Sick Day

(Bless you, honey lemon tea...)
Chris and I are both home sick today. This pretty much never happens - we don't tend to share our diseases! We're pretty much just sitting on the couch, dosed up on Codral, watching movies, using copious amounts of tissues and feeling sorry for ourselves. The highlight of the day is going to be when my lovely Mum drops off some of her very delicious chicken and vegetable soup! We're lucky kids.
We're also splurging on pepperoni pizza for lunch. Shhhh!

The Glove Hunt

Yesterday was the first day of Winter and lately I've noticed... it's darn cold! It all came to a head this morning when I was attempting some very simple crochet before work. Cold fingers = clumsy, loose, giant-sized stitches. Ugh. A few years ago I went through a bit of a fingerless glove craze and ended up with some very cute pairs! Sadly, when I got married and moved house a year and a half ago, my collection became compromised. Most pairs seem to have been split in half, rendering the gloves I did manage to hold onto fairly pointless without their partner!

Today I've been hunting for a pair to keep my hands warm over the next few months, and have found some pretties:

German Perfection

Home Lab

Pilland

 Shmugusta

Don't these all just make your hands feel all snuggly????

Also, I'm sorta pining for these bear ear warmers...

Winter. What a lovely season!

Some Things Y'All Should Know!

1. I've got a blog sponsorship at My Girl Thursday for the month of June!
2. You should go check her blog out - aside from the fact that it's a fun and inspiring read, she's running an amaaaazing giveaway right now, with 1 item from each sponsor - 11 items to be exact. All going to one lucky, lucky winner! I'm giving away my favourite brooch so gooooo check it out! Gooooo!
3. I'm making a commitment to this blog. There are so many things I want it to be, but I just ain't the most regular post-er. The plan is... that will change. I love a good blog that documents real life, so that's what I'm going for. I'm going to add some regular features. Maybe a weekly cooking class, more Etsy artist features, a DIY here or there. This is my space, and I want it to show you ME!!
4. Right now I'm watching Master Chef. It's pretty much my favourite show on TV right now...
5. Pretty sure I wish I made this little sweetie pie:

(Little Brown Byrd)

6. Mwah!! xxoo

A Peek Through The Window...

FINALLY. A post with pictures! Current pictures! For whatever reason, I've been putting off posting pictures on this blog. Which is silly. I think my main problem is that I'm ashamed of my bad photography skills. So the other day, my problem was temporarily solved! I've got a blog sponsorship coming up in June over at My Girl Thursday and had to send her a bunch of pics. I had a small panic, then texted my super-busy bestie who, like any amazing photographer friend, took time out of her crowded weekend to take photos for me :) I only needed a few of them for the feature, so I decided that, rather than let them go to waste, I'd post them here! So here it is. A peek into the window of my life. Well overdue. (Thankssss Kat!!)

#1 Spices. Kat took this for fun because she found them on the table, but the fact that they were out on the table is an indicator that I use them a LOT. I love cooking and I loooove playing with spices. Yay!

#2 My Work-space! I'm blessed enough to have my very own craft room in this little house of ours! It's such a mess so I very strategically cleaned up certain parts of it for Kat to focus on... tehe!
I have a lot of scissors...!
Current projects. Anyone sensing a theme???
That's my sewing machine on the left, all covered up. Because I can't use it without a power cable, and I am yet to find... Clever.
#4 Ooo! This photo is one I took! It's the sky above my house the other morning. I just loved the bits of cotton candy floating around! The whole sky looked like this, with whispy pink patches everywhere. Best sunrise EVER.

#5 Token cute puppy pic :) I took this photo of Cupcake on our way to the park. He looks super funny with his face to the wind!

So there you have it! Between now and June, I'm going to be working my ass off getting the shop ready. I've never been involved with a blog sponsorship before, so I'm pretty excited to have this opportunity!

I promise, more photo-y posts from now on. My exciting news is that Chris is giving me my own computer in the craft room!!! Can't wait!!

This One's For You, Husband...

Thank you for:
- Treating me like a normal person when I have strange freak-outs and crazy-lady mood swings
- Letting me get Cupcake even though he was very expensive and we weren't even supposed to be getting a puppy yet (let alone 2!!)
- Surprising me with flowers AND a Master Chef cook book over the last fortnight
- Looking at my herb garden when I tell you to, and throwing in impressed and encouraging comments
- Cleaning the floor amazingly
- Offering to cook when you start finishing work earlier
- Fixing the TV reception :)
- Letting me buy dumb things (like dresses) that I don't need, and we can't afford, but I reallllly want
- Feeding the dogs pretty much every night because Cupcake prefers to eat food served by Daddy for some reason
- Sitting under the patio, looking out at the garden and dreaming with me
- Going grocery shopping with me
- Driving pretty much any time we go out
- Eating everything I cook and making me feel like I've made the tastiest meal in the world every night
- Carrying the love bird cage around even though you don't really like the love birds
- Letting me call you all kinds of embarrassing, non-manly nicknames
- Treating me to back rubs even when you're just as tired as me
- Giving me sips of your Pepsi because I can't justify drinking a whole can of it any more
- Putting up with me telling you to "stop eating my chips and get your own!"
- Explaining technical stuff to me when you know I have noooo idea
- Answering my questions about movies/TV shows while we're watching them
- Being a genuinely amazing husband. Seriously, you deserve every gold star in the world!

LOVE YOU

Winter...

I can see that you're on your way here. And I like that.

Chris is away this weekend. I miss him when he goes. I'm a bit strange, when he's not home I can't think of stuff to do. Everything just feels a bit pointless. I could never have moved out of my parents' home and lived alone! I definitely need people around in order to exist properly. Is that a bad thing? I guess it is, when you're stuck home alone for an entire weekend!

I'm hoping to make the most of the weekend and tick off the following things:

- More shop updating. I've gotten slack

- Proper blog work. I feel like I've drifted in and out of here leaving nothing but other people's pictures and a vague update on my life, since starting this blog. It's still plain white and boring. Boring!

- Indie Biz class catch up. I am like, 20 lessons behind. Ouch.

- Laundry. Because it will be sunny for the first time in a small while, and the dirty clothes are piling up everywhere. Plus, Chris is going to come home with a pile more...

- Wishing and mindlessly brainstorming for this crazy new dream I've discovered inside me. Heck.

Wish me luck!

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Um, Adorable!!

(found via weheartit)

I would love to do something like this on a cushion cover or something... soooo freaking lovely!!
As usual, I've been a bit AWOL lately. Life is dishing out lots of unwanted physical pain at the moment. I mean that literally. In the last 3 weeks I've had a terrible reaction to a bee sting, a stiff neck, and now a bad back (I've never had a back injury in my life!) It's all very exhausting. I swear everyone at my new job must think I'm the world's biggest hypocondriach (K, don't know how to spell that big word!)

Aside from being in various pains, life is great. It always is, despite the silly little things we have to deal with along the way. I'm dying to get in the craft room and do something new (a castle appliqued cushion cover perhaps? Tehe). I'm dying for it to rain for 2 days straight (preferably over a weekend, even if that is when I usually do my laundry!) And I'm also dying to actually post interesting stuff on my blog. Plus, I'm dying to catch up on the Indie Biz classes I've been putting off... yikes!

I guess I'm just waiting for life to get less crazy... probly not gonna happen! Oh well!!