Archive for the ‘family’ Category
Tweet It’s finished! A collaboration of time, thought, creativity and perseverance. Such an absolute delight to work with my girlie. I do so adore her. I made a last second dash to the fabric store on Tuesday afternoon to ensure we had red corduroy, white velvet and a red zip with which to turn this [...]
Tweet a busy day, filled with fabric and family. Washing went out and came in and went out and came in several times – dratted Melbourne weather. The kitchen was tidied and mussied up again. Over and over :-) Now, it is Sunday evening – one of my favourite moments in the week. We’re all [...]
Tweet A special day. Our anniversary. We’ve been together for 20 years this year. Oh my, that sounds so grown up. It must be. He is the bookshop boy and I am the girl with the standing order for The Economist. He set my heart aflutter with his spectacles and beautiful cheekbones. I was a [...]
Tweet I cannot go away without packing all the little projects that currently have my attention – knitting, embroidery, sewing, patchwork … Last week in Merimbula was no exception – I took the orange cardie, the pink socks (of which all that had been completed was the cast-on), a skirt (thrifted, pure wool, box pleated [...]
Tweet Never, in my wildest dreams, did I think I would be turning pixelated drawings of chibi manga characters into needlepoint patterns! But here I am, finding the picture on google images so as to better interpret Mr. Pixelated Poland (from the manga Hetalia) here on my screen. Whilst Julian and Abby sit in the [...]
Tweet The beach called. We rolled up our long pants. Left our sneakers on the grass. Danced across the sand. Turned our faces up to the sun. Let the dear little waves swirl and whoosh over and around our feet. So terribly, terribly cold! So splendid! And when the coming days turn grey and dreary [...]
Tweet Oh my! It’s been so many weeks since I lasted visited here. What a slacker! These past weeks have been filled with essays, exams, pracs, an absent husband/father (3 whole weeks!), solo mothering (of the girly, furry and feathered varieties), a visiting mum/nan, a whole week all by myself (oh that was so long [...]
Tweet Ah … as my girl moves through her teenage years – exploring who she is and what she is interested in – I sometimes find myself completely out of my depth and wondering how it is Abby has come to be interested in THIS and how I am supposed to embrace it. Occasionally, there [...]
Tweet :: making brownies for Abby and then finding out they are really intended as payment to Julian for coming home early from work last week to help out with her school stage crew commitments! :: Hugh’s bread dough – most successful bread baking ever! :: Nana Nicky’s pretty parasol being put to such good [...]
Tweet ahhh … a long weekend. Such bliss. We are … :: cooking and eating our way through Hugh’s new cookbook – Veg – though Abby is not sure the recipes could be considered authentic Hugh seeing as he has lost his curly mop! :: casting loving and longing looks at the two new gorgeous [...]
Tweet Ahem. The arm warmers – started this time last year – were finished late last week. This twelve month knitting window is not at all indicative of the arm warmer pattern’s complexity. More a reminder of how easily distracted I am. So, this afternoon I made Abby put on said arm warmers with a [...]
Tweet Saturday’s birthday stitchfest also produced a very sweet little kindle cover – Julian’s birthday present. The cover that is, not the kindle … that came a long time ago. I used a beautifully thick, stiff, pure wool felt from Winterwood – they use it primarily for building houses and toadstools etc. It sure makes [...]