Don't look Pezstar!!

Wow what a weekend - I'm stuffed and can only find the energy to blog and avoid work emails!! I finished heaps of crafting projects that have been sitting around, in and amongst mowing lawns, cutting hedges and painting fences. I also ate a couple of chocolate santas - just a few - they kept popping up everywhere, sometimes even naked! Naughty, pesky chocolate santas - chomp, chomp, chomp. Chomp.

First off the list were my second set of knitted cushions in Debbie Bliss cotton. They were dismally nothing like I envisaged so I stuck some paua shell buttons on them and left them in the spare room. It's the lining issue - I definitely needed to create an inner as the knitted fabric stretches too much.

Completed my Q4 Ravelry bag swap and will send it soon but didn't want to wait for the photos - so don't look PezStar. Used 2 balls of Asford Tekapo and with double strands knitted a rectangle of Bramble stitch. Sewed it up with some recycled handles and lined it with some cotton.

Finished off a scarf for a London friend - acrylic but textured yarn which I backed with some polar fleece - should warm the cockles for her!!

Baked a banana birthday cake for Jennine - you can't go wrong with the Edmond's recipe folks.

And I used the first of the vege garden greens to cook a chicken risotto with peas, rocket and spinach. oh look at my babies cooking!!

And now I can say a big thanks to Cleo, Alise, Therese, Millie & Gabrielle for my xmas decorations - they are awesome and on the tree (and mantelpiece)!

now ... onto those work emails!