knitting and thrifting

 

 I knitted another pair of stripey madelinetosh socks. I used the same pattern as my other pairs.

 As you can see in the picture I really should have taken a photo before wearing them while caring for small children. Oh weal, its an accurate picture of what my socks generally look like- play dough crusted.

 I received my wool for my Centripetal today, yippee!!!! Its not the wool I had planned on using but oh i'm glad to have this instead. I'm in love with these giant skeins. I almost want to use one as a pillow, its so soft. It also helps that it makes big novelty sized balls. The day care children were so excited for me to get out the skein winder and swift. (so excited that I almost needed ear plugs;) The wool is a bit thinner than I needed so  i'm knitting a larger size with a smaller gauge. We will see how that goes.

 On the weekend my dad and I went to some garage sales. I picked up this little cupboard. I've been keeping an eye out for something to raise the doll house off the floor for a good few years now and finally here it is. From the same garage sale I got a lovely house plant for 80c, what luck!

 Then on Wednesday I found these doll house dolls for 10c each at my favourite opp shop, perfect!
Maddison picked up the two on the left and said 'hey we visited them in Adelaide' I asked are they my Oma and Opa? and she said yes:)
So the new little dolls are Oma, Opa and their grand children