Taking Stock - October

Making :  Christmas & birthday gifts.
Cooking :  butter chicken.  A favourite of the boys.  
Drinking :  Nespresso at home, cos I can.  
Reading:  The second Wishing Chair book to DJ.  
Trawling:  hallmark.com
Wanting: someone to cook our tea every night!
Deciding:  on how to do my front fence.  :-)
Enjoying:  knitting scrap socks.  They don't look scappy which is cool!  
Liking: our Random Act of Kindness in the park.  
Pondering: sock scrap combos
Considering:  Christmas
Buying:  DJ a new scooter since we gave his away.  
Watching:  dare I say it?  Just started Gilmore girls from the beginning again.  Marvelling: at how the boys have taken to drawing Tas Rocks & sharing them.  
Cringing: at the new technique I'm trying.  I figured it out but not loving it so will leave it now I conquered it!  Will use the wool in something else now!  lol
Needing: some more rocks to colour in.  
Smelling: Easy Air, oil blend to help clear my nose...
Getting:  my own Samsung tablet!  Yay!  & it's free!!!  Whoop whoop!
Celebrating: a new baby boy right next door!   
Embracing:  the painted & hiding rocks craze. 

Late But Done!

These socks I did manage to finish today.

I have hardly done any knitting in the last week so these are now late.

But I did get them finished & in the mail all in the one day...

Hopefully someone likes them!

Sock #17 - 2017

Rocking Along

The last few days have been good for rock production.  

Well for DJ & I at least.  

There is quite a bit of variety here.  

We had a rock hiding day today & a little one yesterday.  We have shared them around in 3 different places.  We have seen a couple of our rocks that have been found too so that's exciting.  I hope we see when Spongebob is found too!  

We also took quite a lot of the ones we had found & hid those again.  We haven't got many left now.  

(as much as I hate spiders, I do like this one.  So I did another one!  lol)

(the pokeball was found today!)

The walking doughnut was found today too!  

These 4 we found but have kept Peppa pig & the ninja turtle for now.  Other 2 are gone.  

Rock Star

DJ is really enjoying this rock thing! 

He has been churning them out. 

But today he did an amazing job.  He used the biggest rock the beach must have had. 

He used a clip or something online to copy out Spongebob! 

I reckon he did a really good job of it anyway! 

Thursday Thanks

• Lovely sunny weekends!
• Boys getting creative.
• Me being creative in a different than usual way.
• Boys being active outside!
• Me being active outside!  
• Impending summer days & all that it brings.

740/1000

Ain't That A Shame

Well we went to swimming lessons.

The pool was still broken.

Lucky for us we had scooters & rocks in the car.

Yay!

We had a great time.  Went to a different park than we have dropped rocks previously, as we were there anyway.  We went for a nice scooter ride along the walking track over there first & dropped 10 rocks.

The boys were too busy scootering & playing to look really.  I am totally hooked & can't help but look.  I found these 4.  It was funny as BJ was sitting at the table where IT was hiding, & he still didn't see it!   

Another bag of rocks came home with us.  Better get drawing.

Ain't that a shame - song by Fats Domino who passed away today.  Another classic!

Hooked on Rocks

So the crazy rock craze is still on.  After we found all those yesterday we did make a good collection to replace them.  The boys want to keep what they find which is OK but I do want them to replace them as well. 

So we had a drive to get some sealer & I got a can of spray on white at the same time.  As you do. 

This is what we came up with...  DJ's first picture, BJ's second picture - he is very particular about his rocks & takes ages so doesn't get many done.  Unlike DJ who just rushes!  Next 2 pictures are my rocks!  & I must admit but I am keeping my big toucan.  Was really pleased with him & how pretty he turned out.  I'm a hopeless drawer but using these books of the boys on how to draw it sure helped & makes me look a little bit capable! 

After dropping ours in the park we did have a hunt of course.  Found 4.  I re-hid one which I thought the boys would find on our way back scootering through the park but they didn't.  

In the meantime, coming back from scootering, we gave DJ's scooter away.  He is way too tall for it.  So this unsuspecting bloke pushing the pram with his little girl in it, got to carry home a scooter than this random nutter woman & her son handed over happily mid ride. 

(well what were we to do?  We had to find someone to pass it on too!  & well, not usually so random like that but hey, better random in person fun for strangers!  We're happy as it's out of our way without any effort now!  )

Spur of the Moment Times

The boys had to come with me this morning as Stuart went to work.

