merry christmas

To all,
Have a lovely and safe christmas. Now thats said, a little bit late now...lol
To all again,
Have a Lovely and Happy New Year...
I just have started a new skirt I wanted to wear for christmas, but didn't. Hopefully get up to photo stage tomorrow...I am to sewing it up tonight after planting some spuds...We broke the tractor and again are a little bit late in planting them. Oh well. I have to keep telling myself I am not a superwoman, as much I'd like to be...I am also in the middle of making rhubarb cordial and stewing it right now...yummmo. Washed bottles ready for sterilising and filling. Hope it works...anyways a few pics of late...
Here's a little of what I have achieved in the last few months leading upto christmas.
I am so ready for a play with my kids, with my new wetsuit...woohoo. But no photos of me yet. Giggle. I am always behind the camera....

There were more pics to come but pooter is soo slow...

Just got called outside, and What are you looking at  !!!!....

ohhh  wow. A first in our back yard....

It crawled into a pallet and then we had to remove him to the paddock and he finally escaped us...what a lovely surprise...Hubby said it the was the biggest he ever has seen...

Anyways back to it, what was it I was doing...oh planted the spuds now and this a progression of my day I guess. The paddock above is where we planted them... Now the sprinkler on in the dark.

And we had flathead and abalone with salad and plum marinaded chicken for tea...wooohooo, v lovely.

Getn late now, Havn fun. Be good. And have a lovely start to the new year. I will get pics up again soon maybe...cheers Tamsin

Brooch pins knitted

Just some small talk and lots of pics...of the things I do and love doing...

A little one on my jacket

Up close on my jacket

On my beautiful Elicia handknitted scarf.

and attached to my lovely white beanie/slouch hat.

Here are some more brooches I have been knitting over the winter months.

Though the colours didn't reproduce as lovely as they are...

Now its warming up I am outside in my lovely garden. AND making a mess, with the chickens following me everywhere. Have fun in the sun. Slip slop and slap...Be good cheers Tamsin.

Oh and before I forget, some little birdies I have been playing with.

Have fun. I need to practice taking better photos. Cheers.

goose egg - just one

We were so lucky (apparently they are quite rare) to be given some goose eggs to try. They are quite enormous compared to our chickens. So I went googling for recipes and found one for brownies...We have yet to try it, but it sounds delicious.. We made homemade pasta instead.
We measured the weight of the egg, just out of interest, and then added 300g of 0000 flour. The pasta recipe I use is 5 eggs to 500g flour. And a normal egg size is 60g, sooo the goose egg, as I read as well, is nearly 3 times the size of a chickens egg....
We processed the egg and flour together, (I'm a little bit lazy and have machines to do the work, so to speak) and pulled it out as a crumbly mixture. You could add water or oil or flavours, we don't, and then put handfuls through the roller a few times. Then we make it into thin pasta sheets. We dry it over the clothes horse until it starts to fall onto the floor. (only when you bump it) And then cook it in boiling water to add in layers to the lasagne.

This amount of pasta will do two meals for us and I will put the other half in the freezer. I also make the sauce the night before too, to cut down on time spent in kitchen... Heres some pics to show you...have fun. yummmooo.

The goose egg

The processor

The kneaded pasta dough

The rolling and thinning

And the half dished lasagne...yummo. Red wine goes down well, cheers Tam

What are you upto?

Hi all

Thankyou beautiful nellie put the kettle on, gorgeous friend of mine, for the lovely banner...That I intend to pull out every birthday, girls and mine...I love it...

And thankyou to my mum and my sis and my dad...for a wonderful party....and everyone else...

I have just packed up all my craft things out of my house, so I could sleep on my floor inside...I have just had a huge party and am still in party mode, hence no craft being made...I had to move out all my stuff, to fit in my family. We had a huge beautiful time together and mum worked so hard. Good on ya mum. I am very appreciated. Well, whats next?

Well...  Bring all my craft back inside....lol. Thats if I don't get a job...(I hope to soon, oooh soo excited...)
Slowly but surely making a small dent into bringing it back and making a mess while I am at it. The house looked so neat and tidy, but so unloved...
Back to making paper flowers and  flower balls As a request I am trying something a little different. I will update this post with pics when I start them..., still finding all my bits...

I also have a few new ideas I have seen in blogland and through googling I would love to "have a go". But dealing with sick kids, broken dryer in this wet weather is not helping.

Anyways have fun crafting, check in again sooon, cheers tam.

Paper Dress and Mask Competition at the Makers Workshop Burnie

I really wanted to do something BIG. Thanks to my family and friends, we pulled this out of envelopes I had been collecting for "SOMETHING..."
I decided to have a go only last Friday and we did this in two days after 3 days of mucking around with paper.

