Yarny Stuff

When in Perth there are a certain number of very necessary visits to make. One, as I wrote about yesterday, is a visit to the hairdresser (sob again!). The other trip of upmost importance is a visit to my favourite yarn shop, Crossways Wool and Fabric, in Subiaco.

Oooh, I do love to go there and have a good sticky! Pauline and her highly skilled and experienced assistants always keep this shop well stocked with a variety of products and colour ranges, and it's always fun to check out what new and lovely yarny stuff they have in store.

 

 

 

What was particularly exciting for me this time was that I had a rather lovely voucher from Christmas to spend, and spend it I did! My first priority was to stock up on yarn for my misnamed 'Stash-busting Hexi Blanket'. You know, the one that I was working on last year? The one that was meant to help me use up all my 8ply leftovers? The one that is evidently anything but a stash buster??

 

 

 

I also picked up a couple of skeins of a rather luscious Aslan Llama and Mulberry Silk worsted in a plummy colour. Mmmmmmm!

 

Ahhh. Look at those colours! I can't wait to get them home and get cracking on some hexis again. But it shall all have to wait a little while longer for I have a Line Break shawl to finish, not to mention the two girlie dinners I have to attend in the next few evenings....

 

Yay for holidays!

 

xx

Haircut

Going...

 

 

going....

 

 

Gone!

 

 

 

Sob!! 

  

A trip to Perth is never complete without a haircut, but this is not quite what I had in mind for Miss M.

Of course, she has a mind of her own.

 

I wonder where she gets that from??

 

 

xx 

Earworm Correction

Okay, okay.

It seems that the Will.i.am song is actually my Earworm. Miss M is adamant that this song from Bruno Mars is the one that the girls actually prefer.

I stand corrected.

Yay again!

xx

Sesame Street Earworm

 

Oh, I do love a catchy tune and this week's Earworm - suitable for all ages and considered to be very, very cool by the girls (and me!) - is brought to you by Sesame Street and Will.i.am.

 

Yay!

 

xx

 

 

Perkins Beach Paddle

Every year on ANZAC Day we also celebrate my Mother-in-law's birthday, which means a picnic for the extended family is in order, as long as the weather is good enough.

And today, it most certainly was!

A picnic at the Torbay Inlet campsite with a paddle on Perkins Beach for afters - perfect - for family, reflection and appreciation for what we have and how we came to have it.


What did you do for your ANZAC Day?


xx

New Painting

 

Little Beach 2

Oil on Paper

125mm x 125mm

 

 

I've been working on a series of three small paintings since my visit to Little Beach a couple of weeks ago, and this is the first to be finished, even though it is second in the group.

 

And....oops....there's my surname for the first time on this blog..... Oh well. There's no need to be shy (me? shy??) if I am looking to exhibit and sell my work again!

 

The next step in this process is to research framing options, which I will sort out when the other two paintings are also finished. In the meantime, I'm leaving this one to thoroughly dry.

 

 

Sam xx

Shed

 

 

One of the many great things about our new home is it has a shed. That the shed is also meant to be the garage hasn't affected G's plans - the shed is now G's workshop.



This makes G a very happy man because he did without a shed for eight years at our last place - not that he had had a shed before that, only, you know..... he has one now!

 

And now that G has a place to work, there is one very particular, very positive outcome for me as well - I get to use the shed too!

 

The current project on the production line is the painting and reconditioning of an old Freedom furniture bookcase that has been lurking about my various abodes for almost 20 years. Our idea is that by painting it white it will disappear into the background, no longer dominating the space with its dark toned wood. It was very 90's. Now it is cool. Cool white.

 

And there is another reason why I am keen to get the big bookcase finished and back in the house, because that's when we can start work on a smaller old bookcase we picked up from the second hand store on Saturday. It will eventually take its place in my studio as extra storage for my paints and brushes. Woohoo!

 

And after that, well, there's a rather sexy 70's coffee table with copper patterned top from the same Saturday shopping spree that also needs some reconditioning love......

 

Love that shed!

 

 

Sam xx