Easter Bonnet Parade

Making of the Easter Bonnets

I have been totally neglecting my blog again, isn’t life complicated sometimes? I wanted to share some pictures I took when my husband, and I helped Phoenix and Skye make bonnets for the Easter Parade at school last week.

Poor Phoenix has spots on his face an outbreak of school sores, yuck! He is on medication and they are clearing up fast thankfully. When we took him to the doctors last week he said it was going around our area and he was seening almost 3 cases a day.

P.S The beautiful handmade dress Skye is wearing was made by Nikki from Monsoons and Mangoes ! Just can’t beat the quality when a dress last almost three years!

New Project

Finally I can say I am to feel better today. My husband took one look at me yesterday afternoon and sent me straight to bed. It took 11 hours of Smallville, lots of rest and starting a crochet blanket for me to start feeling alive again. This virus that took over our home and made everyone sick is so horrible. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. And it’s only the beginning of the flu season so I must do some research on how to strengthen my immune system, before the next bug hits.

I used to crochet granny squares all the time was I was a child. I remember my nana and my mum teaching me how to crochet squares with their left over wool from knitting jumpers and other projects. I used to make clothes for my dolls and little blankets. It has been years since I have picked up a crochet hook. But while I was lying in bed yesterday bored I started to make Skye a crochet blanket in pretty girly colours.

Still sick

I wish this post was a happy one and that I could tell you how wonderful my day has been. But this virus has taken hold of my body and I feel horrible. My nose is running, my throat is swollen, lungs feel so heavy it’s hard to breath and my body aches from head to toe. 

I am going to tuck myself into bed and have an early night. Hope tomorrow brings so relief, I don’t have time to be sick I have too much to do!

This week I am grateful for...

1) The yellow weeds {above image} - Dandelion, they are so pretty and it I feel a little sad when my husband mows the grass and they disappear. Our front yard is covered in them at the moment and it makes me smile everyday.

2) My new 50mm 1.4 lens! Oh my goodness I don’t know why it took me so long to move away from my kit lens. I just love the soft dreamy focus at 1.4 and the sharpness at 2.8.

3) Tissues – with all 5 of us sick with a cold this week, I don’t know how we would live without the fabulous invention “the box of tissues”!

See more grateful post over at and then there were four today!

{photograph taken by me}