easter

I must admit I love easter time. I always decorate the table and kitchen windows. I have some wonderful paper clips my danish sister made for me. And now I have taken over from Mum in making the easter bunny marshmallows. But I was not so sure about the way my children decapitated them. hmmmmm I hope they have embraced my love for nature, but you cant help but wonder at such times.

 

 

I hope everyone had a good easter break.

when in doubt spin

 

What a busy few weeks I have had. Gerry had an accident and broke 12 bones. He had surgery to plate and pin some of these and he is now hame and on the mend but I have been busy doing mum and dad things. And of course when in doubt about what to do you spin. Well it works for me. So I decided to sort out my fleece stash and the excitement of that is you find things you have forgotten about.
I spun and plyed these two different brown alpaca fleeces I found. Cant remember where they have come from.

 

Then I found some hand dyed wool I did ages ago with food color and plyed that with alpaca.

 

Then came the silk I had bought at the bothwell spin-in. It is "spring" and of course I plyed it with alpaca.

 

Then lastly I found some left over green wool from a dying workshop I went to and , you guessed it, I plyed it with some more alpaca. Now with all this alpaca plyed you would think that would be the end of it but NO. I have found even more alpaca, so that is my next spinning adventure.

What have I been doing?

 

This is a beanie I had promised #2 child. The first one I made was a little tight so it went to #3 and I knitted a slightly larger one. It is a little hard a gauge the finished fitting size but it all worked out well.

 

This is a little baby cap I made a little while ago.

 

After loving the red baby cap I wanted to make one for my brothers baby ( yes I am going to be an aunt, woooowhooo) but wouldnt you know it I could not find the same wool again. I will post a photo later of the new blue one. So instead I have been making these baby socks. Now I know what to do with all those little bits of left over sock wool.

 

New member of the family

 

There is a new member to our extended family. My mum has got a new puppy. It has been 18 months since their beloved spike drowned outside their house. He was a very old kelpie who had gone deaf and blind.
Now there is a new and energetic little bundle of doggie energy in their house.
He is the cutest little thing, and little is the word . He is a cross between a mini fox terrier and a shitzu.
When he is fully vacinated I will be able to have him over for play dates with my boys. Cant wait.

 

 

hens in a row

 

After reading the lovely willows blog a while ago I decided to have a go at making her coney dogs. But of course I needed to do a little tweeking to them to accomodate my family. I used veggie sausages and a kangaroo sausage and a chicken sausage. I also made a bean/tomato sauce for the vego dog. With all these changes I am really happy to say that they went down really well. Thankyou Willow.

 

This has been the view out my bedroom window lately. I have not worked out why these native hens choose to sit in a row like this but it looks rather cute, and atleast while hey sit they are quiet. If you have never heard a native hen then let me tell you they are loud and are best described as a squeeky bed spring, over and over and over. Hmm they look good sound horrible.

 

cooking can be fun

I have been doing sone cooking lately. I dont mean the type of cooking we all must do so we can have food on the table for dinner but cooking for fun. And if you know me you know that i dont often put cooking and fun in the same breath. I know shame on me for being like that.
This first recipe is Latkes which are apparently a jewish food. I saw an old program of martha stewart where she made these. Then 2paw had a photo of some she had made on her blog after watching the same program so I thought I should give them a go. And I was really impressed with the results. The kids loved them too.

 

 

And so I move onto the bread section of my cooking. Now bread is something I do love to cook and do think of as fun. For lunch today I decided to make rolls and I must say they were fabulous. So light and soft with that ever sought after crispy crust. YUMMY. A good looking loaf or roll never fails to impress me and even get a little excited. There is still hope for me where cooking is concerned, now all I have to do is get excited about cooking other foods.

 

 

Gerry's birthday

It has rolled around again. Gerry, my Hubbie, has had his birthday and we were so luck with the weather for the day that we decided to go out for lunch. He headed off on his bike and rode to this wonderful spot for lunch. I of course drove with the kids.
This beautiful spot is further down the channel from us at a place called Peppermint bay. We sat out side and enjoyed the view and the lovely food.