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Just a reminder to all that my comp to win $50 is finishing tommorow night!!! So if you havent entered & you would like to CLICK HERE to find out how.

Good luck to everyone thats entered :D

Felted Bag Success!

My first attempt at felting was a success (well, my first purposeful attempt, i have done it once before by accident!). Its a bag i made for a friend for Christmas (who hopefully wont read this!) - its from a free Lincraft pattern. Im quite happy with it so hopefully she likes it! Heres some pics -

Before felting:After felting:

Im not sure i felted it enough cause you can still see lots of detail in the stitches? But it is quite a bit firmer (its stuffed in the pic by the way) so i think its ok. It turned out lots better than i thought it would - i was quite scared putting it in the washing machine. But anyway, YAY!!!!!

Houston, we have a Pooroblem

Today, has just been one of those days. You know the ones, where absolutely nothing goes right. Its doesn't have to be big things, its the little things that all add up & make you want to go sit in a cold dark corner & rock back & forward while singing happy songs to yourself. Stuff like spilling milk all over the floor, then the wheatbix & the washing getting rained on (for the 4th day in a row).

The thing that really pushed me over the edge today was that i put jet in his cot to have a sleep (which is a struggle in itself) then went back into his room 5 mins later cause he was kicking up quite a fuss & the first thing i noticed as i entered the room was this terrible smell. I thought "smells like someones done a poo". Then i looked over at Jet & his dummy was all yellow (normally white), & then i realised his face was too, & his t-shirt has smears all over it & the sheet & his cot - oh joy (come on, you can picture my face after already having a fantastic day, one of my eyes was probably doing that "im going to crack at any second" twitching thing).

Anyway, needless to say we both had very early showers today because there is just no other way to get a poo smeared baby clean - i just chucked Jet, still fully clothed, into the shower! As for the dummy, im afraid to say its on its way to dummy heaven.

Thankfully today is almost over, tomorrow i think ill go to the end of the bed & get out there, you cant get out of the wrong side of the bed if you get off the end of it can you? i guess technically its a side, but ill do it anyway just to be safe!

Jets Walking!

Ravelry

OMG!!! I finally got my Ravelry invite & i love it! Not really sure what im doing yet but im sure ill get there.

Im NeptuneDiva on there if anyone wants to be my friend :D

Awards

Ive received a couple more awards from Carrie & one from Bradley. Thank you so much guys!!! sorry its taken me so long to blog about them - its been hectic around here lately & i haven't had much time to get on the computer! So, here they are with details on who im passing them onto:



I have to pass this award onto by two bestest blogging buddies:

April from A Day in the Life &
Hayley from A Blog in Progress






This one i want to give to:

Mel from Such Simple Pleasures









This one has to go to:

Petula from Its a Womans World





& last but definitely not least i want to give this one to:

April from A Day in the Life (even though ive already given her one - you soooo deserve two April!!!) &

Jennifer from The Life of a School Bus Driver


Enjoy! :D

Few....December is Here!

Which means Movember is FINALLY over, no more kissing a prickly weird looking husband! He took this pic on his mobile before he shaved his moe off just after 12 last night (lol, must have been itching him or something!)
Rocky managed to raise around $300! Good work honey!!!

R.I.P Little Avocado Tree :(

Remember my cute little avocado tree sprout i grew from a seed that i posted about last week? Well, my little monkey was playing out side & i turned around for two seconds & when i looked back to my horror i discovered this:

In one fowl swoop Jet had managed to undo my months & months of hard work & care (well...not really, all i did was stick a couple of seeds in a pot & neglect them for months...but still!) *sob* the good news is one of the other seeds has sprouted - there's 3 seeds in a massive pot. The third seed has cracked too so maybe that one will sprout soon. I'm hoping that maybe another shoot will come up through the old stem or something with this one - poor little plant!

The First Letter Of Your Name...MEME

I was tagged by Carrie from Rantings of a Woman with this "The First Letter of Your Name" meme - it looks hard but ill give it a go!

Rules: Just use the first letter of your name to answer the questions. They have to be real answers though, nothing made up and you can't use your own name as an answer.

Since my name is Melanie all my answers have to start with a "M".

