Playground gloves

Charlotte loved the fetching gloves that I made for the Aussie swap and stole them quite a few times before they went in the post box so I decided she needed a pair of her own. I have a few random balls of Lincraft Prism which is lovely and squishy and perfect for keeping her hands warm when she's outside at family daycare. All the patterns on Rav were for 4 years + and she's only 2 so I just grabbed the yarn and started on what I thought would fit her. I think I did pretty well!

Aussie swap parcel

My parcel for the Aussie swap is finally ready to go. Fetching gloves and a pair of cable gloves, a skein of happy spider sock yarn, stitch markers (which I only finished tonight so they aren't in the piccie!) all in a little drawstring project bag. I hope that my swapee is happy with her parcel...
I cast on some felted slippers tonight too - I'm sick of having cold feet on the slate floor here and was inspired by the swap socks that I received but I'm not quite brave enough to try socks yet so slippers seemed to be the way to go and it also means I can use up some green and purple yarn that I've got laying around in the stash. Quick knit too. 3 hours of knitting tonight and I'm up to the toes on the first one but now it's off to bed for me.

More wooly mail!

Another surprise when I went to the post office this morning - my parcel for the Aussie Swap over on Rav. Of course I couldn't wait until I got home so ripped the parcel open sitting in the post office car park and squealed with delight when I saw....

A hot water bottle cover in a super squishy reddy-pink cable, a packet of TimTams which Izaak attempted to steal (not bloody likely!!) and a pair of socks. I have never owned a pair of hand knitted socks - these are my very first and they are divine! Thank you so much to my swap partner ;-) hopefully a) I'll work out who you are or b) you can out yourself to me! because I'd love to personally thank them.

OK - off to lay on the lounge watching crappy daytime TV wearing my new socks, hugging my hot water bottle and eating TimTams - bliss!

OMG! I'm in lurve

The postman called by this afternoon and had a parcel for me. I couldn't think of what it might but so eagerly ripped the package open and it was...

My yarn cafe order. Called "sienna" it is the most amazingly delicious blends of orange, pinks and yellows - perfect for summer! Originally I'd planned something for Charlotte from this but I think that it *needs* to be something for me. YUM!

I also got some more happy spider yarn today which I'll pop in with my swap pressie which needs to be posted before the end of the week. My swapee likes teal/blue/green so I'm hoping she'll like this...

Izaak sat down this afternoon and wanted to do a puzzle. A challenge for someone who has an attention span of about 5 seconds but he did actually sit and do it and was fairly happy....

Until we realised some pieces are missing...

Then there was devastation and much sobbing, whinging and general complaining. Hopefully a dose of Captain Pugwash, currently playing on the DVD player, will soothe the poor little soul!

Scones

After 2 requests for my scone recipe this week I thought I'd post it here. Dead simple and super speedy these take about 5 minutes from start to oven-ready!

3 cups self raising flour

3/4 cup lemonade

300mls cream

Mix. Bake at about 180 for 10-15 minutes or until risen and golden. Enjoy!

I'm... spinning around... move out of my way....

Well I'm not quite Kylie but I have spent a morning with Penny learning the ins and outs - well as much as my brain could take anyway! - of spinning. There is just so much to know but I'm really hoping that my wheel and I become good friends over the coming few weeks/months and that I can get the hang of doing different things with my hands and feet at the same time! So, this is the *hopefully* new best friend....

The yarn that Penny and I spun today - well Penny mostly spun and plied together. My contribution are the big slubby and teeny tiny thin bits that really don't look like a decent yarn should....

and the roving that Penny gave me to get me started...

So the plan is that in a few days I'll be back posting piccies of my wonderfully even, just the right amount of twist, yarn that I've produced *insert roaring laughter here!*

OMG! It's started already!!

Charlotte was, I thought, ages away from all that girly-peer stuff. You know the I'm friends with you today but not tomorrow because you don't have the right hairband/lunchbox/bag etc crap. But apparently I'm wrong.

Tonight after the bath I painted her toenails with polish which we've been doing on and off for months. Her face lit up and she announces "horay! now I'm like L*****". L is another little girl that she attends family daycare with. Then she announces she also needs stickers on her nails and requires fingernail polish as well.

I'm devastated. I was never one of the popular girls - I never had the right brand of clothing, bag etc and was never in the "in" group and that was one of the things that didn't really bother me too much because I had a core group of friends who were all a bit different - just like me. I was one of those girls who got along better with the boys which was also not the done thing when I was at school. The whole peer issue was one that I've become more aware of with Izaak going to school and although he is fairly insulated from it given his condition (he couldn't care less what anyone thinks!) I'm positive Charlotte will be alot different. I'm probably reading too much into the whole thing but I'm sad for Charlie. At 2 I want her to be thinking about playing, running and generally having fun, not about who does and who doesn't have nail polish! 2 of the girls at daycare see a fair bit of each other and their families outside of care so they do have a closer friendship - Charlotte is the 3rd wheel. According to her family daycarer there have been arguments lately between L, the other friend, J & Charlotte with much talk of who is "best friend" and who isn't and who is allowed to play with which particular girls. This has been consolidated by visiting my mum at work where 2 girls were sitting together having lunch (these are pre-schoolers so 4-5year olds) and one of the girls said to the other who was eating a packet of chips "you shouldn't eat them - you'll get fat". Where has childhood innocence gone?

2 years 8 months. 2 years 8 months and it's starting already!