Shopping at Ebay and Amazon

I just got some great bargains on ebay, and ordered from Amazon the book (knitting book naturally) Socks Soar on Two Circulars. It says 6 - 21 days shipping, so I will see if I get it before 1 December, then I will order the smallest bamboo circulars to knit some socks on, I can just see my list of things to knit getting so out of hand that I will be still getting through them next Christmas. I need to stop buying yarn, but who can resist when you get a bargain. I will have to flash my stash in the next few weeks, and let you all see how out of control it and I am, and I don't mean in how much....I mean "how much and how messy the room with it is".

I bought 10 balls (500g) of Heirloom 8ply Cotton in green for $16.55 (they are over $4 a ball in shops), don't know yet what I will do with it, probably knit myself, yes myself a summer top. I also got a wool winder, I have been trying to get one of these off ebay for ages, but was always outbid, I ended up paying $32 for it, but it is still about 1/2 price to a new one.




I got another little suprise in the mail from another tribe member, Donyale sent me a really nice little mauve colour notebook, just the thing for carrying around in my knitting bag to jot down knitting things when I need to.

I wonder how those two tribe members are going on their family together holiday this week down the coast, I can see them now, loungeing around the pool, with drinks in hand and knitting close by, lucky things.

I tried to order some things for my giftingtime person from Knit Picks and got right through to the checkout part, put in her address etc, but couldn't get it processed as I don't know her home phone number in US - bugger, bugger, bugger. Anyway, now I am getting a wool winder I may just do up some of my lace yarn purchased recently and get some things from here and send instead. So hang in there Marti I haven't forgot about you. I can't wait to get my ebay purchases in the mail, probably next week now as we don't have saturday mail delivery here, only a couple of weeks before christmas as they get such a back log of christmas cards/mail.

The weather here is being a bit unpredictable this week, boiling hot one day, cool the next, with the forecast for here on the coast in low 20's and inland under 20 degrees for the weekend, I don't know what to wear riding as I am not taking much, the area we are riding through is the blue mountains, which is going to be a bit cool, but then where we are going could be a bit warmer, what a pickle hey!. I guess wear long sleeves and take a short sleeve t-shirt and hope for the best.