chocolate cups that we got for Christmas.
I decided to add mini chocolate chips to the mix.  It adds a little more chocolate kick at the end of your cup!
And now it’s way more difficult to say no to “hot chocolate please?”
Sewing

new baby gift and flood relief

This little gifty is going out to one of my friends that I’ve known since elementary school.  I can’t say that about a lot of people, so needless to say I’m really glad to still have her as a friend.  She’s due with her second boy in a couple months and I figured these would come in handy with the new babe.
a nursing cover
I highly recommend this tutorial and the final end product for any new mom.  This is such a fun and quick project!  Better yet, it’s a great way to show off a beautiful bold print.  My sister-in-law has a similar handmade nursing cover and it worked so slick. 
Makes me wish I would have had one when my girls were nursing.  It came in really handy for her, especially at restaurants, plus it kind of doubles as a giant mommy bib, niiice. 
and a diaper pouch

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And on a completely different note, Toni of Make it Perfect (book writer, pattern maker extraordinaire) contacted me about the Queensland Flood Appeal Auctions. All of the money being raised in the auctions is going to the Premier’s Auction Relief Fund.

There are over 200 auctions happening on blogs and Facebook starting on Monday, but some have already started (please refer to the master list of auctions on Toni’s blog: http://www.tonicoward.blogspot.com/) and help out our friends on the other side of the hemisphere!

patchwork

vintage modern door block

Here’s my block for this month’s Ringo Pie {a patchwork bee} theme.  Lisa of Vintage Modern Quilts choose vintage modern doors for her theme.  Isn’t this a really cool idea?  Each door translated into fabric is so amazing, go check it out for yourself in Ringo Pie’s group pool.

I knew I had to get this block done because the ones already finished are just too amazing! 
I used a white linen for the body of the door and a Kaffe Fassett shot cotton (Ikat Streak Pool) for the ‘siding’. 
I had actually attempted to make a different door and ended up scrapping it.  Do you ever have that happen?  I finished it one night and wasn’t super satisfied with how it ended up, slept on it, then the next day still didn’t like it and cut it up!  I’m so glad I did though, this one turned out way better than the first.

Hope you like it Lisa!