More Friday Fun.

I bet you thought I wasn't going to make it this week. Well here I am, and I am starting this week with another photo of my rascal Kim. I showed you last week that we had just bought a bed each for the dogs, so I dug out Miki and Foxy's favourite blankets, which slightly resemble Gruyere cheese, as they have had them since their puppy chewing days. (That is when they were puppies and chewed everything - not when they chewed up puppies!!). As this is Kim's first winter he didn't have a blanket so I found the last piece of the sheepskin bedspread I had used to make the other two. The next morning he dragged all three onto the yard and promptly set about making his match the girls' ones! For now we are keeping their house closed during the day so his blanket survives until it is really cold!

Other positive things that have happened this week:

I did some gardening and replaced a dead geranium with these winter flowering pansies. Aren't they sweet? Pansies always remind me of my sister Brenda because they are her favourite flowers. I love their little faces.

On Wednesday, at my usual craft group, one of our ladies had made up kits for us to make this padded tree, wall decoration.

Here are some of us hard at it. There were a lot of little triangles for us to stuff and stitch across, but that didn't stop us all having a good natter and a laugh together, though we are all concentrating very seriously here!

I dipped my knife into a new pot of Marmite! I wonder if anyone else appreciates the little 'tingle' that gives me. It's the little things in life.....

Today I tackled my dining room. The table looked like this!

But that is very positive because this is all the things that generous friends have knitted for my Knit for Africa project. Aren't people great! I sorted it all out, and then bagged it up, ready to take to my courier friend Phil. He is so kind, and whenever he has space in his van, he takes our knitting to UK and delivers it, free of charge. In fact we couldn't keep going if we had to pay postage on it, so his generosity has made a world of difference to us. When I counted everything I found we had 28 blankets, 72 jumpers and cardigans, 64 beanie hats, 9 teddies, and 21 cotton vests and T-shirts. They make a lovely colourful pile don't they?

If you would like to know more about my project, there is a link in my right side bar. At the end of the file there is a link to my photo file with some lovely photos of the families receiving our work.

I waked into the sitting room the other day and two of my cats were curled up together on my chair. They looked so comfy that I didn't want to move them. The little tabby Luna, rarely stays in the house by day, but it was windy and even Paco came away from his usual sunny patch, and dozed indoors.

Then in the evening I looked out onto the porch where the dogs were and two of them were on the cane settee! Foxy is a little in awe of Kim, but she was obviously comfortable enough to share a bed with him. Poor Miki is on the floor, but she jumps up on the settee too when one of the others moves. It is a wonder we have any furniture left. It will us sitting on the floor soon!

And finally yet another sky. We have had some beautiful sunsets just lately. The best one was Monday night, but I was out with a friend and for once I didn't have my camera with me, so I couldn't get a photo. But I quite liked this one. It reminds me of the song 'I see the bad moon rising' only , of course, this is a new moon not a bad one! It's just the way my mind wanders!

I shall post my naughty Kim on Annie's Friday Smiles again this week, and also link this to Rocking my World on Virginia's blog.  Have a positive week everyone.