Purr, Purr...

5:57 AM Nattering , Pets , Sewing 0 Comments

I made a bean bag for BigMiss' birthday last month.

It's been getting a lot of use, and not just by the girls.

Oh, and the dog got a new basket too - preparing for when we finally get carpet and she won't be allowed inside except straight through the door and into her basket (this has a bit more room than the last one).

I think I need to get more beans for the bag as it was just perfect, but it seems they might have compressed with use - I can't sit on it without hitting the ground.  It doesn't bother the girls though, they still find it perfect for jumping off the couch onto!

How Do You Spell...?

4:09 AM MiddleMiss , Nattering 0 Comments

Today was the girls' last day of term.  Now we have two weeks of holidays!

At the end of each term they bring home an assessment folder showing examples of their work, various tests and general 'this is how your child is doing' information on the main skills (reading, writing, maths) for the term.

MiddleMiss had a spelling test in her assessment folder.  Both J and I found it rather entertaining:
beutiful
ogrestra
equaly
materaly
permament

Only minor mistakes with those ones, but the next few take a bit of deciphering:
apresheate (appreciate)
signatrer (signature)
espeshly (especially)
fimiler (familier)
sematery (cemetery)
garanty (guarantee)

But these ones I love:
enthooseastick (enthusiastic)
sicksesful (successful)
politishen (politician)
misalanese (miscellaneous - this one took a bit of figuring out)

And there's a few that I can't make out what the word is supposed to be.

I'm sure you're probably wondering why they even give those sorts of words to a 6 year old to be tested on.  Basically, a whole list of words are read out, starting with easy ones (on, the, go, me) then getting harder and the kids spell as many as they can and they're graded based on how many they get right.  As the classes are mixed grade (three year levels to the one teacher), the words are a broad range.

So, we're not too worried that she got all these big words wrong, especially as her spelling level is that of a 10 year old according to the words she did get right!

Lina Mitts

4:50 PM gift , knitting , My Designs 0 Comments

One of my little niece's had a birthday last week.

This is the little niece that has an abundance of toys to play with and spends as much time as she's allowed out on the farm with her Dada anyway.  So what do you give for a present?

A knitted hat and mitt set of course!

Help Me Out Here, Please?

6:26 PM Nattering 2 Comments

If you visit my blog often, you might have noticed that I've change the colours, yet again.

I wasn't really that happy with the last template I'd used, though I don't know if I'm that happy with it all now either.

I would love to have my own logo to put on the header and that I could use for on my patterns.  But I'm not a graphic designer, or even have any software to do it with, let alone know what I actually want.

I love the logo for Red Riding Hood Yarns and how simple, yet perfect for the name it is.

Does anyone know of a cheap (or free) graphic designer?  Or have any ideas of what would be a good picture/logo idea to go with my blog name - What to Make Next?