quick one...

Before I head off east tomorrow night on the midnight flight to Melbourne till Saturday then off to SA to see my girls

Life is still hectic, this trip hasnt been without its faults and miseries, but not big ones, just my own organisation ones. Im off Im off yipeeee. Cant wait to see my little boy/man in his uniform. Im soooo proud of him, I can gush. And as for Smell and Skye I missing them both badly so cant wait to hug em.

In recent news, the spunk sold his house, so when I get back I must find a job quick smart, so he can move in here.

A few pics for today

Brins Hoodie I started last post is done, a before and after shot
before buttons on and a pic of the buttons, so cute

Some more slippies for me in my hand dyed merino in about a 12ply

My new toy bought today at spotlight. A knitting nancy thingy, or a "I CAN CHEAT ICORD" maker. Brins started making a scarf for herself using a toilet roll holder and pop sticks and I think its time she moved on, besides the spunk wants me to make covers for his guitar stands using it.

Ahhhhh a Harry Potter scarf in the making. Now I have the book I intend to make it all *evil laff* These look about the closet colours I reckon. Tis for Brins, so small and skinny and plane knitting. I will be making me a Slytheren one as Snape is my hero really, Hes so mean and dark. I kinda fancy the man really .

A pic of Brins summer clothes I am making, Got hold of some Lizzie Mcquire patterns so this is a skirt from one.

A little flower I made, nice and quick and from angora/merino

And lastly a pic that the spunk got as a early birthday pressie, (3 weeks away). A mate of mine is doing a Arts degree and so I commissioned her to sketch the harley, here it is, Its amazing, really shes captured every little detail. And he loves it

Ok gotta go, clothes to hang out, buttons to sew on, bags to start packing, and I suppose I better do some housework too.
Ciao for now

At long last I have time to blog.....with pics too

Well its been a hectic few weeks here, the spunk went to hospital 3 weeks ago and has been hobbling around and today has returned to work, my nursing days were a hell of alot of fun though. In the mists of all this I have been knitting frantically, well as much as you can wiped out on pain killers haha, and watching low grade movies. In fact Ive done heaps, alot of small but useful things really.

Firstly I finished my mohair cardi on the weekend and I have to admit Im impressed. I love it and its so thick but not itchy. Wool was from defunked Ozyarns called wildflower or something like that. Truely a beautiful wool to work with and the colours, jewel colours so hard to get in any light but in person ahhh lovely.

Next the promised pic of Brins handpainted fingerless gloves. Impressive. Hard to take a pic when she cant keep still lol.

Im made numerous pairs of mittens and gloves over the past few weeks, nice and easy and quick for instant gradification.
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Ahhhhh slippies. Done in angora/merino mix, blue on my feet
pink made for the spunks daughter. Yes they look like little bags that you would think "they aint slippies", but they are. Am doing another pair for spunks daughters friend now too, sheesh they nice. Smell also recieved some and am making a thicker pair in hand dyed merino for me again, so quick and easy and yanno I have no idea where the pattern came from, here, a book, no idea, but its stapled to my brain now.

Made myself a hat to, in country silk, in the lavender shade, lacy edged beanie pattern from Headhuggers.com, this is a fav, brins has one of these in hot pink too. Smell also got a hat in purple merino surpreme.

Also sewed some tissue holders for Mothers Day stall. PITY NO ONE MAKES TISSUES that fit anymore, grrr, but they sold anyway.
Havent had a chance to get near the sewing machine, but I need to make the mother of all bags for my trip east in 2 weeks. Must be big enuff for 18 hours travelling time,(planes, trains and automobiles, to hold knitting, lunchbox for me,magazines, and heaps pockets for purse, glasses and ipod, phone etc. But not too hard to lug around. Any ideas???? I was thinking a pair of jeans cut up to make one, at least some pockets all ready there and it be nice and strong.
Oh yes on Virgin YOU can take knitting needles, (I checked) but not on Qantas, stupid considering I can take wooden coloured pencils. Same thing, different colours really. wankers

