The Big 2 - 6 you guys!

So yesterday I turned 26! Yay for me!!!! This has been a pretty good week so far, I'm pretty happy with it. On Monday, I got serious with the big project I'm working on for Lewy's birthday which is now in 8 days, somehow I do not think I will finish it in time... Tuesday I cleaned up my house and spoke to my mom, did more work on the project...

Wednesday I woke up at 5AM to Lewy jumping on me saying "Wake up birthday girl!!" and then he snuggled me for about 10 minutes before he had to leave for work. I had to work myself but it was all ok, all of my kiddies wished me a happy birthday and one of them even brought me a present! Then Jessie started going around singing to me but he was saying I was 30 and he was singing REALLY loud.... I came home from work at about 7:45pm and opened up the door to Lewy he gave me a big hug and stuck my birthday tiara on my head. He had also cooked me a very VERY lovely dinner, and then he took some pictures with me and we got a little silly.

Today, Thursday I am getting to start my online course Introduction To Anthropology, I have already earned my first point for the class! Hopefully in 12 weeks time I can write a new blog telling you all that I didn't give up and I actually passed it!

Tomorrow I'm not sure whats going to happen, but I know on Saturday we will head down to Dan and Rhiannon's house literally a week before their wedding which will be next Sunday... so we can celebrate our birthdays with them.

Next week will be a little bit hetic for us, so you may not get a new entry from me until after the wedding, since we will be so far away from a computer until Monday night when we get home, but next week is also my super sexy hubby's birthday and ooooooo boy do I have some ideas! My mom has helped me come up with the idea for his cake all the way from Kentucky, and I have asked his mom and dad to come down as well, as a surprise for him. I will be making pumpkin soup with veal tortalini for his birthday dinner, as well as breakfast in bed for him, since it is a long weekend he has the Friday of his birthday off work (the lucky duck!)

I'll leave you all with some birthday snaps I took last night while I get back to working on this project of mine so It will at least be attempted by next week!

(also if some one could please explain to me why my google is not wanting to work that would be great... I can access it perfectly from my phone, but if I try to search for images/ open my email/ add photos to my blog it just refuses to work and I have to do everything from my phone! It's getting annoying now!!)

Chocolate from one of my kiddies at work!

Me in my tiara and Lewy blowing a party blower

I said lets try to take a good one

He's looking like he has no idea whats happening

Copped a party blower to the face

Let's do some funny faces!

This is what I get for trying to take photos.... EATEN!!!

Before I went to work I was in my tiara!

Finally we got a good one lolz

             

Now I feel just like a kid again!

Meet my new project! Adult sized bunny slippers, and a matching beanie, because apparently this winter needs to test my ability to withstand frostbite...

If you want to try and make these yourself then the pattern is for sale in my Ravelry Shop! they are super easy, and super warm!

They make me feel like a little kid again, running around in bunny slippers... but they do make me miss the summer, and it being August it is supposed to be warm not almost freezing.... but being in Australia means that I get to go to the beach at Christmas instead...

On a different note, I am awaiting the start date for a new job, I got a new (well its an old desk but its new for me) which made a lot more space in my crafty room, we got our oven and hopefully it will be put in this weekend, we have started trying to teach Sade to do some tricks....  Which isn't going very well at all... apparently she thinks that "Shake!" means she should shove her face in your hand or roll over onto her back and kick you... but I'm sure we will get there in the end, and that will be one more thing I can cross off my bucket list! I wanted to put up a video of Lewy trying to teach her, but my blog is being a pain in the proverbials.... it only wants to let me do a video if I have a webcam hooked up and since the laptop died I haven't had the time to get one...

Also I have taken it upon myself to try and make backups of my stuff now, so my desktop is nice and neat and organized, all my pictures are in properly labeled folders, and my loose photos that still need to be scanned have all been filed away in what I'm hoping is chronological order... there are so many pictures I want to put up for family to see.... My cousin over at A Bookworm and a Baby is one of the ones who is in so many of these photos I have, and I'm not sure if she even would remember being in half of them.... but alas I need to get a scanner...

Here's hoping you are all having a great week!

