It's not the greatest quality photo (taken with the web cam) but it's clear enough to see the sort of outfit this boy can put together! I like his style!
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
His Own Sense of Style
It's not the greatest quality photo (taken with the web cam) but it's clear enough to see the sort of outfit this boy can put together! I like his style!
Saturday, March 6, 2010
I'm a Ravthlete!
Let's face it, it's the only kind of athlete I'll ever be...
In August 2008 I was fairly new to the world of Ravelry and all it contained and in an effort to immerse myself I joined in the Ravelympics. A clever concept that involved knitting events during the duration of the Beijing Olympic Games. A great way to challenge yourself to knit more/faster/harder!
This year as the Winter Olympics rolled around I found myself co-captaining a contingent of brave souls preparing to knit ourselves stupid in the Winter Ravelympics! We called ourselves Team Doing A Bradbury in honour of Australia's first Winter Gold Medallist and even had some encouragement from the man himself! I set out with grand plans at the opening ceremony and ended the closing ceremony with a touch of RSI.
I competed in the Aerial Unwind (another great thing about the Ravelympics: to medal, all you have to do is finish!) which involved frogging a top I made for last winter and then proceded not to wear all winter so it was really just an interesting way to store my yarn. So this:
Became this:
My next event was the Sweaterboard Cross, in which I received a medal for my waistcoat, which I modified from a 1970s pattern. It also got me a medal for the Lace Luge.
Then the time came to tackle my WIPs in the WIP Dancing.
I finished off a shrug that had been languishing in the basket since our holiday to Tasmania in October.
A scarf that I started at the same time as the shrug,
And I finally finished knitting my tree. To be more precise I finished knitting the roots of my tree and sewing in a gazillion ends.
Check out my medal haul!
At the end of it all my co-captains Ali and Jane and I got to do a random draw for a whole swag of prizes donated by our super team mates! It was really interesting to see what people can do in a limited amount of time with an imaginary deadline looming over their heads, the Bradburies produced some magnificent efforts!
In August 2008 I was fairly new to the world of Ravelry and all it contained and in an effort to immerse myself I joined in the Ravelympics. A clever concept that involved knitting events during the duration of the Beijing Olympic Games. A great way to challenge yourself to knit more/faster/harder!This year as the Winter Olympics rolled around I found myself co-captaining a contingent of brave souls preparing to knit ourselves stupid in the Winter Ravelympics! We called ourselves Team Doing A Bradbury in honour of Australia's first Winter Gold Medallist and even had some encouragement from the man himself! I set out with grand plans at the opening ceremony and ended the closing ceremony with a touch of RSI.
I competed in the Aerial Unwind (another great thing about the Ravelympics: to medal, all you have to do is finish!) which involved frogging a top I made for last winter and then proceded not to wear all winter so it was really just an interesting way to store my yarn. So this:
Became this:
My next event was the Sweaterboard Cross, in which I received a medal for my waistcoat, which I modified from a 1970s pattern. It also got me a medal for the Lace Luge.
Then the time came to tackle my WIPs in the WIP Dancing.
I finished off a shrug that had been languishing in the basket since our holiday to Tasmania in October.
A scarf that I started at the same time as the shrug,
And I finally finished knitting my tree. To be more precise I finished knitting the roots of my tree and sewing in a gazillion ends.
Check out my medal haul!
At the end of it all my co-captains Ali and Jane and I got to do a random draw for a whole swag of prizes donated by our super team mates! It was really interesting to see what people can do in a limited amount of time with an imaginary deadline looming over their heads, the Bradburies produced some magnificent efforts!
Friday, February 26, 2010
Coen's first Fishing Trip
While on our Gippsland holiday Coen and I went on a fishing trip with Granddad and Uncle Tim to Port Welshpool.
Here's Coen all set for his big day out in the boat.
His first fish was a nice 30+cm long flatty. Closely followed by.........
A Shark!
A nice little Gummy. (We wont mention that it took him 30 years less than his dad to catch a shark.) A little undersize so back in he went.
On the way back in we saw this little "Tugboat" coming into Port carrying sheep from somewhere down Tassy way over here to the mainland to be loaded onto a Cattle truck. Delicious, delicious sheep.
Was a great day fishing in pretty good conditions. Fairly calm water with an overcast sky and temperature in mid to high 20's. A good haul of fish of about 3.5kg of flatty fillets.
Coen got to watch Granddad and Tim filliting the fish on the jetty and was fascinated by the MASSIVE Ray swimming directly below us.
Friday, February 12, 2010
Aaaaaahhhhh Holiday!
We've just returned home from our most relaxing holiday in a loooong time!
Darron is on leave at the moment so we took the opportunity to head down to Rosedale and The Shack, to catch up with some Huffers and relax at the beach.
Coen had a wonderful time playing with Dayle and Alyshia and Lara! He even shared his bike and his cricket gear with Alyshia, which is a pretty big deal for an only child who is used to having every toy to himself!
After a couple of days in Rosedale we wandered down to Paradise Beach with Tracy and Dayle to spend a few days at The Shack. Where we did a lot of this:
And spent lots of time here:
With no mobile reception and rubbish tv reception, we really relaxed. We read books and news papers, played cards (ok, I didn't play cards, but the others did, I knitted) walked on the beach and chatted. Wendy, Len and Tim came down for an afternoon and Len even caught a flathead that we had for dinner that night!
Darron is on leave at the moment so we took the opportunity to head down to Rosedale and The Shack, to catch up with some Huffers and relax at the beach.
Coen had a wonderful time playing with Dayle and Alyshia and Lara! He even shared his bike and his cricket gear with Alyshia, which is a pretty big deal for an only child who is used to having every toy to himself!
After a couple of days in Rosedale we wandered down to Paradise Beach with Tracy and Dayle to spend a few days at The Shack. Where we did a lot of this:
And spent lots of time here:
With no mobile reception and rubbish tv reception, we really relaxed. We read books and news papers, played cards (ok, I didn't play cards, but the others did, I knitted) walked on the beach and chatted. Wendy, Len and Tim came down for an afternoon and Len even caught a flathead that we had for dinner that night!
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Eeeeeek!
Today we sent this boy off to kinder!
He couldn't wait to get there, and once there he was perfectly happy to be rid of us!
What I'd like to know is...
How did we go from this
To this:
in the blink of an eye?
Jen
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Mmmmmm Veggies!
We've got a steady supply of veggies coming from our garden now!
And every single thing tastes 100 times better than supermarket veggies!
Sunday, January 3, 2010
3D
One of Coen's Christmas presents this year, last year in fact, was a 3D movie. Perfect entertainment for a hot day, sitting in air conditioned comfort on a camping chair in the middle of the (toy filled) lounge room watching 3D movies!
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