caramellosdream

I am very happily married to a wonderful man whom is my best friend. We have a blended family - I have 7 children (Ben 18, Brett 17, Jacinda 14, Micayla 9 Twins - Liam and Eamonn 2 and Xanthe 1) and 2 step-children.

We live on the Northwest Cape of Western Australia in a small remote town named Exmouth.

My husband works for the local shire council as the Executive manager of town planning and I am a stay at home mummy.

I am an avid penpaller and I love to write and receive long letters. I am addicted to getting mail :) Especially fat mail and swaps!!!

I am an avid crocheter and I have been crocheting for as long as I can remember. My nana taught me to keep me amused before I started school and I always had a hook in my hand during my school years. When I became pregnant with my first child I decided I needed to learn to make things other than afghans and taught myself alot of the rest of the stitches and techniques inclusive of how to read a pattern and I have gone on from there.

For many years I sold my work at local craft stores and at bazzar and market stalls. Now I just crochet for fun.

I am also a pattern tester for a few people.

Things that I really enjoy making - afghans and squares, toys and amigurami, dishcloths and doillies.

Other hobbies include cross stitch and rubber stamping... as well as other papercrafts but these have taken a back seat to my crochet and penpalling for many years....even though I drag them out from time to time on whims :)

I like all types of music. So one can say I am a bit eccentric with my likes.. Everything from Backstreet boys to the beatles to ween to Bon Jovi to Nickelback to AC/DC to Seal to Peter Gabrial... hmm you get the idea?

Quick and trashy HOT steamy romance novels :) are my favourites....

But I also enjoy factual books, text books on my favourite subjects and biographies.

I also love recipe books as I enjoy cooking all types of foods both main meals and desserts.

I have several collections...

Pigs - ornaments, piggy banks, salt and pepper shakers, tea-towels, etc...

Cows - Ornaments, kitchen items, stuffed toys, bathroom items, patterns and handmade items, snowglobes etc.

Snowglobes - Places we have visited or places where my friends live or have visited. Ornamental with cows, other animals or Christmas etc.

Stationery - stickers - penpal supplies - I have a large useable collection of all types of stationery, stickers etc. I can never resist buying it and have more that I will ever use in my lifetime.

Patterns/stash - I love to have a stash of yarn, cotton on hand so that I can just go dig in it when I need something :) I am currently building this up again after years of raiding it without replacing it during tough financial times.

Walking along the beach, photography, competitions, storm chasing, cooking, gardening