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Oh my goodness! This lady had some mad origami skills!

Please pop on over to her flickr stream and appreciate them all!

Found via Erin Loechner

I’m in such a creative mood this morning, I want to make and look at colourful objects, my head is bursting full of knitting and sewing pattern ideas. Wouldn’t it be perfect if you could bottle this feeling for when you had the time to take advantage of it?

Let’s hope that work cooperates with my wishes!

I need a little inspiration on this Thursday morning.

You might remember how irritated I was when the Vogue Knitting Magazine app for the iPad was released but was only available to US residents (however failed to mention this in their email announcement)?

I’m very pleased that after receiving another email announcing the app last week I checked again and woo! available to all! I’m even more pleased that they have done a decent job in digitising the magazine (it hasn’t been redesigned specifically for digital viewing), the quality of the pages are very good.

It is a pity that the 360° views are loaded from the Vogue website, they’re helpful and a necessary addition to a digital edition of a magazine. For wifi only iPad users such as myself viewing this away from known networks it was a bit disappointing – I’ve given up hope that QLD Rail will ever install their often talked about wifi network.

There is also no option to print a pattern from the magazine, so I will need to take screen shots and print the pattern pages. I don’t know about you, but I scribble and make notes all over knitting patterns :)

Now for some pretty screen shots!

Again I have to say, what makes this digital magazine release an absolute winner for me is that they have created their own application to easily download and organise magazines. I know many companies aren’t doing this because they take issue with the Apple iTunes system and the method of approving apps etc… but it’s my preference and if a magazine is offering their editions this way I’ll download them.

Do you have an iPad? If you tried any magazine apps that you’d recommend, or even just read about one, drop me a line I’d love to hear about some new ones!

I’ve been given some beautiful house warming presents, and the appearance of a pile of yarn around the same time that just happened to coincide with moving, so I’m calling them house warming presents too, happy days :)

Absolutely beautiful hand screen printed linen tea towel from Maya Muse Textiles (I’ve only just realised this is upside down…)

Wonderful ice cream maker :) This photo shows my first attempt at coconut milk, sugar free ice cream – delicious!

And some yarny goodness – some of which has been bought for me to make sweaters and gifts for other people, and some of it is for me… all the green yarn is for me :)