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Its niece Soph's 2nd Birthday in a couple of weeks but she will be holidaying at her grandparents (my inlaws) at the time. So we though we'd go deliver her her Birthday present before they leave on Wednesday for their holiday.
Sunshine and I had been looking for something special for a while - and saw this at our favourite toy shop in Bristol - "Playful", on the Gloucester Road. Soph's dad is a musician and we knew her parents would appreciate having something that made beautiful music however its played - and so we got her this pentatonically tuned glockenspiel from Auris.
Auntie Mithi also made her a card and Sunshine sewed her a carrier to protect her new little musical instrument (don't you just love a man who sews???)
Sunshine (with his designer's head on) decided to film an "unboxing experince" ... as you can see here...
We think its gone down very well - she does a mean rendition of "Twinkel Twinkle Little Star", whilst playing on the glockenspiel. I think she also quite enjoys just hanging out with her Uncle.
Happy Birthday Gorgeous!
On Tuesday I went to a "Learn To Make A Stylish Cycling Cape In A Day" workshop ... it involved sewing a cycling rain shower-proof cape out of ... you guessed it ... a shower curtain! I found the most amazing rainbow shower curtain in BHS ... I don't have decent photos as my camera was on low battery during the day and half way through it ran out of battery completely ...
Took me a day or so more to get all the sewing, buttoning and extra waterproofing done ... but now, here it is ... my Happy Cape!
For someone with limited sewing skills, this was quite the achivement - really inspired to do more sewing now. Also SO love the cape - really looking forward to wearing it cycling round behind Sunshine on the tandem!
