It's official The Good Kharma Bunny Website is live!
Surprise!!
It's all very exciting
let me know what you think
al xx
Surprise!!
It's all very exciting
let me know what you think
al xx
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Saturday, March 24, 2007
shhh it's a secret!!
Something very exciting is going to happen this week,
I'll tell you later,
it's very exciting!
mean while I thought i would throw in a few photos to distract you.
(emi will hate me for this )
al x
Friday, March 23, 2007
knitting treat
Dear all,
We have received our Secretpals 10s, it's all going well, Hi to floozy who is treating me, she seems to be as mad as me, cool. And I cant tell you who I'm treating... but I'm going to sew for pleasure next week to buy lots of yummy things for her.
as a side thought...
I have succumbed... part of this is all your fault , some of you said I deserved a treat after this week so I did kinda, I'm treating someone else.
I have signed up for another knitting exchange.
The knitters treat exchange
Looks like it's going to be fun. This one is a one off exchange, not spread over three months like secret pal, and is a little smaller.
So here are my answers to the all important questions
1) My favorite yarn? Banana yarn/ aran weight silk, noro (any)
2) My least favorite? Lace weight yarn scares me, actually anything thinner than four ply.
3) The first thing I do when I enter a new yarn shop? take a deep breath and look at the prices of the luxury yarns, silk/ noro/louisa harding then go and find something I can afford . then I look for all the yarns I don't recognise and decide which to treat myself with. To demonstrate...I recently went into a new yarn shop and bought 3 balls of rowan cotton denim, and two impulsive louisa harding grace- silk wool.
4) What other crafts do I do/ would like to do? I braid and felt, I would like more time to do all the things I already do.
5) What magazines do I subscribe to? Yarn forward, I buy simply knitting quite often, and my mum and I share her subsciption to Selvedge.
6)Magazines in order of preference; Crochet,Knitting, Home, other Craft, Food, Garden, fashion, celebrity gossip.
7) What items do I like to knit/ crochet? accessories, easy quick stuff
8)Am I allergic to anything? ironing! apart from that no
9) What do I like to smell of? lemon, and lavender, I also got bought the new Stella Mcartney block perfume for mothers day so I smell of that at the moment
10) Your favorite way to relax? a long hot bath or crafting in front of the telly, or sleep, it's friday I have few need in life other than sleep.
11)Your stood outside a victorian tea shop, a italian cafe, an old fashioned bakery, a dainty tea room, which do you go into first? the italian cafe, I'm sure I was an italian mama in a former life
12)what do you come out with? after I've had a large italian hot chocolate and a italian pastry, probably indigestion, or some italian chocolate
13)where to next? the bakery to buy cream cakes, for afternoon tea at home, after I have found a yarn shop!!
14)Words of wisdom for your pal? dear pal I have had a bad week this week, bear with me, I may try to answer these again next week, my mantra is it will all be fine. apparently I say it alot.
or always carry a toothbrush and toothpaste in your bag at all times
or never tell a polar bear he looks fat
or yey it's friday
please ask any more questions, but i cant guarantee how sane the answers will be!
al x
We have received our Secretpals 10s, it's all going well, Hi to floozy who is treating me, she seems to be as mad as me, cool. And I cant tell you who I'm treating... but I'm going to sew for pleasure next week to buy lots of yummy things for her.
as a side thought...
I have succumbed... part of this is all your fault , some of you said I deserved a treat after this week so I did kinda, I'm treating someone else.
I have signed up for another knitting exchange.
The knitters treat exchange
Looks like it's going to be fun. This one is a one off exchange, not spread over three months like secret pal, and is a little smaller.
So here are my answers to the all important questions
1) My favorite yarn? Banana yarn/ aran weight silk, noro (any)
2) My least favorite? Lace weight yarn scares me, actually anything thinner than four ply.
3) The first thing I do when I enter a new yarn shop? take a deep breath and look at the prices of the luxury yarns, silk/ noro/louisa harding then go and find something I can afford . then I look for all the yarns I don't recognise and decide which to treat myself with. To demonstrate...I recently went into a new yarn shop and bought 3 balls of rowan cotton denim, and two impulsive louisa harding grace- silk wool.
