CHRISTMAS BEETLES

You know Christmas is just around the corner when these lovely beetles fly in for a visit. It's another warm and sunny day but the usual calm has been disrupted by a gaggle of painters. The colour scheme the owner's chosen is grey with blue trim! so this little happy house now looks like a little sad house. I can't wait until the contract is completed on the 21 December. We have already started to pack up things we don't need to use, it makes the settlement date feel closer. I'm going to leave the new house pink for a while and concentrate on painting inside and getting the lounge room floor sanded and polished before we move in.

HOME SWEET HOME

I've been to busy to blog or keep up with other bloggers, the great news is the house in the photo soon will be mine. My offer was accepted today at 11.50 am! the contract will be signed on the 21 December. The outside colour's a bit girlie, the three bedrooms are painted in very intense shades and the lounge room is a blotchy dark green. This was the main reason it hadn't sold and the fact the garden has been overgrown for months. Overall it's been well maintained an ideal first home, plus I got it for less than the asking price. Home Sweet Home.

1 MILLION WOMEN

Climate change, global warming and living in a sustainable way are important to my friends and family. This website is a fun way to chart your progress and be counted among the 1millionwomen of Australia who want climate action and change.

Overview:

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BUTTONS

I'm a bit of a miser these days, so when I went shopping for buttons I just couldn't justify splurging on them when they were over $1.00 a pop that's how my button collection started. There are rules- must be cheaper per button than I can buy here in Hobart (including postage). Must be an interesting button in colour, shape or pattern. They have to be used, no hording my pretties. So 17 vintage buttons, price under $10.00 total bargain!!!

BLACK COTTON CARDI

I've had to find a new pattern and yarn as the charcoal wool cardigan just wasn't working out. When I took what I'd knitted so far off the needles it seemed to be extremely long and stretchy. I could wrap it around my waist twice!!! and as I'm shaped like a large wombat I new something was wrong. So from the stash KATIA 10 ply bulky cotton-black, pattern DROPS 108-40 the test swatch matches exactly the yarn gauge and this time there will NOT be any changes to the pattern. I'm knitting one size larger as the cotton doesn't have a lot of give and I'm more of a cover up sort person. So far it's going smoothly but I've only knitted three rows.

FLOWER FROGS

I love flower frogs, this one is just like the one I've bought on eBay. There's something about green depression glass that makes me want to collect as much as I can find. It reminds me of Summer, grass clippings and aprons covered with flowers. On the knitting front my cardigan developed a problem (two holes) on the right front band. I was watching television not my knitting! then had to frog back almost to the beginning the holes turned out to be loose tension on the moss stitch part. I've decided it's time to find another cat, it's been two years since Ziggy (a very large, curry loving ginger and white moggy) had to be put down at the ripe old age of 21 3/4 human years. So in two weeks we'll visit the cat home and rescue a grown up cat as they seem to be the last to be picked. Ziggy was a rescued cat not from the cat home but from a friend who was leaving Tas, if I hadn't taken him his next stop was the cat home.

SEAMLESS CARDIGAN

Instead of glandular fever the extreme pain and swelling of my face, neck and glands has turned out to be a troubled tooth. My glands have been going up and down for about three months, there have been Dr's visits, blood tests all to no avail. So I did some research and came up with teeth! the dentist took one look found the culprit straight away. Poor tooth was in death throws and had to be removed, 24 hours later nearly all the swelling has gone there's no pain and I can drink warm tea and coffee. NEW KNITTING, I've started a seamless cardigan in a light charcoal fleck. The pattern is a mishmash of three patterns, I'm using the edging of the Debbie Bliss Cardi. (above), Elizabeth Zimmerman seamless sweater from Knitting Without Tears, I love the look of round yoke sweaters and cardigans, and a Drops A-line for the decreases. Just look at this gorgeous bunch of kale it's a most beautiful purple black almost to nice to eat.