XxX ~ Rah Rah

Knitted Bunnies!

My Little Rabbit <3

 So here's the little knitted Rabbit I promised you all!
Isn't it just so freaking adorable? I absolutely love it to death and it even comes with some clothes! So as promised here's the pattern for it. I'm not sure whose patter it was originally (and I'm really sorry that I cant give credit where credit is due!) but I found this pattern on Pinterest, I clicked on the picture of the little teddy bear (yes there is a bear as well!) and it downloaded a .pdf file to my phone.... So I'm going to write it down for everyone (exactly as stated in the pattern I downloaded) And if you stumble across it somehow and it's your pattern please let me know!!

Head: Side A
cast on 12 sts. (start with a K row)
1. Inc 1 st st at each end of row. (14 sts)
2. P across
3. Inc 1 st st at beginning of row. (15 sts)
4. P across
5-10. Repeat rows 3 and 4 three times more. (18 sts)
11. Cast off 8 sts at beginning of row K to end. (10 sts)
Place marker at end of last cast off st.
12. P across
13. K across
14-15. Dec 1 st at each end (6 sts)
Cast off *P2tog at each end as u cast off

Side B
Cast on 12 sts (start with a P row)
1. Inc 1 at each end of row (14 sts)
2. K across
3. Inc 1 at beginning of row (15 sts)
4. K across
5-10. Repeat rows 3 and 4 three times more (18 sts)
11. Cast off 8 sts at beginning of row K to end (10 sts)
Place marker at last cast off st.
12. K across
13. P across
14-15. Dec 1 st at each end (6 sts)
Cast off  *K2tog at each end of row as u cast off

Head Gusset (Start at back of neck)
Cast on 3 sts.
1. p across
2. inc 1 st on each end (5 sts)
3-5. work in st st begin and end with a p row
6-9 repeat rows 2 through 5 one more time (7 sts)
10. inc 1 st at each end (9 sts)
11-23. work in st st begin and end with a p row
24-25 Dec 1 st each end (5 sts)
place marker at each end of this row
26-32. work in st st begin and end with a k row
Cast off *p2tog at each end of row as you cast off

To make up head:
Sew side pieces from tip of nose to chin. Insert head gusset matching markers (this is where the eye positions are) sew gusset in place.Gather neck edge adding extra stuffing if needed and secure. Make the indents and add the eyes. Then make the nose and mouth.

Ears for Rabbit:
work piece in garter stitch (make 2)
Cast on 5 sts
1. k across
2. k1 inc 1 in each following st to end (9 sts)
3. k across
4. k3 inc 1 in next st, k1, inc 1 in next st, k3 (11 sts)
5-17. k across
18. k4, k2tog, k5 (10 sts)
19-21 k across
22. k4, k2tog, k4 (9 sts)
23-30. k across
31. k2tog at each end of row (7 sts)
32. k across
33-36 repeat rows 31 and 32 two more times (3 sts)
37. k last 3 st together.
tie off. Fold cast on edge in half and stitch together

Ears for Bear:
work piece in garter stitch (make 2)
Cast on 8 sts leaving a long tail to sew to head
1-4. k across
5. Dec 1 st at each end of row (6 sts)
6. k across
Cast off

Body:
Cast on 15 sts (begin at neck edge)
1. k1, inc 1 in each following st to end (29 sts)
2-6. work in st st begin and end with a p row
7. {K6, inc 1} twice, k1, {inc 1, K6} twice (33 sts)
8-10 work in st st begin and end with a p row
11. k15, inc 1, k1, inc 1, k15 (35 sts)
12-16. work in st st begin and end with a p row
17. k15, skpo, k1, k2tog, k15 (33 sts)
18-20 work in st st begin and end with a p row
21. k14, skpo, k1, k2tog, k14 (31 sts)
22-24. work in st st begin and end with a p row
25. k1, {k2tog} to end (16sts)
26. p across
Cast off remaining 16 sts
Fold sides of body together, then sew cast off edge, gather neck by weaving yarn around neck edge then pull closed and secure. Sew back edge leaving an opening, stuff then close opening.

