how the magic happens

a photo in full from the other day or how to make Humpty stand on his own two feet

goodbye is so hard

especially after 6 wonderful years

I myself have grown in these years, had the space to experiment and make stuff, tap into my inner 4 year old let loose with a hot glue gun and NT cutter. 

found so much happiness and the most wonderful friend in my gorgeous director

To be a custodian of this most precious show has meant so much to me

the last 3 days I have been shooting a book for the show with a really great photographer Ian Hofstetter

I wish this last shot had been in focus as it is so so cute - I did get a portrait taken with the toys and just with little ted just for me and some great memories

now I am undergoing to major shift from the old job to the new one.....

post script

it's official

with great sadness I have resigned from my favorite show in the world

and accepted a job on the next hot new TV series for Aunty- which I can't discuss - the weird thing is that the ABC doesn't make in house drama any more and I need to resign from the ABC to work on a show for the ABC - go figure


The other sad bit is that there will be less knitting time - for the start - but another knitter is on board (can you guess who?) so I am sure some will get in there somewhere - in my letter of offer the Producer was excited to learn some knitting too - would you believe.

today in pictures

I drank tea - and broke not this cup but my other favorite cup 

I wrote lots of lists - to help me remember and do everything for studio later this week - see the boxes I tick them when I have done the work - and yes we are having turtles in studio this week too

My assistant made this really cute elephant  - I wanted to show you how cute is that!

and I packed a very large trolley

excitement

This week has been a roller coaster of emotions for me - there was a real possibility of my job changing in ways that would of been terrible and possible mean the end of my time there too.  But this did not happen and I can happily say that the train is back on the tracks and chugging along nicely.

In the middle of all of this I illustrated my first book and it was read yesterday by Hugh Sheridan in the red chair.

Then on Tuesday I went off with my darling knitting friends to see the Arts Preview at the Royal Easter Show.  There has been alot written in the past few days about this.
I can only say I was nervous on the trains as it hit me what I had done entering garments into the show.  I made my way up to the cabinets with a glass of champagne, the first of way too many.  Then I cast my eyes on my (badly) displayed garments with ribbons draped on them!!!!

Gobsmacked is the only word I can use and with this open Gob I spent the rest of the night.

Viften was given a highly commended and Fractal a 3rd.

Poor Aggie received naught but he is having a good time hanging out with other odd and amazing items in the toy cabinet.

It was really great to catch up with other Ravelers and meet the grand winner of the silver plate.  I must also so it was great to tell a lot of the older persons wandering around the display that the cabinets were filled with a wide range items from a wide range of ages.  I am really passionate to dispel the idea that knitting is a dying art and I know that there are lots of disappointments about the judging process in general but if we keep entering and fill up the cabinets the bar will be raised.  I also agree with a lot of comments I have read and discussed in the past few days and I will be writing to the R.A.S. regarding judging parameters, transparency , categories and display.

I have been doing things

I just haven't been talking much about it.

One set came on last night - I was the designer for this one






And other will be annoying fox viewers soon - I drew this one up - it was built in Canada.