Knit Your Square To Give Your Share - Part 3

mioliere

Salome - I can well understand how you felt after that candle party. I'm exactly the same with anything perfumed. The soap powder aisle gets me every time and, even worse, are air-fresheners! They make me cough and wheeze like an old lady. I find I acclimatise after about fifteen minutes but it's awful at the time. In America they take things like that seriously and lots of workplaces ban their workers from wearing perfume. I think the problem is that lots of products are made using chemicals these days and not the natural ingredients they used years ago. I read in one article that the way some air-fresheners work is not to mask the smell but rather to paralyse the mechanism in the nose to stop you smelling it! Another said that some air-fresheners have been known to cause epilepsy in dogs! All of this convinces me that they are just not healthy to have in the home. There are a lot of things I don't use these days because of the artificial perfumes in them. I used to think that I must have developed a sensitivity to things as I got older, but I think it's more that the producers have changed the ingredients they use.

KathyXX

mrs-moneypenny

PTB the bunny looks fab

Jean that cake looks good enough to eat

Lorna so sorry to hear you are having a rough time recently

Shaz, i hope the Abs work and the lump soon goes.

managed to do a few rows on one of the handbags last night but seem to be rushing about and everynight has something to do. Monday youngest DS parents eve, last night choir and jujitsu, tonight eldest DS parents eve, tomorrow Eldest DS needs lifts to and from local theatre, friday choir runs again. Saturday big concert at church so will be rushing round trying to fit shopping warhammer club and early tea for boys before they go to rehearsal then we will be going to the concert later.
next week younngest has his school play so 3 nights will be a blur of early tea and getting him back to school then picking him up again (we are watching wednesday) then going to see anoher play at the high school on thursday (havent got one there but im a govenor at that school, then theres the school discos PHEW ill be glad when they break up for easter. in between all this im been trying to de-stress poor DD who is up to er ears in exams and trying to swot up and well as prep for textiles exam shes making a felted panel that has decided it doesnt want to 'felt' it needs to be done for he to take in by friday to then spend 5 hours embellishing it.

just seen the time i should be elsewhere in 5 mins (then probally straight on to work) have a lovely day all

Kinsey

Good morning everyone,
LCWilson, that poor little nephew, elbows are horrid things to damage, hope he ok. Can understand you wanting to keep him cocooned. As for the young girl, words fail me, lucky she's got a gran, will you hear any more of her I wonder?
PTB gorgeous bunny, love the tail and the way you've co-ordinated the colours with the bow.
ISOM, you did make me laugh saying you'd have popped Shaz's lump by now, ouch. Hope it's improving Shaz.
mrs-moneypenny your post made me feel dizzy, so much energy.
Kathy glad you're getting some 'me' time at last.
Love to everyone that I've missed, xxx

Pippa.S

Afternoon :hello:

Lovely and sunny now still cold but more cheerful :cool:
Washings out and blowing nicely, will it dry...who knows.....but it will smell nice and fresh

kathy - enjoy your dust free day doing the bunnies
chalky - glad it made you smile:) Good news on the little dog's
salome - I know just what you mean, I can't even have scented candles in the house without reaching for my inhaler they just choke me, but Mum bought me a reed diffuser for Christmas and that is ok no effects at all....very strange.
dpixie - :wave:
seakay - I am sorry you are having a hard time at the moment I hope it improves for you soon (((hugs)))
jean - love the cake it looks yummy
Lorna - O poor little feller hope it heals up soon, I really hope things look up for you soon. That poor young girl how can a parent be so cruel to their own child I feel so :mad:
PTB - love the bunny how big is he/she?
shaz - hope the Anti-B's work this time
mrs-m - I am worn out just reading your post, whatever you are on can I have some :rotfl:

Finished a teddy and hand puppet for mrs-m's choirboys last night put a hat on the puppet he looks really cool

Took friend Jo out for lunch yesterday and she gave me a pile of squares she had done, mostly just garter stitch, but she enjoy's doing them and she keeps churning them out I sewed flowers on some of them, and
sewed some of them up into an animal blanket as they were odd sizes.

Off to watch TV and finish a scarf off, its been on needles for ages so needs finishing. Then I can start on baby stuff again.
TTFN
Anne
x

PurpleTeddyBear

Hi all
Just finished tea, DS now in bed, along with his sister who is feeling slightly better but still v cuddly and sorry for herself...she's actually eaten a banana today and drunk significantly more than yesterday, but she's still a poorly bunnykins. Dosed up with Calpol and cough medicine and hoping she's a bit better again in the morning.