Legs: (make 2)
Cast on 12 sts
1. k1 inc 1 in each following st to end (23 sts)
2. p across
3. k1, inc 1, k7, inc 1 in next 6 sts, k6, inc 1, k1 (31 sts)
4-6. work in st st beginning and ending with p row
7. k13, k2tog, k1, skpo, k13 (29 sts)
8. p across
9. k12, k2tog, k1, skpo, k12 (27 sts)
10. p across
11. k7, cast off next 13 sts, k to end (14 sts)
12. p across
13. inc 1 at each end of row (16 sts)
14-20 work in st st begin and end with p row
21. {k1, skpo, k3, k2tog} twice (12 sts)
22. p across
23. {k1, skpo, k1, k2tog} twice (8 sts)
Cast off *{p2tog to end casting off as u go}
Sew instep, sole, back of leg and top seam, leave an opening to stuff, then close after stuffing.

Arms: (make 2)
cast on 6 sts
1. k1, inc1 in each following st to end (11 sts)
2. p across
3. k1, {inc 1, k2, inc 1, k1} twice (15 sts)
4-14. work in st st begin and end with a p row
15. k1, skpo, k9, k2tog, k1 (13 sts)
16-24. work in st st begin and end with p row
25. k1, {skpo, k1, k2togmk1} twice (9sts)
26. p across
cast off *k1, {k2tog} to end casting off as you go. Sew arm seam leaving an opening to stuff and then close.

To make up:
Sew head in position. It is a good idea to experiment with the ears before you sew them on. Attach arms and legs in the desired places.

The instructions for the clothing will come a little bit later =) but for now enjoy making some awesome bears and bunnies!

The Teddies!

First of all, let me state that there has been a problem... I am not sure if it has to do with the loss of my laptop or what has happened, but all of my blog photos and videos have seemed to disappear...

I was able to replace 98% of the blog photos, luckily because I have them all saved to my pc (which Lewy fixed for me) but the videos are pretty much gone... they were all done using the webcam attached to the laptop and not saved anywhere but here *sad face*

One of the ones affected was the blog about the little teddy bears I made, so I decided to do a proper blog about them... I did leave the other post up because it has the link to the ravelry website so you all can get the pattern... but here is is one more time.

The pattern is pretty straight forward, all knitted on straight needles and sewn together, it's overall a very cute little teddy bear and they are pretty addictive to make.

These pictures are just a few that I made, the brown one on the right went to little Bella, and a twin one went to Daniella for her first Easter, the black one with the white face goes to my mom, the stripy one went to my cousin Ashley's little boy Dylan, and the two little ones are what I like to call my Mr & Mrs bears. They take about 3 days for me to make, the larger ones take the least amount of time, but because my fingers tend to cramp up a bit when knitting for long periods of time I have to put it down and rest a little before starting up again, if you are able to do the whole amount in one sitting it should only take you a day or two at the most to finish one off. I thought it would be pretty fun to play around with them a little bit, hence the stripes and the accessories. The brown bears both had sewn on felt eyes, but you can use fabric paint (like I have done for the rest of them) or even buttons, but I wouldn't suggest that if you plan on giving the finished product to a small child.

 Now the only thing I do differently from the pattern is that I don't stitch closed the neck, I attach the head and the body together using the cast on edges as a guide, I find it makes the whole thing a little bit stronger which is good if you want to have little kiddies dragging it around. The Mr & Mrs Bears were by far my favorite to do, because they have accessories!

 The Mr bear is sporting a nifty little felt top hat, a stunning little mustache, a powder blue tie to match Mrs bear, and not pictured is his little Ball and chain... While Mrs bear is sporting a lovely white veil with a jeweled tiara in blue and silver, as well as a nice little bouquet of silver roses! The had their eyes put on using fabric paint, Mrs bear had a nice little pre-wedding nose job because I made the mistake of painting on some horrid red lips that made her look like a clown, but luckily enough I had enough yarn left over to make her a new nose.

Cutie Patootie Teddies!

Sorry for the bad quality video! lolz but it's way to early in the morning to care what I look like or sound like at the moment XD here's the link to the free ravelry download! click it now and make this super cute and adorable teddy bear!