Things to celebrate

Last week we had two reasons to celebrate. Firstly, this little baby Turned 4. Birthday cake made by Gorgeous Man, candle placement by the Gorgeous Girl. She’s growing up very quickly. This was taken for Spring Festival at her school. The other celebration in the house was the news that Gorgeous Man is now officially [...]

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Small things

In previous semesters Gorgeous Man’s time table has worked out so that he could do the Gorgeous Girl pick-up from school. This meant that I had about 45 minutes between finishing work and them getting home when I could take pictures of finished objects, upload them to the computer, write a blog post and visit [...]

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A post that is reflective of most of my hobbies

I’ve finally managed to get some photos uploaded from the camera. Here is my Gorgeous Girl loving her baby platypus. A grown up platypus was made to match. Apparently this is a daddy platypus… This little hat recently went off to one of my friends, who really needs to start up her blog again Thanks [...]

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Small Things

The creation of small things continues here at Ruthsplace. (Though there is a cardigan for Gorgeous Girl and one for me on the needles at the moment). My brother’s wife is expecting a baby any day now. I’ve knitted a small hat. This is the top. And the view from the sides. I dusted off [...]

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And we return to regular programming

Thank you for all your well wishes about the fire. We really are counting our blessings. I saw a friend today who had been at our house during the night of the fire and he told me that “I really didn’t think they would be able to save your house.” So we had a very [...]

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Some birds and a new spinner

I looked out of the kitchen window last week and spied this little fellow. He is made out of leftover hand spun. Further investigation of the yard revealed this little family hiding in the grass. I needle felted the eyes and beaks, that’s a lot of fun (I can see great possibilities). The owls are [...]

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Our trip – part one

One thing I love about blogging is that I get to subject people to my myriad of holiday photos. (evil grin) And I finally found time today to take my pictures from the camera and put them on the computer Gorgeous Man and I were going to present papers at a conference in the USA. [...]

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Fearless

My child is fearless. On Tuesday Gorgeous Man and I celebrated our wedding anniversary. We went to a lovely restaurant – the food was fabulous. We sat by big open windows and had a stunning view of the sun setting over Table Mountain in the distance. Gorgeous Girl was very impressed with the playground. First, [...]

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He came bearing gifts

Gorgeous Man is back in the country. He arrived very late Monday night. This week has been about getting life back in order and playing with my new spinning wheel. It came in a big box, that was opened for inspection at the airport by SARS. That would be the South African Revenue Service. There [...]

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I’m not Martha

But I did make a cake for Gorgeous Girl’s second birthday yesterday. I think she liked it. OK time to be truthful. It tasted really good, and even better today, but Gorgeous Girl isn’t much of a cake eater and was happy to just have the Smarties off the top (she doesn’t get lollies very [...]

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