Been training on domestic abuse today too, and am exhausted. was meant to finish at 4 - I walked out at 4.30, leaving them to the remainder of an argument...ho hum. No doubt I shall get into bother for leaving before it had finished, but I had places to go and poorly people to sort out.

Thanks for all your comments on Flora, heaven knows how I shall part with her at Easter as she's cute, but I shall grin and bear it. Anne - she's 18" tall from head to tip of toe, still 4" longer than DD was when she was born!

Got the 20 Knitted Cakes book in the post this morning, and they all look scrummy. Might have a go when I have finished DS's aran cardigan (back and left front done) AND the baby blanket I have on the needles at the moment.

Anyway, cup of tea calling and I shall then see what I feel like ppicking up. Bath with wine and candles later too...

Huggles to everyone,

Dawn xx

chalky_75

Hello to everyone -- A busy day here trying to catch up with Easter gifts to send home . So just a couple of pictures which I hope will make you smile




Lotsof gentle thoughts to all x

shazrobo

love all the puppets chalky, you've been so busy,
hugs
shaz xxx

mioliere

Hi everyone.

PTB - glad that little one is feeling better.

Chalky - your puppets are so cute!

Maytaurus - I hope you are OK?

Elaine - hope these last few weeks are not too uncomfortable for your DD.

Pam - hope you are well, too. We haven't heard from you for a while.

I'm still working on the Easter bunnies for the grandchildren. I've nearly finished crocheting the last one then I shall sew them all up. The patterns I've used are really simple amigurumi ones; it's just finding the time that's the problem - my daytimes are so busy! I've picked up some more freelance writing work so that will mean even less time until the house is properly organised and I don't have to help DH so much. Still, the extra work means extra pennies for the wool fund so I'm not complaining! I need to work out a proper timetable, I think. For the next week or so, DH will be tiling and painting so I shouldn't have to help him with that. Then the work starts on the kitchen. At the moment my computer is in the room next to the kitchen but we will be knocking down the dividing wall to make the kitchen bigger, so the computer will be moved into the newly-renovated hall. I'll be able to carry on working and - hopefully, knitting and crocheting - but I have no idea how meal times will go! Still, I have been promised that the bulk of the work will only take a 'few days'. And it will give me a really big kitchen/dining room which will be lovely when we have visitors. I'm dreading the upheaval but looking forward to the finished result. DH's brother is coming up from the south of France for a week in April to help with the work. DS2 and his family will be out in May - not sure when, it depends how long it takes to get DGD2's passport. DS1 and his family will be here in July.

Those visits from the boys and their families will just about keep me going until we return to the UK in September for my Mum's big 80th birthday party/family reunion. We had a party for her 75th which was brilliant because the whole extended family was there, so we are all really looking forward to it. I want to make something special and a bit different for my Mum but don't know what that will be yet. Considering that, with her health problems (caused by TB), she wasn't supposed to get past the age of 7, then the doctors said 16, then she was told she shouldn't have any children (she had four of her own and fostered dozens!), reaching her 80th is something to celebrate. She nursed my Dad through a dreadful illness until he died when they were both 38, leaving her with a young family, so she has been through such a lot, bless her, yet she is always so upbeat and positive. We're hoping that my sister and BIL will be able to bring her over this year, too, so it could be a busy year for visitors! Plus the friends who stayed last year will be coming back here, too. I won't have time to be homesick, hopefully!

Well, yesterday the weather reached 19 degrees here - it was a truly lovely day, so we're hoping that spring really has arrived at last! It makes such a difference, doesn't it, when the sun is shining, especially after what seems like a really long winter.

Anyway, I've 'mioliered' enough. Will catch up with you all later.

KathyXX

Kinsey

Morning all,
Kathy 19 degrees, oh I wish. Your mum's story is similar to mine, my dad was first ill at the age of 40 and died aged 57 and she nursed him all that time. She died a week before her 89th birthday. Aren't mum's wonderful.
Chalky the puppets are lovely, so are the flowers. You're a star.
Love to all, hope the sun shines for you, xxx

mrs-moneypenny

hope all are well
those puppets are fantasic Chalky well done

Kathy actually had time to read your blog when i looked at the update, its so interesting and there are some lovely photos on it

shaz i hope you and your DSs are well
Jean hope things in the new work room are going well
i hope all the pets are now improving

May Pam any any other MIAs hope you are well

Orkney Star, please pop in and say hello again soon

hello to all the newbies

didnt have time for any knitting last night as it was eldest DS parents evening so we were rushing backwards and forwards round the school, but it was worth it he had a glowing report, and its always so nice to hear when people say what a lovely polite mature lad he is. A couple of other teachers even stopped us to congratulate him on the performance he did at the show last weekend