Em’s end of year Dance Concert was last night, and I’m pleased to say that it all went well, everything was beautiful and there were no major dramas. 🙂
And now I have some semblance of a life until Late January or early February, Yay!
In all the excitement I have even managed a little knitting. Here is this morning’s progress on the Neckdown Pullover.

The colour is pretty accurate on my monitor. I have since finished the body and cast off, and started a sleeve.
For the Six Sox Knitalong, I ordered some new yarn. So much for my Yarn Diet! I think I lasted a week, LOL! But it’s for a knitalong, so I needed it. And sock yarn isn’t really stash, is it?
So I went over to The Knitting Zone and ordered Lorna’s Laces in Pale Pink and some 8/0 beads in Blush. Not an exact match, but I hope that it’ll be fine anyway. I was good and didn’t order anything else. Good thing that, seeing as the car is being serviced today and the quote so far is pushing $500. Ouch!

Another heatwave today – it reached 42C locally, I am told. No knitting was done, I just laid around being hot all day, until the most welcome cool southerly wind came in at around 4.30pm.
Even Twinky was hot.

Usually she isn’t particularly fond of water. She is laying there between a frozen bottle of water and her food bowl, and has let me stroke her with my fingers dipped in cold water. In fact, she didn’t like it when I stopped, so I just kept going until she got up and shook herself off like a dog. 🙂
The next pattern has been announced for the six sox knitalong, but I can’t get to the pattern yet. However they are called the “Pink Bead Socks”.
Despite my abundant yarn stash, I have no pink sock yarn. Well, thats a partial lie. I have some Lorna’s Laces in Old Rose, but that is earmarked for the Breast Cancer Awareness Socks. So I have to get some pink sock yarn. And presumably, some pink beads.
Any suggestions?

I wasn’t going to post today. I didn’t do much all day. We were expecting temperatures of 42C (108F) and while it didn’t end up quite that hot, I’d say we reached the high 30’s. It’s still 30C and it’s 10pm.
However I just had to let you all know that someone found my search via an AOL search for “b**bs two sizes to small”
Bet they didn’t find what they were looking for 🙂

My Highland Wool arrived today, and I have to say that I’m a little disappointed in the colours. They certainly don’t contrast as well in real life as they did in the pictures on the website.

I’m sure the cardi will come out fine, but I did hope for more of a contrast in the shades.
Here are the shades as they appear on Elann.

Like I said, I’m sure they’ll be fine.
I also got this in the mail today 🙂

Another cute tape measure from eBay!

At least I should always be able to get my hands on one now 🙂

I don’t know if anyone remembers, but way back in August, Emily had her dancing exams. She learns ballet, tap and jazz and does an exam for each once a year.
Today was the annual presentation day, and I am very proud to say that Em came first in her grade for all three exams!

She is also very proud of herself. This is the first time she has come first in all of them in the same year. 🙂
That was a nice distraction on a stinking hot day. At least the studio where the presentation was held is airconditioned 🙂
I got bored with the Neckdown Pullover, and started a Bucket Hat. Clever, no? Bored with knitting around in circles, so I started a project that involves knitting around in circles. At least a bucket hat doesn’t sit in my lap. I made it from some Red Heart Cotton Twist that Jill sent me (51% cotton, 49% acrylic). Compared to what we call cheap crap here (Panda Magnum to say the least) this is not bad. Ideal for a bucket hat for a toddler, in any case. DH’s cousin and his wife had their first baby a year ago, and we will probably see them when we go on holiday, so I whipped up a pale pink bucket hat. Her mother isn’t a knitter, and in the toddler/nonknitter mother combination, machine washable acrylic suits me (and them!) fine.
We have a squatter in our garage. The little bugger scared the living shit out of me this morning.


A blue tongued lizard. I opened the garage door this morning, and he had settled himself against it to absorb the heat. So as I rolled up the door, he fell out at my feet. I shrieked out “Shit!” and he ran back in as fast as his little legs would take him. He was back this afternoon as evidenced by the pictures here.
My husband assures me that we want him in there, apparently he eats cockroaches and mice. As long as he knows which part of the house is his, and which part is mine.