Marty In The House!.......

We love our cat, Marty. He is a bit of a sticky beak and he gets into all sort of places. I have to be careful - I did lock him in the car when he snuck in once when I was bringing in the groceries. Luckily for him, it was a cold day or it would have been a cooked pussy cat. Another time, I had the window down in my car and I was about to reverse out my drive way. Ninja Cat Marty came jumping in my window, giving me a huge fright. The kids thought it was hilarious.

Here he is trying sit in Katie's doll house. This time he didn't knock too much down...:) 

Trip to Sydney

Katie, Mr F and I have just got back from Sydney. We stayed with our wonderful friends Sharon and her husband Bernard for a few days and got spoiled with home made ice cream, pizza and BBQ dinner. Thanks guys for a wonderful stay and time to catch up. It has been a few years since I've been in the heart of Sydney. Gosh.... Didn't I feel like the Country mouse visiting the big city - it has all changed so much. Most of the land marks I was used to and great shops like the Adyar book shop are gone. When we got off the monorail we kind of got lost and I had to ask for directions (LOL). I used to live in the inner city so I used to know my way around very well. It was sad to see that Centrepoint tower has a huge Westfield sign on it. Mr F was only 2 when we moved to the Blue Mountains, so he is used to the bush around him and open space. So, being surrounded by huge buildings was a whole new experience for him.

At St Mary's Cathedral we lit a candle and sat and marveled at the beauty of the architecture of the building.

We went to the Australian Museum and saw the Deep Oceans exhibition.

It was interesting seeing the deep sea creatures.

Gulper Eel

I forgot what this one is called, but those teeth look pretty mean.

Angler Fish

Deep Sea Squid

There were deep sea creature hats that the kids could wear for a little while. There wasn't enough to go around - lots of kids there.

Yummy home made pizza

Ginger was loving the cuddles and lots of attention.

Here's Sharon and Mr F making ice cream.

Sharon took us for a drive in her car, with the roof-top down, over the Harbour Bridge. They look a bit windblown but they loved it. This is when my camera died, so I don't have any more pictures of our stay.  We went to the Power House the next day and saw the Narnia exhibition, which was interesting looking at the costumes. It reminded me of the Lord of the Rings exhibition that my partner, Katie and I saw while we were in New Zealand years ago.

Mr F's Dragon

I love this picture that Mr F, who is 8, drew on a card for a friend's birthday yesterday.

I just wanted to share it.....:)

Faerymother Bunting

Wow.... I can't believe how time has flown by so fast since my last post. I have a big apology to Faerymother for not posting a big thank you for winning the beautiful bunting off her blog over a month ago.

Life gets so busy here, I've hardly been on the computer. Well, I have been checking out Pinterest. Some days I'm so tired. The kids and I got a bad flu over a month ago and I'm just getting my energy back. When I finally get on the computer after my kids get off, I just want to stare blankly at the pretty pictures (LOL)  and wonder how anyone has the time so find such amazing and inspiring pictures to put in one spot.



Back to the bunting.... My daughter loves it. It is hanging off her window and the faeries can view the valley below each day when she opens her curtains. They have a beautiful view, so thank you again for your give-away and sorry for not posting sooner...:)

Here's Marty the Ninja Cat checking out what I was taking pictures of.

Iro Poncho

Yesterday I finished this poncho. I bought the yarn on sale at WEBS. It is Noro Iro. The Yarn seemed to look better on the computer screen, but that's the gamble you take when you buy yarn online.

There was a poncho pattern I liked but I was having problems downloading the pattern. I emailed the person on Ravelry but they haven't got back to me yet. So I looked at the picture of the poncho and other 12ply poncho patterns on Raverly and designed my own. Well, it's only 2x2 rib st and increasing on the front and back - not rocket science.

I look grumpy in the pics - I'm feeling like crap because I'm fighting a cold that my boys had this week. I got the turquoise necklace last year at Lawson Market for $10 - I was so excited. I couldn't afford to buy a chunky turquoise necklace like this in the shop these days.

I started it, then frogged it. See the photo below?  It has this bright yellow in the wool which I thought was too bright. So I started again and omitted the bright yellow. I prefered the Autumny colours in the photo above.

I took this picture last night of my cheeky boys looking down at me while I was on the computer (which is under the stair case). It's very cute. At night Marty our cat likes to sit there and watch what is going on while I'm on the computer.

Ink

The other day Lou announced that he wanted to make ink. He is into making potions at the moment and he wanted to branch out into ink ;)....... So we went out the back where we had a bonfire and gathered together some ash.

Lou found some rain water that was lying around in one of his mud pie pots and added some ash and water. It would have been better to crush the ash to a powder first, but an eager almost 5 year old does not wait for his mother....LOL....

So we mushed it as much as we could to make a paste.

We looked around the yard for a wild bird's feather but we found none. We found this black feather inside in the play box.

We put some on the rock ....... 

... and then we drew.

Reds, Oranges & Yellows

Autumn colours are all around me right now when I go for a wander around my garden.