So here is what they look like. It took me 3 nights to finish them. This morning I temporarily stuck them on the wall to see how it looks. I think they are just as good as what I could have ever imagined. They are clean, crispy, safe above the bed (only the weight of a piece of stock card paper will not hurt anybody on the bed), and beautiful.

I used a white folder instead of white card stock paper, as it is slightly heavier. Of course I had to use my favourite craft knife to cut through all the lines. I did try with different coloured background paper, but I prefer them to remain just white. The coloured background would look good if it is to use as a box cover, but too busy on the wall. I think if I ever want to make any changes next time, I will be bold to design my own pattern, probably more free style looking.

I think it is the so far the best wall art I have ever created. I am really happy with the result. Now I just need to buy some 3M strips to stick them properly.

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I was kind of sick of shooting flowers, though I haven’t captured a perfect one in the past many years (I probably will never do).  I really think the opening time should be from 7am to 6pm, in stead of 9am to 5pm. The lighting is just terrible and ugly plain white for this period of time.  That’s why you can only see photos here with other objects I found in the event.

Vivian was so good today. For the entire visit, she was in her stroller and no whinge at all. Just for this, I want to kiss her for being a good girl:-)

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I Stopped on the way back to shoot a few photos at the stone field, which we really wanted to do when we saw this the other day. It’s about 10 ks outside Cooma towards to Berridale way.

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The place we stayed in Town is called Aspire Alpine Brumby Bar. It is a lovely little apartment loft style accommodation. Old bricked interior with interesting lightings. We have a balcony with the view of lake and mountain, facing the road but amazingly we remain undisturbed by the traffic during the night time. Country town, right?

We cooked our Korean BBQ and hot pot for two nights, and hearty breakfast with congee and other stuff by Jessy for two mornings. The bedroom upstairs got extremely hot during the night time with the remaining smell of hot pot and BBQ, hehe….. Vivian kept kicking the blanket off and I only covered myself with one piece of flat sheet. Outside easily went down to minus 2.

I don’t know how much the little ones would get out of this trip. They were more interested in playing in the play ground which everywhere has it, than sensing the difference in the places.

Our second day was spent in Thredbo and Lake Crackenback Resort. Rain was on and off. I absolutely fell in love with the little village, Thredbo. It is so pretty with layered houses along the mountain slope, snow capped mountains as the far background. I think I will come back again even I don’t know how to ski, but it was exciting enough to see those fit people carry their ski gears coming off from the mountain. I can’t believe that it is a place only 2.5 hours away from where we live and we didn’t utilise it at all in the past many years.

Shall we come back again? Definitely. There are a lot interesting things we could have captured. The stone field 10ks outside the Cooma town, shooting the Jindabyne lake view for a sunset or sunrise, trout fishing, maybe staying in the waterfront apartment in Lake Crackenback Resort next time, try a nice restaurant in Jindabyne? These all are going to the next time’s plan.

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I know it doesn’t make sense as Vivian is 20 months old and it is the time to get serious about getting her off the nappy now. However, I suddenly had this project idea and was all very motivated to make this….

Okay, the real reason is, the other day, I had V’s snacks and bottle left in the same compartment in the bag. The bottle leaked and the snacks broke into small crumbs. I was very mad about that ugly plastic bag which held nappies getting wet and sticky, even though I didn’t say a word to anyone.

I threw it away immediately and I was kind of hoping I had a cloth bag holding all the nappy related stuff in a relatively organised order, so I could have avoided this depressing accident.

So I had this idea. It took me two nights to finish the project. The first night was all about quilting this sandwich changing mat. I didn’t have a special feed on my sewing machine to do a free motion quilting and have never done this before at all, but I love the look of it, so I was all crazily brave about doing it just by a normal sewing machine without any experience.

Last night I did the bias tape binding, my favorite sewing part and made a little drawstring bag to hold mat, 3 nappies and a Huggies baby wipes travel pack.

The fabric was picked up from a Op shop two years ago under 1 dollar. Took me no time to cut fabric, about 4 hours sewing on machine, a lot of planning in the head about the idea that would serves the purpose. I eventually just made it as simple as possible.

So here they are. Over all, I really love the final look of my free motion circle quilting, even though I know there are a lot of mistakes and it could have been done much better. Hehe, just don’t look at any details:-)

Thanks the God, all my hard work was worth it. I feel much better now:-)

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