actually finished in 2008

actually finished in 2008
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i know i cheated a bit by having 2 photos of the recent cowl and i didn't take a photo of the finished kermit socks but i did a lot of things in 2008. dyeing with indigo and with eucalyptus, painting, mixed media, felting, sewing, one bed quilt and some knitting.

a bit reflection later - 2008 was a strange year often polarised by great things happening at work and on the creative side but terrible, painful things in other parts of my life.

but hey i actually finished stuff (and the less said about leftover unfinished projects from 2007 and beyond the better)

learning to photoshop

days of sloth

christmas day set the benchmark for sloth around here - there has been a whole lotta lounging, reading christmas books, moderate cooking, eating and even the odd bit of housework (just to keep the house from being subsumed by a tide of dog hair - b-the-d is shedding a small mammal's worth of hair every day)

i have however started and completed a knitted garment - if a cowl constitutes a garment.
i used ilga's beech wood pattern - very easy with enough changes of pace to keep me interested but not anxious making. i used some soft handspun wool that i bought 3 years ago in byron bay and a skein of luscious handpsun silk from artemisartemis.

christmas day

and i'm still in my jim jams at 2.30 - my sort of christmas day :)

we got up at a civilised hour (8.30ish) and there was much excitement and a flurry of present opening. apart from my wondrous camera m gave me a lovely assortment of pressies
albertus rex loved his flying screaming monkey (an excellent stocking filler) and m was similarly entranced by his t shirt (it says 'hello my name is inigo montoya you kill my father prepare to die' and is from the best t shirt place in the world)
w has his career set as a wooden chef - he now has a wooden stove, wooden supplies and a wooden birthday cake
and e loved her kimono
poor old billthedog was a bit bemused by the whole thing
leisurely breakfast was followed by leisurely lunch and i'm now uploading the legion of christmas photos to flickr.

dinner will be roast beef, vichy carrots, zucchini and roast potatoes followed by panettone bread and butter pudding and cherries.

happy cmas to all

and to all a good night.
we just did the santa thang and we are tiiiired.

see you in the morning :)

snakey and summer pudding

we went to the kris kringle night market on thursday night and w saw lots of soft toys and of course wanted them all. he really wanted a snake though and there were none to be had.

so i made one.
it's more than 8 feet long...... the sewing part was ok - but the stuffing! i felt like a navvy by the end of it all.
but he is a handsome snakey and w loves him.

and the summer pudding i made last night

was wonderful!

on a less cheery note, we seem to have bought a grinch christmas tree which leers at us from its corner and made its feelings clear by falling on e as she was blamelessly sitting on the sofa eating her pudding....

christmas.....

one glass of champagne and look what happens

christmas at my mum's place.

and here is solomon in all his glory - matted and framed (which makes him sound like a down and out criminal...) but isn't he lovely - as is my Mother of course
more photos if you can bear it over at flickr