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

Hold me now, oh hold me now, until this hour has gone around. And I'm gone on the rising tide, to face Van Dieman's Land

Theme Thursday again, and this one is rather easy. I am Tasmanian, you see, and aside from being all around general geniuses - as I have amply described previously - we are also very familiar with the concept of WATER. Tasmania is the ONLY island state of an ISLAND continent. That means, we're surrounded by WATER. That should help explain why I take so many photographs of water . Tasmania was for a long time the place where the British (an island race terrified of water) sent their poor people most vile and horrid criminals. The sort of folk who would face the stark choice of a death sentence , or transportation to the other end of the world. Their catalogue of crimes is horrifying : stealing bread assault stealing gentlemen's handkerchiefs drunken assault being poor affray ladies being overly friendly with gentlemen for money hitting people having a drink and a laugh public drunkenness being Irish Fenian terrorist activities being Catholic religious subversion. ...

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

This is the moon. Have I mentioned how much I adore the zoom on my camera? It's Theme Thursday you see, and after last week's limp effort, I have been thinking about how I might redeem myself. Then I clicked on the topic and discover that it was BUTTON. We've been hearing a lot about the moon in the past couple of weeks. Apparently some fellas went up there and played golf and what-not forty-odd years ago. The desire to get to the moon, however, was not simply about enhancing opportunities for Meg and Mog titles and skirting local planning by-laws in the construction of new and innovative golf courses. No, all of your Sputniks , "One small steps" and freeze dried ice cream was about one thing , and one thing only : MAD Now, I don't mean mad in terms of "bloke breaks record for number of scorpions he can get up his bum", no I mean MAD as in Mutual assured destruction . When I was a young man you see, there was a lot of talk about the type of m...

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...

This will hurt me...

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