MA, Stash II

- latest stash from Stitching Bibs & Bob, I meant to buy Belle Soie silk for
my Love with a Capital L project, as usual I could not resist to add in
LHN's Book Shelf and some other Valdani overdyed flosses

- sock yarn Dec 2008 from Sock Club 2008/2009 from Wollmeise.

Christmas MA to Joanne Ng

- this XMas MA is a surprise to me indeed. Wee Kie received hers

from Diane. When I saw an envelope from Lillie, I thought this is

MA inside to her. So I did not open and let her opened the envelope.

She called from my sister house and asked "Mummy, Diane is

daughter of Auntie Lillie? There is a MA from Auntie Lillie to you"

in short while , I went to my sister house to admire this lovely MA.

- my eldest daughter, Wee Ven is inspired by MA received / made

by Wee Kie, yet she dares not to take up the challenge to an

exchange. So she stitched this for my sister in a day, and did the sewing

finishing herself.

stash

I just received this batch of bento gear from nst.my; accidentally bought extra 2 tier Pooh lunch box (so I am giving my #3 friend); Marie (claimed by youngest), Mickey for 2nd, Pooh (ummm,) may be just for spare, as #1 do not want carton character except Snoopy. Silicon cups, heart shape food cup; snoopy cutters and HK snack box for #3.

Latest yarn stash from Rakuten Japan, which is worth buying. 13 balls of baby soft merino wool (brand: Pino; 40g / 125m)

though blur, finally get this yesterday bento uploaded....today just packed simple meal - steamed sweet potato, red cabbage, sprout ; kiwi & green apple.

BTW: also received number of knitting magazines last week. Expecting another batch of recipie books from Taiwan.

Updates Oct 2008

NOT MUCH SPECIAL BENTO BEING PACKED....my eldest is picky indeed and sometimes I just leave it to her to pack her own food. My second is too worry that I would packed more for her, so she normally will pack bread into her lunch box the night before, she is very organized indeed and she will get ready her uniform / snack/lunchbox and water all ready nicely the night before. Whom I always wished my eldest is learning from this not to be procastinating and always "kelam kabut" in the morning....my youngest? depends on her mood, she leave her lunch box at my sis place and I pack simple snack for her as she is in afternoon section.

grab bag of 10 Noro Kureyon from LittleKnits

Bento 15 Oct 2008 for #3:

moulded egg cut into halves, steamed potato, carrot and grapes

Lunch 15 Oct 2008 (last week had lunch appointment, therefore did not

pack for most working days)

steamed potato, carrots, eggs, grapes & red cabbage & sprouts

20 Oct 2008 - for #1

home-baked raisin buttercake, scone and kiwi

salad & rice (with sweet potato and dried dates)

wrapped with nori, silicon cup just purchase from

nst.my

#3 requested on Sunday that she wanted raisin

buttercake and scone in her new HK lunchbox, which I just received from nst.my

lunch for me was: 2 rice balls, red cabbage, sprout, half kiwi and green apple. No photo as it is quite blur.

WIPs & FO

yarn: Knit Picks Gloss (used 21gms for 1 side)
pattern: Breeze (from Knitty)
needles : 2 circulars 2.5mm, KP Harmony


3 books purchased from Amazon, Japan; included Setsuko Torri Hand Knits Work which is hot topic for knitters interested with Habu, Knitters' Almanac by Elizabeth Zimmerman, and one Ondori knit book too


trial and error of my spinning
spindle: from Sublime, UK


pattern: bag , from a Japanese book
thread: normal wrapping thread for parcel, purchased from stationery shop
hook: 8/0


pattern: from the same Japanese craft book, borrowed from friend
yarn: from stash



purchase 12 balls of socks yarns from Yarn.com

new stash

Thank you for comments and suggestion...yeah, mirror image as Janey proposed. Faizon, thank you for viewing. I think by starting them young then mummy would have more excuses to buy more stash :-)

I just bought this:
Vintage knit
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/asin/4529044572

quite an advance knitting projects, what caught my attention were the 3 pretty shawls, the sweaters are nice too, but by trying them means I have to spend $ on my yarn budget?