that was the week that was

oh what a time was had by all …

It’s been a very social bloggy crafty sort of time around here. First up was an amazing Sydney-Melbourne blogmeet featuring a few of my favourite regular reads. Photos are over here if anyone is interested. We talked and ate and talked and laughed and made the waiter take our photo, as you do, and then talked some more even after being politely evicted from the premises waaaay after closing time. It seems LadyBloggers have a lot to say. Who woulda thunk?

Then the next evening I dragged my weary carcass up the freeway to join the same talented and inspiring crew who attended the last craft weekend away and some new-to-me faces.


The venue was, um, quirky, the garden gorgeous ...





... the weather glorious, the food mostly marvellous apart from a little embarrassment on my part (note to self: don’t put your hand up to do dinner when you’ve been up until 3am several nights running writing a badly structured essay and then socialising with a bunch of LadyBloggers and you’re better at sticky desserts than beef curries anyway you silly sod). But as someone else said, the company was the prize. What a wonderful gaggle of women. And the accompanying baby was beautiful (and beautifully behaved) beyond belief.

I managed to purchase some delicious chenille yarn and Noro from Purl’s Palace …



… made a new friend as we sipped tea and wound the skeins into balls …



… had one of the best massages of my life …



… and knitted. Look at all the flying fingers.

Bliss.