Felting Fun...

A quick Christmas gift that I whipped up a few days before Christmas for my Grandmothers.  Seriously, the longest part of these was waiting for the washing machine to do its thing and felt them.

I used two balls of Noro Kureyon and Lucy of Attic24's Hexagon Crochet pattern.  Insperation came from Kelly of Tangled Yarns ready for Christmas.

Two rounds in the washing machine (front loader) with a few tennis balls and an old towel - next time I will find an old pair of shoes to add in there as well as the front loaders are a little too kind for this sort of treatment.

Two Cute Fairy's

As part of the Christmas gift for Amelia and Gracie I whipped up a cute little skirt to go with a top that I had purchased some months ago at Target.

I dont have a cute picture of them standing together but these will have to do.  It shows how much fun they had on Christmas day and wearing them.

 

A change of plans...

In fear of being flooded out and floating out to sea, Christmas venue was changed and we went straight to my parents.  The camper trailer may stay where it is if the weather channel are correct with there predictions of more rain.

There were two little people here that were very impressed with Santa's ability to find where they were for Christmas Day. 

Time spent eating and keeping dry with Grandparents

and of course - seeing which of Grandpa's girls could get more of his chest.

We hope that this finds you all well and dry and enjoying a wonderful Christmas with your family and friends.

It's a wrap...

We are almost ready to head out the door.  The car is almost packed and the kids have been having fun making some wrapping paper.

I think it looks great. And a great activity to do with the kids when the rain is pouring outside.

And we finished them off with a handprint tag.

Santa Photo...

The kids had there Santa photo the other day.

Both the photographer and Santa tried to get Baden to put his arms down - but that was not going to happen, and personally this mother was just happy that he would sit there and smile.  He has come a long way in a year. We have no Santa photo to document the distress that this little man would have been in if I had plonked him on Santa's knee. To give you an example of his dislike to him last year, a book sat unopened for weeks because of who gave it to him.

This year he has asked for a Buzz and a Ball and much to his disgust he keeps seeing him and he keeps leaving without handing over the goods.

Behind the Lense...

Thought that I would share a photo that my Darling Husband took of me.

I really need to hand over the camera a little more and get some more photos with the kids.

WoolyJolly asked how I get such great shots.  Kids move and are fast at it.  I take heaps of photos and have the camera set to snap quickly.  For every photo that you see - there are about 50 that have been taken along with it.  I also bought a 16G SD card with the new camera - so snapping away is easy and I dont have to stand and delete while I attempt to get the perfect shot.  Oh, and the course that I just did was on Capturing Joy and spoke about taking photos of children, family and friends. It was fantastic and I highly recommend it. After Christmas I am doing a landscape course and then onto a few advance courses.

Finished...

The last of the crazy Aunt knits are off of the needles.

A Belle beanie, inspired by the movie Twilight.  Having not seen the movies I scratched my head and then did a search on Ravelry.  Some clever person had popped up a pattern for a beanie that Belle wore during the first movie. For pattern details pop over here.

Then it was onto the 9 year old nephew.  I descided on Robots and with the kids help they descided on what colours the robots would be (Tim I think really wanted fluro robots - but I managed to get this out of left over yarn)

  

How cute do they both look.

Best be off - still have a few things to finish and have to hit the sewing machine and then think about what I need to pack.