4) What other crafts do I do/ would like to do? I braid and felt, I would like more time to do all the things I already do.
5) What magazines do I subscribe to? Yarn forward, I buy simply knitting quite often, and my mum and I share her subsciption to Selvedge.
6)Magazines in order of preference; Crochet,Knitting, Home, other Craft, Food, Garden, fashion, celebrity gossip.
7) What items do I like to knit/ crochet? accessories, easy quick stuff
8)Am I allergic to anything? ironing! apart from that no
9) What do I like to smell of? lemon, and lavender, I also got bought the new Stella Mcartney block perfume for mothers day so I smell of that at the moment
10) Your favorite way to relax? a long hot bath or crafting in front of the telly, or sleep, it's friday I have few need in life other than sleep.
11)Your stood outside a victorian tea shop, a italian cafe, an old fashioned bakery, a dainty tea room, which do you go into first? the italian cafe, I'm sure I was an italian mama in a former life
12)what do you come out with? after I've had a large italian hot chocolate and a italian pastry, probably indigestion, or some italian chocolate
13)where to next? the bakery to buy cream cakes, for afternoon tea at home, after I have found a yarn shop!!
14)Words of wisdom for your pal? dear pal I have had a bad week this week, bear with me, I may try to answer these again next week, my mantra is it will all be fine. apparently I say it alot.
or always carry a toothbrush and toothpaste in your bag at all times
or never tell a polar bear he looks fat
or yey it's friday
please ask any more questions, but i cant guarantee how sane the answers will be!
al x
Still alive, or medical ramblings
Dear all,
Thank you for everyone's concern, the MRI went fine yesterday. I dont get my results until the end of July, unless they find anything yucky. I think this is unlikely. Not overly worried, just want rid of my headaches.
Musings on the MRI;
So you take everything off that has metal in it, no jewellry, belts etc...you feel so bare
and then they say quietly " you'll have to take your bra off" you find yourself saying thats fine and then spend ten minutes thinking uplifting thoughts. Thank goodness you have to lie down for a MRI.
I knew it wasnt going to pleasant, but being the mother of 2 ( Csections and epidurals) I thought I could probably handle it as no pain was involved.......
So they place headphones on you and a big plastic frame over your head and wheel you into the big plastic polo. Words cannot explain how loud it is even with headphones on.
But lying down for 40 minutes was great.
The frame has a mirror in it so you can watch them doing your scans, and your feet. so not as claustrophobic as it could have been. Although watching the man who did the injection pick his nose for ten minutes was the low point of the scan. And he had no sense of humour, they inject a dye to see the veins, and I trying to keep calm and well humoured asked if he was going to make me glow in the dark... he didn't even smirk..
Whilst in there you do find your mind wandering. So I will share a little wandering.
The best analogue of what the MRI sounds like will really make sense to terry pratchett fans...
all I could think of was these little elves with big hammers running around banging loudly.
The other thought was the filling tomorrow is going to hurt more than this!!
and it did! although my dentist is the best ever and you hardly feel a thing.
So to conclude the week from hell is over!!!!!!!!
hoorah.
No more medical ramblings for ages I promise.
Thank you again for all you concern.
al x
Thank you for everyone's concern, the MRI went fine yesterday. I dont get my results until the end of July, unless they find anything yucky. I think this is unlikely. Not overly worried, just want rid of my headaches.
Musings on the MRI;
So you take everything off that has metal in it, no jewellry, belts etc...you feel so bare
and then they say quietly " you'll have to take your bra off" you find yourself saying thats fine and then spend ten minutes thinking uplifting thoughts. Thank goodness you have to lie down for a MRI.
I knew it wasnt going to pleasant, but being the mother of 2 ( Csections and epidurals) I thought I could probably handle it as no pain was involved.......
So they place headphones on you and a big plastic frame over your head and wheel you into the big plastic polo. Words cannot explain how loud it is even with headphones on.
But lying down for 40 minutes was great.
