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We wish you all a very Merry Christmas, a fabulous festive season and a joyous New Year!! Enjoy your families and loved ones and make sure you celebrate in style!
Thank you so much for all of your Christmas wishes and kind words that have been sent over the past week - we truly cherish them all.
We are taking a small blogging break and will see you all back here on the 8th January.
ENJOY and may the floss be with you!!! Melly & Rosie x x
The last week has just been one of those weeks! You know the ones where nothing goes the way you had imagined and nothing gets done to plan. It seems like all of my good ideas have had to be scrapped and that all the things I had wanted to get done just haven't happened.
It started this time last week when I received a package in the mail. I had hoped that the package would be the fabric I had ordered to make 3 of my nephews' Christmas presents. I looked at the package, saw the company logo and realised it was the fabric. I had spent hours looking for the perfect prints and was so excited to finally have them. I opened up the package and guess what??, there was fabric in there but it was certainly not the fabric I had ordered. OK, there goes 3 of my "handmade gifts" to the "have to buy" list!!!!
I then had a mixture of other mishaps in the form of a playing up sewing machine, a day of sickness, tooth pain which turned into a root canal, more terrible storms with me panicking and waiting for the house to flood, late night wake ups etc etc etc. OK, there go another 3 gifts from my "handmade gift" to the "have to buy" list!!!
So I had to give in and spend a night at the shopping centre!!! It was pretty painless and quiet but I still felt like a bit of a hypocrite after all of my declarations on here and to my family and friends that I simply was not going to enter a shopping centre!
It is now afternoon here, the mailman has been and there is only 1 more day of mail delivery before Christmas and guess what?? The handmade gift that I bought through Etsy have not arrived!! I ordered them two and a half weeks ago thinking that this would be plenty of time for delivery but I guess I was wrong...... Please mail man be nice and don't make me add another 3 presents to the "have to buy" list with a last minute dash to the Shopping Centre on Christmas eve??!
I also managed to get NO Christmas themed sewing started or finished. I have put this picture of Rudolph here to pretend that I did, even though he was made about 6 months ago so that is a bit of a stretch! I did however in the previous weeks get a few gifts made up and am happy to say that at least 8 people will definitely be getting a homemade gift.
That is better that none I suppose and we can hope that the Etsy purchases still reach me in time.
I decided today, amongst all of these happenings to stop worrying about Christmas. No matter how much I worry about the shopping, how many gifts I made, late mail, illness etc etc it will still always be a beautiful time. Once the shops are closed and the clock ticks over it doesn't matter what I managed to get done or not, it is all about sharing precious time with those that I love and I know this will be a blast no matter the circumstances.
So that said, I decided to look into the new year and just start sewing!!! Not sewing that I had to get done on a schedule, not sewing that I had to go and buy materials for, not sewing that I needed for any apparent reason, but sewing "just because" I feel like making a bundle of softies over the next few weeks and enjoying "just because" sewing. They will probably find their way to the Etsy store since that has not been restocked in months, but maybe they won't, It doesn't matter, I don't want to give them a purpose but just enjoy them. I started today with some Mrs Perkins' and here are their yummy skins!
I look forward to stuffing them now over a few cups of tea while I relax and look forward to a beautiful festive season. - Melly
Today a very special little Flossie came into our lives...... 
Yes, we are aunties once again to this beautiful new baby boy!!
Welcome to the world little man.
Firstly we need to congratulate Tracy from pinkpurl, Maria Wadensten and Ruth from twohiphippos. You can all expect the new Owl and the Pussycat patterns to be with you soon! Thanks everyone for all the sweet comments. I swear we do these give-aways for a major ego boost! lol!
We had a gorgeous night last night when Melly came to have a girlie sleepover at my house. We were together to create our much anticipated gingerbread houses. Miss flossy 14, has asked me for the last three years to make gingerbread houses for Christmas. Every year I say "yes, that would be great". Alas, we have run out of time every year and not made any. When she asked me this year I had a sobering thought that it may be the last year she asks me. She is my youngest and I know how quickly these Mother daughter activities can be replaced by hectic teenage social calenders! 
