Today we were out and about all over the place, and at least three times, I said “I should have brought the camera”.
Why do I own a digital camera? I forget to take it every time I go anywhere!
First off, we had a local election today, so we had to go out and vote. Elections are always held on a Saturday in Australia, and it is mandatory for everyone over the age of 18 to vote, or you get fined. In addition, every year our neighbourhood holds a big street festival around this time, and today was the day. The school we vote at is in the main street, right in the midst of the festival so we killed two birds with one stone, and had a look about. Not alot to talk about, it’s mainly geared towards the kids and the teens, lots of toys and showbags and silly hats, performers and the like. Then we headed out to the lolly factory to buy our Easter eggs. 🙂
I’m rather fond of the lolly factory. 😉 Bought too much chocolate, then came home for the afternoon.
Em’s birthday is on Thursday, and we always go out for dinner on birthdays. She’s at camp for school from Monday morning until Wednesday afternoon, and she has dance lessons on Wednesday and Thursday nights, and it’s Easter next weekend, so we went out to dinner tonight. She chose Lonestar Steakhouse, so off we went, and had a delicious dinner, and they brought her out a chocolate brownie with icecream and sparklers, and sang Happy Birthday to her, so she was pretty chuffed. Came home just in time for Fireworks at the street festival, of which we had a wonderful view from our front yard. I took some photos, but they ain’t great.

We told Em that the festival is held in honour of her Birthday. At the end of the fireworks she said “See how special I am?”
Gotta love that kid 🙂
So you’ll all understand why there’s been little or no knitting going on, I’m sure. Knitting updates tomorrow, I swear 🙂

I haven’t been updating alot because I’ve been boring knitting. It’s all for a good cause, but that doesn’t make it any more exciting! I’m up to 5 pairs of mittens and 4 hats for the Dulaan Project so far, with another pair of mittens on the needles.
But I must admit it’s starting to get a little boring now.
To try and beat the boredom I decided to knit something quick for myself.

Late last year I bought a single, lonely skien of Noro Silk Garden, but I had no idea what to make with it, so it’s been sitting around doing nothing for a few months. Then I saw Wendy’s Fingerless Mitts pattern.
Voila! I love them! I love Silk Garden! Now Em wants a pair. Of course.
It’s wet and rainy here today.

It’s actually a nice change from the heat, and we need the rain. Twinkie, however is unimpressed.

No going outside to play today!

Finished Project Alert!
Woohoo! Em has a new poncho 🙂

Specifications
Pattern: Bonne Marie’s Lacy Poncho (Downsized a little, though)
Yarn: Some unbanded anonymous Jade Green 5ply (Sportweight) wool, bought from eBay
Needles: 4mm Addi Turbos
Didn’t it come out well? Who knew that fringing a little poncho would take over three hours?? Anyway, it’s done.
I love Em in this colour, I should make her more green things. 🙂
Speaking of Em, she’s in my bed right now, sick, snivelling and coughing, and watching DVD’s. Poor kid. She better keep her germs to herself 😉

Okay, I think we’re over The Sandwich Incident.
However, I’m thinking of taking bets on how long it takes for Em to turn her room into a cesspool again. 😉
I’ve been busy, busy, busy knitting!
Dulaan goodies 🙂

More hats, more mittens. I have another pair of mittens on the needles right now.
And I have another FO to show, but it took longer to finish than I expected – pics tomorrow!

I thought I had seen everything. Really.
Although Emily is nearly 12 (13 days to go, I was reminded this morning!), I thought there wasn’t much she could surprise me with anymore. Anyone who believes that the angelic child pictured here previously could not possibly keep her room a pigsty, read on.
I am still cleaning her bedroom. I spent 2 hours in there yesterday, and cleaned up the floor and the wardrobe and drawers. No wonder she has no clean underwear. They’re all shoved into any old drawer that has room, never in her underwear drawer.
Fine, I dealt with that. I may be a neat freak, but I can understand that not everyone else is, no matter how frustrated I get in the morning when we are running late because Em can’t find anything.
So I did the wardrobe and the floor yesterday, and headed back in this morning to do under the bed and the toybox.
Under the bed was not so bad. Odd dirty clothes under there, a gazillion odd dirty socks and the like. One biscuit, which infuriates me, however, I just tossed it out, and finished with Under The Bed.
Then I opened the toybox. The first thing that hit me was the smell. I checked that Twinkie was reclining in the hallway watching me, because I thought she may have crawled into the toybox and died, the smell was that bad.

I think that this may have once been a sandwich. I think it was from the end of year school picnic. In mid December. I can only reason that out due to the other crap that was also in the bag.
I’m afraid to delve deeper, but I must. In rubber gloves, I think 😉