Back In Business!

 

This morning I decided to abandon looking for housework to do and went to see our Dear Old Friend instead.

I knew she would be mourning the loss of my Monday Recycled Teenager, not least because they spoke on the phone several times a week.

We both enjoyed reminiscing on our dear friend and hopefully it filled up an otherwise empty morning for her.

Back home I was feeling in need of some me time, so with the washing in and dinner planned, I finished off the trainer sock I had started a few days ago and of course cast on stitches for the second one.

As I am using left over yarn, the second sock is going to look nothing like the first that's for sure!

 

 

On checking my ebay account, I saw I had sold my first pair of children's knitting needles!
Its been almost 12 years since I embarked on this little cottage industry, but when I started working in school I found it too much, with family/church life to keep up with the orders.

However, as I mentioned last week, prompted by an online friend I have decided to kick start it, not really expecting too much if I am honest, but every penny counts aye!

Its hard to believe someone actually wants to pay money for something I have made especially with the cheap imports from China and the like, but today someone kindly put me back in business!

 

 

 

 

 

I like to wrap the needles up and make the whole buying experience a pleasant one...who doesn't enjoy unwrapping an online purchase!

I always add a little freebie as well, always made me "save a seller" when that happened to me!

 

 

 

You will be glad to know my surrogate daughter's news she has a boyfriend, was happily received by her parents.

Tonight the other students will no doubt come back for supper, so I defrosted some bananas to make pancakes.

They look pretty revolting in their skins...but peeled are fine and perfect for cooking.

 

 

I mixed 3oz gluten free SR flour, with 1oz cocoa, an egg and two mashed bananas...

 

 

...to make a mud pie looking batter...

 

 

...for some of the pancakes I added a sprinkling of pumpkin seeds...

 

 

...I will pop them in the microwave for a minute to warm them up, and our gluten and lactose intolerant friend will be able to munch in with the rest of us, instead of having something separate, adding the cocoa powder means I probably wont fancy them (no bad thing!) but our friend can enjoy something chocolatey.

 

 

 

The rest of the afternoon was spent doing a pile of ironing, putting it away, some basic cleaning, and then enjoying watching Benjy flop on Teen Two after college...

 

 

...both in their element!