our mob....

Tuesday, April 06, 2010

Day 162 (03.04.10)

My wet felted eggs were a disaster so I had to change plans and turn them into a nest with a needle felted chick inside.

Day 161 (02.04.10)

I have never had a good result with wet felting but i'm giving it another go for the kids handmade easter gifts.

Day 160 (01.04.10)

Easter bonnet parade today - we were going to reuse last years hat but sometime in the last year it had perished into a lump of hot glue, glitter and feathers!

Just to show why it's so hard to get a good photo at the easter parade - you first have to find your kid in this!!

Day 159 (31.03.10)

Got this book at the thrift shop and Ned loves it - he only lasts for a page or two before falling asleep so I reckon it's going to last for awhile!!

Day 158 (30.03.10)

I had to sit and wait till this extremely long train crossed and just as I saw the last carriage it stopped and reversed all the way back - not what I needed when I was already late!

Solved my lego in the pockets problem with this nifty waist pouch for Ned to stash his bits in. Scrap upholstery fabric with a fly screen pocket - perfect. Tried out iron on printer transfers for the first time and they are great - Ned wants a shirt with a picture of himself on it!!!!

Now I have to make one for Ned's bff Riley - his Mum has the same problem!!

Day 156 (28.03.10)

Ned has been asking since last year if we can go to Macca's to have brekkie - well he got lucky today! We had an hour to kill before picking Jar up so we had good coffee and Ned (finally) got his hotcakes!!

(Bad picture taken on phone)

Day 155 (27.03.10)

We set Ned up to make a centrepiece for our easter table, it only took about 5 days to grow this much.

Day 154 (26.03.10)

Ned got a gold card today - he wanted to have the picture taken with the card balancing on his shoulder (??) !!

Day 153 (25.03.10)

A few new additions to the egg tree - I have eaten way too much egg white in the past so we decorated some foam eggs this year!

Day 152 (24.03.10)

Spent a couple of hours on my own today, watching tv and cutting out pieces for my next project - bliss!!!

Day 151 (23.03.10)

This is what I get out of Ned's pockets - every pair!!

I have a container in the laundry to collect it all in.

Day 150 (22.03.10)

No power and no water still so we entertained our selves with another night of board (bored!!) games. We were prepared for the loss of power but not so much the water. We had plenty of drinking water but didn't think of filling the tub or anything and after Al twisted his ankle the night before looking for the mains in the dark I got the job of filling buckets of water from the pool to flush the toilet!!!

Day 149 (21.03.10)

Well it did end up getting a bit scary here and we evacuated into Jar's room as our windows were shaking and our skylight was flapping and banging! Power went off fairly early - Al and I saw the green flash as it blew the power and from then on it really started to blow! It peaked about 1am and the wind was howling around our house with plenty of banging going on outside. We sat it out, grabbed a couple of hours sleep when it settled down and got up first thing to survey the damage.

A few posts back I was wondering how windy it has to get to knock the coconuts down and now I know - except it took the whole tree!!

Sheared off at the base....

A bit of damage at our local store...

Power pole on a bit of a lean...

Heaps of sand washed up onto the road and we were just getting to the good stuff when a wasp flew in the car window and stung Ned so we had to go home!!!