A few weeks ago I finished the Wedding Wrap for my sister to wear around her shoulders in the cool of the evening at her wedding reception, and last weekend she wore it. It turned out just like I had hoped. The wedding was gorgeous, the bride was gorgeous, the flowergirls were gorgeous, and even the bridesmaids looked gorgeous.


While I am finally blogging some things that I have made (lately I either have time to blog or to make, but not to do both), I will share some flowers that were a big joint effort. My sister wanted some blue flowers to go in her wedding bouquet, but of course blue flowers aren't in season this kind of year in this hemosphere or something, so being the resourceful and skilled woman she is with a yarn stash to behold, she knitted a whole heap of flowers. My part came in on the day before the wedding, when I sewed them all up, and invented a way to attach the flower, the stamens, the icord stems and the wire for the stems. I then pressed our mum into service and we got those flowers all done in time to take to the florist to be included in the bouquets.


I learned that icord machines are a bit tricky to use, but that The Love Of My Life has a fantastic grasp of tension and yarn and twist and can be relied upon to whip up metres of icord when the pressure is on, that Wollmeise is indeed lustworthy yarn, and that knitted flowers look fantastic as part of a bouquet. And that doing things at the Last Minute tm seems to be a genetic trait and that I might as well stop fighting it, it seems to be my destiny.

The kids and I are home today since we all got a nice cough headcold thingy from our weekend away. So I thought that some comfort food was in order, and made some penguin shaped pancakes. Since pancakes on their own aren't super special, even when they are penguin shaped, I thought I would put a choc chip into each one, into the head of the penguin specifically, since the head is the thickest part of the pancake.

One of my favourite phrases in the whole world is Brain Fart. It describes that thing that happens to me all the time, when all of a sudden I go blank, and can't remember the word, or the sentence, or even what I was doing or just about to do. I figure it is a natural occurence to someone who has as many balls in the air at all times as I do, something has to give occasionally. It is embarrassing if I am in a meeting, or trying to look all together and grown up.

When I was making these pancakes, I heard a little noise inside of the penguin machine, and had a look. Turned out that one of the penguins had a brain fart. It's (white) chocolatey brain exploded from the heat. This was so fantastic to me that I overcooked a few more penguins to hear the satisfying soft popping sound of their brains farting.

So, if it is true that every day one learns something new, today I learned what a brain fart sounds like. And it sounds great.