It's one week until Halloween and as always I'm endeavoring to make Moo a cool homemade costume. Step one is the Bat wings. What you'll need: 1/2m black felt 1/2 black stiff fusing (optional but makes wings nice and firm) 1/2m satin lining 1m x 20mm black elastic 2 balloon sticks on boning would do tailors chalk
Method: Measure child's arm-span to wrist, this will be how wide your wings will be. Fuse Felt if you are choosing do so. Fold felt in half and draw a quarter circle. Now draw your desired wing shape like pictured and cut out. Fold satin in same method, but cut 2cm smaller around edge. Using your two sticks place at longest wing point. Stitch a 1.5cm tunnel (two rows of stitching 1.5cm apart) insert sticks and trim if needed. Stitch the two layers together around edge with zigzag stitch. Using your elastic make two straps that cross over the body mine were 44cm long. stitch in place above shoulders and either side of waist. Make two wrist straps 7cm long stitch in place.
We have had a few inside days over the holidays so I have had to come up with ideas to entertain Mima. One successful creation that was used all day was this flying fox. It was from a childhood memory of a cable car I made as a child and loved. It is so simple, you need: a matchbox twine safety pin scissors tape (I used a small amount of tape to reinforce the holes where the twine threads through the box)
From the start of the journey to their destination make sure the twine is one a steep incline and nice and tight. Hours of fun, whoosh!
Mima's current favorite friend is Kermit the Frog, a puppet which was mine when I was little. Mima loves dressing him up in her clothes, a lot of layering and quite a random selection. We think it is hilarious! So I decided to get Kermit to model a few of Mima's current outfits.
Watch this cute little video to see how our T-shirts are printed.
We have just added youth T's, baby bobysuit's and baby T's to our shop mima + moo shop so we have birth to age 12 covered, click the link on the right to get yours now!
Saturday was the Ponsonby Spring Market Day and our Playcentre, Freemans Bay, held a fabulous cake stall. Below are some pictures of the yummy creations that were sold.
Like most people in New Zealand we have been watching the America's Cup, which Mima calls the 'fast boats'. Today was rainy and with nothing else to do we made fast boats and raced them in the bath. So easy just a cork with a tooth pick mast and paper sail (which Mima decorated) and the all important keel - made from a paper clip, coin (for weight) and duct tape to attach the coin.
Freemans Bay Playcentre would like to invite you to our cake stall at the Spring Ponsonby Market Day! Saturday, September 21, 10am - 3pm. 159 Ponsonby Road, Outside Tatty's Designer Recycle. I have been busy this week painting the sign and writing all the ingredients cards for the delicious baking. We will have whole cakes and other baked goods (all peanut free and some vegan) for sale, YUM, YUM! All proceeds going towards the purchase of new equipment for our centres tamariki.
