SnB xmas party December 2009

Here are a few photos from our Christmas party from a few weeks ago. Unfortunately I didn't get a shot of the table laden with delicious food that we gobbled up. Kate organised to skype with Rosi the 1st. Rosi got up at 5am in minus 11 degree weather to join in the festivities. What a trooper!

Opening KK presents.


Eleri showing off her baby bump.


Delicious cupcakes made by Viv.


If only you could send food through skype!


Princess Rebecca in her KK gift - a lovely sun hat that reminded many of Holly Hobby.


Kate's new glasses with intricate arm detail.


A profile shot of princessis Viv and Edith along with honourary princessi Sian..


As if we didn't have enough to do what with eating yummy food, talking to Rosie via skype and having an Intimo party, Sian and I decided to sort some green buttons from a pack that Bek had brought along.


Buttons sorted!

Sussans Fun Run Dec 2009

Most of the princessi got involved in the Sussans Womens Fun Run in December 2009 after Princess Rosie the 1st geared us up to participate in '08. I had organised new SnB T's but unfortunately they didn't arrive in time. Some princessi still had their T-shirts from last year and everyone was wearing their pink crowns though which the talented Princess Rebecca whipped up for us.





Em and I were too fast for the camera. Here is a lovely photo of our backs although Em's is mostly blocked by another Fun Runner.



Music to Fun Run by.



Eleri's friend and honourary princess Leah joined us in the festivities.

Toy Cupcakes!

Yay, an update! Last night I finished the toy cupcakes for kinder. I've been saying I've been working on making cupcakes for kinder for a while now, and people have been all "ew, stale" - must remember to say TOY cupcakes!


I sewed on beads, sequins and used fabric paints to decorate the tops, as "icing". I tried to sew the beads on as firmly as possible, using a doubled thread, sewing through the bead up to three times, and then knotting the thread on the reverse. Hopefully this means that if one does come off then the others won't follow! The tops are cotton, with appliqued "icing". They are stuffed with scraps from cotton/bamboo quilt batting, and then are superglued into silicon cupcake baking moulds. I went through 5 tubes of superglue to make 12 cupcakes - wow. Many thanks also to Princess Leah who ably assisted me in choosing the beads and deciding on their placement :)

This pink one is Ember's favourite - I wonder why?!

The strawberry ones:

The lemon ones, or perhaps banana:

The vanilla cupcakes:

The chocolate cupcakes:

The yellow one has butterfly-shaped beads sewn on - it's hard to see in the photo.

While I was photographing them, my cat Pi had to come and check them out. They are NOT for noms!!

There's a hole in my fabric! (dear Liza)

Just thought I'd share the awful hole I found as I unfolded my fabric to start cutting the other day:

Luckily I could fit the pieces around the hole:

The supervisor helped me cut out by settling in on the warm soft fuzzy fleece. You could call him a pattern weight, I suppose, but I don't usually use such heavy ones He finally moved when I got too close to his tail with my big scissors!

Knitting projects

I've finally finished the 12-pointed knitted ball (pattern here) that was sent around a while ago. I followed the pattern to the letter, even though I questioned one step. I don't think my points are as pointy as the picture on the pattern (so if any of you try it, put another four rows of plain in before the final decrease). *sigh* My points are rounder than they should be, and what with my choice of coloured yarn, they look like breasts. Great!

So, behold the Booby-Ball.

The other knitting project I've had on the go was the baby jumper made from lovely soft bamboo/cotton yarn. It's lovely to knit with, however as always I hated sewing it up. Well, my high school friend's baby has arrived - a boy called Henry - and so I've had incentive to finish the damn thing. All done, packed and posted :) Phew.


Last night I started a pair of glittens for me. Yay for warm fingers, but being able to turn pages in rehearsals :)

We won't mention the socks I'm knitting...

Recent stitchings

It's only been four weeks or so since I took these photos, at stitching on our last Tuesday stitching night in Feb.

We missed Princess Eleri and Princess-Mother Pat who made the Poor Choice of not attending. We also missed Princess Rosie and Princess Jocelyne :( plom plom

Princess Alana is still hard at work on Prince Ed's jumper - it's definitely growing!
Princess Emily is getting close to finished on the sheepies for her quilt:
Princess Bek is making a lovely ladybird quilt for a friend's baby - here she is embroidering a design on one of her apPLIqued ladybirds:
Princess 2Cs started work on a stylish scarf/neck wrap, which we got to see completed the following week - quick work!
Princess Viv supervised...

and let Princess Kate help mend mini-Princess Megan's dress:
The following week at Princess Eleri's castle, Princess Kate was expertly assisted by Princess Eleri and feline consort Izzy in laying out the backing for mini-Princess Ember's quilt.

Royal Fun Run

Egad! I just noticed that there aren't pictures of the Fun Run we did in December! I'll fix that!
Princess Em, Princess Eleri and Princess Joce warming up before the run. Princess Joce had very little sleep, so bonus points to her!

Here, you see Princess Joce affixing a lovely knitted crown to Princess 2Cs divine head! Princess 2Cs knit the crowns herself and they looked FABULOUS!


Here you can see an action shot of Princess Alana--go, princess, go!


The running Princessi looking gorgeous:


And the beautiful run/walk Princessi, looking equally as gorgeous:
And all of us together on the winners' podium:

And the Princessi made headlines (ok, maybe not quite...) by winning the fancy dress competition! Next year we should add tutus!!

Wedding Dresses!

We went to the wedding last night, and it was beautiful. The ceremony was low-key and casual where it could be, and was very personalised. Including a moment of irony when the celebrant stated the 'law says marriage is between a man and a woman' part, given he has a male partner.

The bride and bridesmaid looked stunning. Aline's dress swirled out wonderfully in their dance, not just the skirt but the sleeves too - it looked amazing. received many compliments on their dresses. As did I...



They look better on the women themselves:

Wedding handbags

Here are the two handbags I made out of scraps (OK I bought the zip and the cord) to go with the wedding and bridesmaid's dresses. Both go with either dress, so they can fight over them!

A was really impressed that I'd made the bags, she'd only just thought of handbags in the last few days, and thought it was another job for her to do in this hectic week. She looks amazing in her dress, and is totally thrilled with it. The wedding is next Saturday...

Next question: what am I going to wear??

Round Robin borders

These are photo's from the blog of the lady in the Round Robin after me: here's what she's done...

My centre

And my first border

I really like the diamonds in the second one, but the poetry? Not my thing.

Stitching at Princess Bek's

Stitching was at the Palace of me, Princess Bek, aka Princess Rebekka-with-two-ks this week. Unfortunately, I'm very slack (and also, not 100% sure where my camera is) so no photos.

I can say that no-one did any stitching. We had icy-poles, watched the tennis (with the sound off) and the closest anyone got to being creative was Princess Kate designing part of a quilt (on paper) and Princess Eleri painting her fingernails.

Prince Casper (the pug)'s new trim waistline was admired by all.

It was very hot.

The end.

Booster seat

The nature strip gods and goddesses are smiling on Princess Bek yet again: as she was walking to Princess Eleri's castle for stitching on Tuesday, she passed an old brown vinyl car seat on the nature strip - just the exact sort I'd been looking out for. A bit grotty and worse for wear, but nothing a good scrub wouldn't... help...

So, a night's efforts, and check out the seat now:

Embie chose the fabric, and is one happy car seat girl now! Thanks Bek, and may the nature strip gods and goddesses continue to smile upon you :)