Two Posts in One Weekend!

Yep, I'm posting again. Mainly because I'm a little bored and also because now that uni is almost finished for the year, I'm feeling this odd sort of vaccuum where I used to procrastinate not doing uni work. Weird, since I've still got to finish some work on the forum, and the last assignment hasn't been submitted, though I've done my bit, it's up to the other group members to finish theirs now.

So, come Friday evening, finished for the year! Hmm.

See what I've been doing while trying to complete assignments:





The two monkey brothers are for Asta's boys, Nathaniel and Isaac. Hope they like them. They may consider themselves too old for such things, but they are pretty charming, so we'll see.

The felt flower is part of a mobile I'm doing, of flowers for little Jasmine. I've done two now, and starting on some little white ones, that kind of resemble jasmine flowers. Yeah, we'll see about that.

I Can't Help Liking Minature Things

Got home from work, and is Friday, collapsed on lounge and have not moved since.

Went on a craft blog tour though, checked up on some of my favourites, and Sooz, who I think is great, found this lovely little shop - In MELBOURNE dammit - called 'Little Kitchen'. Seems they do organic cooking classes for kiddies, and it all looks fabolous, just in Melbourne. But, they do have an online store. And, if I could work out how to imbed links, I'd include it here...

http://www.littlekitchen.com.au/shop2/index.php?main_page=index



that's the best I can do n a Friday evening though. Think will get a few things, like the mini potato masher, for Christmas party prizes.

Have started work on jasmine flowers for the mobile for baby Jasmine Ellen. I'm not great at them, but the leaves tend to curl up and this could work in my favour,,, after all, the jasmine flowers are just novel, the big flowers are multi-coloured and I dont think any type of real flower.

Rambling. Yep.

Floriade - It's all about flowers suprisingly

And seemingly all about lots



and lots of tulips.





This young lady breakfasted on toast and three kinds of drink, smoothie, water and bubbachino.

Jubilation and Rainforest Ramblings

I wish the smell of the rainforest was bottled and could be sprayed when feeling gritty and urck. It was lovely. I must bushwalk more often.

Checked the mail today. Yes, it doesn;t happen every day, or even every week...

Anyway, got results back from my first assignments for this session of Uni. And I did good! A lot lot better than I really expected I think. I was really quite worried about my 2nd year subject, but I got 38/50, which I think is pretty good for a very rushed job, with hardly any prior knowledge or even study! Heh. Must be a strong point. The first year subject, INF116 the marker actually put smiley face stamps on the page, which seems a little primary school, but if it means I'm doing well and not failing, good for me. Also, 2nd year subject worth 50% of final mark, so that's a good result in itself! Makes me feel a bit better abouyt the next assignment, due 2nd Nov., which looks curly. But should be okay.


Just had to get these things out.

Am starting to implement Speeed Cleaning into my routine. I think it will work. 15 mins a day is good. Just gotta get started...

A Woman Can Never Have Too Many Bags

Handcrafted with love.

Sock Monkey!

I made this little fella starting Monday night. I went to Rivers and got some of those $2 socks, as it happens that I don't actually own many socks, and they were $2. No hugley colourful, but whimsome all the same, methinks.

I bought three pairs, but made a huge mistake with the first pair, pretty much as soon as I began cutting, so they are absorbing smells in the garbage bin (socks are really good at that).

This is the first, I'll make another for Asta's little boys (4 1/2 & 6 1/2) and try and find a girly pair so I can make Amalia one as well. Maybe the new little one too, but she's getting a felt mobile, so may not have enough creativity left before Christmas work begins. Am taking a break from the knitting, at least for a while (a month maybe) as I realised on Tuesday, that my hands were aching and my fingertips tingly. That could be something else, who knows.



Mm, hungry. I never did get that hokey-pokey icecream I've been craving since last week. Might take a wander...

Garden Party

It seemed a wonderful idea, when it germenated, and, like all nurtured stuff, the "Let's thow Louise a surprise garden party for her 30th birthday" grew and grew bigger. Complete with making napkins and scrounging for baskets, to 'trialing' cupcakes and scones, for no particular reason...



The day arrived, quite a lovely day really, for a picnic. Colour scheme, wonderful. 'Handmade with love' presents, finished. Now it was a-waiting on the birthday girl time.










Now, when it's all over, and the work is done, the party partied and Louise sufficiently surprised, it was a success. Yeah!

Oh, and this happened to my sage last night...


Hopefully it will continue to live, it's lived through a lot this sage. Thirst, extreme neglect, dust city-style.