8000 Words?

Edited to add: Since my sister had some trouble working out how the title related to the entry, if "a picture is worth a thousand words", I figured 8 pictures would do quite well as an entry on their own. Two sunrises (different days), three pictures I took at Cronulla, one alpaca beanie I crocheted for K, my only gardenia bloom thus far and my new watch. I could quite easily expand on that and reach the aforementioned total of 8000 words but I am too tired.

Question of the Week - 6

What is your favorite type of project to take along on holiday/vacation?

On the rare occasion that I do go away on a holiday, I do usually take some crocheting with me - or I buy something to do while I'm there, depending on where that may be. Doilies and light things, cottons etc are good for warm weather holidays when I spend a lot of time at the beach and anything is good for cold weather holidays.

I learned to knit while we were on holiday in Ulla Dulla, I also ended up with a very bad case of hives while I was there, but that has nothing to do with why I don't particularly like knitting. The fact I was using Very Pointy Needles and was knitting Very Tightly and ended up almost with blisters on my finger tips might have something to do with it.


Angel is spending the weekend with me, my sister and I went for a drive this morning with the dogs and Angel borrowed her "cousin's" coat - which does look very cute on her! My sister put a daisy in her collar but Angel was determined not to show it off for the camera.

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...and just to prove I have too much time on my hands - it's freezing and my hands are numb but not a bad effort. Now if only I could turn it into a useful and marketable skill...

Question of the Week - 5

What a week! I am so glad it's Friday today...

1) Where is your favorite place to go for vacation/holiday?

I haven't travelled extensively - really, I've hardly travelled at all but two places that always remain very welcome holiday destinations are the Blue Mountains and Currarong (on the South Coast of NSW). They are two very different areas, one being inland and part of a mountain range and one being coastal with lots of beautiful beaches.

2) Where is one place you’d like to go?

I have to pick just one? Impossible.

Outside Australia, I'll say "Europe" because well, Europe covers quite a bit and there are many places within Europe that I would like to visit. Closer to home, New Zealand also has to get a mention and it's the most likely place I will actually visit in the near-ish future - I have heard it is beautiful over there.

Within Australia, one day I will look forward to taking some time off work and spending my holiday going all around Australia and visiting as many places as I can. Just me, a map and some form of transport (car, train, bus, boat - anything that works).

Question of the Week - 4

1) What yarn (that you don’t have/haven’t used) would make your stash “complete”?

Hmm, that's a tough one. I don't think I have an answer to that at all. I have a lot of different yarn in my stash - most of which, I haven't used (there are more yarns that I haven't used than those that I have). I don't actually think there's any particular yarn that would make my stash complete, the same way I don't feel that by not having a particular yarn in my stash that it is 'incomplete'.

Just for reference, some yarns I haven't got in my stash (off the top of my head):

Hemp
Recycled silk
Linen
Anything "Tilli Thomas"
Any of the popular sock yarns everyone else writes about in their blogs
Camel
Angora

2) What yarn do you never want to be without?

I originally interpreted this part to be "if you had to choose one yarn to use for the rest of your life, which would it be?" and it did my head in. I have since interpreted the question to simply be what yarn would I always like to have, without necessarily having to do away with all the rest. To that, I would have to say - a good quality finer weight yarn in a variety of colours, like a 4ply which is quite a versatile sort of yarn, good for baby items, shawls, socks (I will finish them one day!), toys etc.

Kiitos - Thank You!

I went to mum's place yesterday after work (which was a longer day than usual, for reasons I can't go into here) and it wasn't until we got home from shopping that we noticed a package near the door - it was a Secret Pal Package! I heard from my Secret Pal that something was in transit but I wasn't expecting anything this week - I am surprised how quickly it arrived.

Not pictured is the lovely card that was included. It was touch and go whether I'd be able to take a photo before I ate the chocolate, too - but somehow I managed!

This was a "green" themed package although Secret Pal is not sure if the theme will continue...if I get any say in the matter (and it's quite alright if I don't), I quite enjoyed the colour-theme idea (I've meant to do it before but I am not organised enough).

The green "mesh" underneath the items is a beautiful Solomon's Knot shawl which is actually quite gorgeous and the little Wooden Heart is so sweet, everytime I look at it I feel as if I'm Elvis and I start singing "Wooden Heart" - now I do have a wooden heart. I'll get a better photo of the shawl when I stop being so lazy - and the pretty card.

Secret Pal's identity is still a secret but now I know that SP is from Finland. I had a feeling SP was from Finland and it is always nice to be right!

(I wrote all that this morning before work but then I realised I was getting late for work so I saved it for now)...

I took the Shawl to work to show some of the ladies and they were all very impressed - they thought I had made it so then I loosely explained the SP concept and that my scarf came all the way from Finland and somehow that made it seem even more special. I am sure a few of them wish they were in SP12! They have recommended I try my hand at a Solomon's Knot shawl, too, and I just might.

I took this photo a few weeks ago when my little darling was staying with me. She spent all day with me yesterday, too, and I'll pick her up from "Grandma's place" tomorrow when I've done everything I want to do and then she can spend the rest of the weekend with me. Chocolate, a good book, some new yarn to play with, my puppy and the football - sounds like an ideal weekend to me!

Thanks again, Secret Pal (I don't know if "Kiitos" is actually "thank you" in Finnish but according to google, it is).