{this moment}

Still in holiday mode - so lets pretend that it is Friday!

A Friday ritual (on a Sunday) A single photo. No words - caputuring a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment.  A moment I want to pause, savour and remember.

Joining in with Soulemama

Bubble Fun

During a break in the rain today we headed out to the park.

I grabbed the bubble wands on the way out the door.

The kids had fun.

One little boy got a taste of the bubbles and then gave the ducks a drink, opps.

Thanks Santa, a bottle of bubbles to refill them has been added to the shopping list. The wands are $1 from Big W, if you were interested, but I wouldn't know.

All photos were taken with my new 50mm lens.

2011...

What do you have planned for 2011.  2010 seemed to be the year to 'create'.

I don't really have any hard and fixed plans for 2011 - I got a little stressed towards the end of the year with things that I wanted to make and ran out of time for.  Lucky my Mum was understanding with the shawl that she recieved on the 25th of December still on the needles and with ball still hanging (thanks Mum)

Gifts - I would like to once again make most of my gifts this year - I am starting soon - really soon considering that the first of the birthdays occur in the family on the 24th of January and another following on the 25th. 
I am dusting off the machine and sewing gifts as well this year.  Sewing takes alot less time than needles going clickity clack click.

The Kids - With Amelia beginning Prep, I am dreaming of what I will get done during the days.  But am mindful that I have Baden here who really needs some one on one time with his Mumma.  I am in the search of a playgroup for him and will continue to take him to the local library for story time. 

Me - I would like to knit and sew more for me, then I might stop complaining about not being able to find clothes that fit me (thankyou Esprit, Colorado and Cue for changing your sizes and body shapes)

Garden - Spend time in the yard - it is small, but I am learning to look past that - the thing that I am enjoying at the moment is running out with the kids to see if the strawberries are right for the picking.  The herbs are also growing very well with very little care (lets not talk about the tomato plant)

Selling my Skills -  make and sell a few more things that I have made.  This includes looking into setting up a little store (maybe BigCartel or Madeit/Etsy) Input and knowledge appreciated. Top of the list is to make a few things out of the cottage licences that I have already paid good $ for.

Community - I am going to stop talking about inviting people over for morning tea, lunch or dinner and actually do it.  Steph, you are the first on the list so clear your diary :) 

Take part in the meal drive at our church (a drive where meals are provided and dropped around to members if they are sick etc)

Home - Be more organised (I can dream), try a new recipe each week.

The end of 2011 will see us once again pack our boxes and move our family to yet another area of Australia (destination unknown at the moment - will know more in July)  So, there is also a list of things and places that I would like to do and go to in the area before Brisbane is no longer 'home' (these will also be documented)

2010...the year that was...

Knitting...

If you follow or visit this blog than you will already know that the knitting needles were smoking in 2010. 

I sat down and worked out how many things slipped off of the needles. Total count came to 70 wow - I know that I was busy but in my wildest dreams never thought that I had done that much.  No wonder comments included 'knitting queen' along the way.

In that I managed 35 beanies, 13 test knits, 45 gifts, 2 fundraisers and 3 things for me.

I set out the year wanting to take full advantage of being in a capitol city and I think that I did achieve that.  I lept in and took part in the 'I knit Brisbane'.  I also attended two knitting related workshops one being the Colourwork Workshop with Biggan Dups and most recently the Dying workshop with Kelly both of which were held at tangled Yarns.

Other things for the year included teaching myself to crochet and selling a few beanies through Steph of Mon Petite Poppet.  Thanks so much Steph for taking them along to market with you.  I also over came my fears of cables and now spend many an hour looking on Ravelry at amazing patterns.

 I will leave you with the last thing off of the needles for 2010.  A shawl for my Mum.  This was a year long project for me (one of two shawls in 2010) I love the end result but don't think that I will be rushing out to knit with black again in a hurry - it is not something that I could work on at night (being the hours that I get most of my knitting done)  For pattern details and a few more photos make sure you check out Ravelry

Welcome...

New Look, New Name.

Thanks for finding me.  Please make sure you pop over and click the followers tab. 

I will be back later today with that round up post for 2010 that I promised.  But until then I will share a cute picture of my two little ones.
I wanted a nice photo of the two of them for Christmas and as I was taking the photo I said 'monkeys', lets just say that instead of just saying it they became one. 

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A quick dash home...

Hello 2011...  Hello Brisbane!

How did you bring in a new decade? We missed the fightworks and instead drove by the light of the moon with the stars as our fireworks.

With heavy hearts we packed up the car and headed back late yesterday afternoon.  The Bruce Highway is almost cut and the Fitzroy River is set to reach 9m in the next few days and the highway closed for about 10 days from when the river peaks.

I will be back later to do a round up post of 2010 and what I have in store for 2011.  It may even include a new blog - I still need a bit more of a holiday and as the saying goes " A change is as good as a Holiday" Then there is no better excuse.

I will leave you with a few pictures of what we came through yesterday.