New Bujo Supplies

Take a look at my new super cute, teeny tiny stickers!

I bought these on ebay from China.

I should have placed a coin next to the stickers for a size comparison. 

They are very small but oh so cute!

Very cute!

Perfume bottles

Succulents

These panda stickers are so cute and tiny.
Some are no bigger than my thumb nail.

My New Fountain Pen

I bought a Jinhao 500 Gold Pattern Fountain Pen from an Australian seller on ebay.

It's a little heavier than I thought it would be but it looks beautiful and is so nice to write with.

Time to go test out my new pen some more ..

More Bujo Supplies

I received more parcels in my letter box this week.

Some very pretty washi tape that I bought on ebay. They will look great in a spring themes spread!

I also received the fountain pen that I ordered from wish. 

It's a Chinese version of the Lamy Al-star. It writes beautifully too. I almost don't want to go back to using an ordinary old biro. 

I filled it with an in from Parker and used most of it up writing in my journal. It is so nice to write with. I believe that I may end up being addicted to fountain pens. I've now ordered a Jinhao 500 from an Australian seller so it should arrive early next week.

WIP - Watercolour - Hibiscus Flower

I thought I would have a go at doing some water colour painting. I hadn't really drawn or painted in years. I was inspired by makoccino on youtube. Her work looks wonderful so I thought I would give it a try. 

It would have been nice if the colours and the names matched up .. oh well. 

I bought a set of watercolour paints on Ebay. They looked okay and had a wide range of colours although I am not sure that the quality is all that good but I guess it's okay for starting out. They arrived in the post on Wednesday. 

Not bad for my first go! I am planning on using this as my January cover page. Mainly because it's a hibiscus and they remind me of summer.

I'll be adding some more colour to it. Possibly with coloured pencils just to finish it off and add some more details. I'll post another picture when I'm done. Hopefully the colours might pop and make it look even better.

Book: 200 Stitch Patterns for Baby Blankets by Jan Eaton

I love it when the postie brings you parcels!
I bought this book on ebay, 200 Stitch Patterns for Baby Blankets by Jan Eaton (although I got mine for half the price of a new book because it was used).

I have only briefly looked though it but there are lots of great knitting and crochet stitches for blankets. I don't know which one to choose first!

Fitbit Wrist Bands

I bought myself some new straps/bands for my Fitbit Alta from a seller on ebay.

I bought three in total. I am currently wearing the blue one.

They are so easy to change over. In fact I like the idea of having bands I can swap over I have now purchased two more to add to my collection.

sorry not the best photo

Circular Knitting Needles

I love it when parcels arrive! Especially when you have found bargains on ebay.

I bought these circular needles from China a couple of weeks ago and they arrived this morning.

There are 18 in the set but there is only one problem not all of them have the size written on the needles. It's a good thing I have a gauge I can use to measure them.

Now all I need to do is work out what projects to knit and I can begin using them!

My New (But Old) Crochet Pattern Book Arrived Today

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Knitting Book - One-Skein Wonders for Babies

I saw a review for this book on Facebook by Retro Mummy 2 weeks ago.

I liked the look of it and considering it's for babies I thought why not get a copy myself. 

I ordered it from Angus and Robertson on ebay. It arrived last week while Brodz and I were in the city. I've finally gotten around to looking at it properly.

No that I have completed The Midwife blanket that I began crocheting last week I plan of making some of the cute little patterns in this book.

How cute does this little set look?

I quite like these blankets as well.

I'm not sure what I will start with but I plan on using my Bendigo Woollen Mill 4 ply cotton that I have had in my stash for ages.

More Yarn For My Stash

I ordered all of this on Tuesday morning and it arrived Thursday morning. How FAST is that!?!

You gotta love that when something you bought online arrives so quickly.

The lighter green yarn at the front is for my temperature blanket. As is the orange yarn below that I ordered from a seller on ebay. The rest is being added to my stash.

My New Car

Mark found a nice 1998 Ford Falcon EL wagon on LPG up for auction on ebay Sunday afternoon. After going through my finances I told him that we could place a bid on the car. We had one other person who made a bid against us yesterday. So we increased our original bid.

Last night I was sitting there watching the clock count down. I was hoping and praying that no one would do one of those sniper bids. I really liked the look of the car and it's very similar to Emmy. She's a younger model and has extras that Emmy doesn't have like driver side airbag and power windows. Not that they matter. The best thing is this car is in a better condition than what I am driving now and we WON. All we need to do is go to organise pick-up & for me to go to the bank.

The Postie Has Been

I love it when I receive parcels in the post. My two new beautiful scarves arrived today.

I bought them off ebay. I love finding bargains on ebay!

I keep looking at scarves on ebay. I have three of these pretty ones now and a larger shawl. I'm not sure where or when I will get to wear them all but they sure do look nice.

Pretty In Pink

I bought myself a pretty pink triangular scarf on ebay a few weeks ago. It was a bargain, costing a little over $3 and postage was free. Since the postage was free I assume that my parcel was travelling via boat because it took almost three weeks to get here. Not that I am complaining. My scarf is so pretty. I'm thinking it would jazz up any outfit for Church. I'm just hoping that next time we go that the weather will be nice enough for me to wear it without getting too hot.

