Women's Expo comes to Dunedin

Ami Ana (ie. me, Ana) was at the Women's Expo this afternoon helping to promote the heck out of Felt and meeting fantastic people and putting names to faces of some local Felt Designers - wonderful meeting you all! Lots of fun, great people and an excuse to whip up some Dark Orange Fudge to share with Lucy (Founder and Owner of Felt, and my friend!). Not to mention I got a FREE Felt tshirt - Score!

Did I mention that the Women's Expo is still on tomorrow, that the Felt stall will be there and that there is a chance to win a $250 prize pack with all sorts of goodies from a variety of Felt Sellers, including some Crochet Flowery Fingerless Mitts by Ami Ana by simply signing up for Felt's mailing list?

                             Rockin' my Felt promotin' tshirt.

                    Ami Ana Flowery Mitts up for grabs in the $250 prize pack that Felt is giving away!

Days when it's great to be a Crochet/Knitwear Fashion Designer...

It was a great time to be a Crochet/Knitwear Fashion Designer on Sunday night when we all got rugged up for the Dunedin Winter Solstice Festival - ironically we had had a lovely and toasty unseasonably warm 17 degrees Celsius just the day before and I had been chuffed to think that this year we would not be freezing our patooties off at the Festival. For once. It is here that I feel I must confess that I fear I jinxed the Weather and subsequently am directly responsible for causing the postponement of the Winter Solstice Festival (actually due to be held on Saturday night) by posting on my Facebook page and asking what time the Festival began - mere seconds after this it seemed, the sky erupted in torrential rain. Goodbye balmy Winter Festival. I. AM. SORRY. So in typical fashion, the next night we rolled our 3 children into ten or so layers of clothing and mosied on down to the Festival after an early family dinner.

Here's me with one of my "Bandit" children, in my "gazillion" dollar scarf (that's ANOTHER story) which a friend once told me looked like it was choking me. He says choking, I say TOASTY : P

Here's one of my attempts at photographing one of the awesomely, amazingly cool paper lantern animals in the Festival Parade. You'll note it looks something like a rabid 6 legged wolf. That's called magic that is - making something appear like something else - right?

In this last pic you can just make out vaguely, that the animal is in fact actually a Unicorn. Vaguely.

I know, I know. Stick with Crochet.

Hello Again ; )

Time for a fresh start. I'm dustin' off the cobwebs and cleaning and clearing this place out to make room for an all new Anarashii - so watch this space!