playing in the rain

Jarvis - Playing in all they rainy goodness on sunday, needless to say his hands were like ice blocks when he was done, but he loved the warm bath afterwards aswell.

she sells sea shells

today we spent the morning at Minnie collecting sea shells it was a delightful day

fibre friday

some of my latest spins

Open for Business

Please make you way in a ladylike/gentlemanlylike manner to the Yarn Collective, Knot your Nanna's Knits is now open for Business :)

please not scratching, bitting, pushing or hitting - Thank You :)

It's Finally Here - Knot Your Nanna's Knit's

Hooray my store is finally here !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

previewing is up now on Yarn Collective and will go live on Monday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

catching up

wow i have so much to catch up on since i last blogged.

the most exciting installment is that my new store is nearly ready to go just waiting on the final touches on my logo and i will be good to go.

also last sunday was my birthday and as always hubster spoilt me with so little gift which he claims are from the kids, - some pandora charms, mum and dad gave me some charms too. but best of all my folk found me a NEW ashford Country the new model not the old modle like i have so the old ones getting a clean up and will soon be ready to moveon to a new home :)

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my rant from friday feels so insignificant following the events in Victoria over the week end - my heart goes out to the families who have lost loved ones and to the survivors who have lost there homes.
may time heal all wounds.

a week from hell..

i am so glad this week is finally over.

On monday i spoke with a graphic designer about my store logo and that was really positive and i am really excited about selling some of my stuff, it kind of justifies why i do it in th efirst place.

On tuesday we (G & I) set off on the hour journey to his TAFE orientation day we were due there at 8.30am and needed to be home again by 11am becasue it was V (vasectomy) - Day. so about 10 mins before we pull up at the TAFE i notice G is rubbing his foot on the side of the foot well in the car, i ask him whats wrong and he says -" i think a green ant has bitten me on the foot" i say " don't be stupid how would an ant get in the car??" we pulled up at the TAFE and he said it was still hurting so he hops out of the car and leans back in to check out the foot well for ants and what does he find - A REDBACK SPIDER!!!

He insists on going in and paying his fees and when he returns his getting pain in his groin and back so we rush to the hosptial were we have to sit for 2 hours while they monitor him, he got the works heart monitor SPo2 Monitor everything. they gave him anti-histermine (sp??) needles and pain relief and send us on our way. During this time i had rung our hospital knowing that we wouldn't be back in time for his op and they then cancelled it.

We got home eventually and over the course of the day he deteriorated so off we went to our local hospital they decided that as he had gotten worse and not better they would administer anti-venom, which was fine but ment we had to sit in the hospital for another 5 hours ( this time i was smart enough to bring my knitting), at 11pm i realised i had be increasing in the wrong spot so i had to rip out 3 inches of my sassymetrical gggggrrrrrrrrrr.

Then on wednesday morning JD was not very happy i sent him to Day care to ride out as i had a huge day of work having missed the Tuesday and when i picked him up from day care the day care mum said he had been very irritable needless to say we had an unsettled night on wednesday.

Thursday morning i deciede to take JD to the Dr's and guess what another ear infection (we are on the waiting list for grommets ) poor little bubba>

This morning i woke up fat and bloated and yep surfin' the crimson tide so what did i do to pick myself up - RED SHOES - the fix even the gloomiest mood :) aahhhhh TGIF!

Dancing with Wool

i finally get a chance to blog it - i spent the last weekend (17-18) in sydney learning to spin art yarns with wooldancer - it was a such a delicious experiance i only wish it coul dhave lasted longer - many thanks to the other beuatiful women who i shared this weekend with including wooldancer, jungle, handspunmum and knittydoll.

there are big things on the horizon for me creativly as you will soon see, i feel like life needs to take a new direction, things are stale and stilted. i was once a bit of a self help book nut and one of my favorite authors was SARK and since the weekend i have had a revelation related to one of her statements - "do what you love and the money will follow" - i am so focussed on mortgage repayments, day care fees, bills. food and fuel that i feel like i am losing myself - why is the money so important? why can't we just be?

look what followed me home

isn't she lovely ????

Merry Christmas

Ho Ho Ho.

Merry Christmas to all.

We had an early morning here and all the pressies are open and breakfast is over - Lilli is watching a DVD and JD is having a sleep before we move on to Rae's house for lunch.

pictures tomorrow :)

sewing stuff

Whipped up this cute little outfit for Lilli to wear to JD's christening on Sunday she is in love with it, and wanted to wear it to nanny's today, i toldher we needed to save it for sunday and she said that was ok coz then she could show both the nanny's at the same time :)

and some dyeing

last night and this morning were spent dyeing some yarn and roving - i am hoping to open an online store in the new year so i am building up stocks - i have 2 weeks off at christmas so i am guessing it will be spent dyeing as well between other things - the problem is i dye it and fall in love with it and don't want to sell it - tell me it get's easier to part with your dye babies?

Wooly Love...

....it appears that it runs in the family, Miss Lilli giving my freshly dyed and dried tops a cuddle :)

it started with just patting and quickly progressed to cuddling - that's my girl

more spinning goodness

I have been christmas spinning firstly some 2 ply red and green merino and also som 3 ply red green and white merino. i knitted it up into these gorgeous little sweaters one for lilli and one for JD. Lilli is going to hep me make the hangers nad put them on the tree tonight.

oh how i love to spin

Robbies Rainbow

(for my mum)
Ice Cream

Playing in the Pansies

(it reminds me of my grandma's garden)

Christmas Crafting and Shopping World

Well the christmas crafting is well underway at our house - 3 gift complete and approx 3 to go.

well the time has come our little town is out of the dark ages and we now have a new shopping centre/mall - my happiest and saddest moment are combined in the fact that we now have a lincraft - happy because we now have some craft selection sad because i wish it was a spotlight :(

G and I are also planning JD's dedication (christening) so i picked up some nice stuff to make invite for that at good prices :)

Tropical Tree Frog Costume GIVEAWAY!!!!

Tropical Tree Frog Costume GIVEAWAY!!!!

a blog i have been watching for a while that i think everyone should check out, such amazing work :)

my creative space

inspired by the "do you have a craft space?" thread on Ravelry i decided to share my creative space.

i share my creative space with my kids which has its positives and negatives, i can supervise them and craft at the same time but i have to pack stuff up before i leave the room or it becomes play fodder

mmmm.. yes that is shag pile carpet.. it will go.... one day.

and my cheeky little monkey hanging off my sewing chair

My Pidgeon holes which were my grandfathers, he built them for his office and i believe he used it to sort bills etc.

The Yarn Stash

The sewing table with one of said mischief makers already trying to open the drawers

and finally the view from my room.

Farm Love

When I am at work my Daughter goes to my mum and dad's place and JD goes to the babysitter.

Lilli just loves it at nanny and poppy's for one reason and one reason only - Poppy's Cow's

Patting the cows with nanny

Giving bread to them with Poppy

Offering the last piece to her mate