Bebe Bouton is a success!

4 months ago I announced our plans to launch Bebe Bouton, a store full of our handmade goodies just for little boys. Well, since opening we have been so shocked at how popular our pieces are! Every market we've done, we've had so many mums come up to us and say how happy they are someone's finally catering for boys. And THAT is why we're doing what we're doing.

Lately it's been so super cold in Melbourne, so I started making some beanies. The bear beanies started it all and since then I've made dinosaurs, cupcakes, vikings, knights, aviators, mario, giraffes, elephants, strawberries.... so many awesome beanies, and not just for kids!

A peak at what I've been making at Bebe Bouton

I just wanted to say a HUGE thank you to everyone who has supported us these past few months and helped us to become the business we are today.

This week I have so many orders to catch up on and today's project is an Owl Mobile (you might have seen the one I made for Button's nursery) in greens and blues. I couldn't find the right colours in 4ply (damn you Spotlight) so had to use 8ply, which meant the owls are wayyyyy too big. Luckily I found another amigurumi pattern that's working (thank you Ravelry - I can always count on you).

So, I'd better get back to it. Go check out Bebe Bouton :)

Wedding Cake Madness

So where was I...November? Whoops.

I've been busy busy the past few weeks getting ready for yet another wedding. I was put half-in charge of the wedding cake. The lovely bride, my new SIL, had seen a cute as cupcake on Pinterest (I'm sure many of you have seen it before - the pink frosted cupcake with lace and 'i do' flag). So my other SIL and I got to work recreating 144 of them. Yep...144.

The vanilla cupcake recipe is the same as that vanilla latte cake I made a few weeks ago from Sweetapolita. The mix made just over 40 cupcakes.

30 little 'i dos'

The finished cake! Gubby frosted all of the cakes - don't they look amazing? I made the little bunting on top as well by stamping and embossing letters in bronze on each little cardstock flag and tying to kebab sticks with gold twine.

The lace is stuck onto the cupcake wrappers with edible sugar flower glue...well most of them are. I ran out with about 30 cupcakes to go and just used royal icing for the rest.

The gorgeous newlyweds and their cake. Congrats you two kids!

For bubba's outfit I made a cute bow-tie. I used this tutorial by A Lemon Squeezy Home. In the end, it was a tad too puffy and oversized for a bub. I'll make the next one smaller, although I think it kind of matched his head size...

My little pudding is 5 months old now!

I've started playing around with royal icing on cookies...not too bad.

I finished up a pair of cute booties using a gorgeous bamboo yarn. It's so soft!

And then all of a sudden Christmas is upon us - when the heck did that happen? Far out this year has zipped by. My tree this year is read and bronze. I always seem to underestimate the size of my tree hehe. I didn't really have my heart in the decorating this weekend...I think after a week at work really took it out of me.

Best cake ever..and some craft

If you ever are looking for a scrumptious vanilla cake recipe, then this is the one you need to make. The recipe is from Sweetapolita here. Oh man, it was delicious, especially topped with the latte buttercream.

Little Button is getting really good at his mini pushups and has started rolling from his tummy to his back and he even managed the other way once.

I'm still working on this quilt for him. First I had to get a clear presser foot to do the aplique around the felt letter, then I had to get a walking foot for the top stitching as it's all so thick and backed with minky. Now I'm undecided on how to quilt it. The bottom half is Humpty Dumpty so I was thinking of stitching round edged brick shapes through it, but I have no idea about the top half of Little Red Riding Hood. Any ideas?

I'm still working on this christmas apron for myself, but I finally found some fabric for the bias edging.

Yep, the starburst rug is almost done! I've joined them all and luckily each block has squared out nicely so no need to blocking. Now for the worst bit...weaving in all the loose ends. Gah.

I have some gorgeous new books to browse through and inspire me:

• Sunday Morning Quilts by the talented Amanda Jean and Cheryl
• Blogging for Bliss by Tara Frey
• Women's Weekly Masterclass
• Decorating Cookies by the amazing Bridget Edwards of Bake at 350

Are you getting inspired this week? I can't wait to get stuck into making some cookies :)

Another crafty week

Well, little Button's sleeping habits are finally back to normal, which means...craft time! :)

Another tick for the WIP list - loads of pacifier clips. Heh I kind of got on a roll with these. They were so quick to whip through. The tutorial is here.

My niece's school is having a fete soon and are going to be selling donated jars of "things" so I thought I'd make it an opportunity to destash my enormous bead collection and put together little bead kits. Aren't they cute?

On Thursday, I took my gorgeous SIL off to the Craft and Sewing show at Caulfield Racecourse. Oh man, it was heaven. Apparently I had some moments of lust in my eyes, but I think I was very controlled. I made it my goal to just work on building up my fabric stash with lots of basics (spots, stripes, checks...and a few cuuuute prints). And who can say no to giant ric rac?

I bought an awesome quilt kit too. So cute. It's from the Meet the Gang range.

I finally got another thing ticked off my WIP list - bandana bibs. Tutorial here.

