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sic and knitting for company and this morning when i woke with no hangover from either alcohol or exhaustion i feel ready to welcome in the new decade with all its promises of great things it s no secret that 2009 was a less than fabulous year for me my family and loads of my friends but there is so much on the agenda for 2010 already that i can t help but be excited i bit the bullet at the end of 2009 and started work on my album a huge step and you can read about it over here my work is busy and challenging but for all those challenges i am still learning and enjoying it craftwise i ve not stitched much at all but i ve been knitting up a storm shawl for louise for christmas shawl for the mil for christmas another free pattern from ravelry multnomah having said that i ve written a ton of new songs one of the many pairs of socks i knitted this year not that i ve been slacking off at all i ve written a ton of new songs started guitar lessons to help me with the process revising all the useless music theory that i gave away in high school and trying to keep on top of the mothering housework etc while i wouldn t say 2009 has been one of my most stellar years the happenings of 2009 have catapulted me into action for the new decade much love and best wishes to everyone from me posted in general 4 comments i stitched oh yes i did march 8 2009 by ausxser i had a lovely visit with marg who still doesn t have a blog and barb yesterday nice bit of lunch some drooling over stitching and lovely conversation there just aren t two nicer people in the whole world i m so glad they visited all three of us have fallen in love with this little fella from the workbasket i started him yesterday cobblestone 28 count jobelan i think as i bought this piece of fabric some years ago and there is no colour on the pack and kaalund natural silk that i picked up in an odds and ends basket one day and was wondering what i d do with it i think he looks a little like hedwig although i am making a great assumption that he is actually a he the workbasket quaker owl on 28cnt cobblestone jobelan kaalund natural silk i think barb was scrounging for fabric last night so she could start him too i ve stumbled a bit with my stitching lately just haven t had the inclination but i was really enjoying this project last night so much so i am going to go sit with him for abit longer today posted in quaker the workbasket 6 comments thankyou march 4 2009 by ausxser thank you so much for all your lovely thoughts and wishes after the passing of my father i have chosen to keep them private for now i hope you understand they have all touched me greatly and i appreciate the time and thought you took to write thank you it has been an interesting week i m very tired and emotional and for a change there s not a hormone excuse in sight i attended the funeral accompanied by a very good friend who decided in all her wisdom that i really shouldn t attend on my own she s good it was strange to be confronted by pictures of the man i didn t know and even stranger to hear the stories of how wonderful a father and grandfather he was to hear that he remained with the woman he left my mother for all these years was comforting i guess in the same way that my mother remarried and is still with that man too it just wasn t right for either of them at that time i didn t go to the viewing and i am not sure i could have done that to see his coffin there was heart wrenching and i wasn t prepared for that at all i wasn t prepared at all for the level of pain i felt it hurt way more than i really expected and i can t make out if the pain is from knowing that he is now gone or from the guilt i feel to hear his grandson deliver the eulogy and see how overcome the grandchildren were to have lost their poppa gives me some indication of how he might have been in life loving and devoted to his family seven children 22 grandchildren and great grandchildren too but i was also sad because i know there are 9 children and 24 grandchildren everyone knew who i was this in itself was unsettling to be amongst a group of people i d never met but who all knew all the important stuff about me it s not that i didn t feel welcome but i felt like i really didn t have a right to be there grieving for someone i didn t know i felt like i didn t have the right to cry i had finished grieving for him years ago i cried every night for years wondering why he didn t want to know me why he didn t come to see me wondering why i wasn t good enough and then when i had my son i went to see his mother am so glad i did and took him to see her she asked me to come back the next day i learnt that my father went there and waited all day just in case i came back but i didn t go i was too scared i didn t know what to say to him so i stayed away this will now be the biggest mistake i ve ever made in my life and i will regret it forever i visited briefly with the family after the service and was made very welcome i heard from family members how he remembered me and my brother on every birthday and christmas had pictures of me from the newspapers etc his mother collected them he told everyone how beautiful and clever i was i can understand how it might have hurt the other children for me to be there but i am so glad i went my step father found out he had a sister in his fifties i remember how weirded out about that he was she wasa hairdressing client of mine for years before we knew funny i always felt an affintiy with her we were more friends than client hairdresser but he doesn t see her now not since the first time they met i m not sure whether i want to or even can forge a relationship with these people who are my family or what the niceties of figuring that out are what if they do and i don t or vice versa what is the etiquette it s like walking up to a complete stranger on the street and saying hi you don t know me but i want to be your family most people would say or think f off idiot btw i started getting a cold last wednesday the same day i learnt of his death and i slowly slipped further and further into it s clutches as i missed more and more sleep i ll return to normal soon posted in general 6 comments r i p malcolm john 11 4 41 23 2 09 february 25 2009 by ausxser today i learned that my biological father passed away suddenly at the age of 67 years i d only met him a few times but i was aware that i had half sisters and brothers somewhere i didn t expect to feel so devastated i didn t expect to learn of his passing from my mother who had read the death notices in the paper today i d hoped that someone would try and find me on friday i will attend his funeral in hobart and there i will at least see 7 new family members brothers and sisters who knows how it will go i d spoken about trying to get in contact many times over the past few months that option no longer exists it really does hurt more than i thought it would he was my father after all posted in family 13 comments care packages february 10 2009 by ausxser i have a contact for care packages containing under garments and clothing for women if you know a woman who lost clothing etc in the fires please contact me and i can pass on the details for you posted in general marysville strathewen kinglake gone february 10 2009 by ausxser marysville was a gorgeous little town with so much to offer we went there often to visit the mechanical toys shop which also housed a collection of historical meccano models