Baden found my lipstick. I have no idea where he found it, I haven't worn make up for ages! At least someone gets tarted up around here, lol.

In other news, we got the house, the cooling off period has just started for us. So if everything goes well we will be in our new home before Christmas.

And the dogs have definitely been doing the business, so hopefully that means there will be puppies here soon. Dogs gestate for 63 days, so that means the puppies will be born on 14th January. That's if she is even pregnant. I hope so.

Been very busy this past week. My little dog has come on to heat and the little stud dog is currently visiting. So I hope it works this time since I have been trying to breed her for over a year now. Something always seems to happen, last time I waited too long and missed her ovulation, the time before that I was pregnant and just too busy to bother and the time before that we used a different stud dog and we got the timing perfect, then took them to the vet to get artificially inseminated and the stud dog had no blimmen sperm. After all that effort, blood tests, the whole gamut. So this new little stud dog is a proven mater, but there doesn't seem to be much happening out there at the moment.

In other news, we have bought a house, we are nervously waiting to hear that the contract has been signed by the vendor before we celebrate too much. We have put in two previous offers on this house, neither was accepted, but now this latest offer was verbally accepted and we signed the contract, so we are on tenterhooks waiting to hear that its all happening.

Melbourne Cup Day

I haven't been blogging lately because I have been hanging out on a knitting website.

I have also been going to my knitting and crocheting classes on Monday nights and learning heaps. I am currently crocheting an owl tea cosy. If it turns out I will probably give it to my mother-in-law because she is the only person I know who still uses a teapot.

I am also knitting a golliwog at the moment.

On Saturday night I went into town to see a documentary called The Business of Being Born, by Ricki Lake, (yes the talkshow Ricki Lake). The documentary was brilliant, if a little scarey. It was about having a baby in the maternity system in america. I thought the Australian system was baaaaaad, but its nowhere near as bad as america, although unfortunately it seems to be heading that way.

I had to drive home in a storm, that was a bit scarey too!! I couldn't wait to see my little baby again. The movie showed babies being born and it made me think back to the day Baden was born. Such a beautiful happy day, we are so lucky that we had such a good start. But thinking about when he was born made me miss him like craaaaaaaaaaaazy, even though I was only away from him for a couple of hours.

I think I am addicted to him! I just love him so much!

Today is Melbourne Cup Day. I am not doing anything for it. Must remember to turn on the telly to watch it. I didn't do anything last year either. I am glad that I had plenty of years of going to the races and falling down drunk, because now I am quite happy to stay at home!

A day in the life of a busy toddler. Helping mummy clean out the fridge. Soy sauce goes into the bedroom, jam can go outside to the dogs, hmm, what to do with a packet of cheese slices? Decisions, decisions.

Bathroom next, have to empty the rubbish bin into the bath and play in the toilet.

ugh, the dye job turned out badly. The purple just wouldn't take well so the colour was a bit washed out and looked a bit grey. No problemo though, I just re-dyed the whole lot a richer watermelon colour. I have two uses for this wool. Firstly I could use it as part of my soaker idea, I realised that the white flecks are the only part that is silk after all so it would be okay. The actual 'yarn' part is pure wool. The flecks add texture to it. Its quite beautiful. The other idea is to use it as the base yarn for my next hedgehog, because the colour matches the fun fur yarn I am using, but I think that would be a bit of a waste. I can use any old wool for that..

thinking....thinking.

I have dyed this wool. I was going to knit a soaker for the Newtown festival with it, but then I realised that its got a bit of silk in it, so might not be all that great. Soakers are better if they are just wool.

So now I don't know what I will make with it. Its pretty though.

Here is the beginning of a blanket that I have decided to make. I have always wanted a blanket like this but I only learned to crochet last year. My sister-in-law taught me. I am going to knitting and crochet classes, starting next week, and I am really looking forward to it. I was supposed to start last week but I bruised my index finger, right at the knuckle - it was black and purple and very swollen, ow!

Here is my latest project, he is called a Huggable Hedgehog and is very cute. The front of him is knitted then felted.

Here is my submission for Mother of the Year. It's my kid, asleep on the tiles by the back door! He wouldn't go to sleep in his cot, he kept whingeing so we kept getting him out again, (we are both big softies). It's very hot tonight so I think that's why he kept protesting. So he finally found a cool spot to go to sleep. (And no, we haven't left him there!)

Here are the blocks painted and already played with!