Ahhhh my trip east what a logistic nightmare really, The donut was coming but due to missing the cheap flights last week shes now missing melbourne and her brothers naval graduation and meeting us in SA instead. So now its just me and Brins and meeting my ex over in Melbourne for it. Then flying to SA to see my baby girls, Smell and Skye, I cant wait. I havent seen them since December and my heff has grown so much, heres a pic of her keeping her hands warm.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO and looksee what my spunk bought for me.
Ordered less than 10 days ago and arrived yesterday from Amazon, such nice people. I got it, I got it, I got it *doing a little dance around the room*. I cant wait to make some things from this, Brins is dying for a weasley jumper with a HUGE B on it and the cloak

And we sold the bike, on ebay no less, for what we wanted to a really nice guy in Canarvon ? in north WA. So heres a pic of me and Brins the day it got picked up. I sure miss that old girl but never mind we going to order our new one next week. wooohoooo

Heck there sure are alot of pics so I hope you enjoy em. Ive been busy downloading all the podcasts I have missed in the past few weeks, so have about 16 on my mp4 player ready to go, for listening to on plane and train and automobiles etc. lol

Ive been looking for a cheap but effective storage system for my circs and today bought a DVD holder, size of a exercise book with 40 pockets and the pockets are the size of a dvd cover so im not packing em in tightly. I like to keep em loose so they dont kink. $7 and working well


Now onto whats on my needles, sheesh what a nightmare. I started a orange mohair jumper for me and made a mistake 3 rows in, put it down, got out some zhivago to make a jumper, couldnt get gauge right, put it down, found 20 balls of blue loopy in the stash, started a jumper from the loopy classics book, gauge right, right sizings, but would fit 2 of me, put it down, came to conclusion, I am not meant to make me another jumper yet and instead started a hoodie for Brins
in Katia Himalaya in blue and green striped and will have huge winnie the pooh buttons. Its working lol

Latest news around here, I am finally going to follow my dreams and do a enrolled nurses course at Tafe. Next semester, if I can get the apllication requirements organised. Hopefully by the time the practical work stuff comes around my meds will be stable enuff and I will do it. My doc thinks its a great idea and if it takes me longer than others to complete it so be it.

Ok Im going to do some housework, it has been lacking around here past few weeks but I will leave you with a pic of Brins receiving a special award
at school for much improvement. Brins is semi dyslexic we have found out and has struggled hard but the other night finally managed to read me a book. wooohooo Go girl.

So ciao all, hope to add to this in next few days with more pics and news.
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Tis way too early and cold and.....

Dark and damp so this will be a quick one so I can go back to bed. The spunk and I have been sick as this week with a cold/flu and Im exhusted from sneezing and snuffling.

Sewing front I finished my kimono style top
and am working on another top for Friday night the spunk and I are dining out at a posh resturant and I wanna look good, haha. This gorgeous satin was on special yesterday at spotlight for $6 a metre, buy 2, get one free, Im thinking some lounge pants for me and Brins with whats left.
Ive also found a heap of material
previously bought over the years to make some summer tops, lovely orental silk stuff and some sheer material. And a opshop bargain,
8 metres of various winterish florals for $4. Destined to become pants for brins and skye and some pjs for them too.
Also in spotlight I found the lion brand yarns, wooo very nice the magic stripes was. And wow they have some lovely wools in there atm, Im dying to use my stash a bit so I can buy some other stuff, esp the micromerino they had, lovely and spotlights own "dashing" is divine.Still a whole wall of eyelash crap but ya get that. At least there supply of pure wool and wool blends looks betterer this year.

