for Christmas my parents bought Keira and the twins an old piano…..the thought of one of their flashy pianos (which includes an ivory baby grand) being lent to us for Keira to bang around on was too frightening for them. It turned out to be a wise move as there has been a lot of banging, singing and even colouring on the keys (thankfully removed)

here she is with her little friends Henry and Freya doing some nursery rhymes….

and today while the babies napped I tried my hand at ripples…..I’m going to do a manageable playmat which means the hexagons will continue to hibernate a little longer.

I searched my ever expanding home library for crochet books to help me and found the best instructions were in a small book called Beginners Guide to Crochet ‘ Ripples for Baby’ by Leisure Arts. I got my copy on the Ravelry Australian Knitters destash page for about $3. If you think ripples might be your thing check out this blog…

Tuesdays are always busy as Keira enjoys her day at ‘kindy’ and mummy enjoys a day with the twins! Today they had a little playmate over and Finn continued to explore the world past his playmat

Tillie napped (oh the lips!)

mummy waited for the new fruit and veg delivery to arrive….mmmm a box jam packed full of freshness

and found a teensy bit of time for quilting…..I’m loving this quilt as you go project but didn’t realise how much that one strip of heather bailey stands out…….mmmm we’ll see how it looks after the flowers are quilted.

miss keira is totally in love with cinderella and princesses……so when she found this yarn at spotlight she kept pulling it down in every colour they had and throwing it under the pram…..we bought some home (I’ll admit its 100% acrylic and I don’t do acrylic but its for my keira)

and we are making it into a cinderella scarf…cast on 16 stitches and knit garter stitch and keep going…..thankfully my little cinderella is patient and I’ll try to finish it soon…..

yes siree everyone loves a wedding!!!!! We got dressed up…..miss keira thought she was coming too and picked out her favourite princess dress…but she was happy to be left at home with the grandparents and some pizza.

the backdrop was gorgeous

the bride was fashionably late…leaving the groom waiting

and was definitely a beautiful bride with one of her little girls by her side

after the ceremony the happy couple were presented

oh and the little chocolate boxes looked perfect too!

I won’t show you all the photos but it was just a lovely wedding! I could have stayed all night but someone has to get to patternmaking this morning, so home we came to find all 3 asleep…..and perhaps another night out is on the cards for the two of us.

63 little white boxes filled with chocolates ready for the wedding on Friday. This is my present to the bride and groom…I had great intentions to make the chocolates but the warm weather was making my test batch all soft once they were out of the fridge. I know that once they are out of my hands I have no control over the elements and I don’t want happy guests opening boxes of chocolate mush. So each box has 2 roses chocolates inside as they are fully wrapped and a little more hardy! I know this was supposed to be my present to them but I can’t help myself and am going to pop down to DJ’s tomorrow to get my favourite Georg Jensen photo frame too…I’m such a wedding tragic and the bride knows it! She dubbed me her wedding planner!

and I’ve been slowly knitting…at a pace of 2 rows a night. I’m making this little cardy in Patons serenity, a gorgeous blend of cotton and bamboo. I know the pattern is a little nana-esque but I’m doing a size smaller and combined with the bright colour should make this cardy just my style.

Thank you for all your kind birthday wishes! it was a nice day and we finished it with a batch of my yummy cupcakes…iced of course. There were quite a few left over in the fridge but one hungry daddy polished them all off…mental note to make 2 batches next time.

I enjoyed some quiet time after church to finish off this lap blankie and photographed it complete with some white icing on the table from sticky little fingers…

yesterday was just one of those days, the babies were teething, Keira just wanted to spend the day at the park and mummy had over 6 loads of washing to catch up on and just wanted to have her morning shower!

while everyone had their afternoon nap (this is rare for keira), I made these 2 scrap quilt blocks for my quilting group because it was becoming clear that I just wanted to spend the night having a nice long shower and lie on the couch watching desperate housewives and the oscars……………and thats what I did and it was good!

this afternoon I dropped off our donations for the bushfire victims…..thank you to Anita, Claudine and Cass for your donations…I added some more items (especially as I am the queen of stockpiling nappies) and boxed them up complete with tatty sticky tape on the side of a box (ok well I took that off once I realised it was there!)

I added this blankie made by mum and we dropped them off to Sara….and how cool that donations were so generous that Sara was lent a warehouse until delivery to whittlesea this Tuesday!

oh and we also did a mini portrait this afternoon as I needed to submit a photo of the family for a newsletter…..well this is the best I could manage of all 3 keeping still and looking at the camera…

the day was completed with a quick call to emergency about an hour ago to check we didn’t need to bring Keira in…..she fell off the couch onto the hardwood floors resulting in the biggest blue bump you’ve ever seen on her head. I am now monitoring her every movement to check she is ok! phew, now where is that big block of chocolate I need….I think I may have a box of roses somewhere that need opening…..