Split Personality
The weekend was essentially two very distinct parts - crafting and parenting a VERY Itchy Boy!
I went to a fantastic felt workshop on Saturday and made wet felted arm warmers. Jude ran the workshop (and took the pic below) and I learned a lot! Mostly that felting is hard work. Mine are the blue and purple ones and they are beautiful in real life!!
![knotwork knotwork](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3462/3300165162_64d01f10d3.jpg)
On the luxurious train ride there and back (1.5 hours each way...on my own! Talk about a simple pleasure!) I crocheted like a mad thing and made three flowers and some ring bowls with the
noro yarn I picked up at John Lewis on the way through the big city (for the complete geeks like me, I have been using
Wash+Filz-It yarn from my local shop. Its only £2.25 for 50g, which is about as cheap as you can get dyed wool around here. By comparison, the Noro can go for £7.00 per 50g...however, the difference in texture is almost worth it. The noro felts like a dream. The brown and red flowers are Filz and the bluey one and the bowls are noro).
The ring bowls were a suggestion from Jude and I had to make them once she suggested them. I have some other ideas about how to evolve the projects, we shall see if I can pull it off. In the meanwhile, I will definitely be making more of the flowers and ring bowls.
Even Kev got in on the crafting and made a lovely red and orange calla-lily inspired flower!
Dada and Ellis created some art of their own. We are calling it the Taco Pizza.
Midwesterners, doesn't it look like a casey's taco pizza? And like most of men's cooking, it has everything in it...tissue paper, cotton balls, glue, glitter, salt dough, dough paint, normal paint...mmmmmmm!
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While we were inspired and motivated this weekend, poor E Man was not. In fact, he has been itchy and sore and miserable all day. The first crop of spots has not crusted and there is a herd of more just under the surface waiting to erupt. Last night, he could not bear to be parted for me for a moment and slept all of about 3 hours. We tried giving him some anti-histamine because he's so miserable and it made him crazy hyper.
Chicken pox party, anyone? I'll bring the chicken pox.