BLESSED SPEEDY

 This week was Gaz's birthday! We managed to fit in a quick trip to Echuca and have lunch with Holly and Addie so that was lovely - and pick up our new glasses and a quick trip to Bunnings as well.  I love this pic of him, it was a couple of years ago when we took our little boat down the Pyramid Creek - he does love the thumbs up sign and he always wears his hat too. ve had several finishes on the crafting front so here goes, also Im not sure if Ive shown you the Soldotna Crop which I finished just in time for the Cohuna Show and it won a second prize. Im looking forward to wearing it over jeans and a long sleeved shirt- it's a cropped style. I also finished a pair of socks for Gary (actually finished them the night of his birthday!) The pattern is Dustland Socks and the yarn is Plucky in the colour way Make a Grown Man Cry which I think is a bit appropriate.  And finally I finished the little quilt with the embroidery blocks and Im really with how it turned out.  I...

I do love listening to audio books (I listen via audible) and I just found this email which shows my listening history for last year. It's a lot!  I enjoy listening to books in the car and when crafting too.  It's so easy to tell when you aren't paying attention.  But I do still love holding a "physical" book and reading - some books are just meant for that   

What a week it's been! Painting and renovating at the workers home has continued along with me chasing my tail every single day to try and get my usual jobs done and failing dismally at it!!!! However I did have a super exciting thing happen - my friends at our local Spinners and Weavers group encouraged me to enter some of my craft work in the local Cohuna show and this was a super scary thing to do. Im my own worst critic and I didnt think my work was good enough.  Well to my surprise I won two (yes two!!!) best exhibit rosettes and everything I entered got either a first or second prize.  To say I was blown away is an understatement but Im grateful to my friends for encouraging me.

 Not a lot to report this week - nothing finished craft or reading wise as Ive been busy painting our workers home ready for our new staff to arrive in a week. Ive never done paint rolling before so its a learning curve and the architraves around the doors are super tricky! And then of course there is the mopping of the floors and getting any paint drops off Last pic is one room finally complete! So I suppose I can count this as a new skill HA 

 Its March already and in theory its Autumn!  We've actually had some pretty glorious days weather wise but (and I cant believe Im saying it) we would love a good heavy lot of rain.   Its very dusty as can be seen from this pic - which is of Doug North smudging a couple of our paddocks that have been redesigned and relasered for better watering which Gary is really excited about. Cows need green grass to eat so produce milk etc so good paddocks really help with that. Craft wise Ive been busy! Ive finished another pair of shortie socks with yarn leftovers - this pattern is Rose City Rollers and the yarn is super bright but I do think they look great.  Yarn is from a friend of mine - Heathermaid. Im not that much of an expert at crocheting - I can make a granny square, but last year I went to a class with Shelley Husband of Granny Square Academy fame and bought her book.  Ive tried a few of the patterns and really like the Solid Sue square - so Ive been making som...