Well done girls. It was stressfully FUN. and we think its the best...We have called the dress AUTUMN, as our Autumn nears end. Tinkerbell was our inspiration with our blue green envelopes and we all "Believe in Fairies".

And all the while I was dreaming up this mask and finally got it in as well... woohooo...
Kanzashi flowers I love.

And will have another go at them from material. FUN FUN FUN...
We are all exhausted from the excitement and fun.
Cheers tam.

Butterflies

Heres something that i have wanted to do for months but just haven't worked it out. I nearly did one morning, all the kids off to school and I practiced for an hour. Just not getting there... So I googled and found exactly what I was looking for (for a change).... wow today is good so far...
The tutorial for the origami butterfly is so gorgeous.

And heres my example...

I love it...I folded it our of leather and applied it to a hair clip
I had to have another go out of paper, being much easier to fold...
for the girls bedroom maybe.

and then absolutley had to have a go at the other butterflies. Which i also adore... I had some gorgeous paper also for my girls...
Having fun...
cheers tam.

Antique windows

I have finished, soldered, puttied and polished the antique windows to go into a bedroom. They match the rest of the house now, instead of painted yellow glass. The owner is very happy after waiting for 22 years to be replaced and now she is selling. I used my old antique blue glass and crinkle to match existing windows.

 And here they are installed. They look fabulous and have brightened the room immensely...

to market, to market

My friend Lynelle Miller and I went to the Made with Love Bazaar Market.

It was really lovely to meet everyone and a few from bloggers land. Lovely to meet you all.

We did ok and will try and go again in the next month... We had to wear vintage aprons, that was fun.
The next time our stall won't be sooo crowded. Refine our stall table and our market so to speak.
Smaller cheaper things sell very well, we have decided. People don't like spending BIG money at "markets".
The next one will be 14th May. Lets get folding.
Here are the flowers I took along. They did well too.

These flowers I have made for my sister's wedding bouquet. I just love them. I think I will change the red velvet ribbon to a wide black satin.

Cheerio Tam. Have fun.

Two little bluebirds

 Here is what I finished this last week. Two gorgeous little blue wrens. Inspired by the many beautiful blue wrens flitting the front lawn, while the cat sleeps on the swing chair on the front porch.

 I have also completed another pair of booties. Took me less time sewn on the sewing machine than by hand. But i am not so keen on them.They are still beautiful, they just look more factory made than handmade...

 Three little singing girls. I found a gorgeous site winter carolers here. They were quite easy to make. I have made them for our christmas tree this year. A bit early maybe, but they were soo cute I couldn't wait. I might have to make some for little presents...

 I so loved these tooo. Inspired by a little pic that popped up in my searching for cushions...I have two pinks ones to complete now...

here they are done...

And that is about it for now.
I am working on two leadlight windows with my baby home from school sick today, not getting a lot done though. She is watching Dora while trying not to fall asleep in the sun on the couch. I so want to get outside and garden but it is too far away from my sickie...Hope she gets better soon, deary little thing...
Maybe a pink house will fix her up for a little bit.
Cheers for now tam.

My week of completions...

This week I completed a few things yay...
But first this is a pic of a little upcycled bag with outside pocket and raggy plaited handle. Jess loves it to store her DS. We made this at her girlfriends house.

A pair of new booties knitted and felted, long time taken. This is the pattern I made for a pair of booties awhile ago and through the felting process, they went haywire. I threw them away when they went out of shape. But this wool worked. The brown booties I sewed together with blanket stitch and beautiful green thread. Love these too. It took longer to sew up than I expected, but was worth the effort.

Another little love of paper, I made for me. I was thinking of selling this one but, I love it too much...

Photos don't do it justice, or I am just a horrible photographer, lol.

some more beaut flowers. love this red.

and another thing I had put away because I didn't know what to do with it. The girls were beading necklaces over the weekend and I thought "that's it". A necklace made out of paper in a choker style. Not to be worn on wet days.

More flowers and musical lillies.

A little cute birdy I knitted from scraps after I completed the little shoulder bag. Pictured below.

Another horse with matching card.

The shoulder bag I knitted with three strands of different wool - stash busting. I designed and knitted as I went along. Very exciting when I put it together and it worked. I embellished with a five petal knitted flower too.

And one more thing I had put away was this. A five intersecting tetrahedra. I couldn't resist finishing it on Friday while Bo was making paper chains at the table. I was supposed to be tidying the house. But it took my fancy to complete it...Took me 3 hours to put in the last two tetrahedras. Again, so much for house work.

The end...
I'd better get back to cleaning now, its Monday...lol have fun. cheers tam.