And...I'm finally joining all those sunbursts. I gave up blocking them. 'Cos I'm using acrylic yarn, they don't really hold their shape, so I'll give it a shot when they're joined if I need to.

I'm using the joining tutorial from Attic24.

Aren't they amazing! There aren't as many as I thought I'd done, so the rug will be big enough to cover the bottom end of our bed or be a great single sized rug.

Eep!

Week In Pictures

Little Button is 12 weeks tomorrow - where the hell did the past 3 months go? Far out.

He's spending more time laughing and smiling at me, which is just the freakin' best thing ever, but he has been battling with a growth spurt and the 3rd Wonder Week at the same time. This means grizzling like a monster and refusing my milk near the end of each feed. It's so frustrating but I have to keep telling myself to keep calm. If I'm calm, he'll become calm much easier.

He's been playing with his new SkipHop activity gym (I have a new obsession with SkipHop). I love all the owls and we just discovered one of them plays water sounds when I stepped on it, lol.

Yes, I'm STILL going with this huge blanket of sunbursts. I have about 20 more to border with the cream colour, then to weave in all the ends and block them. I dragged out a pin board to try blocking the first square as I've never bothered doing it before. Naughty, I know.

Looks pretty great huh! I know, I know, I didn't weave in the ends of this one yet, but I'm impatient.

Last weekend was all about being social. Actually so was this weekend! I'm really looking forward to just relaxing this week with bubba. How amazing is this cake - we went to bubba's first baby shower.

On Friday, I put bubba to bed early and went to a concert I've been waiting for for 15 years...HANSON! OMG it was amazeballs! I'm still buzzing from it and all of their CDs are in the stacker in the car. Pretty much everyone there was my age (the plus side of 18+ gigs) and the bonus - there was a bar right next to my choice viewing spot. I got home at 2am and spent the next day as a zombie. Heh, then went out for dinner with old friends and spent the next day on the couch as a zombie...again. Smart move? No. But I'd sooooo do it again.

Who said new mummas can't get out and party?

My week in pictures

I had a lovely quiet week this week. Oh except for Sunday...a baby shower and dinner on the same day! I haven't been that much of a social butterfly in ages. :)

I actually started playing around with my DSLR this week. I love this shot of Kitten in her favourite spot above me on the couch.

Another baby shower, another pair of booties. I was a bit slow with these this time. It's been a while since I've made any!

I finished up a custom order for some very lucky bridesmaids...

A triple layer strawberry cake for our family dinner. It wasn't bad, but I think the butter and eggs curdling made it too dense. Next time... (recipe via Sweetapolita)

I bought Button a new play gym from SkipHop. It arrived in the mail and we had to walk it home in the biggest ever box resting on top of his pram! Lucky he was asleep for the whole trip. It must have looked completely ridiculous!

I made a tonne of choc chip cupcakes in the prettiest cupcake cups I found at the $2 superstore. I bought up big on the red and pink ones too - they're just the cutest!

Button is the best sleeper ever. I don't know how I'd cope with a troublesome bub! I still have to get up around 3am to feed him during the night, but it's not so bad considering he goes down for the night at 8pm and sleeps til 8am.

Yes, I'm still going with these sunbursts. I get through about 10 or so a day. I keep telling myself to just hurry up and finish, especially after I bought a heap of new variegated bamboo yarn to make another rug for Button yesterday. Whoops!

What projects are you working on this week? Leave your links in the comments section and I'll definitely pop by your site and have a peek.

My week in pictures

Happy Fathers' Day to all the wonderful and loving Dads out there, especially to my amazing Dad and to Hubby who's already shown that one little bub can't have too much love. :)

We went for one of our daily walks to the shops so i could grab some caffeine and sugar - boy did I need it this week! It was an awful growth spurt week and bubba didn't sleep well most nights. Thankfully he's back to normal now and slept in til 9am this morning! woo!

I've been buying mini melting moments with my coffees at the cafe so decided to make some. These were with a passionfruit filling - so yummy! Recipe via Taste.

I had a heap of the passionfruit icing left over, so decided to make some cupcakes. The mix made so much, so I had to use all of my cupcake pans as well as my new mini bundt pan - love it. The icing was too thick for the bundt cakes, so I just thinned it out with some hot water and made a kind of glaze. Recipe via The Pretty Blog.

 Me in the mornings - I'm one of those never-leave-the-house-without-mascara people. Button's bald patch is just hilarious!

 I got some of the granny squares done last week, but I get bored pretty quickly, so went back to yet another rug project. These rounds just need edging then blocking and I can start joining them.

My other baby. I bought my Nikon D70 from a friend who was upgrading, but I haven't really had a chance to play around with it much. The aim is to start taking product shots with it rather than my trusty little point and shoot. At least I have the field guide out...we'll get there.

Huzzah for new pieces! I'm really moving towards using gold plated metals rather than the vintage look brass. It looks fresh and bright - ready for summer!

Oh and I picked up the dish on mega sale at Target - yay for sales!