Posted in Daily life in South Africa, Knitting, baby on November 30, 2007 | 11 Comments »
Gorgeous Girl was eight weeks old yesterday, and to mark the occasion she slept through the night! It was wonderful, though because she is a grunter, I have to admit that I got up a few times to check that she was ok. We are hoping for a repeat tonight…
Gratuitous cute kid picture:
Sorry, having trouble [...]
Posted in Daily life in South Africa, Finished objects, Knitting, Quilting, baby, child, swaps on November 29, 2007 | 6 Comments »
I’ve been shopping I decided to make Gorgeous Girl a Christmas stocking for her first Christmas, and an Advent Calendar so we headed down to The Fabric Centre. This place is the size of a warehouse and sells all sorts of fabric, mostly for furnishings, but they do have some stuff you can [...]
Posted in Daily life in South Africa, Quilting, swaps on November 27, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Thanks to all of you who commented on my request for information on how to improve my hand quilting. I’ve mostly taught myself to quilt from books and the internet, and although I belong to a quilting guild they do more talking about quilting (and show and tell time) than actual quilting.
However, I’m on the [...]
Posted in Daily life in South Africa, Knitting, politics on November 25, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Oh happy day, oh joy, oh rapture (sorry, just a bit carried away with the elation of it all).
Australia has a new prime minister. Kevin Rudd.
Can you guess how I voted
Today was graduation day for Gorgeous Man’s students. Many of the relatives and friends of the students wore traditional clothes and head-dresses. I [...]
Posted in Daily life in South Africa, Finished objects, Knitting, baby, politics on November 24, 2007 | 5 Comments »
I blame Barbara for my latest venture into a new craft. Really I do, you see she showed cute little cross-stitched onsies on her blog and I just had to do the same. Because she is an enabler a very kind and helpful person, she even emailed me a pattern to get started [...]
Posted in Daily life in South Africa, Knitting, Quilting on November 23, 2007 | 8 Comments »
This is the 4th time I’ve attempted to write up this post, Gorgeous Girl has a way of waking at inopportune moments. However, now that she is in a routine, I have crafting time. I’ve been knitting:
this is the yarn that I bought at the LYS closing down sale. I like how the colours [...]
Posted in Books, Daily life in South Africa, Knitting, Reading on November 19, 2007 | 13 Comments »
There has been knitting: sadly there has also been frogging…Moral of the story? Don’t read when you are doing decrease rounds. Apparently I can’t read and count at the same time. No pictures on the restarted item, it’s a gift.
Gorgeous Girl received some very cute hand-knit booties from my aunty in Tasmania.
She has also been [...]
Posted in Books, Daily life in South Africa, Reading, swaps on November 13, 2007 | 13 Comments »
Gorgeous Man was spending some time in the garden on Sunday when he discovered a very useful creature, he went to the car for his snake catching stick and I went inside for the camera.
This is a common slug eater – it eats (surprisingly) snails and slugs. Just a friendly reminder not to pick up [...]
Posted in Daily life in South Africa, Knitting, post-pregnancy on November 11, 2007 | 3 Comments »
First to the victory: I’ve been wearing my pre-pregnancy jeans this week. Just my fat normal jeans, not the skinny ones, but pre-pregnancy jeans nonetheless. Doing the happy dance…
Now to the loss: One of our local yarn stores is closing and thus all yarn is on sale – they will stay open until it’s all [...]
Posted in Daily life in South Africa, baby on November 7, 2007 | 5 Comments »
(With apologies to Virginia Woolf)
Gorgeous Girl is finally asleep and I have some time to blog! I think we are having a bit of a growth spurt since she has done nothing but feed for the last 2 days.
On Monday I took her to the quilting guild, where she was oohed and aahed over. I [...]
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