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.

WIP Weekend Washout

Oops.

Oh well...at least the proposed Christmas Snowflake thing got some work done on it...

Luckily I proclaimed it a WIP Week also

o_O

WIP Weekend + WIP Week

Well, in my usual fashion, despite not having done much crafting for some time, my WIP's appear to have flourished. How does that happen.

So have decided to have a WIP Weekend followed by a WIP week.

My list of projects (in no particular order of finishing required, nor actual importance...)

1. The scarf I was making for my former housemate. To give to her on her birthday. In September. Then rescheduled to give to her before she flew to the US for Xmas. Three weeks ago. Now re-rescheduled to finish and post to her by 1 December...
2. Similarly, a scarf for my former housemates boyfriend. *sigh* I probably could've had this finished BEFORE they went away if I had only knuckled down. But not long to go on that one.
3. A paper snowflake mobile for Christmas. Only started this on Monday. Cutouts done. Ironed nice and flat (FYI best done without the steam function turned on...). Just dabbing some KindyGlitz on for sparkle-arkles and then have to thread together and I am done.
4. The afghan. 'Nuff said.
5. Plastic canvas fridge magnets. Long-term, semi-abandoned project fished out of a cupboard yesterday;
6. An aged baby blanket I started about 5 years ago. Oh well, other people are still procreating...
7. The Thimbleberries Quilt. Have finally galvanised myself to buy the backing fabric. I suspect I should have it completely finished in, oh, about 2 years at this rate...
8. Finalising some storage cards for my plethora of DMC embroidery threads.
9. The skirt I started back in July. Which I fear no longer fits me...
10. Some applique to tea-towels which had tiny fraying holes in, but are otherwise perfectly serviceable.
11. Oops. The baby hat for my friends 3 1/2 month old baby o_O
12. Some applique to screen prints I did at the last Brown Owls I attended..
13. I'm sure there's more...

So there you go. In the snatched moments between social engagements this weekend (you think I'm kidding. I'm totally not...), I shall endeavour to finish at least some of this list :)

Wish me luck...I think I'm gonna need it o_O

July, August, September, October AND November update.

Well - I could apologise for not being on here, but, you know what? This is my blog. I post when I can. When I feel like it. When I think I have something to say.

Life has been painful, awkward and busy. And I haven't felt like posting.

So, no apology :)

Well. Things have been happening. Not all good, but as a wise friend of mine comments, "whatever does not kill you will only make you stronger". Without going into too much detail, here's some updates!!

• Well. Bachelor # 1 proved to be a jerk. I moved onto Bachelor # 2, who seemed to have a LOT of promise. Turns out he was an emotional retard. *sigh* think I might have been the only one who got hurt out of that. Thanks again to my friends for their tolerance of my general down-in-the-mouthedness during that period!!
• Got sent to Melbourne for work. Yays!! Meant to stay a week and then fly back on Saturday. Got a last minute phone call begging me to come back the following week. Soooo, work basically paid for my weekend accommodation and meals in Melbs :)
• My friend had a beautiful bebeh girl. Ahn. So cute! Both momma AND bubby that is!
• Work moved into our spanky new building. It is full of awesome.
• Took two weeks holidays. Didn't go anywheres :( My employer has this "rule" where you must take 10 consecutive days worth of leave in a 12-month period. I had not done so, thus was 'forced' to take leave. Darn them.
• Joined some online dating sites o_O I figured after recent dating failures I could hardly do much worse!! It's been fun thus far. I highly recommend dating (casually of course - nobody is sleeping with anyone!!) a slew of men ALL AT THE SAME TIME. It stops one from obsessing why one guy isnt calling you as you have too many other dates to even have time to clean your freaking house :)
• Per the above - have actually met a couple of lovely boys :) We'll see how that pans out!
• Did very little crafting. Started a scarf for a friend. Missed the delivery date. Negotiated a second delivery date. Have still to finish it. Nothing else really of note in the craftiness area...
• Heaps of athletic pursuits! Triathlon Pink over here in sunny Perth. V pleased with my performance. Mucho improvement. All those winter training sessions in the cold have paid dividends. Great Bike Ride last weekend also an improvement on prior performance. Lookin' good in lycra...well, as good as one can look!!!
• Farewelled my BFF and her significant other who are off for a three month overseas jaunt. Not. Jealous. At. All...(miss them already!)

Hmmm. Feel sure that I have missed something...numerous friends birthdays...work...training...dating eligibile batchelors...work...training...nope :) think that's all of note.

I'll try not to leave you so neglected next time!!

More crafty shenanigans to come over the next few days.

Pinky swear.

Hallooooooooooooooooo...

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Hey :)

I'm baaaaack!

*sigh*

Been busy.

Lost my crafting mojo slightly.

But better now!! Back on the rails. Steering steadily. Promise.