The frame has a mirror in it so you can watch them doing your scans, and your feet. so not as claustrophobic as it could have been. Although watching the man who did the injection pick his nose for ten minutes was the low point of the scan. And he had no sense of humour, they inject a dye to see the veins, and I trying to keep calm and well humoured asked if he was going to make me glow in the dark... he didn't even smirk..
Whilst in there you do find your mind wandering. So I will share a little wandering.
The best analogue of what the MRI sounds like will really make sense to terry pratchett fans...
all I could think of was these little elves with big hammers running around banging loudly.
The other thought was the filling tomorrow is going to hurt more than this!!
and it did! although my dentist is the best ever and you hardly feel a thing.
So to conclude the week from hell is over!!!!!!!!
hoorah.
No more medical ramblings for ages I promise.
Thank you again for all you concern.
al x
Sunday, March 18, 2007
so much to tell and alot of crochet!
Dear all,
I have so much to tell and I had no pickies to illustrate, so had to go and take them. so a quick post has taken me 1 1/2 hrs argh.
I shall not give excuses for lack of posting, well maybe a little bit;
my hubby is off with no voice! ( he's a teacher)
my number 2 support has been to new zealand for 2 weeks, my mil has just flown out to st lucia...
it's all go...
SO recently
1) I have been on a Alysn Midgelow Marsden (who runs the beetroot tree, and wrote this book), workshop on angelina fibre, very exciting... still work in progress
2) bought three tunisian crochet hooks off ebay, a 4mm, 8mm and a very beautifull 20mm wooden one ( the yarn is for scale)
3a) went to blackberry yarns in mountsorrel and didnt buy anything!
3b) went to the yarn shop in Beeston, with mac's niece, you have never seen so much yarn in one place, ooohhh and spent a bit! bought Rowan cotton jeans and some Louisa Harding Grace silk wool. pure impulse buys!!
4) crocheted a scarf!! from the happy hooker book, using the gotland hand spun that I got for sp9
5) crocheted a head band!! to restrain the hair that is getting longer
6) been on a crochet workshop and learnt that I can crochet, yey! this is my crochet stitch template
!
7) realised how much I am in denial about the advanced kumihimo workshop I'm running in May, luckily I did realise it with 9 weeks to go!
8) featured twice in the braid society newsletter, yey!
Also this next week I have a week from hell, you know those week when you know it's not going to be pretty!
we have
monday My car booked in to fix the washers, I just realised I didn't tell you ( or did I) I HAVE A NEW CAR ( pickies when it's day time)
tuesday Bupa appointment for hubby's voice!
wednesday work!
thursday, brain scan for me yey! just to see if I have a brain from the excess yarn thing ( or to get rid of my headaches)
friday a big filling for me!!!!!
But it's ok mum get back tomorrow!! phew, does she know whats she's coming back to... ( no!)
more soon
al x
I have so much to tell and I had no pickies to illustrate, so had to go and take them. so a quick post has taken me 1 1/2 hrs argh.
I shall not give excuses for lack of posting, well maybe a little bit;
my hubby is off with no voice! ( he's a teacher)
my number 2 support has been to new zealand for 2 weeks, my mil has just flown out to st lucia...
it's all go...
SO recently
1) I have been on a Alysn Midgelow Marsden (who runs the beetroot tree, and wrote this book), workshop on angelina fibre, very exciting... still work in progress
2) bought three tunisian crochet hooks off ebay, a 4mm, 8mm and a very beautifull 20mm wooden one ( the yarn is for scale)
3a) went to blackberry yarns in mountsorrel and didnt buy anything!
3b) went to the yarn shop in Beeston, with mac's niece, you have never seen so much yarn in one place, ooohhh and spent a bit! bought Rowan cotton jeans and some Louisa Harding Grace silk wool. pure impulse buys!!
4) crocheted a scarf!! from the happy hooker book, using the gotland hand spun that I got for sp9
5) crocheted a head band!! to restrain the hair that is getting longer
6) been on a crochet workshop and learnt that I can crochet, yey! this is my crochet stitch template
!
7) realised how much I am in denial about the advanced kumihimo workshop I'm running in May, luckily I did realise it with 9 weeks to go!
8) featured twice in the braid society newsletter, yey!