I was determined that this was the year for the fantastic, magical winter wonderland village of gingerbread houses that I have always dreamed of. Last year I drove Melly mad with my hyperactive rantings of my proposed village complete with trains and churches and cottages and mansions and people and and and............. She was not very enthused by the idea and in a calm voice suggested starting with just one cottage. My enthusiasm could not be dampened and I decided to make a quadruple batch of gingerbread dough. After making five houses worth of gingerbread two days ago, I have had enough!!!! Who would have known they could be sooo much work???????
I like to try my hand at every possible creative pursuit- but this is ridiculous! I'm glad that you cant see the inside of my fridge where I have stealthily hidden the remaining half of my gingerbread dough to continue later- unless it spoils and I will have to throw it out. (this would be a dreadful catastrophe of course!) Anyway, I must say that we had a ball decorating the rotters after we managed to stick them all together. There will be five very spoilt and blessed people in our lives who will be the recipients of these cottages that took me ten times as long and five times the cost of buying them a gift from the stores! But as for mother daughter time, it was priceless. Two sister mothers and their two daughters. What could be nicer?
Till next time - Rosie xxx
Last week it felt like Santa had visited us but this week it is time for us to play Santa with another giveaway!!
It is getting harder and harder to have any pretty sewing project pictures to show you as all of our current sewing is for Christmas presents. Our families do look at the blog regularly so it is a "no Christmas present posting zone".
I have not taken the handmade pledge but I have been trying my hardest to either make all of my presents or buy handmade. I am pleased to say that so far in December I have not entered a shopping centre and hope to continue this way. I think I have managed to achieve about 90% of my presents as "handmade" but there are a few that will need a visit to the shops - I am hoping to convince my husband to grab these last few things!!
I have spent last night and this morning finishing off "The owl & the pussycat" pattern so at least I can find something to post about in the form of a new giveaway.
As usual we ask that you leave a comment to be in the running and we will draw some luck winners this Friday.
We hope that your week is not too hectic as the silly season continues and that you are finding time to craft and celebrate. -Melly & Rosie
I'm sure it must be Christmas day today because Santa came early in the form of an Australia Post worker!! I think he must have thought the contents of the package were pure gold with my level of excitement greeting him at the door. And he would have been right - we received our swap package from Tiel!!!!!
Just look at the two gorgeous pieces of art she has sent us!! We are just the luckiest girls in the world - we must have been really good this year!
And as if that wasn't good enough we also got this great collection of Tsk Tsk cards (Tiel knows how much we love her cards!!)
I think it is time to go frame shopping now!!
Thanks so much Tiel and we hope your swap package is not too far away!! - Melly & Rosie
With a lack of anything new or exciting to share with you we thought we would simply share a few pictures of what is happening in the flossy house this Tuesday.
Today I am putting together a swap package for Tiel over at Tsk Tsk. I am allowed to show you the photo since Tiel already knows what is coming her way. We however, have no idea what we are getting in return and we are thrilled to bits as we just love all of her work!! Hopefully we can share pictures of our wonderful gifts next week.
This morning I head over to Foothills Fabric and Threads and bought myself some fabric that took my fancy
I also decided that I needed to pretend that I was doing something for Christmas so I also grabbed these two fat quarters
I have been feeling put to shame when I look at everyone's blog and all of their gorgeous Christmas handiwork and decorations. I just love the Christmas season so much but I have a tendency to leave things too late and all of my wonderful plans of Christmas themed crafting goes uncompleted. But look, I did buy some fabric!!!
We had a big drama yesterday with our house flooding in one of the worst storms I have ever experienced. Today, as a result, we are all feeling a little tired. I only wish I was as capable as Baby Floss at falling asleep anywhere in any position!!
We are also having fun enjoying the newest member to be adopted into the flossy clan, "Kitty Floss"!!
I hope that your Tuesday is Terrific. - Melly.
