Made by me...

Her name was Lola, she was a rag doll...

A few Saturday's ago I woke with an itch to sew something, and since Little P is so taken by dolls (in any shape, size, colour) I thought I'd try making her a rag-doll.

I am absolutely *smitten* with the result and so is Little P :)

Pssssssssst…. Lola has a friend but we can't introduce you to her yet as she is a Christmas present for Miss T, but stay posted some pic's are only 15 sleeps away ;)

High-Contrast Black & White Mobile (for Bubbalu)

You've probably read about the benefits of having high-contrast decor for your newborn, but might have been put off by the purchase price of some commercial products... or maybe you just felt like making your own!

You can make a mobile with these shapes, or just cut them out and tack them to the wall or ceiling, or use them to make a collage for your baby to look at in the car (glue shapes to cardboard or fabric, pin to seat in front of baby).

Materials:

Two copies each of desired shapes
Cardboard to print the shapes onto so that its more rigid (although I just used normal paper and it still worked fine)
Glue stick or double-sided tape
Scissors or craft knife (the circular shapes are a little easier to cut with scissors)
Needle
Thread or string (to use to hang the shapes)
Something to hang everything from (I bought a pre-made 45cm wire ring from Spotlight for $1.50 which works a treat)

GIF (click on images) | PDF

Time:
30min to an hour

Instructions:

1. Print out the shapes, two copies of each sheet.

2. Cut almost all the way around one shape set, but leave the section where the shapes almost touch uncut:

3. Then fold the shapes in half matching up as much as possible ' apply some glue to the non-printed sides of the shapes ' then trim any "wonky" bits.

Repeat steps 2 and 3 for all of the shapes you wish to use for your mobile.

4. Once you have all your shapes prepared the next step is to "string" them together, the trick here is to get a combination of "side" and "bottom" views that will be interesting for your baby.

It is easier to "string" the shapes together in sections and to leave stringing them to the top wire frame to the very last so that you can play around with the balance and lengths. Thread through middle of "bottom" view shape (A) up to the bottom middle of "side" view shape (B). Then using a different piece of thread, thread through the top middle of "side" view shape (C) up to the wire frame that hangs everything (D) BUT don't secure it to the wire frame yet, leave this step to last so that you can play around with the balance and lengths.

Repeat this step for all of the shapes you wish to use for your mobile.

5. Once you have completed threading all of the stands of shapes you wish to use for your mobile, you need to then secure them to the top wire frame. This may take a little trial-an-error to get the balance right.

6. Hang and enjoy!

This information originally came from:

Life is no Sotrybook Icons (V1.0)

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MidnightCode MythTV Theme

OBJECTIVE:
The objective of this work was to produce a clean, readable, and consistent "MidnightCode" theme for the Midnight Code MythTV project, Project Jupiter.

DOWNLOAD:
- Current Version: 0.18-1.1
MidnightCode MythTV Theme [MD5]

- Previous Version: 0.18-1.0
MidnightCode MythTV Theme [MD5]

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
Some graphics in this theme package are original graphics from the Abstract MythTV theme by Michael Jay Sherman and from the Default MythTV theme from the MythTV project. All other art-work for this theme was developed by Texas Slim of LifeisnoStorybook.com - she only stopped development to give birth.

FEATURES:
The following features, options and extensions have been considered in the development of this theme;

This theme supports the following MythTV modules; MythBrowser, MythDVD, MythGallery, MythGame, MythMusic, MythNews, MythPhone, and MythWeather. There is also coded, but untested, support for MythWebCam.
The theme itself is of reasonable contrast, so as to sustain good readability. It has also been designed to provide the most consistent navigation experience possible, across all modules/plugins.
The List View for MythVideo is recommended for the best mix of navigation and per-content item detail.
This theme was tested successfully on MythTV version 0.18.1
By popular demand, version 1.1 of the theme supports a visible row limit of seven (7) menu items. This removes the need for scrolling in the menu system.

INSTALL:
To install this theme, copy the theme package into the /tmp directory of your MythTV PC, and perform the following;

1) Log on the the MythTV PC and su to root; [user@jupiter user]# su -

2) Change to the MythTV theme directory; [root@jupiter root]# cd /usr/share/mythtv/themes

3) Unpack the theme package; [root@jupiter themes]# tar xvfz /tmp/midnightcode-theme-0.18- 1.1.tgz

4) Remove the theme package; [root@jupiter themes]# rm -f /tmp/midnightcode-theme-0.18-1. 1.tgz

5) Exit from the root shell, and log out; [root@jupiter themes]# exit

To apply the new theme, go to the MythTV user interface, and perform the following;

1) From the main menu, select "Utilities / Setup"

2) From the utilities menu, select "Setup"

3) From the setup menu, select "Appearance"

4) From the appearance configurator, highlight the "Theme" select box, and select "MidnightCode"

5) To save the new settings and exit the appearance configurator, select "Next >" repeatedly, then "Finish"

6) Use "exit" or "left" twice to return to the main menu, from the setup menu

FEEDBACK:
Theme feedback is welcome. Contact the theme owners Texas Slim <tex at lifeisnostorybook dot com> and Ian "Larry" Latter <ian dot latter at midnightcode dot org> with a subject of "MythTV Theme - MidnightCode", or visit http://www.lifeisnostorybook.com/ and http://www.midnightcode.org/

LICENSE:
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, and mirrored at the Midnight Code web site; as at version 2 of the License only.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License (version 2) along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA, or see http://midnightcode.org/gplv2.txt

While this theme is released under the same license as MythTV, please note that the Midnight Code logo and the background image (background.png) are copyright and, while free to download and share, are not to be modified or included in other works.

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Rudolph to red-nosed toilet roll…

This year Little P is much more capable in the crafty sense (although heavy “no you can’t eat paste” supervision is still required)… so I thought it might be fun to make some of our Christmas decoration, and give some to those who’ve been *nice*.

So here is the first of our creations…. Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer, who’s antlers are actually cut-outs of Little P’s hands:

Daddy and Me Dolls

Met the latest additions to Little P's softies collection…. Daddy, AKA: Hacker and Little P, AKA: Tree-lover.

I made these guys as Larry's Father's Day present and although not as funny as his Mother's Day present to me, I think they're just as unique... especially with their fully loaded features that only a Hacker and Tree-lover could appreciate - raspberry blowing tongues, super-star arms and happy-dancin' legs!

The pattern was adapted from the ever-lovely Nest Studios' "Mini Moopy":
- Nest Studio
- Mini Moopy Pattern

Percy the effaluph...

Meet the newest addition to "Little P's" softies collection - Percy; he's a strapping 30cm, self-sitting elephant with flappy ears and arms for her to hold and chew:

I am really happy with this softie, he looks great and only took 40mins of machine sewing and the same again of hand-sewing for the ears and arms ('cas I suck at hand-sewing). The pattern was from the Japanese craft book "Holding close - animals to sew".