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!  )