Accumulation

Fun dolls! Book from Sydney...

And the first project I'm going to make from fun dolls...gotta love the Japanese instructions

fabrics from Tessuti...

The new Curvy, Yen - one of my fave mags discovered when i lived in Melbourne, and Russh 

Don Binney book from the boy...

Mist in Katoomba

Roses...me is so lucky!

Pair of shoes number one...and new wool tights...

Pair of shoes number two...only $30 from Hannahs, and they're leather. Though they make me absurdly tall...

Thermal progress...

I thought it was about time to reemerge from the abyss where I have been hiding of late and share a few things. My sincere apologies for such heinous photos - i leave at dark and come home at dark. boohoo. It is all made better by decent food (my first real dinner in a week thanks to healthy food guide), wearing my snowboard boots around the house and being in possession of two new pairs of shoes. I actually have $3 in my bank account until Wednesday and I swear I am now going to hide my credit card in the worm farm to prevent further temptation. but hey, i didn't buy any clothes in Sydney and the last time i bought decent shoes was, um...2006. So i figure these two will do me for another two years. 

Last week was three years with the boy, and I was completely spoilt. Roses and a Don Binney book i have wanted for 5 years. How did he know i wanted it? he didn't. brownie points for him!!

The other pics...thermal is progressing, slowly. i am struggling my way through the first sleeve after frogging it. Damn being a perfectionist. I have spent way too much time on it to come to the end of the sleeves and it not fit together because of ending up with too many stitches. 

Happy World Environment Day!

Apologies for being completely and totally blog-slack. Have been in Sydney and now work has wreaked havoc on my life...oh joy. Hope to get back to normal bloggyness on the weekend, with pictures of my stash aquired over the ditch. Typical me - tried to spend money on clothes, failed, so came back with books, magazines, fabric and a scarf instead.

I am in Sydney! On holiday, officially, though i just spent 45mins working through emails to sort out some niggly things...painful, that.

So far I have:

• had numerous asses connect with my shoulder as people pushed by my seat to get to the toilet on the plane
• walked around Balmain with my big bro (so much to look at! why didn't i take my camera?)
• scoped out shops to visit tomorrow and saturday (Tapestry Craft are having a SALE and Tessuti (a fabric shop apparently) is just down the road)
• worked. see my grumpy face
• felt the need to collapse in a heap and sleep for hours - which i will be able to do in oh, about twenty minutes. bliss.

I am loving...

Looking out my window this morning, it is dark and grey, people are hunched under their umbrellas dodging the rain. Streaking from around the corner, a pair of red, red scooters look like a couple on a going to work date and brighten the street instantly.

I love this weather...

other things i'm loving at the moment?

• My orange wool blanket with the linen patches from Mary Potter Hospice shop in Miramar,
• hot water bottles
• staring out the window
• wrapping scarves on
• writing (or attempting to) emails in french to my friend who is off to Paris in four weeks...
• daydreaming of the snow - only four weeks to go!
• and of Sydney - only two days to go!

shhhh!

Don't tell anyone - i'm blogging at work. naughty!

Couple of great things from the last couple of days:

Craft night at Juniper - what a freaking great geeky way to have fun of an evening. And i officially want to either a)live at Juniper or b)kidnap Mindy. Happy with either :)

I'm not there - or that Bob Dylan Movie. Fabbo. Without giving too much away, i spent the first half thinking...um, i don't get it. Then figured, it's Bob Dylan, i'm not meant to. By the end i'd wrapped my head around it - all the mystery, the masks, the characters of Dylan are there - you just have to look for them . My conclusion - Dylan is god. He is everything and nothing, everyone and noone. Oh and Heath Ledger - full frontal. yes indeedy.

ephemera

I ADORE the illustration for their posters...mmmm

More pics from yesterday...which isn't to say i didn't do anything today. Much progress has been made on thermal's first sleeve, and i have officially converted another friend to knitting.

Nikki made it along to Crafternoon Tea and brought Hannah - my goodness she is so cute. I know have loads of pictures by her to grace my fridge!

head over heels

...in love with Wellington

What an absolutely amazing morning. The light is perfect for photos today - so that's what the boy and i did. Up and down Cuba, round to one of the bays...

We also finally made a visit up to Swonderful in the Brooklyn village, and it really is wonderful.