Gifts From OZ

As soon as I recieved this beautiful box of goodies from http://www.aboutaustralia.com/ I sat down with a glass of cordial and a violet crumble for a taste of my childhood. Vegimite is more of a staple that a treat in my house and the boys had been asking everyday for it since we ran out a week ago (we had scrapped the old jar completely clean). There are alot of things I worry about with them adjusting to life in Australia when we move back in a few years but I know their love of vegimite will go a long way towards making them true Aussies !

Friendship Knitting

Knitting is not a new hobby to me, but I am surely still a beginner. I have been joking that by the end of my life I will hold the Guiness Book of Records title for most scarves knitted by a single person. Really I knit becuase I love YARN. I love how it feels on my fingers, I love the textures and most of all I love the colors. To the point of this post though , I have no need for scarves in Hawaii and have been making them for loved ones instead, I LOVE to think of the dear person who will soon ( hopefully) be wearing it when I sit knitting it, and I hope they will think of me whe they wear it. My knitting like me has many flaws, and holes and mistakes, I call it character. I know that my friendship knitting will be loved by those who recieve it dispite it's quirky imperfections.

My Mum

I have to say that I had been a little slack in the last few weeks, but for good reason. My wonderful and inspirational mum has been here. I just love spending time with her, but really my greatest joy comes from seeing the relationship between her and my boys, evey glimpse of the love they have for each other warms my heart.

Saturdays thing

This tiny sauce pan is so cute and the lid is attatched so it won't be separated. I have to add that tonight I was playing with Liam a not complete jenga game I got at savers , we had the best time and it's so good for his fine motor skills.

Fridays things

Ok, so it's friday, I skipped a few days this week, not only on my blog, but have lots of fun stuff still to post, so i'll keep going. I got this adorable "kitchen" ( I don't know what it was) at Savers for $9.99, so cute with the little drawers and stuff.

Enamel play bowls

Tuesdays toy

I was wishing I was a good enough knitter to make some knitted food for the boys, but seriously, buying this wooden fruit for $4 a bag was cheaper and WAY less time comsuming.

OK, so this is what I took out. We'll start with that.

Dress Up

Serveral influences converged and led me to re-do my play room, man was it worth it. I finally bit the bullet and left only imaginary play items in there and I see the difference in my kids play habits already. They LOVE to play kitchen and dress up which they rarely did before, and seriously if you knew how fun it is to find cool natural playroom stuff at the thrift store everyone would be doing it ( and expensive natural toy toys would go under)More about the stuff later, today I just wanted to share this pic, which says it all.

Oh, I just had an idea, I'll post a pic of a cool new to me addition to the play room each day this week,