picnic and walk to the falls bruno s gardens gone too a man s lifetime of work that he so generously shared with all who went there strathewen and kinglake nothing left and to think these towns are less than 100 kilometres from the centre of melbourne i am feeling incredibly sad guilty insert undescribable feeling of something here australians are well known for digging deep but i think for this one we will need to call in favours posted in general 4 comments handmade help february 9 2009 by ausxser rachel power has posted about handmade help where crafters can donate proceeds from the sale of their handmade goods posted in general our darkest day february 9 2009 by ausxser there is not much to say really victoria is in the middle of a fire disaster the worst we have ever seen to talk about knitting or stitching or whinge about train travel seems so trite when so many people have lost their lives or at very best all their worldly possessions whole townships were razed to the ground in what has been described as a firestorm like no other saturday was the hottest day ever recorded in victoria 46 3 degrees celsius 115 34 f in the city with temperatures reaching 48 degrees celsius 118 4f in out lying suburbs speaking to my partner saturday evening i said i felt guilty going to bed when right at that point in time there were so many people who no longer had a bed to go to i likened it to september 11 when we sat up all night watching news reports and were just flabbergasted by the situation sitting there speechless unable to comment i was much the same over the weekend i didn t want to go to bed but the news reports continue to reduce me to tears 108 people are confirmed dead many others are still missing and fears held for their safety i urge everyone to donate either to the red cross or at their local national australia bank or give donations of clothes blankets whatever you can to the local salvation army other useful links bushfire hotline 1800 240 667 victorian bushfire fund 1800 811 700 condolence book share your sorrow over the tragedy urgent threats latest information transport updates from vicroads and v line latest updates from the country fire authority posted in general 5 comments ugh january 27 2009 by ausxser somebody took my mojo and i want it back today i am just going to bite the bullet and stitch something anything i am not sure what i ve not stitched in weeks and i m really starting to beat myself up about it why is that stitching is an activity i do to relax to feel creative to enjoy so why then would i be so hard on myself for not stitching perhaps it is caused by the copious amounts of languishig half finished or less projects or the mountainous piles of stash idly stuffed into drawers and cupboards i don t know why but today i am going to try and jump the monumental hurdle that is stagnation perhaps a little freebie something i can start and finish today on a webby research note here is a sensational site contining all the historic needlework resources one may ever need everything is covered from the 10th century and all corners of the globe i spent many hours reading and oogling the stitching beauty contined therein posted in webstuff 4 comments library addition january 22 2009 by ausxser i was in the neighbourhood of a lns today so i popped in to see what could possibly tempt me this particular shop has a lovely selection of books and i picked up this one i miel sfilati my drawn thread works by antonietta monzo menossi absolutely stunning worth every penny beautiful diagrams in both italian and a very cute english translation which is perfectly helpful but a little bit literal in places there is a companion book to this one i think it needs to be together with its mate posted in books 2 comments gobsmacked january 6 2009 by ausxser my book is here once again this is a beautiful publication well worth the cost 95 i am so glad i bought it for lovers of samplers this is a fantastic reference big clear pictures and wonderful narrative on the composition and construction of the samplers very differnt to the ackworth book in that the text focusses on the sampler and not the stitcher i wont post piccies because the ones on the needleprint website are far better than any i can take you may not see me for a while i m off to devour it bliss posted in books tagged books needleprint samplers 3 comments happy new year january 2 2009 by ausxser i am so excited i just heard that my goodhart samplers book is on it s way i should have it in my hot little hands on tuesday at 95 plus 10 90 i hope it s all i expect it to be although so far i am yet to be disappointed by anything that has been published by needleprint they are such quality publications the judith hayle book is lovely and the ackworth schoolgirl samplers is a book i pick up often and just look at the pictures and sigh congrats to jacqueline holdsworth on another beautiful book one i am sure will be a wonderful addition to my library ps if you go to the website linked to the book title you can take a sneak preview well worth it but i take no responsibility for the state of your bank account afterwards posted in general 2 comments a bit late for halloween november 17 2008 by ausxser shhhh don t tell anyone but i think moth s grandma s chair is haunted the kitties wont sit in it not at all even when i ve put their favourite throw rug on it sometimes they just sit and stare at it or they walk up to it and put their front paws on it but don t jump up insert twilight zone music here posted in general 5 comments a stitcher s heritage november 14 2008 by ausxser i had a wonderful addition to my living room yesterday moth s parents had a chair and that they asked if we had room in our shed to store it the chair belonged to moth s grandmother and it is the chair in which she used to sit stitching when i heard this i immediately said no we didn t have room in our shed but that i would make room for it in the living room moth s mum informed me that it wasn t very pretty and had a bit of a split in the leather at the front and asked did i really want to put it in the house the split in the leather gives it character and just knowing that it was used as a stitching chair i ve yet to see some of her handiwork means a lot to me it s a big comfortable chair and i ve placed it in my stitching corner and will use it as a stitching chair too perhaps some of her mojo will rub off on me grandma s chair i love tradition and i love knowing that moth s grandma sat in this chair to create i ll be sure to post pictures of her work when i finally see it posted in family stitching tagged family stitching tradition 2 comments really i stitch honest i do november 13 2008 by ausxser and just to prove it here is a picture of my progress on paradigm lost such as it is this motif is huge and is taking sooooooo long but i really love this design and i am hoping to make a bit more progress this week as i am off work with a bulging disc in my back paradigm lost long dog designs 12 nov 08 i ve also started a few little christmas gifts which i can t share here at the moment just little things for friends funny i seem to get annoyed with small things and they take forever for me to stitch i am really not a smalls person at all finishing just isn t my thing i see so many beautiful things and think i could do that if i felt so inclined unfortunately it s the inclination that just isn t forthcoming this is what cara thinks of the 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