27 July 2011

our creative space 'rhino repair'

Greetings all,
Meet Berri, he's the green rhino (or rhino-saurus as he's know in these parts) from Berrima NSW.  It's not often my 3rd girl asks for anything but she positively would not budge on the concept of living life without this knitted rhino when she spied him one school holidays on the way home from Bowral. 
As what happens with much-loved-softies, they show wear & tear, like an amputated limb, missing eye or grow threadbare.  When my sweet girl showed Kylie . . . wonder knitter, crochet queen & softie surgeon . . . Berri's injuries from too much love, Kylie too him away in her ambulance/ family ute.
My daughter sat by my mobile waiting for news when he was out of surgery.  Then magically we got the SMS saying he was fine & ready for delivery (in a mere 24 hours).
Can you believe the amazing job Kylie did??  She even delivered him home with a 'Berri Repair Kit' for future injuries due to too many hugs.
Look at those eyes, oh, doesn't he look so much happier??  Ditto for my daughter.  So yet another brilliant reason to visit Brisbane, Kylie is there at the ready, able to fix anything & everything.  Love you Kylie!!  Thanks so much, happy creating spacing on Thursday everyone, love Posie

20 comments:

Naturally Carol said...

I'm glad to see Berri is fixed up..I have just spent the last few minutes reading the last three posts about your Qld visit. We drove the Canberra to Brisbane route quite often too when the kids were young and our journeys weren't dissimilar to yours! Our kids were very good travellers too. I loved travelling with them as everybody had to talk together and trips always made us closer as a family!

Tas said...

That is just awesome.

Becky said...

Hurrah for Kylie!

1000 Homes of Happiness said...

Gorgeous! Yay Kylie. I adore the colour green as well.

xoxo

Kylie said...

The icing on the cake was seeing her face when he bounced back through the door:) Hope the little kit doesn't need to be used in a hurry (have more of the green if it is required though:)

sara said...

Precious.

lily x

Queen Of The Armchair aka Dzintra Stitcheries said...

Hi Jennie...catching up here...I see you're back from Qld...we are going up in 10 days to take JoJo to Wiggle World for a very special birthday!!! I was wondering What the weather was like up there...it's been very cold down here...Stay warm...Love Dzintra

That's Not My Age said...

Hi Posie,

Thanks for commenting on my blog - love the rhino!

Best,

TNMA

TexWisGirl said...

oh, that's just too cute.

dearfutureme... said...

So cute! Love that rhino-saurus!

Leonie said...

Aww thats so cute!!! What a special way to fix a special toy! will have to remember for future fix its in our house.

Wombat's Picnic said...

My sister and I at ages 7 and 8 decided to repair our favourite spotted dog ourselves (the squeaker in his ear stopped working). He was even more loved with his repairs despite their odd looking nature:) Cyndy

BarefootBride said...

I love the repair job on Berri. We have Kindy Doll whose back of head started unravelling years ago and I had to 'kidnap' her and hide her away to protect what was left of her until I could get someone to repair her. She's still sitting in the top dresser draw, hidden away, after 6 years! I really ought to get her repaired :)

Sam Findlay said...

Super cute!

Anonymous said...

wow he's a cutie and Kylie is a legend!!!!! great job

ally said...

just what every girl needs - a rhinosaurus

ally said...

every girl needs a rhino-saurus - great surgery too

Bron said...

He is so cute...what a great friend to save the day ....can't have an unhappy rhino owner!! xx

Seaweed and Raine said...

You can totally see WHY he would get too much love - gorgeous softie! Kylie did a great job fixing him up.

Anonymous said...

She truly did an amazing job!!