Slacker revived !

So I have been "out" for a while but the urge to blog has been creeping up on me daily, so here I am, I think I am going to have to forgo pics for alot of entries becuase that seems to be what holds me up.
I have alot of new knitted things to show you, and I'm sure lots of other things that life throws at me will pop up too.
Yahoo ! I'm back !

Chocolate

There is always something special about licking the bowl, your child knows it's a birthday or at the least some kind of party, but I have to tell you there is extra magic in letting a child who's diet consists of basically rice squashed into different food resembling shapes lick the bowl and anything else that might have come into contact with gluten free, dairy free(does he look like he cares ) cake batter.

Crossroads

Ahh, so there are so many more important things I could be thinking on, but my dilema these last few days as I search for a project to bring back east is -
Do I actually really follow a pattern , correct needles and yarn, or do I go with my true nature and just pick up what I have , throw it together and hope for the best.
Obviously there are pros and cons to both, but my real conflict is the fact that this year my goal was to follow the rules of knitting, I really don't do that in any other area of my life, so a little line towing would do me good, but the lazy artist inside me says, what fun is that ? The realist inside me says, check out what turned out before when you didn't follow the rules of knitting,
Artist " BUT it could turn out even better"
Realist" you said you were going to follow the rules"
You see my conflict.
It is not resolved and most likely won't be til I have to pack my chosen project in a bag ready for the flight.
In the mean time, I would love you all to weight in and let me know what YOU think i should do.

My slacker days are OVER ( I hope)

Boy have I been a bad, bad, blogger,
Well, I hope that is all about to change.
As you all know, I am back from the home land and into the thick of things with 1st grade homeschool and cheufuring for pre-school. Things certianly are entertaining around here day to day.
My trip home was wonderful but my favourite part is the fact that I arrived to the rolling eyes of mother whenever my fiber arts were mentioned and left her a fiber felting fool, ( her words ,not mine). In my attempts to woo her we went to a felting class together, stayed on an Alpaca farm, and I showed her the cornacopia of absolutely fab fiber choices at a local craft day.
We had a blast,did some major bonding, and now her fiber vocab is better than mine.

From Oz with Love

Ahhhhh, I am writting from my homeland and it feels so good. Lots of wonderful things have been happening, especially when it comes to my love of fiber, first and foremost a our amazing visit to Benbellen alpaca farm , http://www.benbellen.com.au/ we had the best time, also last weekend we went to the hand spinners and weavers fair, and I bought LOTS of beautiful fiber to spin with my wonderfully new Ashford spinning wheel given to me by an amazing friend of my mothers, Diana. To top it off i am going to be able to attend spinning classes for four weeks while I'm here, something i thought I would not fit into my life for years. I am as happy as a pig in mud.
More posts with pics will come as soon as i get home i promise.

Booties for my Boys

We are heading for Australia next week and I knit and felted these cute booties to keep their little tootsies warm in the chilli weather.

Delightful Destraction

Things are really reving up around here and so I turn to my fiber fetish to bring me back to my calm place. This is the almost final result ( hopefully a nice hat will be the final result) of my fist home dyed, home spun yarn.
Yesterday I was sitting on my couch trying to see my home through a strangers eyes and was totally satisfied to note the various fiber arts paraphinalia strewn around. I have held a deep desire to one of those artsy, crafty people with artsy crafy things looking very at home in their home, and now by golly I think I am one.It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy , like yarn !