All Good Things etc,etc, etc.

Yes it's true, all good things come to an end and alas, my holiday is over.
But................
yesterday we had a truly magnificent day!
We had a delicious lunch of Yum Cha, followed by a meander amongst markets and shops.
We went on a beautiful walk up and around the headland and Benny the champion that he is braved it with NO SHOES!!!! What a man :-)
We went swimming as the sun went down while beautiful blossoms floated by ( we wont mention the dead flys) and topped it off with a good ol' BBQ.
Just awesome.
Can't wait 'till next holidays, hope you all enjoyed yours too.

Eye Spy Sunday

This weeks suggestion was Eye Spy ......... something I want to try in 2009 and comes to us from Bek at Red Chocolate.
It's always nice to find a new blog and it's even nicer to find someone with similar interests who also lives in Sydney.
So here goes.........
something I would like to do in 2009 is improve my sewing skills, they are very basic and leave a lot to be desired.
Something new I'd like to try would be Crazy Patchwork!
It appeals to me for a few reasons,
* it's super cute
* doesn't look too hard
* it's not as precise as your "sane" patchwork
* I think it may be possible even with my dodgy old Singer.
* I found a fantastic tutorial here
So there you go.
As per usual I'm not sure exactly when I'll get around to it but hey, I have all year right!

1. Sachet Detail, 2. crazy patchwork blue bag - detail, 3. Crazy patchwork heart detail, 4. Crazy Patchwork tutorial 3

Love Fridays.

Get In The Hole!, originally uploaded by yerffej9.

I love Fridays though this Friday I find myself feeling slightly anxious as work is drawing near.
We played putt putt golf today, I much prefer this to bowling. It's fun and it's in the sunshine, two of my favorite things!
We also played Monopoly, ahhhhh school holidays you've done it again.

I Love Summer.

It's going to be so hard to go back to work on Monday.

Rat Wrangling

So I now find out after many hours of studying that rats are not the low maintenance pet I thought they were.
Silly me, who would of thought.
Apparently rats not only need to live in the Taj Mahal of animal enclosures equipped with all sorts of well crafted items such as hammocks, climbing ropes and blankies all made exclusively by me.
It turns out they also need to "free Range" out of their palace in a carefully designed play area for about 1 hour a day on top of lots and lots of handling and patting.
It's not really that bad, it's actually quite fun. Duncan and I are having fun watching them explore and tear through our mazes that we make out of all sorts of things, even our shoes get used and they are very cute (the rats that is, not the shoes).
Note to self, remember to check shoes before wearing them again, eeeeewwwwww.

This year will be...................

I get disapointed when I think of all the great ideas I've had with craft and never getting around to putting my plans into action ( hence the blog name ), and the number of things I have started only to add them to the "finish one day pile" in my craft basket.
This year I decided to finish more things and one way to do this is "enforced crafting"! That's my name for it.
I bought myself a Kirigami fold & cut a day calendar.
Every day the page has the folds and the cut outs marked on them, it also has a picture of what the previous days effort should have looked like. So far so good.
The result is a cute little paper-cut everyday, there you go , enforced crafting!
This year will be more crafty.

Going With The Theme

rat: i shall return, originally uploaded by sylvie LS.

Still on the whole rat theme,
we've gone a little rat crazy at my place.
I found this tattoo on Flickr, very cool indeed.

Introducing...............

Here they are,
our new rodent friends.
Meet Freddy and Remmy, two female rats!!!
They are five weeks old and full of life.
Duncan is absolutely smitten with his (Remmy), she's very active and runs up and down his arms the whole time she is out of her home. Freddy is more quiet and chooses to snuggle up and sleep on you.
Emily is more of an observer, she pannicks if they walk on her though she does try and squeeze them if given the chance.
We have already had Emily "set them free" in the lounge room which proved to be very exciting as we had to retrive one from under the entertainment unit.
We have since invested in padlocks for the cage doors!
Ahhhh, don't you just love school holidays :-)

Eye Spy Sunday - A Little Late.

I am playing along with Cindy's Eye Spy Sunday meme . This week Kat of Kat's Creations has suggested the theme of our best memory of 2008.
I was looking back through my photos, thinking, thinking and do you know, I realised I have had the greatest year it's too hard to think of any one great moment.
I've seen live music , Foo Fighters and You Am I to name a few,
I have two new tattoos,
I've met lots of new people,
Had great moments with my children,
Had a fantastic birthday,
A few relaxing weekends away,
Shared moments with family and friends.
Thinking , thinking, and then I found this photo...............


I was having a rather ordinary day at work so I decided to take a walk in my lunch break.
I walked for about ten minutes only crossing three roads and found myself here and yes I did have my camera as most people who know me by now know i photograph everything!!
Anyway, I walked up the beach feeling the warm sun on my skin, the cool breeze in my face smelling the salty air and feeling the chill of the water on my feet, then I turned back to see how far I'd walked and took this shot.
I felt wonderful as it hit me, this is my lunch break, how lucky am I!
It was a magical moment of 2008.

New Additions

Le Président, originally uploaded by Hugo&Pauline.

We are expecting the pitter patter of little feet any day now.
We're very excited.
Hopefully we'll be collecting them on Sunday, I'll let you know how it goes.