The Fantastic Four!

They might drive me up the wall half the time, but they turned out pretty cute... these four kids of mine! =)

Lost my mojo - Found my mojo!

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After two days of casting on and frogging I was about to lose my knitting mojo... so I took two skeins of Noro Silk Garden Sock. and cast on a Baktus scarf http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/baktus-scarf... Got my mojo back immediately!
More on my Ravelry page: http://www.ravelry.com/projects/teacosy/baktus-scarf-2

SNAKE!

I was sitting at the computer yesterday, and then got up and walked by a basket in which my little one keeps her little animals and there was a black snake beside the basket! For a fraction of a second I thought it was one of the kids toys, you know, left over from when the boys were small, and then I realized it was the real thing!!!!
I screamed and jumped on the stairs and grabbed the phone (Meanwhile Mr. Snake headed away from me towards some boxes and things) and called the cave-man who suddenly turned into a knight in shining armour and came to rescue me!!!
I am not joking when I say that it took us atleast an hour to find the stupid reptile and all the time I was afraid of it being me who'd find him!!! I really didn't want to see him anymore, but I was also prepared to empty the whole house: There was no way I was going to share my home even for a moment!
Anyway... Mr Snake was taken outside very carefully and freed into the wild, and I was left with the whole living-room in a mess (more than usual). All the while Oliver, our cat, slept and did nothing to help, even though he has been known to bring live snakes home.

PS: I thought about posting a photo of a similar snake, but... no, I really don't like snakes...

PPS. This is the front door now... with a nice blocking system...=) No more open doors for me!

Quick knits!

Aurora chose these cotton yarns for a hat last summer... it took me almost a year to start knitting, but only a few days to finish!
(Kim Hargreaves-Ash)

This Swallowtail shawl only took two days to knit... and from the blocking table straight to Marina, as her 16th birthday present. She keeps using the one I made her mother last year, so I thought she needed her own!

(Swallowtail Shawl-

Neil Gaiman's Graveyard

Just finished listening to this man read this book... I loved it!

NEIL GAIMAN : THE GRAVEYARD BOOK

Hair... less!

This is 'child' number three this morning with his long pony-tail...

And this is the one that's here now...

both boys are back to playing with their hair, messing it up with sprays and gels...