break

ok so it's been months...
and that's due to a few things. evil uni work and general awful time sucking study, moving house and being completely internetless for pretty much my entire 3 weeks off!
that aside, i'm going to try and get out some of these things that i've been stockpiling into this bloggy world.
especially because now i can email myself multiple pictures from my iphone, will make things much quicker!!!

firstly, i've been knitting and hooking up a storm and managed to send off 7 beanies to the beanie festival! more than last year so i'm happy :D should hear back from them soon regarding how many sold and all those lovely details. didn't manage to get pictures of them all though so that's a bit sad.
secondly, over the week off that i had in first semester, i designed and made some lovely planter boxes that my dad helped me put together. it was fun to do something with him in the outdoors as normally he just plays online poker and that's about it!


dad bought materials for 3 boxes, 2 to be joined with a seat. this was from the design i drew up for the specific areas i wanted them in our yard. we started putting them together though and i decided some of them were too tall and looked a bit silly, so we ended up making 4.
i'm contemplating selling one on ebay to make back the cost of the wood. perhaps even two as we don't live in the place with the yard i specifically designed them for.



which brings me to something else very exciting...
new house!!!
we moved in about a month ago and it's really very lovely. there's a cute little front yard and a quaint little back yard and it's all very plain and just begging me to get out there and make it lush and colourful and gorgeous.
some of the inside bits are a bit shabby too so stay tuned .


and that is just about enough words for today so enjoy the pictures and i'll fill you in on a little blanket i'm working on tomorrow.

back to uni.

my dabbling has all but ceased...
long hours at uni and long times travelling on the train from my new house usually means i'm too tired to make dinner, let alone create something pretty or try something new.
we'll see how it goes though, i've only just finished first week and my homework load doesn't seem too big.
i'm hoping to start my fourth beanie tonight while i watch some sunday night tv :D
still haven't sewn up the knitted one i just finished but it's all cast off now.
should make for an interestingly shaped beanie if nothing else.

i'm so excited because over the last couple of days, some seeds that i planted about a month ago sprouted. they tend to take a long time to sprout and i never know if they're actually going to, hence the excitement over these little green threads of life.
can't wait for them to grow up into fully grown rosemary and strawberry plants.
i'm especially excited because it's been raining down bucketloads. all my plants are getting lots of water and there's nothing more comforting than falling asleep to the rain on the roof. apparently the rain put the last of the bushfires out last night, so it's good all round!

Knitting fiesta.

After having a fair bit of luck with the crocheting a couple of weeks ago, I decided to have a crack at knitting again. It had been about a year. Had to look up purl on youtube coz I kept stuffing it up and my boyfriend sat on my needles and broke the one with all the stitches on it and after starting again I've gotten this far...


I'm about to start decreasing so it will be head shaped when i sew it up. Will put a new photo up when it's done.
I think I'll knit the next one too, but instead of greens it'll be pinks and whites. I'll put a photo of the one up too.

crochet week

I've been having a biiiiig crochet week.
A girl I used to work with had a baby Saturday so I made her some baby mittens. They didn't take me long at all, well they wouldn't have if I didn't fail so much at following patterns.
They still need some ribbon to make them pretty, oh and the ends sewn in.


I've also started making some beanies for the Alice Springs beanie festival. I managed to crochet one in about 24 hours which is probably my best crochet effort yet. It's not quite finished yet because it doesn't fit my head so it's not likely to fit anyone elses.
I went into spotlight and they had a heap of wool on clearance so I bought about $10 worth and should be able to make a couple by next week.


The black one is still a bit misshapen but the blue and grey one is pretty good. They're both more beret then beanie too, oh well.

Oh hi!

Hello and welcome to my blog.
I've started this blog to highlight all the ridiculous things I usually only try once or twice and then give up on.
I"m not very good at sticking at anyone hobby for very long as I get the most chronic guilt attacks that I should be doing something else more fulfilling (like homework or housework).
So stay tuned for little bits about my little dabbles into little hobbies.