life as it is

 Finding a very old crochet pattern, which is older than me,and that’s saying something! But it doesn’t look out of date at all. Can’t wait to try it out, but my knitting I must complete which is going well. The old crochet pattern is for squares a variant of the traditional granny square not seen it before, but it’s most probably out there somewhere in crochet land, anyway it makes use of scrap yarn and only needs the background colour, which I am sure I have, the scrap yarn I have no problem with. So while I am still knitting my squares I am designing my next project , sorting out my colours in my head and thinking I know I got some background colo somewhere, this is going to be fun.

1. Snow is falling quietly and gently. Was out in it and it was nice to be out there in it. Rosy cheeks have i. 2. Trying out a new lip gloss , as I get older my lips crack up more so far so good. I do not like wearing lipstick, so lip gloss it is and so far so good. 3. Youngest granddaughter wanted to try my lip gloss, so bought her and her sister some each. She wanted to be like nanny! And she has inherited the famous dirty look that runs through the family. Thanks dad at least I inherited something of you and your great granddaughter has too. I can hear chuckling dad.

1. Snow snow quick quick snow. 2. The pigeon sitting on the fence looked liked he was trying to catch the snowflakes. 3. Seeing youngest granddaughter unexpectedly and she told me all about the snow and having her photograph taken at playschool and she didn’t smile for her photo , she laughed. Also she said there wasn’t enough snow to build a snowman, not impressed was my granddaughter.

1. Frost highlighting the brow;of the earth in the distant gave me an idea for a future knitting or crochet project. Must jot down in my project book. 2. Thank goodness for slow cookers dinner is ready for when we come in. 3. A glorious day out weather was cold but bright makes you feel so much better.

1. Found some new recipes using avocados as the main ingredients must try. 2. Youngest son has passed his assessment for getting his bus licence and now has to do a four day intensive course. Really am proud of him as he is autistic and find tests exams difficult. 3. Eldest son who lives and works abroad has been very chatty . It’s lovely to hear from him.

An other tip what was given to me is, when you empty your purse or pockets at the end of your spending week count it up and no matter what change is left halve it even if it’s a few pence, put half back into your purse or pocket and the other half into a jar, at the end of the month count how much is in the jar and that can go into savings. Does anyone still unravel knitting and crochet, winding the yarn into balls or hanks to reuse ? Just a thought, my mother did this a lot when I was younger and it was me who would have to sit there with arms stretched out yarn/ wool around my hands and my mother winding it into balls.

Been reading quite a few articles about saving money or as some say frugal tips, whatever you call it, some of the tips are good. Mind you i didn’t realise that I do a lot of them already without thinking, like batch baking , cooking a basic mince recipe for splitting up to make spaghetti  bolognasie s,savoury mince with carrots etc. But one of my worst habits is forgetting to take bags out wth me and having to buy them out , so what I do now is to put in my bag is two bags the thin bags that fold so small that they don’t take much room in my bag. And every time I use them I put 10p as the average plastic bag is that and put it in the jar, I haven’t counted it up yet I haven’t done it for week yet and it be interesting to see how much I save by doing this. Must remember to return the empty bags to my shoulder bag. Also that cuts the plastic bags down as well. Which I have a lot of! But I recycle them . Some places have bins where you can take them and recycle them .