life in our busy household with: March 2012

Saturday, March 31, 2012

FiaFia Day

today was FiaFia Day at the small people's school

for the 3rd year I did a little stall of some of my children's clothes made from vintage and retro fabrics

Arlo's 2 scores - a new hat from the 2nd hand clothes stall and Candy Floss

Harriet had a wee stall selling old fashioned lemonade too...and sold out

Billy performing with the Kapa Haka group

His gorgeous teacher

snack time for Gran and Arlo

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Vintage Wednesday

What We Wore

Dress- vintage Brambury Cross label from Devonport Oppy

Shoes- Minnie Cooper

Hairpin - Dalstons

Badge- handmade from a vintage button by Isabella

Ang

Dress- another one of our $4 vintage finds in Te Aroha

with a cool button pattern

Miss Isabella

Blouse - Peachy Keen

Skirt- handmade by me from a 50's vintage pattern and thrifted material

Miss Harriet

Dress- retro hand-me-down from Isabella

Billy

Shirt and Jeans both 70's originals from Ebay shop Mislaidtreasures

Arlo to daycare

overalls- thrifted retro Oshkosh

and out to dinner last night

Sailor top and jeans thrifted

some bonus pics from Harriet's birthday dinner, she styled all three of them in vintage (proud Mother smile here)

her big present from us was a trip to Queenstown all by herself last weekend to stay with her best friend Ruby, who sadly for Harriet moved down there last Dec. She had great fun going on the plane on her own and hanging out doing touristy things with Ruby and her whanau.
The photo below of snow on the mountain in the early morning is the best photo I have from her trip...I think I need to give her some photography lessons so Mummy can blog pics from when she is away

her birthday morning started with some family presents

then she headed to school with homebaking by Mama for her whole class

Her choice for her birthday dinner was Thai on Ponsonby Rd.

We still have more celebrating to do tonight with her Nani Ji, a sleepover on Saturday night, her friend's party on Sunday and a family dinner on Sunday night.

Happy Birthday gorgeous Harriet Priya Gabrielle, welcome to double digits, I have a feeling the next 10 yrs are going to be a crazy ride for all of us xxxx

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

boy MonDaY

It was a bit of a Jekyl & Hyde day for the small boy on Monday

We started off with a lovely morning, being a creature of habit he wanted Coffee at Alleluya first so we took a slow walk there stopping when Arlo found 'funny little things' as he called this bit of Graffiti by school

a mirror box in the Gallery window

little embroidered emblems

even one with a Unicorn

his 'coffee'

and a few more 'funny little things'

and some fun with a Toi Toi

after that he fell asleep in my arms which is pretty unheard of these days

sadly he woke up 90 mins later without his nice and proceeded to tantrum for the next 4 hrs including screaming kicking hissy fits in the school playground

the note below probably sums up how the afternoon went