hay you guys!

Ella stayed here again on the weekend...

She loves staying with Auntie Toni, because Auntie Toni has the best movies...



This is without a doubt my little sisters favourite movie, and now a new favourite of my kids.




Olivers favourite character is none other than Sloth, because of course he is wearing a Superman tee...



for the last three days Ollie has been walking around the house shouting "hey you guys!"

I think I need another cup of tea, as I feel my age catching up on me!

neglect for novels and knitting

I have been completely neglectful and "idle indeed" of my blog these holidays, and have let it go some what for reading Jane Austen novels and then following them up with the BBC movies!

With 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Pride and Prejudice' read and watched, I am hungry for more!

Thanks to Miss Austen for her fantastic story telling and the BBC for their visual portrayal.

Love, love, love everything, especially the costumes and inside the buildings and outside the buildings, and the country side, the way they talked back then, oh well o.k just everything!



I would very much like a hat just like the one Marianne Dashwood is wearing.
And definitely the jacket Miss Elizabeth Bennet is wearing below...




In between reading and being glued to the t.v. I have managed to start and finish the first 2009 knitting project...



this wee puffy sleeved cardigan for Ella to wear to school.
( note how the puffy sleeves look like Miss Bennets! )






This lovely pattern is not one of mine, though I did have to modify the original to fit and to look a tad more little girlish.
You can find the pattern ( Minisweater ) for yourself in a more grown up style at Glampyre Knits, and best of all it is free!

pasta puttanesca

The weather is driving us crazy.
It is so random, sun one day then rain and frosts the next!
It’s no wonder the kids are sick again.
And not being able to go to kindy, poor wee button is starting to climb the walls.

But we have found a new favorite movie, and now the kids are obsessed with Lemony Snicket’s.

To the point where all they want to eat is pasta puttanesca.

And Ella must cook it!
Our version is very very basic, curly pasta (bunged in the microwave) and a can of Wattie's Pesto Tomatoes, stirred in just before they devour it!

On the knitting front.
I have finished a few more Brainbridge scarf's for wee peoples prezzies.

And a project for our friends daughter, who turns 21 in a fortnight.
I just need someone to model before I can take some pictures!
But you can check out the pattern here.

Now time for a cuppa and troll TradeMe for some more buttons.