Also this next week I have a week from hell, you know those week when you know it's not going to be pretty!
we have
monday My car booked in to fix the washers, I just realised I didn't tell you ( or did I) I HAVE A NEW CAR ( pickies when it's day time)
tuesday Bupa appointment for hubby's voice!
wednesday work!
thursday, brain scan for me yey! just to see if I have a brain from the excess yarn thing ( or to get rid of my headaches)
friday a big filling for me!!!!!
But it's ok mum get back tomorrow!! phew, does she know whats she's coming back to... ( no!)
more soon
al x
Happy Mothers day!!
To all you mums out there
HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!
You do a wonderful job,
from supporting us young mums to bringing up those young kids.
We do a great job and long may it continue.
Lots of love
me x
HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!
You do a wonderful job,
from supporting us young mums to bringing up those young kids.
We do a great job and long may it continue.
Lots of love
me x
Friday, March 09, 2007
yummy yummy!!
Dear all,
I've introduced you to the concept of Yarn P*rn, well I think I have a new one Fabric P*rn.
Have a look at this one
Amy Butlers fabric is beyond delicious, the web site takes a long while to down load ( because of the o.t.t. front page) but it's worth the wait. I like this one ( full bloom)
I think I got to it through her studio.
There is alot of Amy Butler Fat quarters on Ebay , but still cant afford it.
The fact that I would struggle to do anything with it is irrelevant.
very nice
Enjoy
al x
I've introduced you to the concept of Yarn P*rn, well I think I have a new one Fabric P*rn.
Have a look at this one
Amy Butlers fabric is beyond delicious, the web site takes a long while to down load ( because of the o.t.t. front page) but it's worth the wait. I like this one ( full bloom)
I think I got to it through her studio.
There is alot of Amy Butler Fat quarters on Ebay , but still cant afford it.
The fact that I would struggle to do anything with it is irrelevant.
very nice
Enjoy
al x
Thursday, March 08, 2007
I love the internet
Dear all,
Site for the day is home of the sampler
This is a very cool idea.
The company ( as I understand it) gets contributions from people who want to promote their stuff, magazines, crafty stuff etc. they then send it out in boxes to those who have subscribed, about a tenner a month. It's time specific, they send out an email when it's time to subcribe and you have to subscribe quickly.
If you go and look at the contributors it looks really cool. It's american, but they do post internationally.
I think it's a very cool idea. ( I know I already said it)
Al x
Site for the day is home of the sampler
This is a very cool idea.
The company ( as I understand it) gets contributions from people who want to promote their stuff, magazines, crafty stuff etc. they then send it out in boxes to those who have subscribed, about a tenner a month. It's time specific, they send out an email when it's time to subcribe and you have to subscribe quickly.
If you go and look at the contributors it looks really cool. It's american, but they do post internationally.
I think it's a very cool idea. ( I know I already said it)
Al x
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
another felting triumph!
Dear all,
Several years ago my mum bought me a skein of Colinette prism
It's a wool/cotton mix, well its wool with cotton around it in a contrasting colour.
It's a beautiful yarn, but as ever it sat in the stash for a long time waiting a suitable project.
A month ago I went on a knitted/ felted accessories course run by Living threads and Bev from Knitting4fun.
I decided to knit a belt, now most of you know my knitting skills are slim on the best of days. But i was determined, so I knitted four rows of garter and then a few rows of lace stitch.
it was about four inched wide before felting and is now about 2 inches.
I knitted it very long cos I was going to felt it. I put yarn wrapped washers on the end for adornment. It came out better than I could ever expected. All it needs now is a clasp or pin to hold it. very exciting.
this is before felting
and this is post felting.
What do you think? not bad for a beginner!
off to rescue my felted pingpong balls from a excitable kitten and a two yr old!!!
for all those who noticed the little questionaire/blogger blip, I sorted it!!
al x
Several years ago my mum bought me a skein of Colinette prism
It's a wool/cotton mix, well its wool with cotton around it in a contrasting colour.
It's a beautiful yarn, but as ever it sat in the stash for a long time waiting a suitable project.
