Entries from January 2008

January 30, 2008

Tis not often you find an excellent condition copy of Where The Wild Things are at the thrift store for 40 cents. Plus a copy of The Velveteen Rabbit for 30 cents.

I need to have enough toys and books fairly soon for my future childcare charges to play with and since I’m a HUGE believer [...]

January 28, 2008

Nervous energy

I got the financials sorted today for the move (we’re ahead of where I had hoped we’d be at thanks to a generous relative giving me $500 when most of my family wouldn’t loan me water if I was on fire) and we sign the last papers tomorrow morning and then I can pay the [...]

January 27, 2008

No freakin’ way!!

We got offered the house!!! Someone offered her $420 (she wanted $380) a week which worried me and is just playing dirty frankly but she didn’t like them very much so if we can go up to $400 pw then it’s ours, unless our property manager from here gives us a bad review. Our friend [...]

January 26, 2008

We came. We saw. We liked.

We viewed yet another rental property this morning. Like 45 minutes ago actually. I practically ran home (except fat people should never ever run) to blog and let off some excitement. We’ve seen houses that were more immediately perfect to live in, we’d need to put a gate on the back yard of this one [...]

January 24, 2008

As if I need another one

I have over a dozen pincushions for selling, plus 3 I (in theory) use myself. So when I thought of what to make for my next project what better than another pincushion I’ll probably never use? Two projects from the same book….ohhhhh must be a good book!

January 23, 2008

Violated

We’ve had suuuch slow internet for a while, to the point where nothing can be downloaded at certan times of day and commenting on blogs is deathly slow, and we found out tonight that we have had a piggybacker leaching off our wireless connection BIG TIME. We normally average 5-8gig a month, we are up [...]

January 20, 2008

The siren song of the thrift store can be fatal to those who heed it’s call

Destash tally for the week:
In’s: 42 – due to a pile of free books I hope to sell on and a pile of Beatrix Potter books I couldn’t say no too. I did buy two craft books in nearly new condition for $1 each!! Those are welcome! One is about sewing toys and one is [...]

January 18, 2008

Distractions

What are the odds, I get a great new craft book that I am totally digging, have plans to make a heap more birds then someone goes and gives me a free 29″ TV WITH a stand and DVD player. Ugh, don’t you hate it when that happens?? Well, when it takes up your whole [...]

January 15, 2008

It only takes one to start a flock

My first try (the book came yesterday!) and although it has one boob a lot larger than the other, the result of a rogue pleat, it still looks exactly like it should! It was a bit tricky but nothing too hard and I bet I’ll have a flock of them within a few days!

January 14, 2008

When free isn’t always good

I couldn’t have forseen free being a bad thing but when your aunt and uncle give you their old 29″ TV which is 4x as big as your old 14″ TV then it can be bad.I certainly am never going to turn down a free large screen TV but as a result our house is [...]