Category: Family

Five

Marshmallow cake

Also last week, my baby turned five! The cheeky little thing.

Here she is wearing her new tuttifruiti skirt.

New tuttifruiti skirt

It was very difficult getting that shot, as she kept breaking into a dance, like this.

Five!

She sure loves to dance. You know that So You Think You Can Dance show? She calls it the I Think I Can Dance show.

Summer

Gum tree

Learning to swim

Nice cold iceblock

Twilight saga obsession

New shoes

Ah yes, where was I? Oh that’s right, I have a blog. Hello blog! How have you been? I haven’t gone anywhere, really, just enjoying summer. I’ll be back again real soon with some knitting!

Four

My little baby turns four today… How did that happen?!

Four candles

We had cake before she went to preschool this morning.

Cake

And of course now that she’s four, she’s a lot more mature…

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Not!!

Easter weekend

On Saturday we went to the Royal Easter Show. We saw some animals…

Goat at farmyard nursery

Alpacas

Saw some knitting…

Softie on Arts exhibition

Annette likes this one 🙂

I'm a happy little Vegemite

Watched some woodchopping…

Chop chop chop!

and stunt action…

Motorcross acrobatics

Vrroooooom!

It was fun!

PS. Most of the photos above are taken by hubby. More photos in my flickr set. And this flickr set for my photos of the Arts exhibition — displays of knitting and some very interesting cake decorations.

PPS. And thank you very much for the lovely birthday wishes on the last post! 🙂

Family and fabrics

My parents are visiting from Indonesia at the moment. I haven’t seen them for a long time, so it’s good to get to spend time with them again. Plus they haven’t seen Annette since she was born, so Annette is also enjoying getting to know her ‘new’ Oma and Opa. They came laden with goodies for Annette. How many Hello Kitty lunch boxes and stickers can one little girl have? Never enough, apparently!

Before they came here, they asked me if I wanted anything from there. I thought of yarn, but Indonesia does not have a knitting culture (it’s a tropical country, wool yarns are unheard of over there!), so I said, um, fabrics? And my mum came good, she brought me a little pile of fabrics. Here are some of my favourites.

Apples fabric

Bears

I vaguely remember having some pajamas made of the fabric in the second picture above, the one with the dots, houses, etc. My mum used to sew some clothes for me when I was little, although she doesn’t sew anymore now. I regret not taking any interest in learning to sew from her earlier. I didn’t have any interest in crafting whatsoever — be it knitting, sewing or anything else — until just a few years ago. Now my mum is quite pleasantly surprised and amazed that I have turned into a crafter myself 🙂

So for the past week Annette and I have been taking my parents around, did some sightseeing etc, and tomorrow we are going to yum cha. Yummm! I’ve finished my Coupling socks (photos soon), and Little Majolica is almost finished as well. Finally!