A month ago I went on a knitted/ felted accessories course run by Living threads and Bev from Knitting4fun.
I decided to knit a belt, now most of you know my knitting skills are slim on the best of days. But i was determined, so I knitted four rows of garter and then a few rows of lace stitch.
it was about four inched wide before felting and is now about 2 inches.
I knitted it very long cos I was going to felt it. I put yarn wrapped washers on the end for adornment. It came out better than I could ever expected. All it needs now is a clasp or pin to hold it. very exciting.
this is before felting
and this is post felting.
What do you think? not bad for a beginner!
off to rescue my felted pingpong balls from a excitable kitten and a two yr old!!!
for all those who noticed the little questionaire/blogger blip, I sorted it!!
al x
Monday, March 05, 2007
sp10 more fun questions
Dear all,
I thought I might ask a few pertinent questions that might assist in the whole sp10 things details previously posted).
Please feel free to post your answers even if you are not a sp10'er
There may be a prize for the best answers, yarn dying is on hold for march due to a lack of grandparents! ( trust me they are crucial to the process) so a prize would be sent in April!
Whilst I was typing.... my family decided to answer the questions themselves with some interesting answers!
So the questions should you (and your family) choose to answer them.......
1)What is your favorite smell?
2)What is your most favorite (reassuring) texture
3)What is your favorite cake?
4)What is your favorite pudding?
5)What is your favorite fruit?
6)What is the colour of your sofa?
7) What is your favorite animal?
8) What is your favorite animal group?
These are the answers from the good kharma bunny family contingency!!!
Adam's answers ( 5 yrs)
red roses
sand paper
birthday cake
lolly pops or icecream ( along as its' melted)
pear
red with little squares on
a kitten
Fish
Daddy's answers ( not telling )
mummy (thats me! not his mum!!)
furry
eclair
apple pie
pineapple
purple
tiger
Birds
emi's answers (2 yrs )
food
icky ( her bear)
chocolate
any ,or icecream
banana
blue!
moo, meaow, twit tewoo, baaa.
Mammals
My answers! ( oh my am I really 33yrs old)
Dove soap and clean hair
Clean brushed cotton Pyjamas and clean cotton sheets
Chocolate cake or mum's lemon cake
sponge pudding and custard
fresh apricots
it's burgundy honest (not sure where the others live!!) perhaps the question should be what colour do your family think your sofa is?!
Cat!
Birds!
The cats were too busy scrapping to deign a answer!
Enjoy
al x
I thought I might ask a few pertinent questions that might assist in the whole sp10 things details previously posted).
Please feel free to post your answers even if you are not a sp10'er
There may be a prize for the best answers, yarn dying is on hold for march due to a lack of grandparents! ( trust me they are crucial to the process) so a prize would be sent in April!
Whilst I was typing.... my family decided to answer the questions themselves with some interesting answers!
So the questions should you (and your family) choose to answer them.......
1)What is your favorite smell?
2)What is your most favorite (reassuring) texture
3)What is your favorite cake?
4)What is your favorite pudding?
5)What is your favorite fruit?
6)What is the colour of your sofa?
7) What is your favorite animal?
8) What is your favorite animal group?
These are the answers from the good kharma bunny family contingency!!!
Adam's answers ( 5 yrs)
red roses
sand paper
birthday cake
lolly pops or icecream ( along as its' melted)
pear
red with little squares on
a kitten
Fish
Daddy's answers ( not telling )
mummy (thats me! not his mum!!)
furry
eclair
apple pie
pineapple
purple
tiger
Birds
emi's answers (2 yrs )
food
icky ( her bear)
chocolate
any ,or icecream
banana
blue!
moo, meaow, twit tewoo, baaa.
Mammals
My answers! ( oh my am I really 33yrs old)
Dove soap and clean hair
Clean brushed cotton Pyjamas and clean cotton sheets
Chocolate cake or mum's lemon cake
sponge pudding and custard
fresh apricots
it's burgundy honest (not sure where the others live!!) perhaps the question should be what colour do your family think your sofa is?!
Cat!
Birds!
The cats were too busy scrapping to deign a answer!
Enjoy
al x
Thursday, March 01, 2007
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