30 Day Macro Challenge

1. Thread 3, 2. Too-small socks for a two year old's birthday, 3. Pink bubbles, 4. Fading flowers, 5. Happy Spider hand dye 1, 6. Serviced, 7. Daylight saving 2008, 8. Miniature clocks, 9. Read every day, 10. In the laundry, 11. Black and white, 12. Alligator purse, 13. Vintage buttons, 14. White robot, 15. Freshly ironed, 16. Round and pointy, 17. Moonlit attic, 18. My friend Liberty, 19. Fishy fishy fishy, 20. Wire Chrysler, 21. Humbug, 22. Spider web, 23. Blue and white china, 24. Comfy, 25. Carved flower, 26. Morning tea, 27. Morning sun, 28. Hot chocolate and marshmallows, 29. Kiwi biscuits, 30. Pears real and not

Food glorious food...

So we went op shopping yesterday. I took my camera. Want to see the pictures I took?

Here's a picture of the New Zealand Snack Food display I discovered in the chemist opposite Big Salvos in Queanbeyan:And a closeup for the 30 Day Macro Challenge:(I bought nothing)

The next photo I took was of Taph's hot chocolate and marshmallows at Chocolate Olive. After we'd finished op shopping:Then this morning there was the photo of my new (non-thrifted) addition to the pear collection (can you spot the interloper on the left? It arrived with Taph last night and will soon become pear and ginger muffins if my day goes according to plan)Finally, after realising the complete lack of pictures of any op shopping, here's a picture I took this morning of one of yesterday's scores: three brand new very cool tea towels for $1 each. Damned shame I don't use coloured tea towels...

"I'd rather be op shopping"

That's the T shirt I wish I owned so I could had worn it today.

It. Was. Just. One. Of. Those. Days.

Oh, it was nothing major. That would have made much better blog fodder. Oh no. Today was a day of:

*Pantihose which was trying to constantly roll itself downwards. Which meant I spent the whole day yanking at my waist to keep things where they were supposed to be. Stupid pantihose. I wish this pair would sprout a hole so I could chuck them out but no such luck so far. Maybe I should sew a warning thread to the top to remind myself to wear them only when they are my last resort

* Work. Frustration. Blah. That's all I can say.

* Realising I'd forgotten to take a parcel to work which I was planning to post today. Double blah.

* I spent almost half my week's food budget on coffee and food to try and make myself feel better. It didn't work. I'm sick of tuna and rice.

Having said all that the Miss Pollyanna in me pops up to mention that many good things happened today:

*We have a frugalling foray arranged for Saturday. Four frugallers, two cars, two states and an as yet unknown number of op shops in one day. Oh the damage we could do!

* I took my laptop into work today to visit with Lovely Doctor David who cleaned it out so my pizza of disk space has much more than a sliver of pink showing. And maybe, just maybe, said laptop may now behave like a sprightly teenager rather than a lethargic geriatric

* Floor talks for my CMAG exhibition (doesn't that sound grand? I'll just have to say it again: "my CMAG exhibition") have been confirmed for October 16th and 18th.

* I have a freshly serviced Miss Daisy. With an internal light that works. This is actually quite exciting in my book...

* Our designer at work showed me some new Photoshop tricks today. Which I fear I've forgotten but can't wait to try out!

* My April Black and White Swap closed this afternoon with 16 participants.

And since this is starting to look suspiciously like a photoless post (and we can't have that, can we?) here's my submission for today to the 30 Day Macro Challenge pool:

Moonlit miniatures on Monday

I moved my Lundby Stockholm house yesterday to shift some (full sized) furniture and when I saw it later in the evening I noticed that the light coming through the skylight looked awfully pretty.


The Stockholm has always been the "poor relation" of my collection - the house I felt I should have but didn't like very much. Maybe now I can spend some time on it and learn to appreciate it a little more...

Cute as a button

This bag of goodness arrived in the post yesterday from Crafty Daisies as part of a tea towel swap we'd arranged. The tea towels themselves are in the wash but you can admire their black and white loveliness here.

The lady with the alligator purse...

Not dead yet. But I spent Monday and Tuesday in bed feeling definitely not well. At least I got some reading done, if nothing else...

Finally!

Who's happy?

Me: I picked up my newly serviced overlocker this morning . Hurrah!Mum: (I hope...) I forgot to mention I'd done a bit of shopping the Parental stash when I was in New Zealand. And after seeing that Mum was buying baby ack full price to knit for the cousins I decided intervention of the yarny kind was needed (to appease my guilt at running off with a 500g skein of red wool if nothing else).

Enter Happy Spider's yarn mountain and her brilliant hand dying skills. I now have this teetering pile of baby yarn goodness waiting to be packaged up and sent across The Ditch:
Both Taph and Happy Spider have warned me that I may have just unleashed a monster if past experience with introducing knitting-type parental units to hand dyed yarn is anything to go on...

Friday night drink

Did you know?

Small boys' feet, they grow
while you knit socks
row by row.

So the socks were too small

(not much use at all)

and I need to add length

with some left-over wool...

...and I'm also

joining in orange flower's 30 Day Macro Photography Challenge which I discovered via simplesparrow.

I'm a couple of days late but I'm sure I'll catch up somewhere along the way!

My first photographs are of the case of sewing threads I picked up today during a flying lunchtime frugalling fix.50 brand new spools of thread (that's 25,000 metres in total) plus the caddy (with a small crack in the lid) for $30. There goes the grocery budget again!