Five Faves

This weeks Five Faves:

1. The new scarf I've just started (yeah...like I need another scarf o_O). Love the wool. Love the pattern - now that I've safely negotiated the whole 'ssk' stitch debacle that took me over and hour to work out and ended in some SERIOUS Googling;
2. My Kathmandu water bottle. Pink. Sits on my desk. Reminds me to keep drinking my water :)
3. Grana Padano cheese. You MUST try it. Like Parmesan, but betterer (IMHO);
4. Autumn in Perth. Perfection! and
5. My boy :) what's not to like? He's lovely ;D

Not liking so much? Bicycle chain rings. Am sporting a rather unattractive bruise cum 5 x curvy scratch on my inner calf due to a bicycling *ahem* incident on the weeked. *sigh* it was a case of the bicycle or me. Given the bike is v expensive, I sacrificed my leg.

Oh dear.

Perth storms

Survived!!

Got caught in a bus shelter during the worst of the hail, however the other lovely ladies trapped in there with me banded together and prevented the worst of the rain and hail reaching us :) those were some HUGE hailstonees - not golfball sized as some had, but largeish...

Scared stiff during the actual lightning and thunder part (long story involving me getting an electric shock from an electrical storm as a teenager...there may or may not have been tears and some hiding under the bed covers), some minimal flooding to my garage, patio nearly went fully under water (!!) and discovered a leaky window in my dining room, but other than that escaped scot free and much better off than some who sustained serious house and car damage.

Apparently I should consider branching out into either panel beating or windscreen installation in order to make a buck!!

Pretty glad the whole thing is over though!!

Promised tutorial still underway. Techno blogger issues and a lack of electricity @ my place have hampered efforts somewhat.

Be patient!!

Five Faves

So, playing along with Five Faves @ http://meetmeatmikes.blogspot.com/2010/03/meme-five-faves.html

Hmmm.

Let's see.....

1. Favourite Recipe - Cauliflower + Caramelised Onion Tart from www.smittenkitchen.com. Yummo. This lovely girl's recipes have never failed me.
2. Favourite Song - Starstrukk by 3OH!3 feat. Katy Perry. Have been enjoying this song for a while. Not sure why :) I think it's the wolf whistling and the (I think) hilarious video!!
3. Favourite Arty stuff - Sculpture by The Sea which is finishing this weekend over her in WA @ Cottesloe Beach. Lovely.
4. Favourite Coat - amazing red Italian wool melton coat from Marcs. Sigh. Coveting. Of course, prohibitively expensive so a lot of pondering going on...
5. Favourite snack - Green + Black's organic chocolate. Yummo!

Done!

Playing along...

with My Creative Space from http://www.kootoyoo.com today :)

For THE FIRST TIME!!!

yay me :D

Anyways, slightly messy craft room / office - featuring the 'only ever used for crafting' ironing board. I hate ironing. With a passion. Some evidence of future Easter crafting potential on the board! A pile of 'things I want to do' over on the right...and other 'stuff'...

The rest of the room, featuring my trusty old Elna and some fabric for a tutorial :) all will be revealed in due course. Promise!

And below is what I like to refer to as The Central Crafting Position - my corner of the couch.

Some wool and a finished block for an afghan I have been working on for, oh, a REALLY long time now...and also the start of trying to teach myself to knit in the round using DPN's. Mixed success thus far...it all seems so...unwieldy. Thinking about trying the magic loop method, so if anyone has any tips / hints etc feel free to share the love!!

So there you go.

Enjoy :D

The Sound of Silence

Oh.

Hello.

*looks around with shifty eyes*

Yes.

Well.

Sorry about the continued and protracted absence.

Crafting has been continuing. Promise. Along with other stuff.

In good news, some of my WIP's are gone, gone, GONE!!

Some more new stuff started. Trying to teach myself to knit with DPN's. Interesting.

One of the lovely men mentioned in my last post (yes, that's right. That one from back in November...last year...) has turned out to be quite the keeper.He's making me very happy. So that's good :)

Had a lovely trip to Tasmania (with the aforementioned Lovely Man...woooooooooo!!) - spent some time in Hobart and also hiked The Overland Track for 6-days. Gruelling. But worth it.

Several more triathlons undertaken. Continuing to improve. Bought a REDONKULOUSLY expensive new triathlon bike. That I love a little more than is strictly seemly. His name is Felix and the photo below does seriously not do him justice :)






Went to a lovely friends lovely wedding. Beautiful :)


Visited my parentals in Albany for Xmas. Fun. Kinda...


Met the Lovely Man's family. And his plethora of friends. Apparently his family think I'm wonderful. They may be right ;)


I think that is all of note.


Promise to pop a tutorial up in the next few days for a fabric canvas thingy I made. So easy it doesn't really need a tute, and has possible also been done to death on other blogs, but I'm very impressed with myself.


Will also update WIP progress.


Pinky swear.