Month: October 2006
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It’s been a week…
Well, look at how a week can just go when you don’t charge the camera battery. Yay, my exams are finished and I haven’t quite worked out what to do with myself yet. Looks like work though. Bought some cool fabric for $2 this weekend which I’ll photograph later today. I’m not sure if I…
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Knitting and Stitching Show – London
Just got an email from Loop that the Knitting and Stitching Show is on in London this weekend at Alexandra Palace. Just when we are getting a wee bit homesick for London! We did think though if we could have London in Auckland that would be good. But then it wouldn’t really be London now…
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Moo cards
Got my free Moo cards yesterday – hooray! They are really cute and cool. And, the good thing is they are cheaper than getting them done here. They’re about half the size of regular business cards (good, saving paper) and it’s US$20 for 100 for double sided colour printing, and laminated. Compared with I think…
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Baby Knits for Beginners
Here’s a book I got out of the library by Debbie Bliss called Baby Knits for Beginners. Project one is a simple garter stitch scarf and project two looks like I can tackle it – a patchwork baby quilt. I’m using some cotton DK I bought at Loop in London although I realised I only…
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In between the Nervous and Endocrine systems
Oh god I am really getting over study. It’s been a month now of it full time. I promised Kevin I wouldn’t get distracted today, which I haven’t really. It simply takes a whole day to do one system. And unfortunately I don’t have enough days left to get them all done so I am…
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Presents for Londres
We sent Polly and Steve some presents last Monday and they got them yesterday – so quick. Lucky I was up knitting until twenty to eleven because Polly phoned to say what a lovely civilised morning they had just had, sitting in bed, drinking tea, unwrapping presents! Steve was very pleased with the hula girl…
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Avondale market loot
We got off to a most excellent start today when we found a free parking space just outside the market. I was a bit worried as I only had $25 in cash – what if we saw something really good that was expensive!! The first thing we saw was $45 – an old magnolia painting…