We turned it into a super fun time.  BJ wanted to go back to the park where we hid rocks to see if his Ghostbusters was still there.

So after a look & a play we had found a couple of rocks there.

BJ found one of Dj's that DJ had hidden last week.  That was a surprise.  BJ didn't know it was his!

But then we got the scooters out of the car & scootered down to another part of the park.  That was a successful trip.  We found a whole pile that way.  It was good fun.  The boys had a blast.

We now are armed with more rocks & other stuff to get ready to paint another batch to replace all of these.  It seems we are making a "Tas Rocks" garden!

Fused Fusion

These are great! 

For one thing I have used up left overs!  It's amazing what is hiding in "scraps" isn't it? 

I did these 2 at a time so worked from each end of a left over ball so each sock worked the same.  I am really pleased.  The first one went pretty much the length of the foot.  The second one went a few rows into the cuff.  The third finished the cuff & heels. 

The yarn is "Roam Fusion" & the different ones work together pretty well I think! 

Socks # 16 - 2017

Memory-es

This picture recently popped up on a page I follow. 

Gee, it was like a huge flashback.  It still is when I see it in my screen saver collage of pictures... 

THIS is the game we used to have.  The one game that I used to actually win! 

Just looking at the pictures of the game pieces is just so weird.  Ours was well worn.  One of our chimney stack pieces had a really big chew mark in it.  Guess that was my brother.  But these were such a cool variety of pictures. 

These days a game like this is most likely a licensed product with pictures following a theme of a current trend. I have tried to keep away from games like that now, but some days it's unavoidable... 

Did you have a favourite game as a child that you were good at?  Or remember because you weren't??? 

Scrap Socks

This is so far on the scrap socks.  This is one bit of scrap, having started at both ends of the ball I have got a lot further than I expected.   It's just about the length I need before I put the heel yarn in. 

So stay tuned for the next instalment of scraps.

Thursday Thanks

• School Holidays!  Yay!
• Nice balance of holidays & extra work time.  
• Learning new knitting techniques, even if I don't like them.
• Running into friends in random places.  Some people are just meant to be in your lives aren't they?  
• Family members that take care of one another at the drop of a hat.  
• Grandparents who babysit the boys.  

734/1000

Pillow Time

Another party! 

Another pillow!

Grandma Lyn came to play games with the boys.  I got to whip this one up. 

Pillow present #15

Exploring

One of our favourite shops re-opened this week.  It burned down 2 years ago.  They were in temporary premises until the new place was done.  Which it is now.  

So we checked out the new store!   

Starting with Alice in Wonderland's little door!  

Humpty was a hit! 














The dragon was scary!  Tall too! 

Why Stop At One?

New challenge finally...

I gave this a try today.  Two at a time socks.  It's great.  Easy as.  I don't know that I would like to try it with some fancy pattern though. 

Also stash busting left over sock yarn while I go.  I have both socks started from either end of a left over ball.  So it will be interesting to see how far up this sock this one goes. 

Stay tuned...

Lego Play

The local library put on a Lego time in the school holidays.  It was quite good.  The boys have a lot of lego themselves but it is always nice to play with some different pieces & also to play with other people. 





It can become a little competitive in that sort of environment so it was interesting to watch. 

BJ made a marble maze.  All the kids were interested in it & had a turn of it.  He liked that.

Our Rocks

A good day to spend some time colouring rocks.  DJ got into it big time.  

BJ took a little longer & put more thought into each design. 
That's him I suppose.

Admittedly, I did it too. 

Lucky for me, the boys have some learn to draw books with step by step pictures.  I used those.  I had fun. 

 They just need to be sealed now.  That will happen in a few days. 

Tas Rocks!

So the current phase in the world here is rocks.  Yep, rocks. 

Pretty decorated rocks though.  It's a new phenomenon.  The boys had some time at the park over the last couple of days & found a few fancy rocks.  It's quite fun really!  You can rehide them for others.  But the boys wanted to keep these. 

Of course they wanted to do some of their own though! 

Gift Socks

A couple of birthdays still to come before the end of the year.  This is one pair of socks off the list.

I love this yarn.  It's Opal.  I haven't used that brand before so it was nice to try a new one & the colours are pretty.  Hope the person likes them as much as I do.

Socks #15 2017