Humm!...

Promise to come back tomorrow and update this with photos - my camera is not playing nice tonight!

So tomorrow you will see my work in progress! The knit for me in the hope that it will keep me warm - Please tell me now why I chose to do a stripe pattern?

To warm the heads

Here is a sneak peak at some of the beanies that I have been knitting - they are on there way to Victoria and Tasmania to keep some big and little heads warm.

To Market to Market... I am participating in a few Market Swaps at the moment... This is where you swap a talent with someone else and in return you get something that they are good at.

Since the only thing I seem to get done at the moment is knit and Amelia is lacking in winter attire I thought that it would be a good idea.

Thankyou Novy for the lovely dresses. (I will post a picture of Novy's beanies for her Munchkins when they are received by slow mail)

And Baden did not miss out - a cute little teddy and bib for him!Stay tuned - another Market swap is underway and will be sailing its way to Tasmania tomorrow!

The signs that winter is upon us!

With only a month to go until it is officially winter, it really is starting to cool down.

It felt like over night the weather changed. Sunny one day (for the ANZAC Day march - which I am positive everyone was appreciative of) and raining and max of 12degrees the next. Tim and I thought that we would indulge and put the heating on - but that was not to be as it was faulty (I tell you this 'NEW' house has more faults than I care to list)

So here are a few photos from around the house to finish of the Macro Challenge (which concluded yesterday - so again I am fashionably late!)

Crispy Grass...Heaters on...Humidifyers running...
Changing Colours all around...Socks on...Blankets lined up on the couch...Random knitting projects around the house and mugs of coffee or hot chocolate...Humm - warm house = condensation...
Beanies and Jumpers on...Running Noses, Dry Hands and Cracked Lips...Considering learning the skill of knitting socks...And my two just for good measure - dont they look good in orange?

Anzac Day

I think by now most of you would have worked out that Tim is a serving member in the Australian Army. He has been deployed overseas twice and I am blessed to have had him return safely home on both occasions. He did have close calls on both of his deployments - the first saw a group of them shot at on the boarder and the second saw him struck by lightning. We have also been blessed that he has not been deployed since the birth of Amelia - although I am sensing that this will soon change.

This year was only the second year (in about 20) that I did not attend the dawn service (the first being in 2005 when Darwin was on lock down due to a cyclone warning)

I will leave you with a poem that I was given by a friend during one of Tim's deployments

Military Wives Prayer

Dear Lord,
Give me the greatness of heart to see the difference between duty and his love for me.
Give me understanding that I may know, When duty calls him, he must go.
Give me a task to do each day, to fill in the time when he is away.
And Lord, when he is in a foreign land, keep him safe in your loving hand.
Lord, when he is in the field, please protect him and be his shield.
Lord, when deployment is so long Please stay with me and keep me strong.

Amen
(Author unknown)

Unexplained Absence!

Sorry about that everyone.

Tim came home from work last Tuesday to tell me that he was heading to Canberra for the night and a course on Wednesday and Thursday and had to drive over - So the kids and I went for the drive too.

We managed to catch up with some great friends and also meet up with Jennie and her kidlets and Amelia had a great time playing in the park and we got to have a chat and catch up.

On the crafting front I managed to get a little knitting done along the way.

I will leave you with a few Macro shots...

This one was actually being warn and my model would not sit still!

14:30

Schieich AnimalsWe have a bit of a love for them in our house - not sure who likes them more - Amelia or me. She is slowly getting a little collection of them and we are about to start on the zoo animals.

I just LOVE the detail that the have!