A Paris Pash...

Or maybe a Pash in Paris.

Who knows - this is almost on its way to Melbourne before setting off to Paris on the head of a friend about to jet set on holiday to France.  How envious am I,  at least I can say that I knitted her beanie and kept her head warm.

This is the second Pasha I have knitted - thinking that I will have to knit one for myself.  Now to decide what colour!  Any suggestions?

i'm grateful for...

... the lovely person that found a wet and skitty dog during a thunderstorm and took it to the local vets

... the wonderful vet who scanned her and gave us a call

... the vet nurse who gave her a cuddle, water and some food and locked her up safely for the night

... the happy wag of the tail that i received in the morning when i walked through the doors.

... i am so glad we paid that money to get her micro chipped when she was a puppy.

This is my first time participating in Maxabella loves weekly grateful for posts.

My Creative Space

I am playing with two new friends this week.

A ball winder and a wooden swift.  Two things that have been on my wish list for a while and when I recieved some money for Christmas I thought that I would put it to good use.

It takes minutes to wind beautiful tight centre pull balls, that once would have taken me hours if not days.

My little helper thought that the swift was a little noisy, I might have to find the bees wax.

Three balls waiting to be turned into something special.  I might even have to build up my dyes now and dye some yarn to sell.

Pop in and say hi at Kootoyoo and be sure to pop around to a few crafty spots.

Let's Go Fly a Kite

With tuppence for paper and strings,
you can have your own set of wings.
With your feet on the ground,
you're a bird in flight!
With your fist holding tight,
to the string of your kite!

Let's go fly a kite
Up to the highest height
Let's go fly a kite
And send it soaring
Up through the atmosphere
Up where the air is clear

Oh, let's go fly a kite!

 

When you send it flying up there,
all at once your lighter than air!
You can dance on the breeze,
over 'ouses and trees!
With your fist 'olding tight,

to the string your kite!

 Let's go fly a kite
Up to the highest height
Let's go fly a kite
And send it soaring
Up through the atmosphere
Up where the air is clear
Oh, let's go fly a kite!

 

An afternoon to the seaside to fly the kite, fish and chips, a walk and finished off with an icecream on a hot Summer's Day.

And if I have you humming the tune - head over and sing along.

Getting Pinned

I have found another (clear throat)  ADDICTION. 

Becky mentioned the other day that she was a little hooked and enjoying it.  Without a second thought I managed to get an invite from Elissa and I was in creating boards and pinning.

It is GREAT.

I have managed to clean up not only my desk but also the favourites that I have been saving on my computer are now all here in one place - how great is that for orgainisation?

One of my favourite things is the ability to pin anything from anywhere (by adding a little tab to your tool bar)  I had a few cut outs of ideas the other day and they are now gone and replaced with pins on pinterest.

And because a blog post is not complete without a few pictures here are a few favourites at the moment...

Let me know if you are pinning, I would love to follow you.  If you too would like to PIN - send me a message with your email and I will send you an invite.

A Change in Plans...

We descided to stay at home on the weekend after the weather man predicted hot temps and thunderstorms.

I am glad that we did. We have two little ones who have picked up the vomity bug that is getting around.

We still managed to camp out, on the lounge room floor, instead of in the tent under the stairs and watched DVD's and ABC2 (how good is that channel when you need it) sipping on cool water and lemonade and eating sliced apples.

They are slowly on the mend.  Amelia had a home day today to get over it and has been enjoying doing the next letter in her Reading Eggs.  If you have little ones check it out.  It is a fantastic program run in lots of lower primary schools and helps in the fundamentals of reading and phonics. It is an initiative of ABC and is available on trial for a 6 week period.  We will be purchasing it when the trail is up, as even Baden is enjoying it.

Tea for Two

A quick little gift to give to a little friend today when we were invited around to her place for a playdate to celebrate her birthday. 

She recieved a few little play cooking things and a wooden tea set, so I thought that these would go down a treat and with only 30mintues to whip something up I am quiet proud of them.

I used a tea bag as a pattern and managed to cut, sew, wrap and get out the door to pick Amelia up from school. I see a trip to Spotlight on the cards next week to get some more cream felt so I can make some up for Baden and Amelia, there were a few tears shed when he worked out that they were not coming home.

Have a good weekend everyone,  I am off to checkout the BOM site and work out if we can manage a camping trip in without getting wet this weekend.