1.Famous Singer: Missy Higgins (love her!)
2.Four Letter Word: Mate
3.Street: Main St, Gosford
4.Color: Mauve
5.Gifts/Presents: Movie Tickets
6.Vehicles: Motor Bike
7.Things In A Souvenir Shop: Mug
8.Boy Name: Mason
9.Girl Name: Mikah
10.Movie Title: Memoirs of a Geisha (so not as good as the book!)
11.Drink: Mocca
12.Occupation: Midwife
13.Celebrity: Madonna
14.Magazine: Mode
15.U.S. City: Massachusetts?
16.Pro Sports: Martial Arts
17.Fruit: Mangos!!!
18.Something You Throw Away: Match Sticks
19.Something You Shout: Merde (french - basically means "oh crap" - that's the polite version of course, heard my dad say this quite a few times growing up!)
20.Reason for being late for work: Morning Sickness (lol think i used that one a couple of times when i was pregers with jet!)

Now for the real tricky bit! Here's the people i tag:

Petula - Its a Womans World
Steph - Adventures in Babywearing
Drea - Fina Drea
Eilleen - Consumption Rebellion
April - A Day in the Life
Mel - Such Simple Pleasures

ill have to think of a couple more people to tag (trying not to tag the same people twice in a row!)

7 Things

I've been tagged by Its OK to be WEIRD.

Here are the rules:
Link to the person that tagged you and post the rules on your blog. Share 7 random and/or weird facts about yourself. Tag 7 random people at the end of your post, and include links to their blogs. Let each person know that they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

7 random / weird things about me:

1. Once when i was little i ate a whole bag of baby frozen carrots (while they were frozen) then threw them all back up - i can no longer eat baby frozen carrots!

2. I can touch my nose with my tongue

3. I put everything off to the last minute, once at college i wrote an 11,000 word assignment in 24 hours (i had all the research done but hadn't written one word before then). Rocky was doing the same course, he started his assignment 6 months before & we both got the exact same mark.

4. The toe next to by big toe is bigger than my big toe.

5. My nose has a button, that sounds weird i know, but if you push the end of it on the left side it feels like your pressing a button, theres this little thing inside that clicks...or something.

6. My husband reckons that when im pissed of i do a little head wobble thing, im not conscious of it at all & dont know how to duplicate it.

7. I have a special talent, i can ask someone for directions, listen intently & nod while they are telling me where to go, then completely forget everything 3 seconds later.

Ok, thats all the weird things about me for now. Now who should i tag? Bwahahahahahaha

I tag:

April from A day in the Life

Hayley from A Blog in Progress

Jennifer from The Life of a School Bus Driver

Mel from Such Simple Pleasures

Carrie from Rantings of a Woman

Loren from Musings at Windyridge

Lisa from Life on the Moon

I cant wait to get to know a bit more & here some weird & wacky stuff from all of you!!! if you dont want to do it let me know & ill nominate someone else & leave a comment once its done & ill make a note of it next to your name with the post so people know where to go to read it.

Award

I have received another award from the generous, wonderful, amazing Carrie from Rantings of a Woman - thank you so much Carrie you are soooo sweet!

I would like to pass this award onto the following people:

Petula from Its a Womans World
Chervil from Green Living
Kirsty from Gobblers Run

Hope you like your awards! They are very well deserved :D


Dont forget about my competition to win $50 - the odds are pretty good at the moment, theres only about 15 entries! if you want to know more click here

Knitted Pressie for my Cousins New Baby

My cousin & his wife just have a brand new baby boy & my parents will be going to visit them early next week so ive made something for him:

The hat & booties are from a pattern book i got from lincraft for free cause i bought way to much yarn & the other one is another Joe the Caterpillar.

I dont have any bubs around to try them on to see if they are ok so im just hoping for the best!

Just as a side note, while i was cropping the pics etc to put in here & typing out the message i looked over at the window & what was my cheeky little monkey up to? He climbed onto the couch, then up onto the very top of it & was playing with the window. The couch cushions are on the floor since hes been up & down on the couch all day & he hasn't really figured out the down bit too well - thought he could use some padding!

Video's & More Awards

Thought id share a couple of vids ive made of Jet over the past few days -

Heres one of him getting up to mischief:

& here he is walking on his walker - wont be long now!

Do babies normally climb before they walk? He's climbing on everything at the moment, climbs up onto the bed, the coffee table, the couch, the stairs - little bugger!!!

Awards

The wonderful Petula from Its a Woman's World has given me two more awards - Thanks Petula, i feel so special!!!


This one i would like to pass onto:

Tracy from Mad Quilter

Donna from Cinderella's Stash

& even though she's already got one -

Jennifer from The Life of a School Bus Driver

This award id like to pass onto:

Elina from Mom 2 BB Reviews

Hope everyone enjoys their awards - i know i do :)