Christmas baking and sewing

I’ve done a bit of sewing and baking over the Christmas period.

These are the shortbread and fudge I made for pressies.

I also made a choc mint checkerboard cake and a white chocolate and raspberry checkerboard cake.

My SIL plays the bass clarinet and there was no ‘instrument’ hero shirts available so I thought I would make a patch to put on anything wanted. This little present took a lot of hours of work and tears and I still wasn’t fully happy with any version. We went through many disasters such as running out of thread, losing location, patterns corrupting to name a few. This one is actually the first one I did. Andrew did the artwork for it.

I also made a pair of thomas boxer shorts for my niece and some towels and hankies for my parent’s in law and again forgot pics in the rush.

Work Christmas party

On Friday was my work’s Christmas party. During the day we had white elephant (everyone puts in a present, randomly choose or swap etc). My contribution was this cushion.

This is our Director’s face. Long story short it is the effect of when you have an office of people with photoshop skills and send an image around of you photoshopped into an image.

We then headed for drinks and teppanyaki

And for something completely random, this is the bug that visited Brian and I in the office the other day.

Christmas overalls

They are complete before Christmas – just 😉

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Samuel is now size 4!!! and is toilet training well so it was time to move from baby overalls into little boy overalls. We are off to see Santa tomorrow so I hope they fit.

Looking at the pictures, the left leg looks longer than the right. It isn’t noticible hanging but I might fix after their trial run tomorrow in case hems etc need to be adjusted anyway.

GoochieGoo launched

My formal trademark certificate arrived on Friday.

I wanted to put a label on the clothing I created for Samuel and other friends and GoochieGoo just seemed perfect to me. I wanted to put it on the clothing as a label but was worried that someone would see the name, like the name and use it formally stopping me using it. So after much debating, I decided to trademark the name. I’m looking forward to a whole range of new creations with the cute prominent label.

It might seem crazy to go through the process and money when not actually running a business, but I think it is worth it to provide the last finishing touch to an outfit that I spend a lot of time designing and creating. For those who are looking to create a trademark for the first time I highly recommend the Headstart program, they were great at answering my questions and really efficient.

And because i’m a geek, I started to set up a website for goochiegoo last night.