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New Scarf + Beanie, w buttons, and stuff!
June 18, 2005
Today I read eleven hours which I bought during the week. It was pretty good and a quick read! Not good enough that I'm saying go out and buy it - but if it's sitting on a shelf somewhere accessible, I certainly encourage you... so didn't knit much today, just a few rows on bloom.
But in other knitting news, I got a great stripey scarf and beanie set, in beige and chocolate brown, a gift from M's sister D and fiancee A, who arrived from Sunny Perth today. They are a beautiful soft lambswool/angora etc blend, and have buttons on them (in keeping with my current knit and buttons obsession, yay) Tomorrow is D's birthday - regular blog readers will know what she's getting. There's been an emergency related to that gift, which I'll chronicle another time.. It will put the fear of god into you and make sure you ALWAYS prewash your fabrics..
Anyhoo, I also made some anzacs, and there's chinese food about to arrive. I'm getting all the things I love that I don't normally have like honey king prawns and prawn crackers, yum, along with staples like satay beef and chicken with cashews.
Tomorrow we're going to cook up some kind of birthday dinner, and I'm baking a cake, a packet cake with some mods so I may do some photos. I may also use my new chocolate making kit (which I've not yet blogged about but is definitely blog worthy, so hang in there) to do some white chocolate stripes over the icing - D is very good at this and can help me. I've got champagne chillin and frozen rasberries so we may need to choose between the champagne and my famous rasberry dacquiris as apertif! Oh, decisions..
I'm about to start my new mary moody book. I may cop a bit of flack for it, but I love her!
There's a few FO's floating around that are needing blogging.. Modified Airy Scarf, Tote Bag, Liquor Chocolates, at the very least, plus the dual saga of the sewing blocks and the red fabric from last week, so hopefully tomorrow I"ll get busy with it all!
Posted by lee_taylor at June 18, 2005 07:22 PM