Stuff that Jen has made: #1

Some time ago I promised to post some pictures of the crafty bits and bods Jen has made for the kids over the past couple of years. I figured that I'd best get to it, lest the mob lynch me for failing in my duties.

Where possible, I shall link to patterns/designs to do it yourself, where not, I won't!

So there...

Here is a "Stop the Wailing" t-shirt that has got quite a bit of wear over the time that master Henry has been in possession, he has even managed to let the silvery button that passes for the whale’s eye survive. I would have lost money on that bet.

Comments

Anonymous said…

She's amazing your Jen.
We are lucky to be in possession of a number of beautiful items created by her fair hands and they are much loved.

19 December 2008 at 21:12

Sue said…

What more can this marvellous woman do? Not only does she knit and sew...she makes the most gorgeous babies in the world as well!!!

19 December 2008 at 22:45

Dina said…

Clever and cute T shirt (and wife too).

Not sure what to say about Henry's expression in the previous post. But he must be happy that the hair is out of his eyes.

19 December 2008 at 23:35

Priyanka Khot said…

My God!!!

Jen sure is talented... That T-shirt is amazing.....

20 December 2008 at 02:18

freefalling said…

Unrelated.
Just perusing some of my old posts and came across this one and thought of you ??!!
(might be talk of henry's hair that's the link??!!)
Have you seen this photo?
20/8/08
http://tinyurl.com/53zpgs

20 December 2008 at 14:50

Kitty said…

what a cute idea? she should sell it.
I'm sure parents all over the place would grab it up.

22 December 2008 at 08:50

Kris McCracken said…

Tania, she has her moments, that’s true...

Sue, her clothesline hanging program logic leaves something to be desired.

Dina, he had taken to trying to blow it out all day long. Mind you, he didn’t seem so keen at the hairdressers...

23 December 2008 at 11:44

Kris McCracken said…

Priyanka, there is more to come...

FF, so did the microwave cake work out? Henry is a great fan of microwave cake.

Kitty, it’s a lot of time doing that sort of stuff, I’m not sure that she could bear to part with all that hard work!

23 December 2008 at 11:51

Ah, Joe, you never knew the whole of it...

I still have the robot on the job. Here you can see the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery . And here is a poem: Soliloquy for One Dead Bruce Dawe Ah, no, Joe, you never knew the whole of it, the whistling which is only the wind in the chimney's smoking belly, the footsteps on the muddy path that are always somebody else's. I think of your limbs down there, softly becoming mineral, the life of grasses, and the old love of you thrusts the tears up into my eyes, with the family aware and looking everywhere else. Sometimes when summer is over the land, when the heat quickens the deaf timbers, and birds are thick in the plumbs again, my heart sickens, Joe, calling for the water of your voice and the gone agony of your nearness. I try hard to forget, saying: If God wills, it must be so, because of His goodness, because- but the grasshopper memory leaps in the long thicket, knowing no ease. Ah, Joe, you never knew the whole of it... I like Bruce Dawe. He just my be my favourite Austral

There was nothing left. No reason, no conscience, no understanding; even the most rudimentary sense of life or death, good or evil, right or wrong.

Here is a self portrait. I’m calling it Portrait of a lady in a dirty window . Shocking, isn’t it? However, it is apt! Samhain , Nos Galan Gaeaf , Hop-tu-Naa , All Saints , All Hallows , Hallowmas , Hallowe'en or HALLOWEEN . It’s Theme Thursday and we’re talking about the festivals traditionally held at the end of the harvest season. Huh? No wonder Australians have trouble with the concept of HALLOWEEN. For the record, in my thirty-two L O N G years on the planet, I can’t say I’ve ever seen ghosts ‘n goblins, trick ‘n treaters or Michael Myers stalking Tasmania’s streets at the end of October. [That said, I did once see a woman as pale as a ghost turning tricks that looked like Michael Myers in late November one time.] Despite the best efforts of Hollywood, sitcoms, and innumerable companies; it seems Australians are impervious to the [ahem] charms of a corporatized variant of a celebration of the end of the "lighter half" of the year and beginning of the "darke

In dreams begin responsibilities.

A life at sea, that's for me, only I just don't have the BREAD. That's right, Theme Thursday yet again and I post a photo of a yacht dicking about in Bass Strait just off Wynyard. The problem is, I am yet again stuck at work, slogging away, because I knead need the dough . My understanding is that it is the dough that makes the BREAD. And it is the BREAD that buys the yacht. On my salary though, I will be lucky to have enough dough or BREAD for a half dozen dinner rolls. Happy Theme Thursday people, sorry for the rush.

This will hurt me...

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