Two more vampires have been finished. I just finished the Vampire Dove this morning.
I had fun with her modern hair do.
The other day I finished Amelia. This is how the faces look before embroidery.
And here she is finished.
Now I have one more to do and then I am going to frame them all in painted hoops. if they look OK I'm going to list them on Etsy for around $30 (American). I have no idea if anyone will be interested. I guess I'll have to wait and see.
I am in the habit of doing my blog posts first thing in the morning. I usually write about the day before but I am thinking about changing it and doing it of a night time instead. Yesterday of course was Australia Day. We had planned a day BBQing on our river bank and having some friends over but Scott's fishing partner really wanted to go on a practise fish for a big fishing competition in a couple of weeks, and to tell you the truth, all the summer socialising is wearing me out a bit.
So I happily gave up our Australia Day plans so he could go fishing. Instead, I took the kids fishing for trout on our river bank. We almost caught a big eal but no trout. Luckily Scott caught some fish which we had for dinner along with the traditional BBQ sausages.
After the fishing it was swimming and play time at our favourite spot on the river.
I went to Launceston the other day and bought four more books in the Sookie Stackhouse series. This one of course is number three!
The kids got naked and decided to to some nude construction building. They dismantled the steps I made to the water on New Years to make an underwater bridge.
Then they dismantled the bridge and made a bathtub in the middle of the river.
So we had a nice relaxing Australia Day this year and we woke up this morning to find this, AT LAST!
Clover, the last of my cows to give birth finally had.
Sometime early this morning. We didn't think this one was ever going to come out. Poor Clover could hardly walk.
Now there is only one more baby left to be born and this one will be the owner of 'The Secret Project' I am still yet to finish.
Some of the other creative things I have been doing lately are making pineapple vinegar.
If you want to try this go here.
I have started crocheting scarves for my market stall. Not that anyone would buy a scarf in this weather but on a cold Sunday morning at the Evandale Markets a scarf would come in handy if you don't have one already so I am stocking up.
This is a little Valentines Day present for Scott. For his phone.
I made it out of thrifted recycled wool yarn which I dyed myself.
I finished another vampire. This one is The Vampire Le Feu.
I spun this wool,
into this yarn.
I'm crocheting this into a scarf as well.
I have a lot of unfinished projects I need to get on with so that is what I'll be doing for the rest of this week. We have an overnight birthday camping party this weekend so I might take a bunch of crocheting along for that.
We had a little vegie harvest.
Big yellow zucchinis, two different kinds of squash, beans and two different kinds of tomatoes. They are all delicious.
I have to find some good zucchini recipes because these yellow ones are growing fast!
This lovely wool came in the mail at the end of last year from an online friend and I pulled it and spun it on Saturday night.
Here it is drying after I washed it. I'm not very good at spinning but fortunately I love the over spun bits as much as I love the underspun bits :)
I have already crocheted it into a little purse. I haven't taken a photo yet but I'll do that today.
I spun this one from wool from my own sheep. Some is dyed red but most of it is natural. The yellow and orange wispy bits are locks from those curly wooled sheep. They are not mine but I think I need some :) I have already crocheted this into a little 'pot'. Photos to come.
So here is the Vampire Isabell (with no E on the end). She didn't take as long as Petunia because there wasn't quite as much stitching but I like her. I still haven't quite gotten her fangs sharp enough. I like how the ink comes out on the cotton fabric. I need to get some more of this.
I am starting another vampire today.
I also have a new kitchen bench :) This is what the old one looked like.
Pretty ugly hey! I got our builder to use plywood for the new bench because I wanted something cheap. Eventually this kitchen will be pulled out and will become a walkway to our extension when we get around to doing that, sometime in the future.
Here the new bench is in its raw state. Looks nice.
And then I rubbed it down with linseed oil.
I finished her yesterday while I was listening to a Stephen King audio book. I think she turned out nice. I am going to frame her in a painted black hoop.
I really enjoyed this project. So much so I have already done a design for another vampire.
More Flinders Island holiday shots
I realised the scarf I made the night before looked just like the seaweed on the beach.
Shhhhhhhhhhh, don't wake him.
They just lay their eggs in the middle of the beach. You can see how close we came to stepping on them. We put up a stick to show us where they were.
The second egg hatched the next day and there were two!
There were a couple more just a few metres away. So cute.
So I have been doing something everyday like I promised and it has been easy to find something quick to do. There was one day I was feeling unmotivated and didn't do anything but I made up for it by working on two projects the next day.
This is a little vampire lady I am stitching up. I was inspired by Charlaine Harris's Sookie books. I used white ink for her face and a little water colour for her make-up and lots of stitching. I'm really enjoying this and expect you will see a few more vampires coming from me in the future. It is my original design. She needs ears!
I have finished the vintage duck but I didn't do a very good job on it. I have a habit of using too much thread on projects which are too small.
I finished Dustin's scarf too. Ruby asked what I was making and I told her but said "Don't tell Dustin. It's a secret". Dustin came back forty-five seconds later to see his new scarf :)
SEVEN! Today I have to start a quilt. Yes, it has come to my attention that NONE of the projects in my 'creativeness' have been finished yet. They will be though. Yesterday I worked on my little watercolour painting. I'm done with the water colours and now I need to start with the ink.
This is an experiment and will probably be thrown out because so far I hate it.
Dustin's is much better!
When I was in town yesterday I bought grey floss. I didn't have any grey left.
What a boring post this is. OK more of Flinders Island day 3!
I know. Who gets to stay in bed until almost 9.00am when they live with a three and a four year old? The mother of a three and four year old who stayed at the beach fishing with their father until 10.00pm the night before. I haven't even seen my dogs today yet. Still asleep from running all over the beach.
Today we have to go to Launceston to buy the dogs new kennels. The dogs haven't ever had kennels before so I hope they use them. I'm going to put one out under the cherry tree and one under the apple tree. I also have to buy some grey embroidery thread because I realised I didn't have any when I was working on my embroidered tea towel.
Yesterday when the kids went fishing I pulled out my new water colour set and started a little water colour painting. Not the best photo I'm afraid.
I'll try and get some more of this done tonight.
Flinders Island Day 3
That was the day of the summer solstice. We made a solstice tree and hung present sacks on the tree for everyone.
We decorated the tree with seaweed, seashells and popcorn threaded onto cotton. The popcorn went brown though due to the hot weather and sea air. I think there ended up being a few champagne corks in it too.
I was glad to use up this hideous fabric. I inherited it years ago when I bought a business. It was perfect for our holiday present sacks though. The bags are going to be used in the camper trailer now to store blankets, ropes, tent pegs etc. *I have more of this if anyone wants it!
One of my neighbors gave me a bottle of homemade raspberry jam before we went away and it was all used up on this trip!
It was an axe!
I bought her a "princess dress" :)
Jesse has to try to catch everything all the time. I don't advise picking these up though.
She has one sock on because she stubbed her toe on a rock. The sock is over the sore toe!
Dustin wanted to bring this back for our Summer Solstice tree.
Ruby and Max making beach art.
So I cant finish day three because it is time to go to big town and buy dog kennels so I'll continue with this tomorrow. Are you getting sick of seeing our summer holiday snaps yet?
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