Backyard photo shoot

Friday the Fifteenth, my Dad's birthday: I finally convinced Piper to play outside. Not sure why she’s been so reluctant to do so. Meant I could take some photos outside - nothing too special, but still good to get some practice in. Training my eye to see things from a different perspective.

Cupcakes

Thursday the Fourteenth, Valentine’s Day: Piper and I made lemon coconut cupcakes with pink icing and loveheart sprinkles! I employed a bit of lateral thinking and used a tiny bit of beetroot juice to bring the icing to its blushing state. Felt good to avoid using red food colouring, even though the sprinkles weren’t so healthy, no doubt…

My valentine for my valentine

Valentines finished!

Wednesday the Thirteenth: I finished the valentines for girlfriends that I began on the weekend. Hearts sewn onto teabags, fitted into cardboard mugs, with name/note attached. I'm happy with them, even though they're a bit over the top! If I'd had smaller stamps, I would have made the names smaller, but oh well...

Dyeing paper with Piper

Monday the Eleventh: Piper and I dyed tissue paper, after I saw the idea in an old Martha Stewart Living mag I found at the self-help for 25 cents. The colour turned out totally pastel, and I was a bit grumpy while we were doing it, cos I was trying to keep Jasper from tipping over the bowls of dye (ridiculous, I know, to attempt projects like this with a crawling baby around, but oh well!), but Piper seemed happy enough when I took the photo (admittedly a day or two later!).

Tuesday the Twelfth: I worked on the mitten.

Valentine mugs

Sunday the Tenth: I started making mugs for my valentines to go in.

Mitten

Saturday the Ninth: Long overdue, I worked on a mitten meant for someone for (last) Christmas!