TrashCan: February 2012

Trash Towers Dictionary

a/c - art crap. CK's fond term for the means of assuaging my addictions.

BSD - Been Seen Done. Devised while travelling the Great Ocean Road on CK's first Australian trip. Every lookout point was as fabulous as the previous and we got a little bit magnificenced out so rather than pull in we would shout BSD and keep driving.

Now general usage for when a situation is over or beyond repair.

bob - noun. Princess Curly- Wurly's word meaning all sweets, chocolate and yummy things.

blurry - (pr. to rhyme with hurry) Sth African/Zimbabwean term and my favourite polite swearword. Means kind of like bloody but usuable in mixed company. See 'Feck' & 'Eejit'

eejit - Irish term meaning 'idiot'. Suitable for use in polite company. Used by my Aunt Marion.

feck - Irish term used by my Aunt Marion so it cannot be rude!

ho-ho -(pr. with a short o). Zimbabwean word for bugs.

lani - (sp?) Sthn African word - means posh, expensive, elegant, stylish.

La Villa de Lamaca - (translates from Ital. as The houseof snails. My 'green' house out in the garden with all my a/c (ref: above) stuff in it. Built by CK and Babyman for me. CK lost his fingerprints over it. I cannot actually get in there at the moment!

lubbard - derived from 'beloved'. Devised by my then two y.o. son b/c unlike his sister he could not say 'Mother Beloved'. Usually prefaced by a noun.

OfStEd - Office for Standards in Education. Bossy civil servants who would like to see every child in formal, full-time education from birth.

Q.I. - Quite interesting.

terence - sobriquet applicable to all small children. Originated with one 'borrowed' child who could not pronounce ' terrorist' .

TG - exclamation. Thank God! An interesting choice for the dictionary of a recovering Catholic but is a phrase used by my Irish family and is now deeply fixed in my conversational repetoire. (reference also PG - Please God).

TGTH - The Great Trip Home. Alt. known as 'How I spent Christmas and N.Y 2008.

Friday, 24 February 2012

Phone camera downloads 2011/12

Pasta making Summer 2011

Walk with the dogs Summer 2011

My boy found the TARDIS July 2011

Fabulous felt patterns from lovely lovely friend Summer 2011

Birthday lunch at Fishy Fishy January2012

Watching My Assistant & #1 daughter @ agility training November 2011

(November! Bare toes!)

Snowdrops in the old churchyard January 2012

Pearlescent sky September 2011

Ribbon clouds June 2011

My girl at the end of Scout Camp August 2011

Hilltop town carnival October 2011

The scorekeeper Summer 2011

Tuesday, 21 February 2012

Hexies Part One (The Blue Period)

Blue was the bundle I grabbed from the stash and so my first effort at hexies has a distinctly cool feel.

There are now 64 stitched together with another 20 basted and ready to go.

It seems this may be growing into a slowbuild/no pressure, take my time project. Right this minute i see each blocked being appliqued onto same colour linen when finished and then all joined together.

Maybe.

You know.

Or not.

Monday, 20 February 2012

Hat for Olivia

Hat for Olivia, a photo by trashalou on Flickr.

See I have been doing things! Lots of things. Some of them even get finished. This was knitted for the brand new baby daughter of our carpenter back in November.

There may be more pics of more things. Soon. Maybe.

Wednesday, 1 February 2012

Kick start required. Any takers?

***You need to know I haven't made any of the blocks shown below. These were all done by clever sewingy people***

After languishing for a loooooooong time I am finally making an actual attempt to make a quilt from my 'Around The World Christmas Block Swap'. These are the blocks already made

so now I just need to fill the gaps.

The plan is to complete the red and white rows and have the quilt run horizontally rather than vertically. Where the kick start comes in is what blocks do I make? I have thrown out the REVOLTING log cabinish thing I made to start with bc it was beyond awful and far above nasty on the Yuk scale and the block inspiration that got me through the ATWCBS seems to have long since dissiapated. Any hints? Any clues? Suggestions? Direction? I will take anything. Pleeeeeeease.