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While my sister & I were away in Japan her, hubby decided to go fishing/camping in a local spot they love to go. Their other camping friends told my sister they would look after/keep an eye out for him so it was rather a joke when one couple arrived with a Hot Rock

for him to keep his bed warm so he wouldn't be cold or lonely... when we got home & I saw the Hot Rock, I immediately asked my sister if I could crochet a cover for it as it was nice & smooth. I'm finding it very hard to find nice sized rounded smooth rocks & I've been wanting to crochet covers for rocks since I saw them first on Margaret OOman's blog Resurrection Fern. It took me no time at all to make the cover & put it on the Hot Rock...

My sister & hubby have gone camping/fishing again so they have taken the now Hot 'Crocheted' Rock with them to return to their friends... would love to be a fly on the tent wall, so to speak, to hear the reaction..

. [this is a five cent piece to show the size of the Hot 'Crocheted' Rock...]

Like I said I've been admiring Margaret's rocks for sometime now & was thrilled to see where Crochet Today [a crochet magazine] was publishing an interview with her & some patterns but for the life of me I could not find CT in any of our Newsagents so was on the lookout for them in the Airport bookshops/newsagents... I really thought I had missed this issue of the mag as I found on the CT website that they had their new issue out already... we are just soo behind here in Oz, sometimes... but low & behold when I had just finished the Hot Rock, I found the CT mag in our newsagent when we did our grocery shopping after coming home... yaaa.

I really didn't need the patterns, as such, but I wanted to know how Margaret finished the underside of her rocks which turned out to be just about the same as mine...

Well this looks like it for this post... I can't seem to download/upload? whatever, the rest of my photos & as it has taken me about 5 hours to get this far, I think I will call it quits for today...

Angel Messages... Take a good long look at something that may seem small & insignificant. Therein lies a big message.

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Home again... Yes I have been away, again & not just up the road either... I've been on a week's holiday with my sister to visit her eldest son, his wife & their lovely girls... where you ask?... in Tokushima, Japan.

Yes you can see rice fields in town... so Tokushima is really more a country village even if it has a much bigger population than here...

Ohh what an experience it all was... the old knees let me down a bit but I soldiered on to have a great time... We saw lots of places, enjoyed being the 'only' Europeans in the area where we were treated with such kindness & respect. As for the food it was wonderful & a great experience... just take a look at this... yummmmmmm....

Joan's granddaughter's are beautiful but did get so very tired with all the running about plus going to kindy each day [they love to learn]- here they are having a nap on my bed before the night activities...

I had only been home less than an hour when I got a call from a Aged Care facility with a room for Mum... [& to think it was a facility that we never thought we would have a chance of getting Mum into... as they say 'Never say Never'... ] ohhh what a wonderful end to our holiday... Mum should be settled in permanent accommodation very soon...

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Welcome to Spring... gosh it's the 1st September here Down Under & the weather is very changeable at the mo...
I have worked for 2 & half days putting photos up on my Flickr account for you to see all the wonderful crochet - ArtWork - in the Sydney Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef... the display has now closed but I will never forget it with the photos that I have... Do pop on over here & have a look... I have two sets of photos one of the reefs & how they were set up & the other just shows you the wonderful colours & texture of the crochet & all... You will be surprised to see all the different fibres/stuff/things that were used to make this wonderful crocheted reef...

Thanks to the girls from In Stitches for your incredible work of setting the reefs up - I know there was a lot more work than that, what with collecting & sorting & & &... the list goes on & now the pulling down... very time consuming but do know we appreciate it & it was the most fabulous show - 10 days wasn't really long enough eh?
Please do have a look & if you recognise 'your' piece of coral, pop on up to the top left of the photo & add a note... drag the square to your lovely piece of coral or even if it's one you want to ask something or say something about... it would be just so wonderful to know you all & know what you all think of the installation... look forward to meetin' you there...
Enjoy your spring...