Ive been having a knitting blank so have just been doing some hats and fingerless gloves to sell at my market stall next month to finance my little trip to the Boys naval graduation and to see my baby girl for a week or so in June
Last week I let Brins dye some wool and she "painted" some grogeous looking stuff she called lolly wrappers. Ive knitted her fingerless gloves wth it but she squandered them in her room so pics will have to wait till she wakes. I dyed some also in black, red and brilliant blue, I dubbed "punky" and will find something to make out of that soon.Maybe fingerless gloves for me again, I do love to wear em. We intend to do some more dying today maybe, I have some stuff out the back room thats gross and needs some over dying.
Brins in her vest

I finished Brins beret

and I must say I liked making this and will make some more but I think I will adjust the pattern a little, I thought a cable or some lace work in it might look great too, a matter of playing around (which I seem to be doing a bit lately in my rut)
These were squares
smell was making before she had the heff and never finished,(shepard boucle type wool) it was meant to be a blankie, but Im looking thinking some nice cushion covers would look great and then the heff can use em in her room or whatever, So I must start sewing them together and sort that out.
My mission in life atm is to cull and use and sell what I have so when the spunk and I eventually leave this world and move country, I wont be taking excess stuff. (esp old UFO's)and knitting patterns I wont ever use. Ive given up on "she who dies with the most knitting paraphalia wins" too. And think "she who dies with the best wins"

A friend of the spunks lent us some great dvds to watch, this is on my agenda for today "father Ted" what a crack up, weve already spent weeks watching vicar of dibly and black adder and allo allo again and again. I forgot how funny they all were.
Latest book
I bought last week and in my spare time Ive been trying to read it, just about finished. I didnt mind it but would have liked to have read the first one first. But ya get that. Looking for more knitting novels now.

Ok thats it for this week, I will leave you with a pic of my little heff doing her own hair. awwww she makes my heart ache.

just another quick one with gratifying pics....

Smorning all

Tis 5.40 and Im up and posting before I crawl back into bed for another hour or so. Caught a dreaded lurgy and Im blaming global warming ok.
School holidays havent been that bad yet, Brins and I caught the bus to Rocky today to walk around after my physio appointment and the dreaded trip to centrelink where I didnt have the "right" information it seems AGAIN, story of my life. But Not to bore.
Today shes going to a friends from school. Said friends mother is doing a teaching degree (IS SHE MAD???) and needs some kids to practice her skills on before she starts work experience at the local state school(thats a nightmare school). So she invited her sons bestest friends to help. Kewl I say. I get a day to go to my apparent job network appointment (friggen thrills I tell ya)

Got some pics of what I have been working on this week.

First up some op shop buys...

A gorgeous bowl looks lovely in my kitchen and

A silver plate plate... Needs a good polish and will look spick

And isnt she gorgeous...
I seen her in the good sammys, sitting all by herself and the staff there were really pleased to see her go, I think she creeped em out, but we think shes lovely. I will make her a hat and broom and shes ready to take on the world then.

Onto sewing this week...
am up to putting the sleeves into my kimono style top and will finish that this weekend while brins at her dads, I need to sit and concentrate for that, but meanwhile I whipped up some flower power hippy pants for Skye.
And following cindys pattern for her sock tote I made this....
Im sooo pleased with the way it turned out, Ive never put a zipper in anything before and I did it and lined it as well. Well done cindy for this pattern. I thinks I need to make me some more, The spunk reckons the house will be full of em soon. Well maybe. Im going to make a larger one to actually hold all my sock stash in, tis not a big stash like some but enuff for a few pairs and that will keep it safe from nasty bugs. And then what about some to hang actual socks in and then I need one for the car to have something to work on in. and maybe one to hold needles in and one for....... YOU get the drift... I lurve em.

My new cup. Awww aint she sweet, I really LURVE hello Kitty and when I seen her yesterday complete with chocolate egg for a measly $3.50 I knew I had to have her, So I did.

What Im working on...

Firstly I have been working
on my mohair cardi. Ive done the back and one side and am working on sleeves atm, I like to beak up the jumper and do the sleeves in between or I end up on sleeve island wondering whether I ever will finish it. Im not sure about the front though, It just doesnt look like I wanted, so I have put a small life line in ready to rip back a bit and redo. Ive tried to catch some of the way the colours just blend in but I dont think I could ever do it enuff justice. Its just gorgeous.