I've Been Shopping Online

I just bought myself a new crochet pattern book from ebay. The reason I chose this book because one of the crochet pages that I follow on Facebook shared a wonderful photo of a crocheted fair isle item that someone had made and won a blue ribbon. They mentioned that the pattern came from this book. It's coming from the U.S. so I may be waiting for a while to get it, estimated delivery isn't until at least Dec 24th but that's okay. I'm not in a rush. 

Fair Isle for Crochet from Leisure Arts

Ergonomic Crochet Hook

My new hook arrived the other day. It's a Clover Soft Touch. I had a look on the back of the packaging and had to giggle. It's made in Japan, distributed in the USA and I bought it from an ebay seller the UK. Now it's here with me in Australia. It certainly is a globe trotter!

I've had a little bit of a play with it. It feels pretty good in my hand. I only have one problem with it so far and that is I wish the handle was just a teeny bit longer. I think I need to use it some more to see if it truly does help with my wrist and how it can ache sometimes after too much crocheting. I'm off to 'road test' it some more (~_o)

Bulk Baby Yarn

I've been shopping on ebay again. No surprise there. I had to bid on this auction. Normally I just got for the buy it now items but this lot had 31 balls of baby yarn. A mixture of 3 and 4 ply yarn. Since I have been on a baby clothes crochet kick I just had to make a bid. I didn't think I would actually win but I am so glad I did. By the time I factored in the postage it cost me less than $1.20 per ball. I know that the larger balls are around $4 - $5 each in the shops so I definitely got a bargain.

I'm off to make up some more baby items which I'll set aside for another one of the Knit4Charities charity of the months focus groups. They're not being collected until November so I have plenty of time to make some items for them and plenty of yarn to use up too.

Seriously, You're Talking About Christmas Already

I know its a bit early to talk about Christmas but I was browsing through some pattern books the other week when I came across this pattern book full of Christmas patterns for cross stitch. I ended up searching for it on ebay where I found it at a lower price. I thought that since the patterns were in a graph format that I might be able to use it for crocheting a blanket or cushion covers or something along those lines.

It's never too early to start planning for Christmas. I've already started my shopping (Yeah I know don't hate me). I don't want to leave it all until the last minute. After all its only a little over 5 months away.

Finished Item - Premmie Baby Cardigan

Lee-Anne wanted me to make her something in a lime green for Ellie-Rose so I whipped this up on Thursday night & did the finishing touches yesterday afternoon. The pattern was one I sort of altered by combining two patterns by Heather from Just Crochet. I was actually trying to do one of her patterns (JC75P) and I had problems with it so I used the shell pattern from another pattern (JC01A) of hers to finish it off. I think it looks pretty good.  It's meant to fit a 9" chest but I used a slightly bigger hook than the original pattern stated. I am so hoping it will fit. It looks so tiny but it should fit a bubz up to 3lb. I'd better post it off soon so that Ellie-Rose can wear it before she gets too big.

Look what my postie delivered yesterday. How nice do these buttons look? I got them for a bargain off ebay.

Here's a close up ...

I am sure that I will be able to put these buttons to good use.

Look What I Bought

I've been shopping on ebay again. This time I bought some colourful crochet hooks. 14 of them! How could I pass up a bargain like this? 14 hooks for $7.55 including postage (that's less than $8 US). It would certainly cost a lot more than that had I gone into a shop to buy them.

The sizes range from 2.5 mm to 10 mm. I like the idea of them being different colours.
Sorry the photo is a little out of focus but I think my camera did a pretty good job with the close up :)

if you click on the photo you will be able to see the conversion chart more clearly

Of course I had to give them a test drive last night. I started doing the Spotlight Block of the Week Throw. 

I thought it might look nice in the variegated yarn that I had in my stash.

 

If you're interested in joining the crochet-a-long you can download the patterns from Facebook. The pattern is in UK/International terminology and there are 5 squares available at the moment.

He's Holding A Torch For Me ...

This torch is nice and heavy weighing in at 3.1 kg (6.8 pounds) and is 48 cm (18.89 inches) long

Mark has a thing for torches. He likes them about as much as I like knitting & crocheting. Mark also likes maglites. Mark had been looking at these torches on ebay the other week and was saying how he was going to buy himself one next pay day. So when I got that extra money from Centrelink this week I decided that I would buy the torch instead.

Of course the torch isn't complete yet. We've ordered some accessories to go with it but they are coming from the US so they may take a while to get here. I have no idea what they are but Mark wanted them. As I said he likes torches as much as I like knitting & crocheting but it's really not something that I am that interested in. Now if it had been some fancy new skein of yarn or needles & hooks I would've paid more attention (sorry Hon )

I wonder how many torches we have in the house now ... not that I have ever counted them all but I bet there's quite a few. (edited update: Mark rattled off how many torches we have and there are at least a dozen. I lost count lol)