well inspired by some lovely crochet blankets on ravelry, I decided to make a start on some hexagons for this pattern which I’ll be doing as a baby blanket (don’t think I can manage over 100 hexagons)…the pattern comes from a super cute Japanese crochet book called Crochet Motif Item. I’m having some teething problems, […]
{Keep Reading...}more for sale
October 30, 2008 By Leave a Comment
phew, there is still more decluttering and destashing…here are a few more things including books that were meant for the store but never made it up…easier to load up here…..I’ve been holding off listing these till I got all the others out the door Little bo peep in blue $13 a metre Knitting for Children […]
{Keep Reading...}banana bread and babies
October 26, 2008 By 15 Comments
well it feels like a weekday here with retro daddy in the office all day and me on the homefront (as usual)…..I quickly whipped up some banana bread to sweeten my day and then gave half away to retro grandmummy and grandma betty which I’m now regretting but I think it sweetened their day too….heres […]
{Keep Reading...}almost 7 weeks now
September 19, 2008 By 4 Comments
Wow where did those weeks go…..this was me almost 7 weeks ago with all the time in the world and now here we are only getting the time to take photos of our little babies sleeping and sleeping again and lets not forget dear little photogenic keira and I want the time to myself sew […]
{Keep Reading...}I’m an aunty
September 8, 2008 By 18 Comments
Despite being an aunty about 15 times over on retro daddy’s side of the family I’m now an aunty for the first time on my side of the family with my little sister Phoebe giving birth to Beatrix Aren’t they all just gorgeous…my Dad has requested we take a break from baby making for a […]
{Keep Reading...}Rainbow Crochet
September 4, 2008 By 13 Comments
well all the yarn arrived for the mobile but the colours were so gorgeous and I have 200g of each colour so I decided a blankie for the twins was in order………and I just want to teach everyone how to crochet granny squares because its just sooooo easy. on the baby front I made the […]
{Keep Reading...}official due date today
August 27, 2008 By 7 Comments
well today is the baby’s official due date and thank the Lord I didn’t go till 40 weeks…..I’d be huger than huge. We are now home alone and doing ok….I have to be up at 6ish to make sure we’re not in our pj’s and waiting for breakfast at 10am and that means ingesting coffee […]
{Keep Reading...}where did the week go!
August 21, 2008 By 16 Comments
wow where did that week go!!!!!! Life is divided into 3 or 4 hourly cycles of feeding, changing, settling, sleeping till its time for feeding again and this is how we spend our days…..the house seems so peaceful and organised when these two look like this and this is when mummy eats lots of choc […]
{Keep Reading...}One week on
August 11, 2008 By 23 Comments
Thank you for all your lovely comments…..what a job to get back to you all but its lovely to share our dear little babies with you all and read all your gorgeous comments. We’re home now and it feels soooooo good, I came home to a clean house, new video camera from my parents and […]
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