.Going....

Yikes!  Check out our chart today...back when we started our countdown to NZ it seemed like forever away, but time really did go sooooo fast and tomorrow we are off!!!
I am feeling semi-organised.  Have done a lot of the cleaning I wanted to (who wants to come home to a dirty house?) and have started pulling out clothes and other things we need to take away.

Strange as it sounds, I couldn't start getting organised until I had sewed a couple more little things...we are taking small suitcases as our carry-on bags and I had visions of having to be trying to contain textas, books, toys, food and other entertainment on the plane in the pocket in front of our seats because our bags would have to go in the overhead compartments.  So I decided to sew up a few bags to keep all of the plane entertainment together and easy to grab out of the bag...one each for the kids.

First of all, I made them each a zippered pencil case using my tutorial.

The applique on each one is part of some gorgeous panel fabric I bought a few weeks ago...love it!

 

Then I made each of the kids a Peek-A-Boy Toy Sack (using my tutorial again) to keep everything in...

 Just the perfect size to hold a few colouring in books, blank page art diaries, some snacks, little toys and of course, their new pencil cases!

And once I had finished sewing these a couple of nights ago, I felt ready - even though I still had a tonne of cleaning and organising and packing to do...at least the plane rides will (hopefully) be smooth sailing!
Happy holidays to you all!  I'll probably post now and then from New Zealand and keep you up to date with some of our adventures. xxx