Gifts

We are having some lovely Autumn days at the moment, in the low to high 20′s, we have also had some good rain and so the ‘lawn’ has gone from burnt brown to mostly green again, everything looks a little brighter.

I received a gift on Friday from my lovely bloggy friend Cuckoo

Cuckoo is a very generous and thoughtful girl, I have got to know her a little from afar and I love how much she loves her family and friends and would do anything for them and I know they would do anything for her as well, I cannot wait to meet her, actually there are so many lovely UK ladies that I want to meet and have a cuppa with, if it includes a cream tea then I will surely be in heaven.

Four material and ribbon wrapped presents, what a lovely way to gift wrap.

Two packages of Debbie Bliss Cashmerino and Rowan Kidsilk Haze in greys and blues, so soft and warm, they will be knitted into Alice Caterpillar wrist warmers from the lovely Suzie

Some gorgeous heart and crystal ‘bunting’ and a Robin Redbreast mug.

There is a story behind these gifts, I have lusted after the mug for ages and couldn’t afford the  $45 – $50 for a mug, I searched on ebay and a few other sites and couldn’t find a cheaper one so I decided that it was not meant to be.  Deciding the yarn color combos was a big thing and lots of back and forth with Suzie.   Long and short of the story is…….cuckoo bought the yarn for me, and not just one color combo BUT two, oh my lord I was so surprised AND the very mug that I had given up as ever being mine and the gorgeous heart bunting.  I am unable to express just how grateful I am and how much I love everything, I just want to be able to give her the biggest warmest hug that is in me. It also makes me feel rather humble and teary.

I have to say the tea tastes so much nicer

A closer look at the yarn, so luscious, will be knitted as soon as I finish the two pairs of Edwin Cream wristwarmers (from Suzie)that I am knitting at the moment, one pair for me and one for mum.

And the bunting, it is hard to take a photo that is clear enough, it is gorgeous.

Us girls could teach the leaders of the world a thing or two about giving, sharing, mateship and love…all unconditional.

Hope the snow is thawing and the sun is getting more warmth in it for my lovely friends in the UK.

Melissa  thank you, I’m still here and reading your blog my friend, I don’t comment as much as I should/would like to tho’.

On that note I am off to do some more to the Edwin Creams

Lots of love to you all

xx Sandi xx

3 years

March was the anniversary of my first ever blog post 3 years ago, that time has flown, lots of lovely memories and friends have been made here and on Instagram, am so grateful to you all.

Can you believe it is the first of April today, it has been 4 months since Christmas, really! it feels like it was only yesterday that we were tucking into Christmas dinner with the family.  The weather has ‘turned’ and we have much cooler temps, down to high teens low twenties,  I am hoping the UK get some much needed sun and Spring weather as it has been bitterly cold for far too long.

I have been a little absent from here as I have been busy with my needles and have knitted up these….

Wristwarmers for my daughter

wristwarmers for my daughter in law, pattern from Suzie I am about to make two more pairs, one for me and one for mum for Mother’s Day.

  It was my daughter in laws birthday last Wednesday, we had a little family afternoon tea yesterday, Easter Sunday.

Little Lemon Cupcakes

I crocheted these little bunnies one for my grand-daughter (on the left) and one for her cousin, wrapped up with some eggs.  They were a lot of fun to make and were well received.

Received these lovely bits from the very lovely Colette

I met her on Instagram, she was showing a jar of caramel spread, well one thing led to another and over it came to Australia, along with a lovely little notebook, card and magazine.  Thank you so much Colette, so generous xx

Hope life is treating you all well.

Hugs Sandi xxxx

And still it continues………

I am talking about the heat….it is Autumn and we are having hot summer weather still, weeks of 30+ temps, unbelievable, just like the UK who are still having snow in Spring…crazy weather.

I have slowly been sewing up Janet Smith, it is slow going, but almost there

Not the best photo sorry, her dress is pale pink and white stripes, of course it isn’t finished and she hasn’t got any arms yet or a face, but she was impatient to try the dress on.

It is my grand daughters 6th birthday on Tuesday and we are going to have morning tea next Saturday morning at a cafe in a boat shed on the river, should be a beautiful day, so I have to have her ready for then.

Last Friday we finally got to have our Christmas breakup, we didn’t do it last year as we all attended the fathers funeral of our lovely Office Admin/PA (I do her work on Wed’s).  We had a bbq lunch at work which was lovely then went and played a couple of games of 10 pin bowling.  There was much laughter as some of us, including me, had only played once or twice before.  I actually got two strikes, I was so happy I did a little dance, then our lovely insurance man ran up and grabbed me and swung me up into the air, the second time he danced with me.  They are a fantastic group of people and we do tend to laugh a lot, makes for a very happy productive office.

I received this award haha!

I did receive an injury tho, my thumb nail broke off right down to where it joins the skin….ouch!!!!! I also sort of did the splits, very inelegant!  Lots of fun tho.

Have been out for dinner twice this week and worked one night and have worked 4 days so am happy that today is a public holiday and I don’t work Tuesdays so have 4 days off for r&r.

Ok, off to do more to Janet…see you!!

Keep safe and happy.

xxSxx

Edit:  here is Janet Smith finished…..am very happy, hope Belle likes it.

Rain !!

We got rain and thunder and lightning, but we got RAIN!

And it is cooler, everything smells so fresh…….am very happy, am sitting knitting.

Isn’t it lovely Helen

xxSxx

Catch up

Hello lovely friends hope you are all happy and well.

I have been very quiet the last three weeks as I have been working the day and night job I worked the last Saturday yesterday, it leaves me no time to do anything really, I was so tired after yesterday I had a nanna nap……although the constant hot humid weather with no air conditioning doesn’t help….needs must and all that.

I did knit up these little cuties tho….hope the receivers like them

The little ones are size – 0-3 months and the bigger ones are 6-9 months.  My girlfriend always wants me to knit these for gifts whenever she knows of someone having a baby girl.  I must admit I love them too.

I have almost finished ‘Janet Smith’ (see below post) for my granddaughter, then I want to knit a snuggly pair of wristwarmers called Alice Caterpillar from The Wool Sanctuary just working out with Suzie what colors to do them in, they will be for wearing to work so I need a subdued colorway, I want to knit the Humbugs too so I can be more adventurous as they will be my play pair.

Then I want to knit up a house and that eye pillow………………not to mention more crochet, in fact I am missing my crochet haven’t done any for a while as I have been busy knitting.

Next on the list is RAIN, please we need some rain, not flooding rain but a good soaking rain, everything is brown, the garden is almost non existent the only things flowering are the geraniums, even the lavender looks sad in all this relentless heat, over 30 deg almost every day for weeks now with the odd cooler day, but no rain.  We still have bush fires out of control that have been burning for a month or more, they could really do with the rain.

I have slowly been catching up with my bloggy pals, but must admit IG takes me away constantly as it is so instantaneous and to my delight I am finding some fellow bloggers there.  If you are on IG come and say hi, love to hear from you.

xoxo S xoxo