"The simple things are always a good idea!"

Buongiorno a tutti Good morning everyone! As it is the time of year where it's time to really get a good stock made for Christmas gifts at the markets.....I've been going like a wild animal. 🐃😂 

One of the most wanted items are the crocheted topped tea towels. I already received lots of orders for them at the last market, so I've made those and just kept going.

I had to make a trip to Spotlight, something I don't do often because we have a local craft shop, but when I saw this lovely fabric...I had to buy it.

A closer look.........

Our local craft shop didn't have the cottons I needed so while I was at Spotlight, I also purchased some other beautiful yarns.

This cute little face here..... the loveable Milo. How is it that after 6 years, he must still dig holes like this?😳

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I did not know that pelargonium came in this shade!!! A friend gave me a cutting and it's growing very well. It must be happy where it is situated. 🌸

So I have decided to have a go at making heat bags as a gift. I have made them for my own home but I decided I might make some in pretty fabrics and in cotton.  I have seven sets cut out ready to make. I'll show them all next post.

When Heather the feather saw me with this fabric, she looked at the words written on it and laughed. Trust me to find those words. It is not easy to be good.   😂😂😂😇

I have made these heat bags to this pattern. Click here for free pattern if you are interested.

While we were in the city we decided to stop in at Mundaring weir and take in the view. Mundaring weir is a dam and reservoir that is used to transport water from Perth to as far out as Kalgoorlie. The Irish Australian engineer C Y O'Connor was involved in designing a scheme that made it possible to transport water to the Goldfield area. The weir was completed in 1903.

Of course, no week is complete without a catch up with the naughty pack of girls from the gym. The friends who encourage each other, phrase each other and are simply fun to be around.

Well my friends it is time to get moving and do some sort of housework. I really need to arrange myself during the week so I can have a weekend where I can just relax instead of catching up with housework.

A beautiful week to you all.

Ciao, Anita.

 

 

 May the force be with you! 

This time of year brings many emotions for me and preparing to say farewell to some members of our gym crew is now on my mind. Every year the new training nurses and hospital staff always end up joining the gym and, inevitably, they meet us. 😂 It turns into an amazing year of friendship, laughs, ganging up on the gym instructor and dedicated health to our mind and bodies. The photo just below is part of our 6am Fit45 crew with our instructor Kosta (the Adonis with the moustache). 

 

And then we are here with Thomas (looking a lot like Pablo Escobar with his moustache). It is "Movember" here. The boys grow a moustache and then shave it off for charity.

To Devonney and Tess......we wish you peace, love and happiness in your future journey. This is a small world and I wouldn't be surprised if we cross paths somewhere, sometime. Devonney and Tess are the young girls alongside me in the photo below. 💗

Between all this roller coaster of emotion, my true and dear hobby of knitting and crochet has helped me through this time. Lots of baby gear being made and ready for the markets.

I had made a start on the camel coloured jacket and now it is complete....oh...of course, I haven't stitched the buttons on yet. You guys know the drill about that...I am hopeless at getting the buttons on. I won't change you know....I'm too old for that now.  lol 😇💥

 

My crochet patterns aren't very detailed but the more I practice the better I'll get. I have had this book for many years but now that I'm crocheting more, it has now become interesting. Do you ever do that? You buy these books or magazines for a particular project and don't really look hard at other things in the book. Suddenly, when you're onto a different craft path, something else in the book jumps out at you

 I thought I'd better show some photos of Milo, he is still a little brat, but a loved brat. lol He helps me take photos and walk around the garden.

He's so cute

More of the balustrade's being placed around the back yard. I'm in heaven. It is a slow process of cleaning, painting and then leveling the ground to place them down. But the effect....💕💖

  So I've shared some goodbyes, now let me share with you the hellos!! Last year I had found 1 cat and three kittens at my neighbours house. I managed to catch them, hand them over to our Cat haven and they found them all beautiful homes. A couple of weeks later, I found this one. I'd planned on catching her and handing her to the cat haven. I'm not particularly a cat person, more a dog girl. So my son's girlfriend really, really, really wanted Poppy and to cut the story short.....she's with us now. I've lost my shade house to this precious little moo cow. It is now a cat enclosure.

