More Yarn Love

Arty yarn photos.....

Courtesy of James!
We had lots of fun setting these up. Should do some more in daylight!
Of course I have just realised I have a serious yarn addiction, like I said earlier better get knitting.

Yarn Love

I have one lonely but beautiful skein of this...........
the photo does not show the lovely black and purpleybrown colours but it is very yummy. I am planning a pair of longies for Jed. As I only have one skein, the last one left at the LYS and no hope of any more, I will have to find something else for cuffs and waistband. I am hoping that once knitted these longies will see out his nappy wearing career.
As he has already started to train himself I think perhaps I better hurry up.
What to knit once we no longer need longies????

Pictures....

The pictures that go with yesterday's post......

This is how she is supposed to look

My version.....

Brownies.....

To go with a cuppa in my favourite mug....

The rain stopped us from going to Steiner this morning, so we had a quiet day at home instead. Now I'm off to bake jam drops with Tiger, and watch the storm that is about to smash us.... (starting to get over the rain now!!) enjoy your afternoon.

What have we been doing....

The year has officially started....kids are back at school and we went to our first Steiner playgroup for the year last week. Tiger has gone back to the farm and is going to go two days a week this year. He is very excited.
Jed had a few days of higher than normal temperatures, and was decidedly grumpy and whingy.
Teething again!!! Cutting the last back molar and at long last the 4th tooth at the front/bottom gum. He was really a trouper though.
I ripped out what was left in the veggie patch and replanted, we have however had so much rain since, that every time I look at the poor little seedlings they look drowned, bless them, I fear they may not make it. On the other hand it is wonderful to be in the position where there is more water going into the tank than coming out of it. Last night the mountain was almost cut off, (after the 1974 floods the Moutain was completely cutoff for 2 weeks) although DP did get the kids to school this morning since he has been home we have had some showers and it is predicted that we will get more..... lovely stuff. I did hear the buzz that the old timers reckon that February is going to make January look dry???? Mmmm how long and how much rain does it take before mould starts growing on a person?
I borrowed this book from the library it is really sweet, filled with lovely projects that a more experienced knitter would have whipped up in no time. I have started with a pink elephant ( although mine is purple ) she is so cute. I have pictures of the WIP but they are still on the camera and the cable to download them is in with the sleeping baby. I will have to think of another place for it I know...will post pictures next time. Once Ellie is done, I am then going to start on knitting the winter jumpers for Tiger and Jed. I hope I don't get bored before they are finished! I am looking forward to it but realise that if I don't start now they will never be ready in time for the littles to wear them this year. Oh to be a faaaaast knitter!!

Why is it that if you say the word "bottom" (especially if you whisper in a conspiratorial tone) children around the age of three will fall about in fits of laughter? My sister was a culprit, I remember her falling off chairs, so was Mim and so too it seems is Tiger! Perhaps though I shouldn't have mentioned it, maybe it is a particular family quirk. And now everyone will know!

Ok now Blogger won't let me do anything like load pics so I can't show the evidence! I hope I can publish.

I want to make brownies this afternoon... the last batch didn't cook properly, I think I have to use a different size tin, in order for my oven to cope. Best go and start, Tiger has woken from his nap, and he loves to "help" with cooking.

Thanks for stopping by....

Unveiling

Okay the official unveiling........

It all started with 6 balls of yarn and and big dream that of course I could knit a cardigan for Jed.....

Next we got this.....

and finally after some cursing we ended up with this....

Rather cute baby if I say so myself... the cardigan has plenty of mistakes, but I have to say that the yarn was extremely forgiving and Jed can make pretty much anything look good...maybe we should sign him up for baby modelling lol.

The birthdays have come and gone.....

First Mim.....now a gorgeous 13!

and then Tiger...a fantastic 3

Once again we seem to have been very busy, so much so that I have been seriously guilty about how much I have been resorting to convenience and using packaged biscuits instead of baking. Also as I load another pile of washing into the dryer, I have to realise that there just aren't enough sun hours up here to get the clothes completely dry and a "finish off" in the dryer is acceptable. Especially when you have a 3 year old and an 8 month old with colds at the moment. On top of having his first cold Jed also has been cutting his three top teeth, all at the same time!!

Lately I seem to have lost my inner "eco- warrior" that was born when I was in high school and wanted to go to Tasmania and help with the Franklin River protest. My mother wouldn't let me go but I desperately wanted to go and freeze my butt off and save a river from a dam..... it was also at the same time that I became a real vegetarian, since lapsed.

I have been thinking a lot lately about what I can do to lessen my impact on the planet. I have been getting loads of inspiration from blogs that I am reading at the moment, so many people doing so much better than me... I am feeling really time poor, but I think that a good routine and making some lists might help with that. I have always been completely hopeless at making lists, but possibly at this time in my life I need to think less about what I should be doing next and actually do it, so that I get something achieved. Some routines and meal planning will help lots...at least then I will know what I need at the shops and stop impulse buying.

So my goal for the next week is to write up some routines and try to organize myself a little more. I really need to find some more time though...where to look for that???Look over here Mama.....