Thursday, January 26, 2012

A lazy Australia Day, first day of school and little crochet flowers...

Firstly, I hope all my fellow Aussies are having a nice Australia Day holiday. Generally we are out and about somewhere, but we are just chilling at home today. The weather has been horrid (more storms predicted for tonight apparently) and we're just laying low.

Yesterday the kids went back to school for another year. Miss Scooter started into Grade 3 and Mr Rabbit started Prep. Five days to myself. I'm a little overwhelmed actually lol but for the moment, I'm sure Mr Mouse will find me something to do over at the new house. Lots and lots of painting is on the cards I think!

This was the best photo I could get of the two of them. It was pelting down rain outside, so the lighting is dodgy and I don't think Scooter was too impressed lol Note the height difference. There is a 4 year age gap between them... unfortunately Scoot has inherited my genes. Mr Rabbit is on course to over take her in height sometime in the next few years (happened to me with my brother *sob* lol)

First Day school

Because the weather had been so horrid, I've been taking a little bit of quiet time (any I can get really lol) to work on some crochet flowers (see the Crafty Tuesday link here :)) I started with some little ones using some crochet cotton I had lying around, and I've decided to make one really big flower/doily thing... I think it will look cute in my new studio, plus it's good practice for my crochet technique :)

As usual, I've adapted and fiddled with the pattern because I rarely follow a recipe exactly lol I'm thinking once I've finished that one, I'll go looking for more fancy crochet stitches to use and make some more (well, once I buy more cotton too lol).

Once again, excuse the dodgy photo.

Crochet flowers

I sure hope the sun comes out again sometime soon. At least the kids are at school tomorrow, but I think I've been booked in to go choose windows and doors and other such things :)

1 comments:

Harvest Moon by Hand said...

Your crochet flowers are lovely. Thanks for posting the link to the site that gave directions to make them. I've wanted to learn how to make them, but didn't know how to do them.