It's Friday!

And big hoorays for that fact! I've had a shitty week, so here's to a good weekend, and a great week next week. For everyone. Especially me.

Here's a song, dedicated to Alice:


Listening to: Steve Poltz - 'Stay Away A Little Closer' [ 'Travelling' album.] Good rainy day music.

Love Fridays

Springy Springtime! - Sublime Stitching Tote, originally uploaded by Sublime Stitching.

I'm not sure who runs Love Fridays now, but sometimes I still like to play along to remind myself of some good in the day (week). This morning I saw this tote on Sublime (via Facebook), so I had to get thee to the site and order one IMMEDIATELY. And now I will wait by my mailbox.

Yes, my love affair with stitching continues. I was super excited yesterday to find a seller on Ebay who sells reprints of vintage embroidery transfers that you can just iron on. Yay! Might be time to get myself an Ebay account. And so many designs I hadn't seen before, such Heaven! As an aside, I also found my next tattoo design... hurrah. Better go buy that pattern post haste.

By the way, thanks for the feedback re: my op-shopping angst. I'm so glad I'm not alone. Sometimes I feel like I'm the world's biggest smellfungus.

Some of my favourite bloggers always end their posts with "listening to" and I like, so I'll start doing that too... Happy Friday all.

Listening to: Lazy Cowgirls' version of 'Route 66'. Good amped Friday music.

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Ah my poor neglected blog. Love Fridays, love happy songs.


Maybe I'll see you at the Stitches and Craft show tomorrow? Ms Cate and I are going!

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Fridays rock. Say no more.

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Knitting so far

Thanks to the kind souls who commented on my last post, you rock.
Here's a pic of what I'm knitting at the moment...it seems to be taking forever, I'm not sure why. But I've been spending a lot of evenings lately as a couch potato knitting away. The pattern is a Patons one, a knitted t-shirt.

I'm knitting it in Patons DK Smoothie, which, although acrylic, is nice yarn to work with. However I anticipate I will look more like a little old lady than a Roxy model when it's finished, but c'est la vie.

I took the above photo with my phone, as I discovered the digital camera out under the clothes line yesterday, being left there by Lola who had taken it and chewed every chewable part she could. Miraculously it still works, although I need to buy a new USB cord so that I can download the photos off it. Grr.

Loving Friday today, because of course, it's a long weekend! Whohoo! Maybe I'll get some more knitting done. I'm so Nanna-core.

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Love Fridays, love Kylie

Hurrah for it is Friday! And what am I up to tonight? Going to see the lovely Miss M at Rod Laver arena with my sis and her crew. I like Kylie, (not as much as I love Britney!) and so here's a song...most unlike my usual boys with guitars YouTube that's always on here.
This one is my fave Kylie song ever:


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Love Fridays

I've been neglecting blogworld a bit lately, as work is very busy and I've also got a cold so feel a bit crappy, sorry peeps. So I'm loving Friday even more today, and I really need the weekend and a rest!!

Also loving a funny calendar I bought myself for next year:


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Love Fridays!

...because this is what I'm going home to tonight. (Sick of photos of my puppies? Too bad! hahah.)

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Love Fridays! LOLstyle.

more animals

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Love Fridays, love biccies!

While I'm a big fan of these, when I was in the supermarket yesterday I couldn't help but be charmed by the new packaging Arnotts have for their "kids" range of biccies - our old friends: Teddy Bears, Tic Tocs, Raspberry Tartlets, and one of my particular faves, Hundreds and Thousands.

Do you remember when they first launched these biscuits? I was trying to find the ad on You Tube with the little boy hiding in the pantry cupboard counting all the hundreds and thousands on top of the biccies, but alas, no luck. So here's a piccy of them on my desk:

Back in the 70's, when I was a kid, dad used to work in the Arnotts biscuit factory at Ballarat...I think after that it became Sunshine biscuits...or vice versa. But anyway, I remember having a big love for the despatch store, where employees could buy stuff. Chocolate Royals and Teddy Bears were my favourites. Bit of trivia from the Arnott's web site : Iced Vo-Vos were born back in 1906...I'd love to go back in time and get some, I bet the marshmallow part would have been GIGANTIC back then. (Yes Arnotts, if you're reading, this consumer has noticed a decline in the quality of Iced Vo-vos over the years. The current biscuit on offer is flat, lacking in marshmallowy oomph and somewhat cardboard like. Please rectify this.) Also, another perennial fave, the Tim Tam was launched in 2004 in China, Tim Tim or "Tian Dian" in Mandarin translates to "give me more, have some more". Most appropriate.

This pic from the Campbell* Arnott's Career Centre was appealing:

No, I'm not interested in the boy, look at the hundreds and thousands! Is his job a biscuit tester? Where do I sign up?
Love Fridays, especially when my biscuit tin is full!

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Disclaimer : no I do not work for any biscuit manufacturers, I'm just a fan of the cuppa tea and a biscuit.
* Yes, Campbell the soup people - they bought Arnott's back in 1997.

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Calendar: Friday I'm in Love, originally uploaded by jonwild.

This Friday I'm in love with:
chocolate
lovely friends
sashiko
kitties
buttons
i-pod shuffle
degraves st subway
cans of coke...

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Love Fridays!

Loving Friday today, as tonight is the start of an extra long weekend for me (and lots of other people, no doubt.) Having Monday off, and you've gotta love a public holiday for a horse race. Enjoy your weekend folks.

Pic of Phar Lap from here.
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Here's some Friday arvo music...

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Friday lurve!

I love Friday and more so when it's such a beautiful sunny one. As I was going out to the car this morning, I noticed Mr Cockle (that's our local magpie friend) has a new baby. I told him that it was very cute and that he'd done well. He eyeballed me beningly. Then Boombah cat (aka Gatsby) followed me to the car, and once I'd got in, Mr Cockle swooped him. The cat was unfazed. I know there's lots of magpie horror stories out there, but our locals are our friends. They're just not too sure about the kittehs though.

Here's pic of the youngster with Dad:

Happy Friday wherever you are!

Love this, love Fridays!

This gorgeous illustration comes from here...and I earlier made a purchase from Tartx's Etsy store. Although there's no rain on the horizon here, it's a lovely sunny Friday. I'm hanging to escape from work and get out there...although I do have to go home and make my Mixtogether giftie for tomorrow. Enjoy your Friday!

Lover of Fridays extraordinaire, Big Cat.

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, originally uploaded by alana jonez.

Today was a rainy Friday...a super rainy Friday. We took the Staffs and went a-driving up in the hills, in spud and dairy country. And even did a snippet of op-shopping at Warragul (but HP hurried me along!) I love Fridays with no commitments, other than just enjoying yourself. And because I haven't downloaded any pics from my camera (not that I took many in the pouring rain), here's one of my latest Flickr faves, two great chicks!

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A few things to love about today:
- it's now Friday evening and I'm back from a 2 day work conference and finally have time just for meeeeeeeee. I like my workmates, we've got a good crowd, but I've been really crap this week, and wasn't really up for team games and group drinking. Happy to be home.
- nice text messages from nice peeps wanting to play on the weekend.
- finding a perfect pressie for a buddy from the Tootgarook oppy, and still getting change from $2! (pics to come soonish)
- stitching, couch and staffies. Friday night.

Hope your Friday is fun.
ps. h'argh!! (I couldn't do it for the whole post. Bad pirate I am. Arr.)

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