And has anyone used this gorgeous stuff. Its from Kmart and their own brand, Its 8ply 100% wool and its devine.Brins needs a redish hat we realised after a trip to shops yesterday where as she dressed herself. I should have taken a pic but forgot. So I will attempt to describe her attire. From the feet up.

Black boots. black tights with red cow print. black short skirt. Nemo top. Red jumper that I made her last year complete with bell sleeves. and A GREEN HAT. Bloody hell she looked hippy, bohemian and crazy in one. The child has her own sense of style and besides the GREEN hat she looked gorgeous. So she picked out this and I am making her the beret from Jo sharps Heartland book. Its a red/orange mix.
This wool is sooooooooooo soft and squishy and they have some lovely mottled colours I have decided tomoz to take another little trip to Kmart and layby me some, Tis 40% off atm, I paid about $2.90 a ball I think. And a squishy soft warm wooly jumper (for me) here I come. Well thats if I can get enuff in the colour I liked. I was thinking that jumper in the latest Yarn mag, I love the design but dont want mine plain.. ahhh we will see.

In other news this week. My Boy/Man has survived his first week as a navy recruit, mind u I did receive a phone call 2nd day in asking for a survival package, consisting of smokes.

Geez tis 6.27am now. how time has flown and so did my extra hour sleep I didnt get *sob* oh well Im awake now.
Time to make beds, clean up, shower and dress, get a cuppa and sit and knit for a bit till the girl child wakes ready to go again.

Ciao all
enjoy ur day

i finished i finished

I finished the vest and she wuvs it and her mummy heaps.

This is a close up of the front, we decided against a ribbed neckline and went for something a little more feminine... just a shell edged border with ribbon threaded


next we have the fingerless gloves...

Omgodess Im soooooooooo annoyed at myself over these. The first pair I did had gorgeous little skulls and bones on em, but were that small they might have fitted brins, (which the spunk reminded me about AFTER I hadpulled em apart). So we went simple, just stripped, not fingers besides the thumb gusset and she loved em. Maria you are a gem of a mate.

So whats installed next.... well I need to finish smells surprise and the spunk needs his socks finished.... beautiful alpaca i got handspun from opshop last year.


Hopefully that will give me time to think about me. YES ME. cause I need a new jumper and a new cardigan... Oh and I promised Brins a new cardi too. All from the stash of course. And I want to make both girls their "weasley sweaters" too. I might need to buy a small amount for those. Contrast yanno *wink*

And a small pic of my sewing I am working on atm

... Its sorta a kimono style top, yanno the ones that are all the rage now. Hopefully I will finish it at sewing tomorrow.

Also I soooooo realllllly want to make these for the heff. So smell if ur reading this and can get hold of some sirdar in that puffy stuff. (slowflake inthe 8ply) I would appreciate it. Yanno if I have to go near that store at MountPleasantI will buy stuff I dont need. Pattern is from the latest (in OZ) of Simply Knitting. I love this mag, it has patterns for everyone and the little free gifts come in handy. I love this months, the magnetic needle case. They were so in my head when they came up with that idea. Im always running around looking for needles here.

And last pic, Last weekend the v8s were here in Perth and as I had brins that weekend the spunk took his daughter to watch em, while I sat wtaching them on tv and knitting in peace. But hes such a sweetie he didnt forget me again.(those last year will remember he got me flowers and bag and hat etc from v8s. This year I got another bucket hat

In other pressing news today. him pict here with his neice is starting a new life today. He left this morning on a trip to victoria where aboard the HMAS Cerberus he starts a new life as a recruit. Good Luck my little man, Mummy will send a survival package soon.

Ok Im gunna go make a smoothie, fiqure out dinner, and sit and knit on the sock for him and the thing for her and look thru some patterns for them

Ciao all