Yarn Along

I'm excited as I am getting through the front pieces of my cardigan quite quickly now!  I finished one side & am half way up the second!  Even the lace edge went quickly this time!  That's good when I still have to do it for the sleeves.  I am wondering whether to knit the sleeves at the same time as each other.  I haven't done that before & wonder if I can stand the confusion of 2 at once.  I guess I should try it once & see how it goes.  Do you do 2 at a time of anything?  

I am reading an assortment of things lately!  Last night it was Smiley Shark which I picked up yesterday at the school's book fair.  I could have got a load of stuff, but had limited money on me.  Probably a good thing!  

Joining in with the Yarn Along!   

Ahhh... The Fragrance!

Wish you could be at my place right now.  I have had these in the oven & the house just smells of cinnamon! Some early Christmas scent coming to town already!  

This morning we had playgroup.  This morning I made 3 batches of this dough.  Sadly there weren't many at playgroup this morning so I still have a batch left & managed to pass on half another.  We do have this lot of ornaments though.  I took them home to bake as it's easier as you have to leave them in the oven for a while after turning it off.  There are marks on the trays about who owns which ornaments.  Pencil lines & writing made that bit simple.   I did do a bunch of extra trees too for next week when the children who weren't there this time can finish them off with painting or just a string.  I think they look quite nice like this & some of them have glitter on them as there was glitter on the table that was left stuck from previous crafts!  All good!  It is an easy recipe though & I think I will be making a few more tomorrow when I have some more time to use up that other lump of dough.  Or maybe I will have to find some more children to give it too!  

Also on the agenda today is this hat.  BJ has a birthday party on Saturday.  We don't know this boy well, so a hat was a good idea I thought.  He hasn't had a hat at school that I have noticed, so this might be appreciated!  It will be unique anyway!  I have an order from the teacher for one now so these are proving to be a hit!  Not bad at all huh?  So the hats are lining up.  I have fabric to make 4 for Christmas presents for family friends of ours so that will be an in between job too.   Eventually I will get one made for me!  lol  

Playing here again!

Old And New

The last few days have been lovely with the boys.  They have been a pleasure & agreeable in all things which has been lovely!  

This morning I was out & about on my own!  Only for an hour but still!  Yay!  I stopped at a garage sale & found a bag of toy soldiers - you know those little green men stuck in one pose forever?  BJ knows them from the Toy Story movies where they move about the house.  lol  This bag of soldiers had cars, trucks & ambulances, planes & missiles! We even found a couple of Indians & cowboys!  BJ & DJ had a play together though BJ did get upset about DJ adding the red car which "doesn't match!!!"  (sounds like me!)  Once DJ was down for a nap BJ had a fine old time playing with them for a few hours.  Definitely got my $3 worth already today!  Don't you love that!  Sutart & I did laugh while sitting in the room listening to him play.  He put the couple of red figures in the corner of the table & said they were having a party!  hehehe...  as you do.  The rest are yellow & green.  Bad ones & nice ones as it turns out.  

Yesterday I went to the post office!   Quite something for me these days.  Since I had no boys with me as I was on my way to work I stopped for a quick look at the books as they do have some interesting things in there at times.  I found this book "How the World Works".  It looked really cool.  Lots of pull tabs, opening out leaflets, & these pop ups!  This is right up BJ's alley.  He is a curious kid that seems to be quite scientific minded at times, so this was going to be fun.  We had fun reading it this morning!  Well looking at the bits that Mummy had a clue about anyway.  There are some bits that are Daddy's department I'm afraid.  Even reading it will confuse me!  But we had fun looking at the pop ups, checking out the things that fly about in space, pulling out tabs that made the earth move so make earthquakes or volcanes!  All very cool to a young boy!  Definitely worth the $15 from Aussie Post!  

More Dinosaurs

made yet another hat today.  Special order.  Both boys wanted to model the hat this time!  lol  

Ever since I made their dino hats they have worn them in different places & everyone comments on them & a couple of people have asked for hats now!  BJ is more than happy to tell them that :"Mummy made it for me".  So nice.  He is quite happy with mummy made stuff still!  I have a couple more years before he needs name brand I think!  Yay!  

WIP Wednesday

Wow, Wednesday seems to come around fast doesn't it?

Well I have got my back!  Well actually here DJ has it.  I told you last week didn't I that DJ will sit on something as soon as I put it down to take a picture!  Anyway, this is a terrible picture I know, but how do you photograph a back side?  lol   It's done anyway & I just did the lace starting rows for one of the front pieces.  Yay!  That took forever on the back.  Of course the front is half the stitches so went more quickly!  Plus I had a clue about what I was doing this time!

So that's me...  knitting away.  Watching the final of Big Brother tonight & knitting away!  That's the plan anyway & anything could happen between then & now to change that plan!  There will be a chapter of Adventures of the Wishing Chair in the somewhere though.

Jump in & play with us this Wednesday won't you?



& jumping in on here too!

Long Weekend

What a bonus!  Don't you love the day when you don't have to rush around & do all that other stuff as it's not on because it's a holiday?  This morning was such a great feeling...  ahhhh....

We've been to the park.  

Done loads of washing.  

Made a huge batch of these for playgroup on Wednesday.  I hope they last until Wednesday!

These are some of my favourite cookies to take to places.  They are tasty, have potential to change the flavour about for those that don't like the ginger or anything like that.  

Image from here

I've been working on this Santa for playgroup for in a couple of weeks.  Another one I have seen through Pinterest!  We need to get this done in November so they have it at home for the 1st December!  I'm going to do it differently though.  This is a printable to just print it as is.  Not very crafty...  so I am going to cut out a bunch of the face bits so the kids can stick them on the pages I printed with the numbers & poem on.  At least that gives them something to do for it.  

If you are looking for ideas for craft for kids at Christmas there are some great ones here... this is a link to a bunch of links...  

Have a great week!

Play On Words

I finally got to give the little brother his sort of birthday present that I had been planning for a while.  He returned this week & we had dinner planned with family.  Nothing fancy, just a local place where there is a good play thing for the kids.  Nice easy relaxed atmosphere even with boys tired from the show.  

He said being 40 isn't bad so far though.  The kids out with us didn't think so either as they got to take a share of the lollipops home.  BJ enjoyed his Melody Pop today - do you remember the whistle ones that the stick pulls in & out to play a tune?  He thought that was really cool fun!  Thank goodness there is only one of those left!