Matching Pegs

Given that not a lot of new crafting is going on around here until after the wedding, I thought I would have a look at something I have made previously.

This is a Family Tree that I designed and made for my Father-in-Law for his 60th a few years ago. I wanted to make something that recognised the most important thing in all our lives, family. He doesn’t like green, hence the autumnal colouring. Since I made it, I have added 3 babies, (one of them was mine). This year I will be adding a new wife. Luckily I have a stash of leaf material put away in case I need new leaves. Do you have your family tree written down somewhere?

Momentum is building here in the Matching Pegs household.

In a week and a half, my little sister (6.5 years younger) is getting married! 3 members of the household are in the bridal party, and two of them are children. Our mother has been slaving over the sewing machine (I get my creative genes, and sewing help from her) and has outdone herself with simultaneously sophisticated and age appropriate flower girl dresses. She has adjusted my bridesmaids dress, and made 4 vests and 4 ties for the men of the piece. I have so many lovely photos of the girls trying on their flower girl dresses, but obviously showing them here would spoil any surprises at the church for those attending. I will have a piccy or 2 after the 15th. Needless to say, I am spending more time helping format the Order of Service Booklets than creating anything to show here.

Instead of showing you something of mine, have a look at these very sweet Bunnies. The first inhabitants of a stitch along Noah’s Ark Block of the Month that Lynette Anderson has put together, for free.

So take yourself along over to Lynette’s blog, and join in the stitch along.

I am not getting much time on the computer at the moment, so this post is short.

Here is another flower. This one is for Amelia to wear to school, hence the fairly plain colour scheme.

…In Our Front Garden Bed*.

These are just beginning to come out, in the garden bed against the house. I think that they are Salvias, but I am not sure, they were grown from a cutting I was given.

I just love the colour of them up against our Terracotta bricks.

They are coming in to bloom to replace the Hydrangeas which occupy the same bed, that have browned off in the heat of summer and been pruned back.

The last time they looked any good was New Years Eve, when I cut most of the blooms off before the mercury hit 42 degrees C (107.6 degrees F). The hydrangeas get the first lot of water from the shower, (that cold stuff that comes out while you wait for the water to warm up) almost every morning, except when it rains.

* Purple patch seems to mean different things in different countries. I have always understood it to mean a period of excellent performance, where nearly everything seems to go right, work properly, and contrasting with a more general lower level of performance, but to some it means period of ostentatiously erratic or bad behaviour.

Our Baby has officially become a “big girl”.

For a while now she has been sporting lovely undies, which are almost always dry and clean.

As of last night, she no longer sleeps in a cot.

It is an end of an era in the Matching Pegs household.

As you can see though, Michaela may be a “big girl” but she is really very little, and looks especially tiny in the “big bed” (which is just a ordinary single bed size). Here she is trying it out yesterday afternoon, in preparation for last night’s sleep.

Here she is again last night with her little Early Bird PJ’s on, having bedtime stories. Her favourite stories are the “How Do Dinosaurs…” Series, her very favourite being “How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night?”. Luke is reading the award winning “Where is the Green Sheep?” by the wonderful Mem Fox. Mem Fox writes fantastic children’s books and is a wonderful educator about the importance of reading to children, daily.