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So I have finally finished 2 craft projects!

I could only be bothered using my phone and the quality when the flash is on is rubbish but my glitter shoes are done and on the bookcase (although I need to load a heap of books onto ebay so that they can get off my book case and then the shoes can have their own hole!).  I think they look great although the entire living room is still covered in glitter it doesn't seem to stop appearing, so at least its sparkly! 

And although you might think I am posting about the giant pimple that I created but actually its the seed cowl all finished.  I'm really happy with how it turn out and it looks a lot better than I thought it would.  Now to start and then finish all of the other projects swimming around my head. 

I have been wanting a particular piece of art on the wall above my bed for a long time, and I have decided that I will never find it.  Yesterday I was at my parents place and mum and I went for a wander around the Bondi markets and I saw this picture and fell in love with it.  I bought it and my mum asked where I was going to put it, I said in the bedroom.  Now I have an fabulous idea of what I want whilst I continue to look for the painting I have in mind, I now just need to find a load of old frames, some old pictures and take a few photos of certain things - I am excited and can't wait to start! 

Turns out it was my not so creative space…

At $14 for a ball of wool (which is a lot more than I normally spend on wool as I am never going to win any awards for my knitting) I knew I wanted something really lovely done with the wool that was purchased last week.  So the Debbie Bliss yarn has been shipped off to my mother (who is a much better knitter than I am) with a pattern for a gorgeous cowl created by Julianne Smith.  Thanks Mama!

I am still slowly working on my seed stich cowl I started… oh last year sometime.  I have set myself the task of having it done by the end of May, I’d like it done by the end of the week but I’m not home much this week so that may very well not be a possibility.

So this week my creative space (actually my creative space has been sat on my coffee table for a week now waiting for the second coat, which let me tell you was not the place to have done this project if you wish to complete it might I recommend a lovely space in someone else's backyard!) is a slight variation on the above which is something a friend sent me from this blog she reads.  I have failed to take a photo of mine as yet but they are a bronze / brown colour and will be an ornamental piece on my bookcase.  I'm definitely a shoe gal, I'm just not a glitter shoe kinda gal!

…My Creative Space…

I have been reading various blogging peeps creative spaces for a couple of years now and I think I might join in this week.  Maybe its cause its colder and I want to knit (actually I really want to learn to crochet if I’m at all honest) or maybe it’s as simple as I bought this bee-ute-ful wool at lunch and I’m thinking a seed stitch cowl (which is about as fancy as I can get stitch wise and I’ve never done a cowl that actually works… ). 

Wish my creative space luck as I browse on over at www.ravelry.com and some more luck as I knit on the couch over the weekend.  Lucky I just have the perfect sitting spot, the best at home coffee (nespresso of course and my machine is about 10 years old and still is my fav kitchen appliance), and hours of awesome crap stored up in my Foxtel IQ!

The eyes are powering the imagination…

I have read 2 books and I feel like I am powering thru the reading pile and I am all inspired to tick those 15 books off the list so I have started to read another 3 books – all this week! Maybe I should just try having one book on the go and then when that is done another and reading properly which is how I ended up reading the last 2.  I concentrated on the Mephisto Club and then repicked up Whistleblower (which is the book I was actually reading and not under the knife, it was a two books in one by the same author so an easy mistake to make).

Wicked I just can’t get into it cause I want to picture it as I read it like the stage show and it’s not how I remember the stage show to be, however I will keep on reading just not very often and will be the long book process that I pick up every couple of weeks read a chapter and then put down.  Which I find such a shame cause I LOVED the stage show!

So on the reading list is:

Do You Come Here Often – Alexandra Potter

I am a few pages in and I can tell it’s going to be a quickish easy read.  Here’s hoping.  I have it on the bed side table so that I can encourage myself to read before bed and not watch DVDs in bed – but I’ll write another post about my habit breaking!

The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger

Which a chapter in I am quite enjoying, I didn’t think I would so that is a nice surprise.  I almost feel I am slow on the uptake of this book as it was obviously a big hit before (and after) the movie came out and I haven’t even seen that.  Although I think if I had then I wouldn’t bother reading it as one would wreck the other.

The Spare Room – Helen Garner

I bought it last night and I was tossing up between it and another book called Almost French (I was in Dymocks and was doing the 3 for 2 deal, and there are a couple of others I will go back and buy with Almost French another time) and I went with my heart and purchased The Spare Room.  I started it on the bus on the way home and its 195 pages and I am 60 odd in and I don’t want to put it down.  It’s not that it is the best written story, or that it is the most amazing story, it’s more that it is just an easy read, written in the style of writing that I think I would write in (it’s also based in Melbourne a city I love and miss, so I can picture it as well).

Well its Thursday I wonder if I can have at least one of them done by Monday…

One room down 1 to go…

So the painting in the bedroom has now been finished (oh since Easter) but here it is…  

I have now decided to do the rest bit by bit.  Just need to decide on a colour. I did a sample of “Chinx half strength” over the weekend and I think it is too pink.  So back to the drawing board.  The hallway will be done this week with Antique White USA (as soon as I find a free night). 

I have also found the white linen set I would like.  I certainly can not justify spending that much on new linen at present so that will have to wait till a) I save some more pennies and b) Sheridan have a really good sale!  The joys of champagne taste and a beer budget I guess.