Happy post day

Wohoo!! What a fantastic post day i had yesterday. I placed an order with A Million Little Things and within no time at all it arrived at my door. I was expecting it to take between 6 - 8 weeks as it was coming from the US but no, just short of a week and i have this lush stash in my hands.



I feel that it is important to add that i have been so good this year with buying scrapbook stash. I have not had anything for four or five months now and am so pleased with the items that i bought. Thanks Jill.

Make sure to visit Donna Downey's blog today as she has got some exciting new items to show off.

Peace.

Perspective

With things being so busy as they have been for me these past few weeks i have been feeling very overwhelmed and very tired. The tired part is my fault to be fair. I have been getting up very early to take Stu to work, coming home and getting some study time in before going to work. Then working a full day only to come home, run the house and then follow that on by more studying which eventually got me in bed for about 11:30 or 12. I am one of those people who need a solid seven hours of sleep a night to be productive and happy and right now i have been lucky to be getting four and half hours a night.

This was rectified on Sunday afternoon when i could just go no further. I had an afternoon nap, something i only ever do if i am extremely sick, which lasted over four hours and then was back in bed for about 9pm the same night and had another twelve hours of sleep.

To say that i am now feeling alert and well refreshed is an understatement. This morning after i dropped Stu off at work i decided to grab my camera and go for a nice walk in the fresh morning air. Here are a few photos that i took along the way.

And unfortunatley, this is NOT my house. wish it was but perhaps one day.

Nothing in particular, just images that i liked and colours that caught my eye.

It is amazing how much tiredness can effect your perspective on situations. As i said earlier, i have been feeling very overwhelmed and so much so that i had started to feel like i could not cope with life. Nothing too serious but just that the things that i used to be able to do i was finding myself battling with. After getting the much needed sleep, i put aside some time and put a little perspective back into my life. I have made some changes to my priorities and i think that this will also help to make things feel a little easier for me.

Onto knitting....Josephine has not been going so well. Eventually, after many attempts i got the hang of the patter. Now after knitting about 8 inches into it i have realised that it is going to be WAY to big for me. I could just not face having to frog that lovely thing one more time so instead i have put it into its own little bag and i will come back to it another time. For now, i am going to be working on my next project.

She is called Tomato and i found her on the knitting daily website. I must say, i really love this website. I get an email every day, or every other day, and it has patterns on it, questions about the patterns and all sorts of stuff. The pattern is simple, at least so far, and i think it is going to be a great project. I will try to upload the .pdf file of the pattern to my sidebar so feel free to use it but please leave me an update of your progress so that we can see how you are getting on.

This is the yarn that i have decided to use for my Tomato. I love the feel of it and i just love the colour. I am not entirely sure what colour i am going to use to do the strip with but i will decided that when i get there. For now take a look at my yarn and my gauge that i did for it...

She knits together like a dream and the gauge is perfect!
I have some more photos to show you of some other projects that i have been working on but i think that will wait for another day. For now, this will do.

Peace.

A long weekend.

This weekend has been a little longer than normal for me. I took Monday and Tuesday off work to study as i am having my first exam next Saturday and i still had a lot to get through. I am so proud to say that i have managed to finish all the work and assignments that needed doing and i now have 3 days to revise before i have to sit the exam.

Saturday was a good Mail day for me. I have heard so much about this book and so i just had to get my hands on it. I jumped onto eBay and picked it up for a real bargain. I cant wait to find some time to get stuck into this.
Because of all the studying that i have been doing i have been a little behind on my circle journal that needed doing last weekend. Saturday morning i had to get it to the post office and get it posted out so after dropping Stu at work in the early hours of the morning i came home and did this....
The circle journal was titled "the year I was born". What a great idea. I had so much fun putting this together.

Tuesday was Stu's day off work so after i had finished doing my studying we got some time to spend together. It was nice. He fell asleep on the couch and i managed to get some creative time in as well being able to begin to sort out my scrap space.
I am by no means done yet but i am closer right now than i was this morning! Hope you all had a great weekend.

Inspiration all around

Lately I have really been seeing images. I don't mean just looking and thinking "oh that's nice" but i mean feeling them, admiring the art and the images for what they are. We live in such a diverse world and if we are able to keep an open spirit and an open heart then i think that you will find so much more than you bargained for.

Please note that none of these images are mine and that i have picked them up off the Internet and off emails from friends over the past few months. I have given credit where possible.

These photos one of my best friends sent to me.....

Shopping Cart Art - I LOVE it!

and how about this one as well. The entire art work is made from only Shopping carts.

Then we have this photo. I found this on Google images a little while ago as i was working on a mini album (that i have yet to finish and share). I love the greenage of the photo and i love the angle of the shot. Makes me feel like i want to get out the lemonade, pop a few ice blocks in it and relax while sipping my drink.

This image i just happened to come across while i was blog surfing a few months ago. I cant remember where i saw it but i loved the "thinking outside of the box" mentality that went into the image and the shot. Very funny and very clever.

And then we have fabric. Oh i am just loving fabric at the moment. The colours are so inspiring and i am finding that the more images i see the more i want to try different, out of the ordinary, colour combinations. This image was found on the PurlSoho website. I just love the colours. Another great website for fabric and a few free patterns is Amy Butlers if you are interested.

The next thing that has caught my eye are these journal covers. Again, i think it has something to do with the entire fabric thing i am feeling at the moment but to me, these are just fantastic.

The instructions on how to make these lovely covers can be found on the Kirin notebooks blog along with some more photos. This is definitely on my to do list for my next new journal.

How about this little guy! My mom and dad went to the London Aquarium two weekends ago and this is who they saw there. This is a photo from the brochure that they brought home which i have played with the colours in photoshop on.

We are in a baby boom in our family at the moment. Would you believe we have two babies due within four days of each other!! Because of this i am on the lookout for gifts for them. I thought about knitting a baby suit for both of them but i was wanting to do something a little different. What do you think to this cute Ribbon Baby Blanket (Evelyn Clark for Fibertrends)
or how about this cute little hat which i found on Sara's blog along with her pattern?
They don't know if they are having bouncing boys or gorgeous girls yet but i can work around that. Plus i think these will be really cute and unique gifts to get.

I have so much more to share but i think i had better stop for now. If you have read this far then i hope that you have enjoyed it all.

Yes we did go and watch Harry Potter last night and yes were were there and hour and a half before the film started and yes we were the second couple in the que and yes the movie is really good and yes i am so glad that we have seen it. Pretty good, i didn't let any details slip. Definitely a must see!

Have a great weekend.