The Irish Times - Saturday, June 18, 2011
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Banjos and beards in Belfast
An unlucky number for some maybe, but the word on the street is that the 13th Coors Light Open House Festival in Belfast’s Cathedral Quarter (June 22nd-26th) is poised to be the best yet. From humble beginnings as an adjunct to the Belfast Festival at Queen’s, Open House has steadily extended its musical and geographical spread under founding director Kieran Gilmore. It offers a line-up of folk and roots sounds from all corners of the world, as well as a ChilliFest, featuring red-hot American music, food and ice-cold beer.
The usual sprinkling of banjos and beards is headlined by Fleet Foxes, performing their first ever gig in the Northern Ireland, with Mercury Music Prize nominee Laura Marling and flute and fiddle duo Mike McGoldrick and Dezi Donnelly also on the bill. Smoke Fairies from New Orleans and Marcus Foster from England, whose folk-blues style is described as “drenched in the poetry, ennui and ambience of the last orders bar call”, will be there. More local artists who will be e appearing include Nollaig Casey, Arty McGlynn, Cathal Hayden, Máirtín O’Connor, Seamie O’Dowd and Alan Burke. There are free sessions every day, and the Breakthrough programme will shine a
spotlight on some big names of the future. See openhousefestival.com. JANE COYLE
Word on the street: Mum-upmanship
What it means : Forget politics, sport and international warfare – the toughest arena in modern times is down at your local mummy-and-toddler playgroup, where the mummies battle it out daily to assert their motherhood superiority. Armed with hardback copies of Gina Ford to beat off their opponents, and equipped with all the skills of Rachel Allen, Angelina Jolie, Hillary Clinton and Xena the Warrior Princess, these “mumzillas” are intent on bringing up perfect little specimens who sleep through the night, can play several sports at national level, and have mastered particle physics and Urdu by the age of four.
Child-rearing is no longer the simple, intuitive process it used to be. It’s now an all-out competition to see who’s the number-one mum – and the rulebook has been tossed out the window.
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More importantly, they learn to interact with each other, share, and to plot the first steps toward a lifelong pattern of good sportsmanship toward adulthood. At this age, the age of toddler-hood, sharing remains a challenge and every parent gets
It's a fascinating shop with rails of shirts, denim, 1950s-style dresses and knits, even lingerie, ties, shoes and old Vogue patterns that attract young people doing sewing courses. She's adamant about metal zips – “if a dress hasn't got it,
It's a pattern of behaviour all too familiar to Amanda who at 36 is a dedicated fashionista and a self-confessed super-hoarder. “I like to look different all the time – I guess it's an addiction,” she says. “I don't know where this obsession came from.
“Make that bond when they're a toddler and keep it through the childhood years, and you'll have a better chance of having that stronger bond when the children are going through those teenage years.” She encourages fathers to build mud pies, wrestle,
We had a terrible time with our daughter until we bought the book "Toddler Taming" ( which, I think, sounds similar to the one discussed). The basic advice was leave them to cry. It's hard to do ,really hard but within two days we had a daughter who
Tammy's Times: ~Itty Bitty Toddler Dress~
After making the Itty Bitty Baby Dress for my coming niece, I was itching to make another one...only bigger! I used the Itty Bitty Baby Dress Enlargement pattern found here . It is enlarged to 3T and I would say that's accurate. My daughter is still in 2T, so I'm guessing this dress will fit her for a while...maybe even next summer! While it is large on her, it is still perfectly wearable, and she wore it to church last Sunday.
That is adorable! I was wondering if after buying the fabric, notions, etc. is sewing less expensive than buying brand new? I see some darling baby/toddler clothes in Kohls and they're often on sale and then with the extra discount it seems you can't sew for that cheap! Not to mention the thrift stores. Or is it that you just love to sew and want to create your own fashions? Or can't find what you want in the stores?
Sewing can be way more expensive than buying brand new, if you buy designer patterns and fabric. I purchased this fabric at Jo-Ann's and had coupons for both pieces. I think everything all together (fabric, piping, thread) ended up being around $14. Lately a lot of my sewing projects have been way more inexpensive than that. For me a lot of the reason behind my sewing projects is desire to sew. :) However, I just bought two dresses for my daughter at a thrift shop for $1.99 each. So I do a little of all three: sewing, purchasing from clearance, and thrift/yard sales.
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