Enough With the Beaded Knitting Already!

I think I might now be a bit sick of working through Betsy Beads, fun as it has been.  I'm not too pleased with my latest effort - my fault, not the instructions or anything - and I want to move on to something else.  But I heartily recommend the book as it is chock full of fun things to try and good instructions.

This time I made a gathered beaded bracelet.  I think I twisted it accidentally at the end and I'm not wild about the way it looks, and unpicking the relevant bits don't really interest me.  It may be usable in another craft piece at some point in the future - nothing need be wasted.

This is lace weight cotton and size 8 beads.

I do actually have a major piece of beaded knitting still lined up, but not like this.  I want to do a shawl which will have some beads added to it using the crochet hook method.  But I don't want to start that for a couple of weeks as it's a biggish project and I don't want the distraction of Christmas and a possible holiday afterwards to get in the way.

And now for something completely different.

Just to prove that even big kids like construction toys:

'I was tidying up upstairs and I got distracted.'

And we have pigeons nesting in the passionfruit vine directly the side of our patio.  It is rather cute watching the little baby pigeons get bigger.  I took this photo a week ago and they are bigger already.  The mum is very devoted.

Owing to complicated family issues, Christmas is still slightly up in the air, though I am still intending that we will spend it with George's sisters-in-law and the children that are currently in Australia.  It will the first Christmas without their mum and that will not be too easy.

George and I are hoping to go to Adelaide for a week after Christmas, but again family circumstances make it a bit hard to gauge whether we can actually go or not.  Nothing is booked yet (except for a dinner date in Glenelg on December 28th!).

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Here's the little koala from Phillip Island again.  Show off!!

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And now for something completely different.  This little cutie lives at the Koala Sanctuary on Phillip Island and we saw her in January.  She was VERY curious and calm, and I didn't use a zoom on the camera - she really was this close to me.  In fact she was a thorough poser1  Probably has her own agent by now :)

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Bobby Went to The Show

He went about a month ago, but the photo has only just been downloaded.

Bobby the Ram, Momo the Lemur (why isn't he is this picture?), George and Wombat went to the Royal Melbourne Show. Bobby was introduced to alpacas. He was not too sure about them at all. But ultimately they were friendly, and not just huge goats after all. But he has been a bit quiet about them since, so I;m not sure if it was a case of alpaca love or self-preservation!

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