This weeks busy-ness

This week has been a week of hot weather followed by cold weather followed by muggy weather which has created a "mega cold" which is sneezing it's way around school and of course at home. We begun the week with a day of 32 degree heat, which meant that after the kids came home from school we could pop down to the beach and the kids could enjoy a good old splash around in the very cool waters of the ocean that surrounds our little area.

It was determined that the water was a little too cool to spend all their time in so "sand seating" was created, but the water kept coming up into the seats so it was a battle supreme to keep the seats seatable!

It was a nice way to spend a warm afternoon and it proved to be the only day this week that we were able to do it, the next few days bought rain and cooler days and of course head colds for two of the kidslets and fever and headachey yuckiness for the other two. This is not a welcome thing as all the big exams are this week and this last week was the week of review but I have all the confidence in the world that they will be fine because at the end of the day all I ask of them is that they try their best and that is perfect for me even if their test results say otherwise.

There have been lots of doctors appointments and even a school meeting that we had to attend and then there was normal life that got in the way as well, but in between the busy moments I have been able to create this......Mum if you are reading this don't look any further down, unless you want to know what you are getting for Christmas!! It began as this, not much to look at really.

and then became this,

Still just looks like a lot of black with grey blobbies on green at this stage, but then it became a bit clearer,

It is still at the "what the heck I am making" stage, but after a bit of time on it today, the picture is much clearer!

Or maybe not, it is becoming a bit more picture and a bit less blobby bits on a green background but with a few more days it might actually look like a proper picture!

I hope that your Monday is a good one!
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New things

I have discovered a new thing! It is Crochet By Numbers, here's the linky to the website, and also have been massively inspired by Totallee who being a huge Harry Potter fan has made me such a long to do list that I may not ever stop! I did the test pattern by Todd Paschall and once I worked out that there was nothing to fear from this technique I was off! I started with a Christmas stocking,

But I ran out of wool so I now have to wait until I receive my new ball of red so that my stocking can continue. I have moved onto one of my favorite pieces from Totallee's inspiring list of work, and have begun a Potterpuff!

He doesn't look like much at the moment but hopefully he will look a lot better very soon! and today being Sunday I have an afternoon of hooky goodness ahead of me, so I hope that everyone has an awesome day, enjoy the beautiful sun if you are near me, but slip, slop, slap or you will end up like me!

Yep, this is almost a week later and it still looks like this!!! Slip Slop Slap people! It is the rule that you should live by!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Ouch!

If you ever go to the doctor to get moles burnt off and everyone tells you that it won't hurt a bit, you will be just fine moments after it is over tell them from me they are a "Liar Liar Pants On Fire", I felt the need to capitalise the letters because of my extreme feeling on this fact. This morning I went down to the doctors to have 14, yup count 'em 14, moles removed from my "decolletage" or in real people speak between my boobage, I managed to get home without shedding a tear but I have been flat on my back trying not to touch the massive red, burned, inflamed skin area that was once white if not a little bumpy from the moles. It appears that instead of just freezing the moles there is skin burnage as well making me look like a very interesting dot to dot, maybe if I joined the dots it would make a pretty pattern, cause right now it looks bad enough that LovelyHubby winces every time he looks my way! I hope that you all have a better day, tomorrow is sure to be better. I will leave you with a couple of cute Christmassy things that I made on the weekend.
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What a week!!!

The kids all went back to school on Monday and I don't think my feet touched the ground until today, we have been so very busy running about that I was super happy to have a quiet day today. On Monday we did have one nice little moment of peace and joy when LovelyHubby took me for coffee at the beautiful Pelican's Wharf, they have THE best hot chips ever and they come wrapped up in newspaper too!

You can see how beautiful the view was too, we watched fish jump out of the water almost teasing a man in a small boat trying ever so desperately to catch them for his dinner, he still had not succeeded by the time we were leaving and honestly I think those wee fish had no intentions of ending up on a plate for supper!

I have had time in between doctors appointments and Christmas gift lay-buying to finish some more ornaments for my Etsy store, I even ordered some new Christmas yarn from Yarn Over and they are scrummy,

My only problem is that I have knitted so much that I have managed to put a hole in my finger from the needle constantly hitting the same point! It is only a slight problem though because I have swapped back to crochet for a while, I have missed crocheting, I seem to have been on a knitting spree of late and it feels good to have my hooks back in my hands again. My knitted Christmas ornaments are looking really good and scary though it is to be thinking of December already it is a bit fun!

It makes you want to sing Jingle Bells and Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer at the top of your voice.........or maybe not!!!
Happy Friday everyone
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New F.O.'s

I have been busy the last few days running about making sure that the kids are all ready to go back to school tomorrow, baking and finishing some knitting.

Please meet Peter the Christmas Polar Bear;

And I have begun my Christmas Tree ornaments as well;

 I hope that your last few days of holiday goodness have been wonderful too.
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Damn you daylight savings!

It is, once again, time for Australia to have five -yup, count 'em- five timezones! Every year there are scratched heads as one tries to work out whether ringing Perth at 9am from Sydney means that you are calling them at 7am, 6am or probably 5am. We have lost a whole hours sleep, now the mornings are dark and the kids bodies are so very confused about what time is actually sleep time, and as they have been on holidays for a week and a half already their body clocks are not actually sleepy till what is now midnight, whilst my body could pretty much drop around 8pm even if that used to be 7pm!!

But there is one small benefit to all these late nights by the family, I still get up early because of this:

Yup, the dog has a bathroom clock firmly installed in her body and 8am is the latest she can stay in bed, so she and I get up and after she has been outside and I have fed, scooped and swept the cats house out we go back inside settle on the couch with a cup of tea and while I knit and watch t.v. she sleeps soundly on my lap. This time of the morning is so very, very quiet and almost joyful, I can watch a murder mystery on the telly and not have to turn it up to catch the clues or dodge kids to see who did the actual deed, I, or should I say we, have enjoyed these last few days so very much and I will miss this special puppy and me time when the holidays come to an end this weekend.

I have been able to make a couple of things whilst we have been up and about, I have made a lavender trio to hang in the bathroom,

They smell really nice when the breeze blows through the window and I also have a new friend looking at me from my knitting bag waiting for the rest of him to be made so that he can join his fellow animals in my Etsy  store,

He is a Christmas Bear and I hope to have him in store in a week and have ordered some natural fibres in Christmas colours so that I can start to make ornaments and other decorations for the Yule season, which for every ones enjoyment is in 81 sleeps! Yup aren't you just thrilled that I have shared that little gem of information with you!

Now that I have rattled everyone who thought there was plenty of time until Santa pops in for biscuits and whiskey (that was what Santa had at my house) I will leave you with another photo of Holly enjoying her sleeping time xoxoxoxoxoxoxox