Saturday happenings.....

Just a quick post today.
Pretty standard Saturday here, Gary at golf, kids mucking around on the computer, X boxing , getting ready for sleep overs at friends places, cooking, gardening, etc.
My friend and I are having a trash and treasure stall at our local market tomorrow, so I am trying to have a bit of a clean out, books, clothes and other stuff that clutters up our life. I caught a bit of the show 'Hoarders' on TV the other night, and I am trying to keep in mind that it is all just 'stuff' and I still retain the memories and good associations that all my 'stuff' embodies.


Meanwhile I am finishing the body pieces of my next softie and hopefully crocheting the edges of my nice stripey scarves ( creating lots of brand new 'stuff' !! lol).


These are destined for my new shop that is coming just around the corner! ( I mean that time wise, not literally around the corner from where we live !) haha!

Anyhoo....got to go now and feed the hoard(er)s....enjoy the rest of your weekend!

My Creative Space....hooking along....

....here's my creative space today.... I sat down with the kids after school and hooked a few rows on my new softie.....


.....tried a new (to me) technique with edging my granny, and think it is an improvement.....still working on a pattern, trying out different things, slowly getting there....


...loving the granny goodness.......

Lots of places to get inspired by over at Kirsty's linky thing here........
Have a great day!

New things in the workspace....

soooo.... I have been a bit slack on the blogging thing recently, life has been busy and there is so much devastation around with natural disasters in Japan and New Zealand that I haven't been in a terribly creative mood......but I have got back into it today.

We went down to Geelong to visit Gary's dad for the long weekend, which was fun and a nice break, I took my knitting and got a fair bit of a scarf done, till I reached a bit with limey green and hadn't bought the colour with me, doh!

I thought I'd show you my supposed work space, which I have recently tried to spruce up a bit, to encourage me to sit there and be creative!
It looks a bit of a mess, but this is actually pretty tidy for me.

In the photo above, you can see my 'inspiration board' with a few pretty pictures pinned on it. I went through a little phase of buying gorgeous inspiring cards with images that I like, the only problem is I keep having to use them for emergency gifts that I forget to buy cards for!



Now I come to the things that prompted this post - my new green and red storage baskets!
Aren't they lovely? I treated myself when I checked out the Geelong Spotlight, I really like them, and they are practical too!


.....and from another view...


Wanna see what's in them?

....perfect for crochet cotton (14 balls in there), and some lovely multi coloured wool that I couldn't resist, also from Geelong Spotlight. (they had a lot of different stuff to the one close to me).
I think a couple of bright, crazy stripey scarves would look great in this stuff.

I have a couple of new ideas floating around the old head, and just need to knuckle down and give them a go, I think I am worried they won't turn out like I am visioning, so am putting off trying. How stupid, just do it woman!! More on these at a later date!

Oh, something else, I am thinking of starting a knitting/crochet group locally, so if anyone lives on the Western Port side of the Mornington Peninsula and would like to get together, stay tuned! or give me an email. Maybe a Brown Owl Group ?

Ok that's about all for now , I am going to try and post more often I promise, but my life is pretty boring, so you have been warned!! Haha...

Have a great day!

My Creative Space...flag bunting/ flapping beach houses

Finished off the blue green flag bunting that does look a lot like upside down beach houses.
Tried to get creative with taking the photos, and failed miserably, hanging things are so hard to photograph well! So gave up, and you now have these pretty pathetic photos to show you the loveliness of this bunting! ( I am still not over bunting and garlandy things!)

Lots of other creative spaces at kootoyoo today, have a look and get inspired!!

Talk again soon, have a great day!

More things to dangle....

Hello, how has your day been?

I have had a nice day with my little niece, crafting and visiting the Community garden and doing a bit of shopping.....

...and this is what I have been finishing off today. These little flags are for a lovely bunting, another hanging thing, I seem to be drawn to them! I have limited the colour palette for this one, trying to be a bit more boyish with the blues and greens, but I still think it looks nice and fresh and appealing. They look a bit more washed out in the photos than in real life.


I have stitched all the circles onto the plain flags and I think it has come up quite well.
I have crocheted a rope to join them all together, and they are all finished!
Should have a ta da picture tomorrow.

Have a great day/night!

Winner....

Hello!

Today is the day I pick the winner in my give away, so I wrote down everyone's names on little pieces of paper and put them in a bowl and gave them a bit of a shuffle round and pulled out a name

KILLIECRANKIE FARM


Then I looked at her comment to see what she preferred and she said either would be good, so I am giving Eddie Owl to Lee of Killiecrankie Farm, so congratulations!

Then I thought, I might as well give the dangley garland away, so I pulled a few other names out till I found one who wanted the garland, and that name was

JACQUIE

So Jacquie will get the garland and Lee will get Eddie Owl!
I will be in touch for mailing details, ladies.

Thank you all so much for entering my give away, all the lovely comments were very appreciated, I'm sorry I can't send you all something!
I will do another one when I can think of an appropriate mile stone!

Hope your day is going fine!
See you soon!

( It is such a nice day here I am going to jump on my bike and ride into town to do my shopping, very energetic of me, don't you think!)

My Creative Space........pretty little jars...

....today I am enjoying making these jar covers, I like playing with the colours and I'm happy with how these 2 have turned out. I am imagining a nice little collection of different size jars and colours sitting on my dresser, maybe with a posie of flowers.....

It is good practice for my single crochet, I am still having problems knowing which stitch exactly to slip stitch in to join the rounds, but I am slowly getting better.


I have found some interesting tutorials showing different techniques for joining rounds to minimize the seams at the join (sorry, I didn't note the names of the sites so can't show links, I was just having a bit of a surf and hopping from one place to another)


It seem that there is no one correct way of doing things when it comes to joining in the round, people have lots of different ways and just do what they like best, so it is more art than science!
I am going to try a different technique in my next one and see what looks best.
I love learning new stuff and trying out a new method!

You might recognise the colour schemes here, I am still using my Bendigo cotton, I love this stuff!!


My give away is still open if you want to join in! Please do, the more the merrier!

Have a look at Kirsty's place for more creative spaces!
Have a great day. J