knitting in my inbetween moments

after a little break to get a cold and get over it again Im finally feeling a little more like myself! My mailbox has been treated ever so lovingly these past weeks, so a post purely devoted to parcels of love from close and afar.

First up is a belated birthday present from the adorable Kata from Odd-ish Creations, this girl holds the key to my heart, with tea and knitting and being addicted to stationary and a yarn dyer! shes like a version of myself except on the other side of the world!

In the mail came delights such as, teas stitchmakers, stamps, yarn, knitpicks! and a project bag! this had it all! I Just adored every moment of the present.

The beautiful hand dyed yarn is already on the needles! with my first ever lace project, Im knitting myself a small shawl to use as a scarf, the pattern is the ADORABLE ysolda's Ishbel this pattern is taking the knitting world by storm!

a parcel that came on friday for me was a much awaited 400gram dye up by my good friend Lisa, from Not Your Nanna's Knits, a dyer and delishious spinner from oz who has fast become a lovely friend to call on in a time of need. We are going to embark on a knit-a-long together with our 400grams! making a Clapotis another cult knitters pattern! I need to dye her 400grams so we can start!

A magic jar swap came to my door filled with fabrics, buttons and of course YARN! below is my two skeins of yarn that are from the dyepot, vampires blood and enchanted wood, also in the photo is a beautiful gradient dye from the Jolly Jumbuck club, this was a gift from two anonymous ladies, but gosh its beautiful!

in other news, Im journalling again, as some may know I've kept a journal since I was 10ish I have a shelf of completed journals in my bedroom, I suddenly stopped just before having kids, and always missed it, I've tried several times to keep once since then, but failed ALOT lol, so I made my own, and will build it page by page, instead of having a million blank pages to taunt me, I will fill it at my pace. the beautiful teacup in this pic is also from Lisa, she told me it had a twin, and that she kept it so we could have tea telapathically since we leave that bit to far apart to have tea together in real time.

I am now of to wind all the winter club and year of colour wool up ready for dyeing! hopefully have it ready to be packed by next week an into the post!

I will post teaser photos up very soon...

tea and yarn

Courtney xx

Happy Cakes and girly teasers

Winter is upon us even though its still Autumn! Im wrapped up in my pjs and slippers hoping that the fire will be lit soon. I haven been meaning to write a post for a few days, but with the crazyness that is my life at the moment Ive kind of slipped of the radar. But Im here and fighting I was raised as a wild woman, Ill stay that way!

So to put a smile on my face and my sons, today was dubbed 'Happy Cake Day' we made cupcakes together and he calls them happy cakes. Tomorrow Ill photograph the finished cupcake since it got really dark and all the photos looked awful! thats if they make it to tomorrow hehe

he helped put the ingrediants in the bowl and mix it all up, I sat on the floor and he sat at his little blue table and chairs, I wanted it to be all on his level. A huge mess was made but who cares when happy cakes involved! 

While he slept I put them into pattycake cups and popped them in the oven.

they are currently iced with green icing and rainbow sprinkles, elijah ate the icing and ran around squeeling happy cakes whoorayyyyyyyyyyyyy, put a little smile on my face thats for sure. Another beautiful thing that put a smile on my face is my delightful yarny penpal's thoughtfulness and talent. She turned my little logo into a stamp so that I can make my yarn tags and gift tags..I alway wanted handmade tags now I can make that happen. 

For my yarn club girls, a sneak peak...this is one of the colourways. 

enjoy your evening with some crafty in your hands

tea and yarn

Courtney xx

Creative Space! a little of this alittle of that

Thursday again, blink and it shall be next week! my little nook is a hype of activity! with yarn club in full swing, it seems that all my hands are doing is dyeing! (they are stained red with green fingernails, nniiicee combo hey lol)  so my space is cluttered with dye pots, half full, half empty not even opened yet, and a whole lot of undyed yarn waiting to be thrown into the cauldron of colour!

On the knitting front, Im doing some mindless stuff, but still cute, making little facewashers to sell at the markets, from soft, lovely cotton. The make great little gifts for friends and baby shower presents! Im making several for that very reason!

On the writing front, I have a new penpal, and she is just delightful. What more could a knitter want than a knitting penpal! with sheepy paper and all! Im working on her letter as we speak, with collages and cuteness, I think the art of letter writing needs some love! 

and just for her...my wheel...told you I was a spinner hehe

thats me for another thursday! if you want to check out more of the creative ladies spaces check out Kootoyoo's blog! 

Tea and Yarn lovelies

Courtney 

xx