WHAT ARE YOU MAKING?

Jess started crocheting a couple of months ago and voila! She is killing it!

She has sold her first item and is bound to be taking orders in no time!

I haven't quite got the hang of crochet, preferring the less concentration intensive  knit knit knitting myself. But I love the shapes and patterns you can make with crochet. Whenever I watch someone do it they make it look so easy, Jess is one of those people. (Grrr...) :) 

She has a much obliged little model in my nephew Harry, although he is not so sure about wearing the little girly hats. Mum will make you a bright blue one someday soon Harry I'm sure - just in time for summer! ;)

In Jess's words here's what she's making:

1. What are you making?

Hats and headbands and flowers for little people.

2. What is it that you enjoy about making that thing?

It's quiet, therapeutic, calming and helps to get my thinking done before bedtime.

3. How do you make it?

With yarn/wool, a crochet hook and YouTube!

4. What will you make next? 

A little hat for the newest baby in my life.

5. What would you be doing if you weren't making that thing? 

Housework, feeding the baby, playing with the baby, cooking dinner etc!

I totally agree with Jess's points about the meditative and relaxing nature of making things, it's good for the mind and the soul.

Happy making my friends!

x J 

WEEKLY STILLS

Well it's early bedtime in this household tonight. A busy week and weekend finished off nicely with some chillaxing, fish n chips, tea and cake.

We went to a lovely birthday party for one of George's little buddies and we threw a lovely little birthday party to celebrate George's first birthday with our Pilbara family and friends. We are so blessed to be surrounded with so many wonderful people in so many different places. Having the support of friends up here really does make it feel like home, and with everyone being so far away from most of their families your friends really do become your family here. We have felt the love over the past year of George's life and have come to really appreciate that support, particularly in recent sad times. But this weekend was happy times and we felt the presence of a special person watching over our special boy.

This week's pics are a bit party aftermath but still full of colour. I love the little stories in our lives and the way that things lie - telling us what has come before and what's in store. 

Happy week ahead my friends.

1. Post party pool with quite an upright and rather uncomfortable looking pool lounge haha. When they are laid back they are oh so good

2. Sun kissed swinger 

3. On the couch with the rainbows and the zig zags 

4. Mmmm fish and chips...mmm...

5. Duplo friends all in a row

6. Humpty looks a bit scary guarding the front door 

7. The toys all off to sleep

8. Post party pom poms

9. Full party pool 

10. Holy, holey melon balls!

11. Lonely walker at the end of the hall 

12. What's in that watering can? 

13. I've been loving doing the Fat Mum Slim photo a day thing on Instagram - this was the letter 'U' - 'unimpressed with the umbrella' 

14. Baby birds eye view a la spag bol

15. Looking forward to getting back to making now that we're back to our normal weekly rhythm 

16. And there's me on my dolphin :)

x J 

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A portrait of my George, once a week, every week in 2014.

Well me thinks this will become a new favourite spot. Swinging in the afternoon sun.

I love how you look at the trees and the birds, and sing a little relaxed song as you swing (until the whining kicks in when you need another push). I also love how you do that thing with your big toe haha.

xxx mum 

WEEKLY STILLS

Well it was a pretty colourful week looking back. I'm writing this on Tuesday sort of wondering why I'm doing it. I love looking back on our weeks but I don't want this little blog to become a chore. I like to do these weekly wrap ups on Sundays but this Sunday just gone was too sad and I think we were all exhausted. 

Sunday afternoon was the Karratha memorial for our friend Chris. It was a beautiful evening and a fitting farewell from his Pilbara family.

We had a very colourful week of painting big haulpak tyres for the new Saylor Park playground in Wickham, collecting rainbow goodies and celebrating George's first birthday! 

I hope you had a colourful week to my friends!

x J

Pics:

1. Pink flamingo tyre and me 

2. Leanne bray's stir desert pea mural in wickham 

3. A little nest by my front door 

4. Tyre before 

5. Colourful glove 

6. One icecream cake

7. Icecream cake face

8. Tyre practice

9. Haircut

10. Ball pit baby birds eye view

11. Pegs

12. Rainbow collection 

13. Fairy bread 

14. Cousins 

15. Party hats

16. Milk and monkey 

17. Clouds and red dirt 

18. Happy in the walker

19. Our feet

20. Joe dirt

21. Motor cross dusk

22. Bonfire

23. Lit up lookout and a star in the sky. Maybe that is Chris watching over us all. 

xxx

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Look at you looking up at me. I look at you with so much love and you look at me just the same. I love when you're all soft and cuddly when you just wake up. It's a rare moment of stillness in the busy world of George.

I couldn't decide this week between this pic, the one of you falling asleep sitting up as we landed in Perth, the one of you just waking up and the one of you with icecream cake dripping down your chin. 

Here's another in this series and those two other funny photos. This week we celebrated your dirt birthday. What a wonderful year it has been.

I love you always my darling boy.

x mum 

Linking up with the 52 Project xxx J