30 June, 2016

Thursday Thanks



  • Big boy back at school.
  • Some time to get a few things done.
  • Some kids that have taken to learning to knit easily.
  • The perseverance of those that haven't got it quite so easily.
  • A kinder teacher that let me do a parent help after 2 weeks of having to keep crossing my name off.
  • A break now from term activities.
  • Great reports.
473/1000

PS...  even the dog is sick of the rain!  Juneau barely moves if she can help it.  

28 June, 2016

Addictive Knits

It's crazy when you find a pattern & you just knit knit knit...


My current pattern is the mukluks again.  I love doing them in the variegated yarns.  This one was in a new yarn at work called Crazy Days.  I did the second largest size this time & they are a bit small for me with a pair of socks on underneath.  I really like this yarn to knit up.  It's a 12 ply yarn apparently though it isn't really a great  deal thicker than the coloured ones I did last week.  That was a 10 ply but knits more like a 12 I think. 

I think these are going to be a Christmas gift for a friend anyway.  I think they would make an ok gift.  

27 June, 2016

Taking Stock - June

Making :  slippers for anyone that cares to wear them.
Cooking :  simple home cooking after a couple of weeks of crazy meals.
Drinking :  herbal tea at bed time.  Chamomile really does seem to help.
Reading:  Mercy Street   -  Tess Evans
Wanting:  normalcy.  
Looking:  Forward to the holidays
Playing:  Candy Crush
Deciding:  what to knit next.
Wishing: I didn't feel so tired.  lol
Enjoying:  watching episodes of The Bill on iview.
Waiting:  for a new series I can binge watch.
Liking:  the movie Inside Out.
Loving:  the movie Zootopia
Pondering: things to do in the holidays, kind of...
Considering:  a birthday cake creation.
Buying:  birthday presents.
Watching: Love Child season 3!
Hoping:  we don't do much in the school holidays
Marvelling:  at how kids recover from sickness/stuff so quickly...  
Needing:  more hours in a day
Smelling: chamomile & honey
Wearing:  all my knitted stuff!  but not quite all at once.  lol
Following:  kind of, half following Masterchef...  
Thinking:  still about our hospital time.
Admiring:  both of my boys teachers this year...
Sorting:  just stuff that accumulates on the bench tops!  
Disliking:  customers that are on the phone in the shop.
Opening: parcels of Lego Disney minifigures.
Snacking:  anything I can find at the moment! 
Helping:  some of the interested kids at our school to learn to knit.  
Hearing:  a lot of complaining & arguing......  argh.
Worrying:  how will BJ go at school this week.  
Celebrating:  DJ's birthday next week.
Forgetting: not as much as I would have thought this month!
Winning: not much on the mother front these days it seems!  lol
Sneaking:  chocolate as usual

26 June, 2016

26/52

A portrait of my boys once a week for a year.



BJ - feeling so much better & keen to get out & about again.  A lovely play at the park on a cool but sunny winter's day.
DJ - happy to enjoy so normality too after a crazy couple of weeks, running & spinning off some of that never ending energy!  



24 June, 2016

More Mukluks

It's amazing what you can manage while sitting waiting for a boy to do his school work on a morning.  Lucky I don't home school though as I really don't have any patience for that.  Neither do the boys!  

This wee little mukluk is one I managed in a morning while listening to BJ read or while he did other school work.  It's for work with some left over yarn from there.  It will look cute sitting there.  The yarn sure looks pretty for a little girl too.  


But wait, there are more of course.  Bigger ones!  I did these in one & a half days!  Amazing what you can when you are listening to reading, while it is bucketing down outside & you just don't feel like moving much at all.  I would have loved to put an extra couple of rolls on the top of these but I worked it out to the three on the first one by the weight of the ball.  I figured I would get the pair out of one 100gm ball which I did, with almost nothing to spare.  That's pretty good really.  Not sure if I am keeping these yet, or sending them to a friend.  They sure look cool though.  I like colour!  


23 June, 2016

Thursday Thanks





  • A boy that is much brighter & just about back to his usual self.
  • Amazing nurses & doctors. 
  • Really, our health system is pretty darned great!
  • The ever present Elmo in hard times!
  • Gifts from Capes4Kids that kept BJ going...
  • A hubby that could come to visit plus bring supplies & spend time with the young one.
  • A little boy who is so easy going that crazy weeks don't seem to bother him.  
  • Understanding teachers.
  • Family that help out at short notice.
466/1000

22 June, 2016

25/52

A portrait of my boys once a week for a year.





BJ - Recovery is getting there, he is better in himself.  His camo hospital gown & his Minecraft cape from Capes4Kids sure made a lot of difference...  & then there is Elmo of course...  been with him through the hard times since he was about 2...

DJ - So busy all the time, action games with dinosaurs & transformer type things...  was a trouper this week with all the crazy things going on but still his imaginative, entertaining self.