*** little cookies

Cookie vortex

2007-05-24T21:11:00.000-07:00

You can't tell, but this biscuit has been zapped in the microwave until the precise moment when the chocolate chips are about to melt and the whole thing is about to disintegrate. Ooo, it's good.
I would give you the recipe, but the nice lady with the hair net at the supermarket wouldn't spill it.

Musical chairs

2007-05-23T20:18:00.000-07:00

Currently listening to...
Pikelet. (www.myspace.com/ovalyn)

*Sorry, I can't get the links working. I'll figure it out soon enough.*

No longer listening to...
Josh Pyke.
His appearance on a certain show has left me a little dismayed.

I'm pretty sure I forgot to mention...

2007-05-22T14:59:00.000-07:00

... I'm having another baby. And fairly soon. As in, September soon.
Check out the cool counter thingy at the bottom of the page. Sinclair the turtle is going to count down the days for me. And it's no coincidence he's a turtle. This pregnancy is stretching on forever.
I've negelcted to say anything because apart from the actual fact of having a baby, there's been nothing to celebrate. I've been crippled with hyperemises (the devil's version of morning sickness) and have spent the last 5 months vomiting up everything and anything, and even nothing. I haven't had the strength to get excited. All strength has been channelled into making sure I land the projectile's in the toilet bowl (and I haven't even been very good at that. Just ask Amba, who has been renamed ''mop boy''.)
But I'm getting better slowly, so am starting to get excited. Now that I'm starting to look preggas instead of just like I've had a really good lunch it's getting harder to ignore the fact there is another little one on the way.
Oh giddy gesus, what the heck have I got myself into?
(and that oh so life like photo is actually what the baby looks like now. Scary. Could get a role as an extra in an alien movie.)

2007-05-21T23:38:00.001-07:00

I spent Saturday in Melbourne enjoying the blustery weather, burnt croissants and great Italian bakery treats. Miles and I caught up with two good friends. Despite all of us leading drastically different lives we still get on like the proverbial house on fire.
I do however, seem to feel increasingly alienated from people, and friends, at the moment. Maybe it's the cold weather making me feel a bit fenced off. Probably.
It's happening at uni at the moment too. I just can't seem to connect with anyone in the class. A glaring problem is that I have little to nothing in common with any of them, but usually this wouldn't bother me. I'd trundle along getting as enthusiastic as I could about whatever it was they were all nattering about. But I can't fake it at the moment. I couldn't give a rats backside, and unfortunately my face gives me away. I've taken to burying myself in the work and pretending I'm super busy so I don't have to bother.
On the flip side however, I then get all down and out because no one talks to me much, and I'm not invited to the pub like everyone else, and no one ever notices when I'm missing.
Boy am I whinging today!
Get over yourself mofo.

On a brighter, and more interesting note, here's another mixed tape I made recently for a friend who put in a request.

1. Take what you take - Lily Allen
2. That Time - Regina Spektor
3. This is It - Ryan Adams
4. Science is Golden - The Grates
5. Come on! Feel the Illinoise! - Sufjan Stevens
6. Love I don't have to love - Bright eyes
7. Nothing much happens - Ben Lee
8. Hospital Beds - Cold War kids
9. I've got you and you've got me - New Buffalo
10. Sha Sha - Ben Kweller
11. Crosses - Jose Gonzalez
12 Maybe not - Cat Power
13. Flame Trees - Sarah Blasko
14. Hold me now - The Polyphonic Spree

While I was vacant from blog land Miles hit his first major milestone. Milestone! ha, get it? rah rah rah.

2007-05-16T23:37:00.000-07:00

(You might need to open the comic in another window so you can read the oh-so-witty captions.)

Mixed melodies

2007-05-16T17:52:00.000-07:00

A friend has been doing a stack of driving and needed more than Neil Diamond to keep her company. I put together this mixed tape for her (sure, it's a CD, but in my eyes it's still technically a mixed tape.)

1. Cigarettes will kill you - Ben Lee
2. Stolen Car - Beth Orton
3. Black and White town - Doves
4. This Fire - Franz Ferdinand
5. 19 20 20 - The Grates
6. Take What You Have - Lily Allen
7. On the Radio - Regina Spektor
8. Hotel Yorba - The White Stripes
9. This is It - Ryan Adams
10. Steady As She Goes - The Raconteurs
11. Come on! Feel the Illinoise! - Sufjan Stevens
12. Hold Me Now - The Polyphonic Spree.

Meet Delilah

2007-05-14T23:52:00.000-07:00

Isn't she a dish?
She and three of her friends are my latest project.
It's just me, them and a whole lot of black embroidery cotton.

A very homely weekend

2007-05-13T01:30:00.000-07:00

We got rain.

We did some baking.

I got my sewing mojo back.

All the clothes are op-shop acquisitions. Then I just spent the arvo doing running stitch while watching My Mother Frank on tellie. it was mother's day, so I was allowed to ignore all other obligations (eg. child) and get stuck into some stitching goodness.
Sadly (but happily) I'm giving the clothes away. Apart from the fact they wouldn't fit me, they're another birthday present. They'll be shoved into the post tomorrow and should land rather belatedly on someone's lap about midweek. They will then be the hottest dressed hoochie mamma in town.
They are shocking photos of the clothes. I may be get getting my sewing groove back, but the photography of inanimate objects still lacking. Note to self: polish skills (or cease photographing things that don't smile for the camera.)

Have your cake

2007-05-11T01:09:00.000-07:00

Much coveted cupcake plate.
(Despite holding it in my hand it isn't mine to cherish. Giving it to a friend for her birthday. They come in a set of four. Do you think she'll notice if one's missing?)

Sharpen that needle

2007-05-09T16:12:00.000-07:00

I could tell you all the things I've been doing while I've been MIA.
Or I could just show you the craft projects I've been doing.
Like this one:

It now hangs in my new little office/study/the place toys seem to come to die.
I saw the idea to hang things in embroidery hoops somewhere on the net, and promptly stole it.
Check out this awesome display.

I'm aspiring to something of that magnitude.
And the best thing about these hangings is that I can stick them to the wall with blutac. One of the joys of renting is no hooks in the walls, so I'm always trying to find other ways to hang things. Certainly helps when the thing your hanging weighs less then my left foot.

The only other sewing thing that I've got on the burner is a half finished bolero that I had planned to have done for a friend's birthday back in April. I stupidly cut some of it out wrong so need to go back and get some more material. But do you think I've been back? Course not. That would be logical, something I'm lacking at the best of times. I'll get it done. Or it will loveingly end up in my pile of ''to be turned into something else material'' in the cupboard. A pile which grows far too rapidly.

Little Cookies (freshly baked)

2007-05-09T03:14:00.000-07:00

Welcome to the second coming of Little Cookies.
It's been ages since I've ventured anywhere near the Little Cookies pantry, and I thought it was high time I did.
(That and the fact that I had several little birdies wanting to know if I'd actually dropped off my perch. The last post on the last site was a little dramatic and put the fear into a few people. To revisit www.littlecookies.typepad.com)
So I've given the blog an extra smushing of love and re-vamped it. Still not set on the pic at the top, but there's something about Charlie the Wonder Dog relaxed to the max that makes me sorta love it.
Let's see how this second foray into blog land goes...