feeling green

I've been feeling a bit 'under the weather' so please forgive my absence as all my thoughts and activities have been a bit scarce this week.  And because I hate to make a picture-less post...

Lunch, with lots of pepper.  Yum!  Be back soon, xoxo

tag you're it!

I've been given an award by the lovely Simone:


Along with this special award I have to admit to 7 amazing (or weird) facts about myself.  I tend to be less amazing and more on the weird side so here goes:

1.  When I eat chicken noodle soup, I must have a slice of bread with honey to accompany it.  All I can say about this one is "thanks mum"  (I blame it all on her). 

2. I can tie a knot in a cherry stem with my tongue and speaking of knots I can tie shoe laces with my toes.   

3. I can often be found wearing ear plugs during the day.  Hey, I'm a homeschooling mum of 4 children and they are all noisy. 

4. I watch the Oliver Stone JFK movie about 4-6 times a year. 

5. I love documentaries and radio dramas.

6.  I am in the "Generation X" age group but almost all of my siblings are "Boomers" and I have "Builder aged" parents.  Can we say "oops!"

7. I am a Trekkie from way back to the original series and continue to love them all though I never did get into deep space 9.

I am tagging Tami, Krista and Kathi D.  Play along if you have time, motivation and are amazing (or weird) enough :) 

and the prize goes to...

The draw for the giveaway is complete.  My lovely assistant Miss A picked out a paper and here are the results:







Congratulations Kathi D, please email me with your address so I can get your package out in the post.   I'll be posting pictures of what I sent after Kathi gets her package, that way it can remain a surprise for her.  ::suspenseful::

Thank you everyone who participated.  It was a lot of fun to do a draw during this cold winter season and it's definitely something that will happen again (in the future) so keep checking back.

PS, I'm off to brave the Museum with my kids today.  Send me happy vibes as I'm thinking of leaving the stroller at home and letting the girls be free to walk (read: run) while we are there.  Have a lovely weekend, xoxo.

felting

I did manage to go through my photos over the weekend as planned, but I didn't get through them all. It's going to take much longer than I anticipated but hey, it's freezing cold outside right now and I'm stuck indoors a whole lot so it's not like I won't be able to find the time. I noticed a common theme in my most recent photos. I've been crafting but haven't been uploading them to flickr or posting too much about them. I think the January/February freezing temperatures make me a bit slow to post and why not I ask?  If it is good enough for the animals to hibernate then it should be equally good for those of us in extremely cold temps to get a bit of extra-slow-down-time, n'est-ce pas?



Moving along to my pre-felted market tote.   I was working on it way back when and ended up finishing it just before Christmas.  I found the pattern here, it knit up pretty straight forward though I did end up altering the pattern to suit my personal style. 



One of the particular things I didn't like in the pattern was how close the handles looked to each other. It felt like there wasn't going to be enough room to put my arm through the handles and it also just seemed to be out of balance for my eye. After a bit of pattern tweaking it's much better. I left out the stripes this time around but would love to give them a whirl on the next bag. 




Once the bag was all done I added a little chickadee for character. This bag felted like a dream. It came out all thick and with that little bit of mohair in the fibers it had just the right amount of fuzziness. It is definitely a keeper and one of my favorite grab and go bags. 

PS...Thank you to everyone who participated in the giveaway.  I'm aiming to do the draw and the results posted by Friday.  Happy Day everyone :)