when all else fails knit

Weekdays are making me sad at the moment, knitting squares a small comfort.

Trivial to complain when other's lives have really been shaken or even lost. I was listening to some audio clips on the smh website this morning. Serious stuff. One man and his neighbours had survived a blaze but due to the amount of destruction and rubble they couldn't get to help, and help couldn't get to them. Imagine surviving what you think is the worst, and then realising that actually the waiting might get you?

The Kaotic Kraft Kuties Bushfire fundraiser is a raffle to win loot by some great artists. Check it out and buy a ticket.

bushfires

Summer in Australia usually = bushfires, however this year they have been particularly ferocious. It is really easy to donate a little bit of money on the Red Cross website to help those affected.

Mike's is also listing numerous ways to help.

hexagon

happy sunday.

characters series

The winery where Eb works has released a new series of wine called the Characters Series. Artwork for the labels were done by some pretty spunky artists:

• Miso
• Ghost Patrol
• Tristan Jalleh
• Acorn
• Nior
  

(I have wanted to spill the beans on this for ages, as it is a very exciting collaboration to me).

tada's revolution

An amigurumi creature watching another on the toilet? (He is also packing heat). Genius all accredited to Susan of Tada's Revolution, a ' stuffed animal engineer' who takes these fantastic photographs of her creations. I just adore them, check out more of her photos here, or her blog linked above. Be prepared to say wow.

Found via.

jan

January actually seemed to be about 6 weeks long this year but I'm glad as it was filled with weekends away with friends, or they visiting us, beaches and great live music in Tegan and Sara and Leonard Cohen.

I hope you all had a wonderful, although very hot for some, January too, and that February follows in its footsteps.

fourth image, fourth folder

The talented Debi van Zyl tagged me to post the fourth picture from the fourth folder of images on my computer. The fourth folder of images is actually a folder full of work by Fafi, as I went through a stage where I fafinised my desktop and mobile phone. This cute faffinette and Hmilo are actually part of my desktop background currently. The coquettish cuteness is rather appealing don't you think?

I tag knitxcore and outi.