I left you a little over a week ago promising an unveiling. I have opened Bomb knitwear on Etsy where I will be selling mohawk caps and other oddities that come to mind. The reason that I decided to do this is that I improvised a design that allows me to complete a hat in a few hours. While not selling well right now, I suspect to have good interest as the weather gets colder and my prices come down a bit!! ;) The hats are loads of fun to make, and wear.
We had a fantastic Fourth of July. I crocheted a few hats for us to wear and made one of those cool flag cakes that are the traditional cake of the day. Sadly threw away over a quarter of it! Oh well. The event was not all that it promised to be, but Battersea Park is lovely, and we had a relaxing and fun family day and managed to meet a few new people in the process. I also got a good amount of reading done on Divas Las Vegas , which is actually classified as "chick lit" and was the worst book that I couldn't put down! It was so ridiculous!
This month has also graced my computer with a brand new screensaver! My American son with a great big tooth missing!! WooooHooo Mike!!!!
The UK was graced with the worst heat wave in since 2003. I would only assume that this was due to my incomplete ability to cope with temperatures outside of my comfort zone of 68 to 74 degrees. With no air conditioning I pressed into the lounge floor (thank god for wood flooring) and let the only cool surface in the house keep me from dying of heat stroke. Two days later I was laying out in the garden, sipping a smoothie and reading. The heat no longer phasing me. After 20 years of central heating and air, I had no idea the body could acclimate so quickly to temperature deviations, an ignorance that I believe is shared by a mere 10 percent of the world (Americans).
This weather was a great time to break out the sprinkler that we found on Sale at Argos. If you aren't from the UK, or you have not lived here, I will explain quickly what Argos is. Argos is a store that you walk into and it has counters loaded with giant catalogs. You write down the catalog number and then punch it in at a kiosk that prints out a ticket. You then wait while the employees fish your items out of the warehouse. It is really weird, but it allows you to get some items at pretty good discounts. However, it doesn't work for everything, because as a consumer, I think most people like to actually touch the products before they buy them . Often times you can't get a really good idea of the quality or size of an item (particularly when you know inches and everything is in centimeters!!!!). However, for things such as a "Batman Duvet", clearly the quality and size are not too relevant. You just make it work because it's Batman. :)
We have had the work done in the kitchen this week. There were spaces to hold wine bottles in the fitted kitchen, and we had these removed to make more space for a new refrigerator. We were hoping to have the refrigerator installed before our company came to visit, but the refrigerator will not be delivered until July 26th. We have ordered the Hotpoint Quadrio, a sexy beast of a fridge that I can't help but salivate at every time I see it. Not only is it amazingly cool looking, it boasts an average 9.1 customer rating over 80 ratings!
Michael got the uniform for SFK Karate. He looks fantastic and he is progressing well with his karate technique. Yesterday was Michael's last class before his summer in America, and he will return to lessons at the end of August.
Last but not least, we have been working on the Garden again. There were just a few finishing touches to complete, and we are very happy with the looks of it. I had planted some sweetpea and a rogue brussel sprout had been growning in one of the patio beds, we finally bit the bullet and pulled them up to put them in the garden bed. I was also aware that half of the bed was useless due to an antfestation. After a quick run to the garden center and half a bottle of ant killer we have it down to about 100 of the little buggers.
Where the tree used to be we have made a bed of grasses and portulaca, as well as a palm tree that will eventually grow to 9 feet.
We added a clay improving soil to our garden beds and now the vegetables are really taking off.
And finally, the finished product!
Today was rainy and gray, but we went to the Library and picked out a few books to keep us busy for our rainy weekend. Mike is reading chapter books now and has read an entire Captain Underpants this afternoon before moving on to illustrate and write his own Batman comic.
Next week we will have loads of news, as my mother and Stepdad are coming to visit and Michael is flying back to the States with them for his summer holiday. We are going to Wales for a few days, a dog show, and who knows what else we may do and see!
Next week we will have loads of news, as my mother and Stepdad are coming to visit and Michael is flying back to the States with them for his summer holiday. We are going to Wales for a few days, a dog show, and who knows what else we may do and see!
Til next time!
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