First of all: good news! Innocent have hauled a staggering 400.000+ hats to adorn their bottles of juice for The Big Knit Charity event. Each bottle sold will earn 50p for charity. That means over£200.000 pounds! Well done knitters!!!
Last week I went out to the local Sainsbury’s to pick up two small bottles of [...]
photo from Riley Photography
Today I had bad news at work. My dear colleague Charlotte and her husband Mohammed lost their baby this morning. Mira was just over a week old. I don’t know how it happend but somehow it doesn’t really matter just at the moment. This is very sad news and there are no [...]
I’m very much into my DS and I can’t wait for Nintendo to release their face training here in Europe. Face Training on a DS? Isn’t that a kiddies handheld computer console you ask. Well, yes and no. Nintendo are releasing more and more ‘games’ that are targeted to the aldult market. Things like Brain [...]
You may have seen my blog post on Le Slouch, a slouchy beret designed by Wendy Bernard. That one is free and quite simple as it’s a moss stitch. The one I’m making at the moment is a £2 ($4) pattern from Ysolda. It’s called Gretel and it has absolutly fantastic cabeling in it. I’m [...]
Babies are being born left right and center. So I’ve been knitting baby hats again.
Jelly Beanie no. 4
This first one is for my boyfriends friend who has just become a daddy of a nice little girl. I don’t know her name, but that didn’t stop me from picking up the needles and knitting a Jelly [...]
Mmmmmmmm…
Hooray! Even though I’m on a diet I can have as much Ben & Jerry’s as I could ever wish for. Because.. they now got lip balms!!! Isn’t that fantastic. They are four Pounds ($8), so that’s not bad either. Bet they last a little bit longer than the ice cream version.
What would make my Christmas? Or anyone’s Christmas I hope? That one thing we hardly ever get: Snow! A white Christmas is fantastic!! I love snow and everything about it. The way it looks.. the sound when you walk over it, the feel of it, etc, etc. And also the smell. Although come to think [...]
Cute Russian make-up dolls from Pupa
I bumped into these super cute make-up kits on the Kiss and Make up Blog. Aren’t they georgeous. They are made by Pupa, a brand known for it’s cute make-up. I would buy them if I wasn’t already feeling bad for the amount of make-up I’ve got. If you want [...]
I finished these innocent hats at the beginning of October and then send them off to Innocent. Tomorrow I’ll have a peek in Sainsbury’s to check out if there are any for sale . Anyway I just wanted to show off my last two hats here:
Hat five and six
And ofcourse a picture of all [...]
Friday Saffy and I where talking about rhymes. Sinterklaas (Dutch Santa Claus) has arrived in The Netherlands and so the whole bloody country is rhyming like mad. Talking absolute nonsense we found ourselves inventing one line poetry we are now calling LINES. So if I come up with one or two I shall post them [...]