Poppy has been spayed, hence the cone around her head.

 Meet Poppy

A special meet up with my third son Corey. We had a much loved visit yesterday with Corey and though the visits are not so many due to distance and life commitments, the visits are always much loved and appreciated. Corey became a friend to my own son Cory when they were in about Year 2 at school. We even had Corey come to Italy with us years ago. He has just purchased a block of land and will be having a house built very soon. He is always in our heart. Love him all the time.😚 

The day is getting on and today I'm catching up with some of my friends at Dome. I promised I would bring my manners with me, but I didn't disclose whether it would be good manners or bad. 😂😂😂😂😂😈😇

I beam you all love, hugs and good wishes. May they reach you wherever in the world you are.

Ciao, Anita.

 

 There are so many beautiful reasons to be happy. 😊

Good morning all you beautiful people, how are you all this morning? So I've been missing for a while and I've had some of the busiest weeks known to mankind, as we all have from time to time. There have been several events that have come up that have taken me away from my crochet hook and knitting needles, but they've been fun things.

 

I entered a Mud Festival with my beautiful niece and her crazy friends. It was 3 kms of running, climbing, sliding and jumping into mud pits and muddy tunnels. The course is usually 5km but due to covid they shortened the course. I'm actually surprised they had it at all but I'm glad it was still on. In Western Australia our covid cases are so contained and we have had the good fortune to move around more freely. My niece is the gorgeous girl with the white cap on her head. The others are a bunch of crazy people 😂

Photo taken before and after the fun. 

and then ......the normal family photo. 😜

It was such a fun day and any time I can spend with Lisa, the better for our hearts.

So I have acted normal from time to time and I did get back to the real world. I was very happy with the outcome of this little sweater that I was commissioned to make. It is knitted in a 4ply yarn, with cable running up each section on all pieces. The roll down collar was amazing and it looked so good when I completed it. The lady was very happy with it too. 👍

My little partner in crime.....Heather the feather gave me a couple of bags of yarn because I needed some pink for the next 2 orders for baby cardigans. She is very kind, and as Heather is cleaning out in preparation for her move, it is one less thing she will have to pack. It will be another chapter in our lives when Heather moves away but gladly the distance won't be impossible for us to still catch up. 💓

Several weeks ago I was fortunate enough to score these cement balustrades and the tops that go on them. All we had to do was dust and paint them. As each one was painted I lined them up in the garden to see how close I would have to place each one and how they look in the garden.
 

I'm so pleased with how my garden is slowly looking "Italian" and that makes me feel like I'm home.

A couple of weeks ago Heather the feather and I decided to do a little road trip to a town nearby, (and terrorize the place)....oops....I mean visit the place. 😂😂😂😂. Of course one of the things we do best is pop in to the op shops. Just sitting there quietly was this cute little thing. I grabbed it. I elbowed, bit, scratched my way passed Heather and got there first. It is an amazing and very eye catching banner. Don't worry Heather is fine now.....her black eye and broken leg are healing well. lol Just kidding.

And the latest job I'm working on is this crocheted baby cardigan that will be on sale at the Christmas markets in December. I have a heap of orders to get through before then and many of them are little baby cardigans.

This is crocheted in 8 ply and a very simple pattern. This is one of the colours that are in style at the moment. It seems quite dark for a baby but that's what people want. 

Well lovely people, I am going to have a scratch around in my shed to do a bit of a clean up. It really needs it. Our weekend has been very wet and cold, which is unusual for this time of year, so getting into the shed has been a bit tricky. The rain directs itself straight through the shed door and anything near the doorway gets wet. It is too dark in there to shut the door so I go in there only when the rain stops. lol

Stay happy and well, and enjoy the day.

Ciao, Anita.