Biting my tongue

Jason has a laptop as well as his desktop PC. Zak uses the laptop from time to time and has a rule imposed that he must shut it when he's not using it, because a certain 2 year old (who shall remain nameless to protect his identity :p) likes to pull the buttons off the keyboard. Zak is learning slowly to shut the lid. He's been banned from using it at times because he sometimes forgets. Well today Jason left it up (as he always does - double standard much?). Anyhoo.... the nameless 2 year old decided it might be fun to not only pull the buttons off but also the little plastic bits under the buttons. Oh bugger me.  Wonder if Jason has learnt his lesson? Bahahaha...
 Pretty much rained all day here. Except for a small break in the middle of the day while I did the groceries.

Have had a nice weekend - plenty of stitching done! Still haven't started on my 52 weeks album... doh!

So here is my start on the JBJ pattern.

It's his left arm.. drool

I'm now having a mini-freak and worried that the cloth isn't going to be big enough. The instructions on the pattern say to use 28 white Aida. I couldn't find that count anywhere! And I didn't want to go to linen because I'm no good with linen. So I found some 18 Aida and used an online converter to put the measurements in. The finised pattern is 225w x 284h stitches. My cloth is 35cm wide by 45cm high. I'm thinking of doing it the old fashioned way now and just counting the amount of stitches I have left on the right hand side of the fabric and compare it to the number left on the pattern. Eeeek. Too tired now to focus on that but really need to do it before I do too much more.

Also made some good progress on Lest We Forget too. It's coming along nicely. I' think I'm on track to have it finished by Anzac day.

Zak was at his dad's this weekend so it was just the three of us at home. Poor Robbie always wanders around looking for mischief while his big brother isn't around. Sometimes its bad mischief (see the laptop story above lol) and sometimes it cute, funny mischief. I looked out of my bedroom window this afternoon and saw this.

He is going through of phase of lining things up.  Cars, teddies, and apparently deck chairs lol! (Don't mind my sick maidenhair fern there.. I forgot to water it for a while.. but after a couple of good drinks she has some nice re-growth :p )

Weekend is over already. Boo. Back to work tomorrow.. double boo :(

xx