February 2008

The family is watching old episodes of ‘West Wing’. I have had a busy day, this morning I got all my things organised and went down to the post office. I got my tea cosy away to Mary……..it is on its way Mary. I posted my photo for the photo swap that was organised by Megan at the Scent of Water ( which is a lovely blog). Now, that I enjoyed the swap with Mary so much I am going to take part in an Easter swap, we are to make a bunny and an Easter card. I am really looking forward to do this. The lady that I am going to swap with comes from Wagga, the town that I was born in and grew up in. This helps to make it extra special. I have started to collect photos of bunnies from Frickr & Etsy for inspiration.

I just read a lovely thing on ‘Linaloo’ blog, ten February things that are making me happy right now.

1. The weather is getting cooler, maybe our summer is nearly over.

2. Having my daughter Penny home before she goes off overseas on her next assignment.

3. Jess (my youngest daughter) finding her topic for her major art work. She is doing the last year of high school. Her topic is exciting and it will be fun to see how it develops.

4. Finishing my tea cosy for Mary in Texas.

5. Olivia (my grand-daughter) becoming friends with Molly (the dog).

6. Have had a lot of rain and having everything green.

7. Having time to draw again and loving ever minute of it.

8. Settling into my new school and having a magic assistant, Maureen.

9. Looking at new cars as my car has given up the ghost.

10 . Discovering podcasts on ‘Macs’.

I made my first desktop illustration. I love birds and it is of a crow. Let me know if you have any trouble using it. You can download it here.

It has been pouring rain all night and while it is just beautiful to have all this rain, it makes living conditions very sticky. Last night I gave up trying to cope with it and turned the air conditioner on, it made a more comfortable night. Our dams are slowly improving and it was stated on the news last night that they average 28% full, we now have eight months of water. If we had water tanks at the house they would well and truly be filled by now.

I watched TV last night as I was embroidering my tea cosy, it just reinforces why I don’t watch much television any more. There really was not much on after the 7.30 report and I ended up watching a crime show. It was really disturbing and rather scary. I am really glad that my daughter didn’t watch it as she would have had nightmares. I wonder what effect it has on people that watch it all the time? Do we begin to believe that criminal behaviour is the normal way to behave? Does it desensitize? When my other three children were growing up, their TV watching was limited, they had to nominate the TV shows that they wanted to watch and we usually watched them with them.

This is a photo of the beautiful teacosy that Mary send me from Texas. There is a tale attached to my one that I am going to send to Mary. I decided that I was going to knit one and I found a lovely pattern on the internet. I started it while watching the tennis. I got a little way along with it over a couple of days. Then one day I left it sitting on the longue, Molly took a liking to it and the next time I went to knit it was gone. She did a good job on it. I am now sewing one….it might be a bit late Mary.

I love Friday night, it feels although this week has been very long. I am slowly settling into my new school. There are more people interested in computers at this school, so I have like-minded people to share my love with. The teacher who teaches second grade is extremely good and loves doing computer related things with her kids. At the grand age of seven they know how to blog, make podcasts and voice threads. They could teach me a thing or two.

I have changed a few of the photos on my header bar and I will finish the rest tomorrow. I had a wonderful surprise this afternoon there was a parcel waiting for me, it was my tea cosy swap from Mary in Texas. I will share photos with you in the morning, I am off to bed.