I knitted my man!!

It all started a while back... One day I took one of the Happy Muffins to work and it was a hit with the children (well... how could it not be???? I mean... a MUFFIN!!! A HAPPY muffin!!!) We used it in Literacy, we used it in Numeracy (choc chips on muffins are great to explain division, you know), we used it in art... the possibilities were endless. Still are... except for... I'm supporting one child now rather than a group... and the muffin didn't work for this one. So, I came up with Plan B... a knitted Happy Cinnamon Swirl :) YUMMY!!!! Could you resist this???

Luurrvvvvly Cinnamon Swirl made of knit!!!

Well... unfortunately this didn't work either :(

Oh well...

On to Plan C then...

Child is very much into dinosaurs sooooooo... all I needed was a dinosaur made of knit!!! Off I toddled to find a pattern (read: I searched t'interweb lol)... I came across a few free patterns that were really good but ... not exactly what I wanted... Then I came across Jean Greenhowe's site and found this . PERFECT!!!!! If you don't fall in love with these guys... I don't know.

Anyway, in a matter of hours after the arrival of the pattern booklet Paul the blue dinosaur made an appearance. Soon (less than two football games later to be precise) he had two little friends to play with - cave boy and cave girl (ever so inventive with names me lol).

They were a hit with said child - hooray!! Cave girl (the one with the flower in her hair... obviously) even featured as Goldilocks and Paul was Baby Bear in our week long exploration of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

When they (Paul and the cave people) are not working, they enjoy playing games like hide and seek (preferably in my bag) and dinoslide :)


When we moved on from Goldilocks... the next story being The Gingerbread Man (run, run as fast as you can you can't catch me, I'm the Gingerbread Man... I started saying that in my sleep... I did)... I briefly considered giving cave boy the role of the Gingerbread Man. But somehow it didn't seem right. Cave Boy agreed.

And Gingerbread Sort Of Cave Man was created...

Caveman pattern turned gingerbread man... kinda thing.

Cute, eh?

I just love this caveman/people pattern!!! It's great!!! And the possibilities...

What has all that to do with having knitted my man, I hear you ask... Well, that's the thing! I used said pattern to knit my man :) A mini version obviously... but now I can put him in my pocket and take him with me any time and anywhere I want :) And he doesn't complain lol.

Can you do that with your man?

Ain't he sweet?

I do prefer the original!

But...

as I said....

... mini version can be put in pockets...

... and doesn't talk...

LOL.

(Love you, babe!)




Anyhoo... in other news... kitchens are dangerous!!! That's why I keep out of them as much as possible (and because I hate cooking lol).

And here's the proof...

A nice heart-shaped burn fittingly obtained on Valentine's Day when the grill attacked me viciously!!!

Ok... not really...

I was being clever...

... or rather not...

...sticking my hand inside the grill to get some cheese on toast out.

D'oh!! What do I keep telling the children?? The grill is still hot! You just switched it off!!!

I'll try a palm tree-shaped one in summer, eh?

Ttfn.

~x~