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July 17, 2005
This morning M and I went to see Sin City. Not my usual type of film but it was pretty good.. I give it 7/10 (a common rating lately for me). M is not ready to rate it, so the blogging detective is not on the case for this film. We split a subway footlong chicken fillet sub, yum, did the grocery shopping and came home.
Then I cooked.. Boy did I cook. I made a batch of chilli con carne, a mostly veg lite thai green curry that was a spin off of the two green curry recipes already on this site. It was soooo good and soooo healthy that I may post the recipe (yes a third thai green curry recipe!). Also a pumpkin, sweet potato and potato mash and a carmelised onion with garlic mushroom mix.. The last two are for tomorrow night's tea, the chilli is for tea on tuesday and two lunches for M, and the curry was for about a million of lunches for me.. With some leftover veg I made a roast pumpkin, red cap and tomato soup which I've added all kinds of things too like basil pesto, lite sour cream, balsamic vinegar, lots of seasoning, but it still tastes lacking in body or something.. Palatable anyway.. But everything else came out super..
End result though is that I am exhausted and haven't done my laundry (well I've done one load.. ) or any Getting Stuff Done or chilling out. But I really wanted to take photos of what I bought and did yesterday, so I've just done that and will upload them now.. Adding text will have to wait till later today, or tomorrow.
(PS Battlestar didn't finish downloading til this morning, so we are watching tonight with celebratory cheese and pate! yum)
Part one of my two part stash from the bendigo back room. I spent less than $40 and got all of the above - the classic 8 ply in the four colours above, about 600g all up I'd say, plus 3 different colours of the 12ply rustic (pics to come).. I was very lucky because I got the two colours I had been wanting to do another french market bag in, and plenty of it, plus some cream with flecks to make some legwarmers.
Note to self: I might be able to use this red, khaki, and cream for some christmas ornament knitting!
There were so many fabulous toys in the woolcraft sheds.. Here are two I couldn't resist. The monkey I bought for M2, M1's little brother, but I think I am changing my mind and will keep him, and M2 can play with him when he visits.
I tried to get a better photo of this tag. The handwriting is beautiful, it is like a cross between a really old and a really young person's handwriting. It says
"My name is Monty
Can I come and
live in your house.
I need a Hug"
Who could resist?
These needle rolls are beautiful. They have been made by hand, the fabrics are lovely. The pockets inside are not exactly what I'd choose but it's a great roll to store some straights in, I still want to get around to making one for my circulars and notions. There are three in the picture! And a crochet case.. Two of them are for gifts.
Was great to run in to An, Ceels, and Sockmonster Lisa. Have not seem them in a few months, and they are lovely girls. Bought my first ball of sock yarn for my first ball of socks - not sure which pattern etc yet but will keep you posted. Also pictured here are some beautiful duck booties for my cousins baby she's cooking at the moment (about 3.5 months to go!) and a finger puppet for a guy I know who I think will get a kick out of it.
100g of the softest loveliest merino I've ever felt, in off white. I am going to dye this in some way shape or form. A bought a whole heap of this, enough for a jumper, and two beautiful landscape dyes. I can't wait to see the results! Will check the pamphlet when I'm home and write where it has come from!
The main yarn purchase of the day was (above and below) two large hanks of wendy dennis wool. It is so soft I'd swear it is a wool/silk blend but it doesn't identify itself anywhere so might just be 100% wool. It is 8ply, the top hank is just over 300g and for another clapotis probably for me, I have wound most of it into a ball now and boy is it enormous. The bottom hank is just under 300g and for a clapotis for a gift. The recipient I have in mind would probably not choose these colours herself but I think they will look fabulous on her. It is so soft and wonderful. I have heard the name wendy dennis mentioned on list but don't know anything about her, will have to do some research. Anyhoo, this is very exciting as I'd been considering ordering some more yarn from brooks farm for a clapotis gift in the future, and now I'll have two for less than the cost of ordering from there.
Not purchased on the day, but picked up from A who received the shipment earlier in the week. This is my spoils from the www.yarn.com order of some time ago, for Simply Marilyn and (who am I kidding) something along the lines of the honeymoon cami. But I have decided I wish to lose some weight so am going to put off starting any fitted projects for the time being.
Posted by lee_taylor at July 17, 2005 04:34 PM