Winter has past.

Last winter I spent so much time knitting up a storm. My local and fave coffee shop Fine and Sunny had these awesome and easy knit kits from Olive and Me. Last year I made the apple cosy, tea pot cosy and the frilly scarf. This winter because I have been so uber busy I only got the hooded scarf done (and I did most of it at the kids sports day).

Spinning

A few weeks back I decide I was going to learn to spin my own yarn.  No easy feat, I might say. I looked at several options and ideas. Hubby and I decided that a spinning wheel was out as we have been running out of space here so I opted for a drop spindle.

There are 2 kinds of these as well. A top whorl or bottom whorl.
Sadly, no where in town had these. So off to ebay and esty and I was able to get a drop spindle and some roving from a shop in Sydney. The roving is hemp which is a little coarse but has been a great learn tool. I also found out the you don't just take the yarn of the spindle and use it. You have to set the curl/ twist. With the hemp I have been dunking it in hot water for about 5-10 mins and then drying it vertical with some coat hangers to weight it down.

Next part will be dying it!

Chickens!!

Mother Clucker

Harriet

 This week we got our chickens. They are Barred Rock Hens, both are about 4-5months old. The girls have settled in nicely and have put both cats and the rabbits in place on who now owns the backyard.
I can't describe the joy I am getting from looking after these two girls. The kids are loving it too.

Odin about to get scared off by the chickens

Harriet's first egg on the right.

Miss Leah, even thou she is scared of them has enjoyed the sight of them. Commenting on how they walk funny, which she now has incorporated into most of her dances. The other children have been watching for Harriet to lay an eggs. She's the older of the two and we have had eggs about every second day.
Even thou the eggs have been small the shells are very tough and the eggs are richer than the store ones. We've made cupcakes so far with them.
Miss Marina has also taken it upon herself to inspected the chickens and the rabbits alike as we are waiting on Gimili's newest litter to pop out of the burrow and say hello.

100 Beanie Drive

The link down below is for the 100 Beaning Drive. This drive is for getting handmade beanies for adult cancer patients. It's being done by Jess and today I donated 2 hats that I had made sometime ago. This morning along with several other jobs I made a dash to the post office and posted them off to QLD.
 100 Beaning Drive

Little Holiday

Best friend's youngest with her new hat and glove set I made for her

 Last weekend, hubby and I went to Indented Head. A quiet little place just past Geelong. It was a lovely break and after a great amount of stress we got my best friend to babysit our four with her four. No easy task!
We went down for my brother in law's 30th birthday. It was a lovely relaxing time even if my brother didn't let us sleep in past 8:30am.
The food was great and the company delightful.
On the Saturday morning we (my brother, bil, hubby and I) went for a stroll along the beach. I found some lovely shells and we came across this Yarn Bombing. At first we thought some one had lost their scarf but on closer inspection we found out some one

Yarn bomb along the beach.

had crocheted this little jumper on the post. I think I might of freaked them out about how excite I was to have seen this. Kinda the same thing when I saw the yarn bombs in Burke St Mall last year.

On Sunday we left the sea side and made our way back to Melbourne to wait (or shop) until hubby and I could catch the train home.
Morris and Son's had a 20% and I think I dragged hubby threw Minotaur and a few other shops that my teen age isn't to fond of.
We got home 2am Monday morning and I still didn't get a sleep in as I had to get the kids off to school that morning.

Depression

 Depression. It's a horrible thing that once you have it, it never really goes away. You just learn how to cope and see the triggers before you fall in to that deep dark hole.  Mine has flared up again. With the common stress of running a house and trying to be there for everyone I have once again ran myself to the ground.

Even with my loving husband and four beautiful babies I still have bad days. Lately, it was triggered by a cold. As I finished getting sick the kids got sick. The house got messy and it was cold. With in a few days I was crying over everything and nothing. 

With the start of some slightly warmer and sunny days I can feel a little better.  It always has, and as I have learned to live with it I have also learned that sometimes I need help on the bad days.

Busy little bee

 This week I have been a busy little bee. With finishing up my poncho and my cowl that the pattern was from Mollie Makes. Both with Emotive yarns. I used my Mollie Makes buttons for the poncho too.  

I am now working on squares for Fine and Sunny's new blanket for their raffle. I won last years one, which has kept me warm all of last winter. In Melbourne Hospital and at home.

 I have also started crocheting a blanket for my bed. Just little squares of cream, dusky pink, green and purple.