A whole year

Can you believe a whole year has passed since we said our " I do's"? That's 14 years stacked up with one as Mr and Mrs. The year has had some bumps and knocks, but I am glad to have this man of mine and our beautiful girls by my side. There is definitely always something to be grateful for.

wooly suprise

I am a lucky, lucky knitter. My lovely friend gifted me with this above stash and more. So I am busy sorting and planning some projects. Bliss!

I also decided it was time to freshen up sea Star and changed the look of the blog a little.

Thanks Mummy

Imogen was pleased to have the dress out of the craft box. I had a bit of a lazy day yesterday and indulged in some crafting. I finished Laura's birthday cardi and her birthday isn't until the end of November. I will post that tomorrow if I get around to taking the photos today.

A run down of my wips = baby socks, baby blanket, cross stitch (longest running wip).
My next projects = cardi for my friend, Immy's birthday cardi (for February), cotton basket covers, socks for Josie, Jay and me. My stash covers everything but Imogens, just can't decide on colour.......

Hand me downs

 

As a mum of four daughters I do so appreciate hand me down clothes. I also like to  reduce our family's footprint on the earth so I am always op shopping. A friend with girls recently gave us some clothes and in the treasure bag was this lovely yellow cotton dress. Imogen was particularly excited when she realised it would fit her. However it was a strapless dress and the girls prefer some straps on their clothes so I put it in my craft box to add some straps to later. Well a few months later Immy remembered the dress and started asking. I was just going to buy some ribbon for straps but last week I found some yellow cotton, perfect for crochet straps.

 

 

So today I am finally putting some straps on the dress. The cotton was 50 cents in a mark down box. Atleast the dress will be ready for summer and best of all it still will fit Imogen.

Dinner view

We had dinner at one of our favourite local spots tonight. A favourite thing for us to do is to have a picnic dinner out. We got pizza and headed up to enjoy dinner with a view. The photo was just taken on Josie's ipod and while I was putting it on my laptop I spotted this one she took of the night sky a while ago, I am impressed with the shot I have to say, she is a clever girl.

Inspiring

I am reading Catherine Hamlin's book at the moment and am feeling all inspired, what an amazing woman.

Missing a few pegs

My youngest daughter has a few gaps in her smile, I do love these toothless pics, bittersweet knowing she is the last of my babes to be losing her baby teeth.