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This one might be a bit of a long one today so feel free to make yourself a cup of tea and get yourself comfy.

First off i just want to say a Big Happy Birthday to my little brother. He turns 24 today!
I made him a card last night but i am not all that happy with it. I don't normally make cards but thought i would give it a go. I might just end up going out and buying him one - we will see.
Yesterday we had some good news. My darling is now a fully fledged truck driver! Yup - he passed his driving test with flying colours and can soon be seen in huge lorry's traveling across the country. Way to go babe - so very proud of you!
My fingers are just itching to do some scrapping, but with my printer being broken i just haven't been able to do any. I have thought about taking my memory card to Asda to get them developed but I am not sure how i would go about editing them so for now i am just holding on. We have the part that i need making its way to us in the post so fingers crossed it will be here soon.

I did do some art work in my art journal the other night.

I am really pleased with how it turned out. I have been collecting stamps from our mail at work and have started to use them in my journal. Just a little extra detail that makes the pages even more interesting and unique.

Once i finished those cute little booties last weekend i started on my next project. By last night this is the progress that i had made.Do you see that blue line? Well, i somehow made a huge mistake and i didn't see it until last night. I am not sure how clear the photo is but it was really ugly. Also, for some or other reason my tension was really off with this. Some stitches were really tight and others really loose. So, i did what had to be done and Frogged it.......a meer two minutes later.......
And can i just add that i really don't like knitting on straight needles. Can anyone tell me if you can knit a pattern that should be on straight needles on circular needles without too much trouble? I don't want to miss out on all these lovely patterns just because of the needles.

Right, i think that is enough for today. Hope that you have a great Wednesday!
~Lynne

So special

This is how i felt this morning when the postman arrived with a package for me. I was so surprised as i was not expecting thing - the joys of secret pal 11.
Look at all that i got. Such a lot of thought went into it. Thank you my SP - I love it all. As it is my birthday next week, my SP even added in a little something for that. The parcel contained some scrapbooking vellum stickers, a bookmark kit, a circular knitting needle,
some beautiful sock yarn...
and these gorgeous stitch markers which came in a cute little box. She even took the time to print off some tips and instructions on knitting socks as i have yet to actually do this.

All i know of this lovely lady so far is that she is from the USA - CA i believe. So once again thank you my lovely SP.

Here at last

So he is here, here at last. He had a good flight over and got through customs with no problems. The only hiccup was that while he was flying over here - his suitcase was sitting in the airport at Johannesburg. Apparently, his bag didn't even make it on a flight. Not too big a deal though as it was located right away and made its way to the UK on yesterdays flight. Everyone has been very helpful and have kept us informed the entire journey of the bag. It is currently with the courier and should be delivered this morning.


We spent the weekend catching up. Talking, chatting, laughing and of course the boys played the XBox.

Its nice to have you over here, Paul.

Saturday was a great post day. Look what i received from Toya. Thank you so much for these fabulous patterns - i love them. I have already got some fabric in mind.

While sitting and catching up with my little brother, i sat knitting these little cuties.
Pattern: Saartjies Booties which can be found here
Needles: US 2
Yarn: Sock yarn. I used about 10grams
Notes: These only took a few hours to knit up and i am so pleased with them. They are cute and simple and a definite do again project.

I started this post earlier this morning but life has just taken over and now, about six and a half hours later, here i am coming back to my post. What happened you ask? A few hours ago i found out that i have registered and started studying the entirely wrong course. Oh No! I started to panic BIG TIME. I called my school and spoke to them and after several more phone calls to different places and different people it looks like i will be able to swap to the correct course. I have missed the deadline to write Decembers exams but that is OK. I will just write four in June 2008. So all in all i think the damage is minimal! Phew!

~Lynne